TV

What I liked about Talamasca: The Secret Order initially is that, despite being set in a world of vampires, witches, and other supernatural ephemera, it presented itself as a pretty straight-up espionage thriller.

It’s a rare show – and, in case it wasn’t obvious, The Chair Company is a very rare show – that doesn’t seem any closer to meaningfully explaining what it’s about by the time it’s halfway through.

I was fully prepared to declare the “controversy” around Prime Video’s Bat-Fam utterly ridiculous, and a complete overreaction by so-called fans with nothing better to...

The best joke in I Love LA is that the funniest character isn’t any of the Gen Z influencer caricatures that Rachel Sennott has clearly created the show to mock.

I think it’s safe to say that It: Welcome to Derry has been much better than anyone expected it to be.

There’s a very specific tension to Netflix’s four-part docuseries Marines, and it’s the promise – not a suggestion, the outright guarantee – of war. Nobody’s...

Sometimes it takes failure to show you what success really looks like.

Billy the Kid is alive. I feel I should point this out since technically, Billy is supposed to be dead. Pat Garrett shot him twice,...

When I said that the premiere of MGM+’s new take on Robin Hood risked missing the point of what made the character fun in the...

And just like that, Montague Distilleries is once again open for business, thanks to Dwight’s slick power play to secure the loyalty of Attorney General...

Mayor of Kingstown isn’t pulling any punches in Season 4. Several Russians have been beheaded by a train, and Carney’s cold execution in front of his...

I can’t say I didn’t warn you, but Episode 9 of Typhoon Family hits the wall I expected it to. It isn’t a bad outing,...

I know I keep going on about it, but you’ll have to forgive me, since it’s really difficult not to compare Sheriff Country to Boston...

It’s a good job Boston Blue is a decent procedural, because if it weren’t for the cases of the week, it’d be the dullest, most...

Even before its release, Pluribus was being hailed as proper event television, the kind of watercooler show we don’t get anymore from the man responsible...

Nothing’s a secret these days. No movie releases without two or three increasingly obvious trailers having given most of its plot points away. No TV...

The Last Frontier is unashamedly a throwback to uncomplicated, slightly conspiratorial action thrillers of the ’90s, and I love that about it. Or, at least, I’d...

On July 2, 1881, U.S. President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau in the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, DC, having been...