TV Review: ‘Pen15’ season two shows the transformative power of friendship and tweens’ imagination
There’s a brilliant visual gag in Hulu’s middle-school raunchy comedy PEN15. Co-creators and lead actors…
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TV Review: ‘The Boys’ finds its momentum in a grittier and deeper second season
What The Boys does to deconstruct the basic tropes of superhero and comic-book formula isn’t…
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TV Review: HBO’s brilliant ‘Lovecraft Country’ fights evils real and supernatural in 1950s Jim Crow America
The cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft permeates HBO’s sensational new drama starring Jonathan Majors and…
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TV Review: Season 2 of ‘The Umbrella Academy’ is less melodramatic but remains unfocused and repetitive
It’s nearly impossible to not think about Doom Patrol while watching The Umbrella Academy, the…
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TV Review: In season 2, ‘Doom Patrol’ gets bolder, weirder, and sadder
It would be an understatement to say that the first season of Doom Patrol, DC…
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TV Review: ‘Love, Victor’ is a charming and heartfelt, if somewhat flawed, coming out story
Love, Simon, Greg Berlanti’s 2018 gay teen rom-com based on Becky Albertalli’s Simon vs. the…
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TV Review: ‘Love Life’ finds Anna Kendrick at the top of her game
Love Life, the first series from HBO Max, perfectly captures the fears, hopes, pitfalls, roadblocks, and…
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TV Review: ‘Homecoming Season 2’ – Janelle Monáe gives a standout performance in a tale of greed, complicity, and personal ambition
The first season of Homecoming, Amazon’s conspiracy thriller created by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg…
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TV Review: ‘The Great,’ with Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, is another gift of historical satire from co-writer of ‘The Favourite’
The Great presents a tone, a sound of energetic strings, and a familiar look. As…
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TV Review: ‘I Know This Much Is True’ is a standout ballet of duality
I Know This Much Is True tells the story of the Birdsey twins Dominick and…
