AwardsWatch - tv review

TV Review: ‘Homecoming Season 2’ – Janelle Monáe gives a standout performance in a tale of greed, complicity, and personal ambition

Reyzando Nawara May 18, 2020

The first season of Homecoming, Amazon’s conspiracy thriller created by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg based on the Gimlet Media podcast of the same name,... Read More

TV Review: ‘The Great,’ with Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, is another gift of historical satire from co-writer of ‘The Favourite’

Sara Clements May 11, 2020

The Great presents a tone, a sound of energetic strings, and a familiar look. As the events of the series unfold, the image of Emma... Read More

TV Review: ‘I Know This Much Is True’ is a standout ballet of duality

Dewey Singleton April 29, 2020

I Know This Much Is True tells the story of the Birdsey twins Dominick and Thomas and how the latter’s diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenia had... Read More

Review: Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney score an A with ‘Bad Education’

Dewey Singleton April 24, 2020

Bad Education is a well-crafted look at how privilege and vanity corrupted two life, long educators, into embezzling 11.2 million dollars over a 10-year span at... Read More

TV Review: ‘Devs’ takes the full season to find gorgeous and fascinating conclusions

Michael Frank April 22, 2020

Devs took its time reaching a definite conclusion. A series that always moved at its own pace, Alex Garland’s first dive into creating a television... Read More

TV Review: ‘After Life’ Season 2 finds Ricky Gervais at his best and most vulnerable

Catherine Springer April 18, 2020

Ricky Gervais’s Netflix series, After Life, is very much the product of an artist at his most personal. Gervais’s monster success early in his career... Read More

TV Review: ‘Killing Eve’ Season 3 – There will be blood

Amanda Spears April 7, 2020

To quickly catch up on the first two seasons of Killing Eve— Eve (Sandra Oh) stabbed Villanelle (Jodie Comer) at the end of Season One.... Read More

TV Review: ‘Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker’

Kathia Woods March 18, 2020

Madame C.J. Walker, born Sarah Breedlove, was an independent, wealthy businesswoman; a pioneer not only in Black Hair Care but invented the direct sales method... Read More

TV Recap: Sally Field will break your heart in ‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’ Season 1 Episode 3 — “Janice”

Michael Frank March 10, 2020

If Jason Segel’s Dispatches from Elsewhere has taught its characters and audiences anything through three episodes, it’s to expect to be surprised. The AMC mystery-comedy-drama... Read More

TV Recap: 'Watchmen' Season One Episode Nine – "See How They Fly"

Dewey Singleton December 15, 2019

My condolences to the inventor of twitter as it is the likelihood that by the time you’ve read this recap, Watchmen‘s season finale (yes, that’s... Read More