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The secret to most Bill Lawrence shows is that you want to spend time with their characters. You like them, as you would your own...

Euphoria has always been many things – salacious, provocative, stupid, lurid, occasionally brilliant, and so on, and so forth – but chief among them was...

I have a sneaking suspicion that people aren’t going to love the ending of DTF St. Louis. And I can see why, honestly. I’m about to...

The Comeback is about, among other things, how times change, and a function of the changing times is leaving not only things – trends, ideas,...

In many ways, Episode 5 of Rooster is the one I was waiting for. I could see the dramedy’s potential from the very beginning, but...

In many ways, “The Denny’s Plan” is the weakest episode of DTF St. Louis thus far. That sounds like more of a criticism than it’s intended to...

It’s hard to talk about a mockumentary – even though The Comeback has stopped being one in Season 3, at least for long stretches –...

I keep expecting to like Rooster more than I do. Luckily, Episode 4 reassured me that it does seem to be going somewhere, even if I don’t...

One of the broader arcs in Episode 5 of DTF St. Louis is Detective Homer realising that the murder of Floyd Smernitch isn’t as open-and-shut as he...

Thus far, Rooster has been much more of a comedy than a drama. The elusive balance that really characterises great Bill Lawrence shows like Ted Lasso and Shrinking is conspicuously absent...

It’s a testament to how good DTF St. Louis is that the cold open of Episode 4, rather drily titled “Missouri Mutual Life & Health Insurance Company”,...

Given that The Comeback has always been a show with an eerie soothsaying quality about it, it’s really no surprise that Season 3 – which...

Steve Carell made a handy focal point for Rooster, and his reluctant bumbling is what helped to situate us at Ludlow and get a sense...

DTF. St Louis has been pretty good since it started. Odd, sure, and unconventional enough for its ultimate destination to feel sometimes worryingly elusive. In...

Rooster was always going to be good. A dramedy from the creators of Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and Scrubs, starring Steve Carell as a bumbling author intervening in the spiralling love life of his daughter and her cheating husband against the backdrop of a liberal arts college campus? Sometimes these things just write themselves.

DTF St. Louis is that rarest of things, a mystery that is genuinely mysterious. I have no idea who killed Floyd, or why, or what his prior career as a nude male model or his curved penis might have to do with any of it. And that's just the way I like it.

When it was revealed that Season 2 of The Pitt was going to be set on the Fourth of July, everyone envisioned a lot of firework-related nastiness. In Episode 9, over halfway through the season, we finally get some of that. But it’s the least of anyone’s problems in PTMC.

At first blush, DTF St. Louis is a show you've seen before. The HBO murder-mystery is about three people circling the drain of a sexless middle age, and one of them turns up dead, casting the other two in suspicion. It isn't the most unique of elevator pitches.