TV Reviews
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‘Barry’ Season 3 Review: Bill Hader’s Dark Comedy Gets Even Darker
The Emmy-winning HBO series returns with jokes and emotional turmoil in equal measure
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‘The First Lady’ Review: Showtime Anthology Puts the Spotlight on the Women Behind the Men
Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Viola Davis unearth the private lives of three remarkable women
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‘Anatomy of a Scandal’ Review: Netflix Limited Series Is a Rich Tale of Consent and Accountability
Sienna Miller and Rupert Friend star in David E. Kelley’s story of a British MP accused of sexual assault
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‘Tokyo Vice’ Review: Ansel Elgort Leads Slow-Paced HBO Max Crime Drama
The neo-noir thriller suffers from familiar “Prestige TV” problems despite compelling subplots and supporting characters
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Academy Awards Review: The Show Lost Its Luster Long Before Will Smith’s Slap
The weirdest ceremony in years produced moments that we never want repeated
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‘Atlanta’ Season 3 Review: FX Series Further Blends Comedy and Horror in Captivating Return
Dream logic continues to fuel one of the best series on television
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‘Pachinko’ Review: Apple TV+ Hits the Jackpot With Miraculous Prestige Drama
The trilingual bestseller adaptation succeeds with both style and substance
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‘Halo’ Review: Sci-Fi Series Is a Strong Start for Paramount+, But May Divide Gamers
The long-delayed video game adaptation takes a hard detour from established lore
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‘Human Resources’ Review: New Netflix Series Is What ‘Big Mouth’ Wants to Be When It Grows Up
It’s “The Office” meets “Inside Out” in this diverse “Big Mouth” spinoff about monsters adulting badly
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‘Life & Beth’ Review: Amy Schumer Gets Personal Again in a Brilliant Hulu Dramedy
The star mixes humor, heart and a killer lineup of co-stars for one of the best new series of the year
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‘Minx’ Review: A ’70s Feminist Teams Up With a Porn King in Glossy, Penis-Laden HBO Max Comedy
Jake Johnson is totally groovy as a porn publisher who upends a Vassar grad’s vision of creating a female-centric magazine
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‘The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey’ Review: Samuel L. Jackson and Dominique Fishback Shine in Apple TV+ Drama
Leave it to a streaming service to bring Walter Mosley’s bestseller about a man with dementia and his much younger caregiver to life
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‘The Thing About Pam’ Review: Renée Zellweger Gives Killer Performance in NBC True-Crime Series
But it’s too bad the network didn’t put a slightly more cheeky spin on its narrative version of the case it has owned in reality TV
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‘Diabolical’ Review: Prime’s Animated ‘The Boys’ Spinoff Is Heavy on Gore, Light on Story
Not that fans of the graphic novels — or live-action series — will mind
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Karama Horne -
‘Joe vs. Carole’ Review: Kate McKinnon Leads Peacock’s Surprisingly Classy Retelling of the ‘Tiger King’ Saga
McKinnon’s Carole Baskin is more the Hillary Clinton of big cat activism than the real Baskin has ever come off in previous docuseries
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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong