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‘Becoming Elizabeth’ review: A surprisingly serious consideration of how a queen is made [Grade: B+]

TV Reviews

‘Becoming Elizabeth’ review: A surprisingly serious consideration of how a queen is made [Grade: B+]

Nicole Ackman June 9, 2022

The announcement of a new show about the Tudors can strike fear into the hearts of historians and Tudors fans alike. Often, when the Tudor... Read More

TV Review: Russell T. Davies’ 80s Aids serial ‘It’s a Sin’ is a pleasure, but not a guilty one

Jack King January 29, 2021

Ah, It’s a Sin. A heady tribute as much as it is a wistful tragedy. Both a celebration of everything to come and a eulogy... Read More

TV Review: ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ is a beautiful and heartbreaking portrayal of loss, grief and mourning

Zofia Wijaszka October 5, 2020

In 2018, we met the Crain family and their frightful, emotional history. Mike Flanagan, the director of both, The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly... Read More

TV Review: ‘Pen15’ season two shows the transformative power of friendship and tweens’ imagination

Reyzando Nawara September 8, 2020

There’s a brilliant visual gag in Hulu’s middle-school raunchy comedy PEN15. Co-creators and lead actors Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, both in their thirties, play... Read More

TV Review: ‘The Boys’ finds its momentum in a grittier and deeper second season

Reyzando Nawara August 24, 2020

What The Boys does to deconstruct the basic tropes of superhero and comic-book formula isn’t exactly bold and new. Watchmen, both the graphic novel and... Read More

TV Review: HBO’s brilliant ‘Lovecraft Country’ fights evils real and supernatural in 1950s Jim Crow America

Zofia Wijaszka August 6, 2020

The cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft permeates HBO’s sensational new drama starring Jonathan Majors and Jurnee Smollett HBO, alongside Netflix, dominated this year’s Primetime Emmy... Read More

TV Review: Season 2 of ‘The Umbrella Academy’ is less melodramatic but remains unfocused and repetitive

Reyzando Nawara July 27, 2020

It’s nearly impossible to not think about Doom Patrol while watching The Umbrella Academy, the Netflix original show based on Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s... Read More

TV Review: In season 2, ‘Doom Patrol’ gets bolder, weirder, and sadder

Reyzando Nawara June 30, 2020

It would be an understatement to say that the first season of Doom Patrol, DC Universe’s superhero show created by Jeremy Carver based on a... Read More

TV Review: ‘Love, Victor’ is a charming and heartfelt, if somewhat flawed, coming out story

Reyzando Nawara June 8, 2020

Love, Simon, Greg Berlanti’s 2018 gay teen rom-com based on Becky Albertalli’s Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda book, did not by any means break... Read More

TV Review: ‘Love Life’ finds Anna Kendrick at the top of her game

Dewey Singleton May 18, 2020

Love Life, the first series from HBO Max, perfectly captures the fears, hopes, pitfalls, roadblocks, and promise of a woman’s search for “the one.” It’s a... Read More