TV Reviews
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‘Severance’ Review: Adam Scott’s Corporate Job Literally Splits Him in Two in Eerie Apple TV+ Series
Ben Stiller directs most of the episodes in the first season of this absorbing high-concept mystery thriller
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‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Season 4 Review: Midge Returns With Even More Fizzy Energy
Our heroine has no time for soul-searching in new season of Amazon Prime’s hit comedy
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‘State of the Union’ Season 2 Review: Brendan Gleeson and Patricia Clarkson Explore a Marriage on the Rocks
The Emmy-winning short-form series is back with a new couple under marital pressure
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‘Bel-Air’ Review: Will Smith Is on the Run in Laugh-Track-Free Peacock Reboot
And Jabari Banks threads the needle between charming and goofy as the young “Will Smith” in teen drama take on the ’90s sitcom
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‘Inventing Anna’ Review: Julia Garner Sizzles in Shonda Rhimes’ Fact-Based Netflix Series
Meet your new obsession: a cunning nobody who fooled dozen of high-rollers into thinking she was an heiress
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‘And Just Like That’: 5 Ways ‘Sex and the City’ Spinoff Went So, So Wrong – and Why Most Reboots Fail
TheWrap critic and “Sex and the City” expert Jennifer Keishin Armstrong offers post-op analysis of HBO Max series
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‘Pam & Tommy’ Review: Hulu Brilliantly Explores the OG Celebrity Sex Tape Scandal – Complete With Talking Penis
Lily James and Sebastian Stan deliver uncanny performances as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee in new limited series
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Prime’s ‘Reacher’ Review: Alan Ritchson Packs a Punch but Few Surprises as Lee Child Hero
Ritchson may look more like Child’s brawny hero than did Tom Cruise, but he comes across as more than a little robotic
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‘The Afterparty’ Review: Sam Richardson Shines in Apple TV+’s Genre-Bending Mystery Comedy
Who killed Dave Franco at a high school reunion? Detective Tiffany Haddish is on the case
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‘Janet Jackson’ Review: Superstar Opens Up But Remains in Control in A&E/Lifetime Docuseries
Believe the hype: The music star is a master of the TV tell-all
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‘The Gilded Age’ Review: Julian Fellowes’ HBO Series Goes ‘Downton’ on Late-19th-Century New York
A tart Christine Baranski and voracious Carrie Coon liven this sumptuous period drama
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‘As We See It’ Review: Amazon Prime Series Shows the Lighter Side of Life on the Autism Spectrum
Jason Katims’ new show is “inspired by” the Israeli series “On the Spectrum”
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‘How I Met Your Father’ Review: Hilary Duff’s Hulu Reboot Is a Legendary Misfire
Don’t wait for it! Kim Cattrall narrates as an older version of Duff’s singleton in a show whose sitcommy lines feel like ’90s rejects from the original
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‘Single Drunk Female’ Review: Freeform Dramedy Gets an AA Plus for Capturing Early Sobriety
Sofia Black-D’Elia stars as a newly sober woman who moves back home with her mom, played by the remarkable Ally Sheedy
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‘Somebody, Somewhere’ Review: Bridget Everett Takes Manhattan (Kansas) in Heartfelt HBO Dramedy
Actress-singer-comedian Everett shows amazing range as a drifting fortysomething Midwesterner
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Melissa Rose Bernardo