TV Show Reviews

The popular crime series ‘Tokyo Vice’ returns for a second season on Max beginning February 8th.Based on the book of the same name by Jake Adelstein, the series stars Ansel Elgort (‘Baby Driver’) as Adelstein, an American Journalist living in Tokyo and working for a Japanese newspaper. Adelstein...

The WandaVision Spin-Off Boasts an Enchanting Kathryn Hahn and a New Mystery. Hahn stars as Agatha Harkness, who looks to reclaim her power after Wanda Maximoff removed them –– but it won’t be as easy as she hopes. Launching on Disney+ on Wednesday, September 18th with its first two episodes, ‘Agatha...

Launching on Prime Video with all eight episodes on Thursday April 11th, ‘Fallout’ manages the tough ask of bringing a complex and sprawling video game to life in a way that will feel familiar to fans of the game and its darkly humorous style while also spinning its own tale set in that universe.Continuing...

Launching with its first episode on Sunday, January 15th on HBO Max, ‘The Last of Us’ represents the latest successful translation of a video game title to another medium.Of course, the source material––game creator Neil Druckmann is deeply involved in the show as an executive producer––offers...

The premiere episode of hit Disney+ 'Star Wars' series ‘The Mandalorian’ reminded fans exactly why it is the most popular Star Wars show on the streamer. Now in its third season, we dive right back into the thick of it - with Din Jarin attempting to repent for his sin of removing his helmet and no...

Launching on Apple TV+ on Friday November 17th with two episodes (and a new episode arriving weekly after that for eight weeks) ‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ expands the “MonsterVerse” that kicked off with 2014’s ‘Godzilla’ and has continued through movies such as ‘Kong: Skull Island’...

Landing on Disney+ on –– when else? –– May the 4th, new animated limited series ‘Tales of the Empire’ aims to do for two notable Dark Side personalities what ‘Tales of the Jedi’ did for the likes of Ahsoka Tano and Count Dooku: fill in some of their backstory.Yet unlike that 2022 effort,...

Premiering on Max January 14th, ‘True Detective: Night Country’ offers a very different spin on the usual mystery story, one that draws upon the eternal clash between modern progress and native lands, between parents and children, and between the forces of right and wrong, even as the main characters...

Launching on FX on Hulu on November 14th with two episodes, ‘A Murder at the End of the World’ sees the much-anticipated return to TV of writer/directors Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, who last brought us the twisty, complicated series ‘The OA’ on Netflix.Their new series doesn’t dig into...

‘The Diplomat’ Season 2 Brings More Political Intrigue and a Powerful Allison Janney Keri Russell stars as Ambassador Kate Wyler, who in the new season must navigate the shifting sands of an international crisis as her husband (Rufus Sewell) lies injured. Arriving on Netflix on October...

Now showing on Netflix, ‘Wednesday’ represents the latest attempt to bring ‘The Addams Family’ to screens, and one that succeeds partly because of its star.The Addams Family, which originated with Charles Addams’ single-panel cartoons and strips in the 1930s and 1940s, have long since been...

Landing on Netflix on October 12th, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ has Mike Flanagan –– who knows a thing or two about scary stories –– remixing Edgar Allan Poe (ditto) for a truly fun new horror limited series.Combining a committed cast and some memorably nasty surprises, ‘Usher’ represents...

‘Presumed Innocent’ is a slick but sometimes overstuffed crime drama. Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this new series, adapted from the same novel that fueled the 1990 Harrison Ford-starring courtroom murder mystery movie. Launching on Apple TV+ on Wednesday June 12th with its first two episodes (before...

‘Cobra Kai’, which just returned to Netflix, has reached Season 5, an accomplishment even its creators might be surprised to see.The series, which continues the story from 'The Karate Kid' movies (the first three, at least), has become one of Netflix’s most entertaining titles, walking the line...

‘Cobra Kai’ kicks off its final season with a fun first part. With an ambitious, three-part season planned, it’s (mostly) business as usual for the merged Eagle Fang and Miyagi-do dojos, while Kreese continues to scheme. Arriving on Netflix on July 18th, ‘Cobra Kai’, which has successfully...

‘Cross’ Features a Great Lead in Aldis Hodge But Goes Through the Serial Killer Motions. The new TV adaptation hedges its bets by not directly adapting any one of James Patterson’s novels, but can’t quite break out of the rut of its genre. Launching on Prime Video on Thursday 14th November with...

A core concept about a spy whose family is drawn into his work sounds a lot like James Cameron’s 1994 action-comedy thriller ‘True Lies’, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis.And indeed, such a show exists –– it’s even called ‘True Lies’ and has the same plotline albeit...