The show’s comedy is at its best when it gets a little dark and more than a little pointed.
What the show’s storytelling lacks in sophistication it makes up for with sincerity.
The new season packs a bite, but it still feels as if it’s prowling on familiar ground.
The sharply written series delivers a near-perfect balance of bitter and sweet.
A crime thriller and a sci-fi mystery that harbors ambitions of being a political drama.
The show’s second season provides familiar pleasures and devious new twists.
The series has morphed from a “social experiment” into TV’s most complex competition.
The vast majority of this list is composed of fresh properties or limited series.
The series fails to shake off the cynicism of its commercial function and blinkered politics.
The series puts a clever twist on the thriller genre but its political commentary feels jumbled.
The series offers an unvarnished look at a contentious industry and the lives tethered to it.
In its second season, the series still lacks the specificity to distinguish its sci-fi drama.
The narrative tightens in the show’s second season with a precision that rewards close attention.
The series is too staid to capture the idiosyncratic, fiercely political spirit of its source material.
The true-crime docs here expose the rot at the core of many of our venerated institutions.
The answers the series doles out are a lot less interesting than the questions.
The miniseries boasts the same relentless energy as Gael García Bernal’s eponymous boxer.