TV Reviews
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‘Atlanta’ Season 3 Review: FX Series Further Blends Comedy and Horror in Captivating Return
Dream logic continues to fuel one of the best series on television
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‘Pachinko’ Review: Apple TV+ Hits the Jackpot With Miraculous Prestige Drama
The trilingual bestseller adaptation succeeds with both style and substance
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‘Halo’ Review: Sci-Fi Series Is a Strong Start for Paramount+, But May Divide Gamers
The long-delayed video game adaptation takes a hard detour from established lore
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‘Human Resources’ Review: New Netflix Series Is What ‘Big Mouth’ Wants to Be When It Grows Up
It’s “The Office” meets “Inside Out” in this diverse “Big Mouth” spinoff about monsters adulting badly
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‘Life & Beth’ Review: Amy Schumer Gets Personal Again in a Brilliant Hulu Dramedy
The star mixes humor, heart and a killer lineup of co-stars for one of the best new series of the year
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‘Minx’ Review: A ’70s Feminist Teams Up With a Porn King in Glossy, Penis-Laden HBO Max Comedy
Jake Johnson is totally groovy as a porn publisher who upends a Vassar grad’s vision of creating a female-centric magazine
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‘The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey’ Review: Samuel L. Jackson and Dominique Fishback Shine in Apple TV+ Drama
Leave it to a streaming service to bring Walter Mosley’s bestseller about a man with dementia and his much younger caregiver to life
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‘The Thing About Pam’ Review: Renée Zellweger Gives Killer Performance in NBC True-Crime Series
But it’s too bad the network didn’t put a slightly more cheeky spin on its narrative version of the case it has owned in reality TV
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‘Diabolical’ Review: Prime’s Animated ‘The Boys’ Spinoff Is Heavy on Gore, Light on Story
Not that fans of the graphic novels — or live-action series — will mind
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‘Joe vs. Carole’ Review: Kate McKinnon Leads Peacock’s Surprisingly Classy Retelling of the ‘Tiger King’ Saga
McKinnon’s Carole Baskin is more the Hillary Clinton of big cat activism than the real Baskin has ever come off in previous docuseries
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‘Pieces of Her’ Review: Toni Collette Is the Mother of All Withholding Parents in Netflix Thriller
Collette is in top form as a mom with a secret past trying to nudge her daughter into independent adulthood
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Showtime’s ‘Super Pumped’ Review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Showboats in a Good Way as Uber Founder
Limited series offers a pleasing unpredictability, with onscreen graphics, fast cuts and occasional interjections from narrator Quentin Tarantino
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‘The Dropout’ Review: Hulu’s Portrait of a Monster Stars Amanda Seyfried as Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes
While the eight-part limited series loses its momentum in the mid-section, the starry cast delivers a scary look at a Ponzi scheme’s unraveling
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‘Vikings: Valhalla’ Review: Bloody Nordic Mayhem Returns, This Time on Netflix
Sequel series features explorer Leif Eriksson and badass women — as well as pillaging, sex, pagan rituals and political intrigue
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‘Law & Order’ Reboot Review: Sam Waterston and Anthony Anderson Are Back on the Case — Dun-Dun
Dick Wolf’s OG procedural returns for its 21st season, but struggles to be bold in the era of micro-aggressions and increasing polarization
