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I knew this already, but Stick is a nice reminder that nobody plays smug better than Timothy Olyphant. His character, Clark Ross, has been briefly...

Jurnee Smollett is very good in Episode 3 of Smoke, which I think is important to point out, since I spent most of it being...

Murderbot is a weird show. I’m pretty sure I’ve said that before, but it’s worth reiterating, since even this deep into the season – Episode 9 is the penultimate outing – I’m still not sure what works best about it.

Love is a complicated thing, and The Buccaneers is struggling to keep track of it in Season 2.

Grief isn't an emotion you feel; it's a prison you live inside. Sometimes it feels like home.

The segment of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon that opens Episode 8 of Murderbot goes on for so long that I genuinely worried that it would constitute the entire 22-minute runtime.

Apple TV+ tends to premiere new shows with multiple episodes at once, and nowhere has that strategy paid off more than in Smoke.

Sending letters is a nightmare, isn’t it? You never know who might read them, for one thing, and then there’s the not insignificant fact that they take ages to get where they’re going.

I was very surprised by how suddenly Stick got good. But I wasn't entirely surprised to discover that Episode 6 takes a bit of a downturn.

You can make a lot of simple declarative statements about Episode 7 of Murderbot.

The tone of The Buccaneers is immediately different when Season 2 begins, and you can tell it’s going to stay that way.

I get it now. Stick has been an incredibly mixed bag so far, with a derivative vibe, two-dimensional characters, and diminishing charms.

Echo Valley is one of those movies that start out as one thing and become something else. But it’s also a rarer type of movie...

I’ve been cattily picking at Murderbot ever since it debuted, but in Episode 6, I felt like it was finally learning its lesson.

I caught myself thinking during Episode 4 that Stick has made a pretty fundamental miscalculation.

Thus far, Murderbot has done a pretty good job of balancing its comedy with its drama. But it’s always a fine line.

It’s impossible to talk about Stick without mentioning Ted Lasso, since the rubric for beloved sports comedies was defined by AFC Richmond’s adventures on Apple TV+.

Murderbot still has the usual problems in Episode 4, namely being too rushed and clipped for its own good, but “Escape Velocity Protocol” brings everything together well despite those quibbles.