TV Reviews
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‘Those About to Die’ Review: Anthony Hopkins Barely Stars in Peacock’s Standard-Issue Gladiator Drama
Streaming’s first show about gladiators is entertaining but beholden to genre tradition
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‘Vikings: Valhalla’ Season 3 Review: Netflix Historical Drama Ends With Plenty of Unexplored Potential
The spin-off series’ imaginative interpretation of history remains clever and reliably rousing
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‘Sunny’ Review: Rashida Jones Stumbles Through Apple’s Overstuffed Sci-fi Dramedy
The “Parks and Recreation” star can’t help the show move past its overwritten premise
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‘Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken’ Review: Rock Music and Drug Addiction Intersect in Moving Prison Docuseries
The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter battles the demons of guilt and rehabilitation alongside the incarcerated women of a Kansas correctional facility in this Paramount+ doc
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‘Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer’ Review: Hulu Docuseries Flounders With Surface-Level Look Inside the Minds of Murderers
Showrunner Dani Slone, alongside EPs Dakota and Elle Fanning, pack too much into this show about Dr. Ann Burgess
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‘That ‘90s Show’ Part 2 Review: Netflix Comedy Gets Better as It Embraces the Magic of Its Own Era
The sequel series finds its groove by letting go of the original
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‘The Bear’ Season 3 Review: A Calmer Appetizer for Chaos to Come
New episodes of the Jeremy Allen White-led series feel like one half of a complete story
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‘The Boys’ Season 4 Review: Amazon’s Demented Superhero Series Still Fires on Most Cylinders
Showrunner Eric Kripke keeps the violence and political satire fresh, but some storylines are starting to feel repetitive
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‘Presumed Innocent’ Review: Jake Gyllenhaal’s Apple Adaptation Is a Snarky Take on the Harrison Ford Classic
David E. Kelley’s update of Scott Turow’s novel lets every single character be shamelessly mean
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‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2 Review: War Makes the ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel Even Better
The HBO series returns with an urgent need across Westeros to choose sides before all hell breaks loose
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‘Clipped’ Review: FX Drafts a Messy but Entertaining Drama About the LA Clippers’ Racism Scandal
Based on the ESPN podcast about former LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his audio scandal, the show is both corny and illuminating
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‘The Horror’ Review: A Screenwriter With Personal Ties to Israel Revisits the Oct. 7 Hamas Attacks
Writer and director Dan Gordon balances news-based narration with an undeniably subjective tone in the TBN documentary
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‘The Big Cigar’ Review: Apple TV+ Limited Series Should’ve Been a Movie
André Holland provides the best moments from a six-episode drama that should’ve been told in a different way
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‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 Part 1 Review: Netflix Hit Swerves With Swoon-Worthy Book Changes
It feels like straying from the book order freed the Shondaland drama to make perfect changes and improve the story
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‘Outer Range’ Season 2 Review: Josh Brolin’s Time-Traveling Western Improves With Soapy Twists
Amazon’s sci-fi family drama follows up its less textured first season with more compelling character work