Comedy

Until now, Sarah Paulson's Carrington Lane has been by far the best part of All's Fair. This is largely because she has been an overblown cartoon villain without a trace of redeemability, which puts Episode 5, "This Is Me Trying", in an awkward position.

I’m not the type to ever be caught in the heart of a scandal – unless there’s a group of people somewhere who really care...

The Chair Company isn’t getting worse in any meaningful sense, but I think Episode 6, “Happy Birthday, a friend”, is the point where it has reached the outer limit of how much great throwaways and weird juxtapositions alone can sustain it.

“Dead Weight” is the penultimate episode of Tulsa King Season 3, but it doesn’t feel like it.

What would Christmas be without bland festive fare? Netflix is kicking off the 2025 holiday season with the usual dross, following the usual formula, which...

Having spent over a decade as an entertainment critic, one of the things I have realised is that I have deeply unsophisticated taste. Ordinarily, a...

There was simply no way that Loot Season 3 wasn't going to experience some kind of decline in the absence of Nicholas.

Most shows require a bit of detective work when they return after some time away, but it took me longer than usual to reacclimatise to Apple TV+’s Palm Royale.

If nothing else, at least DMV seems to be listening to me. I've been crying out for the sitcom to give Colette something -- anything -- different to do, and in Episode 5, "Stick Shift", it just about manages it.

The vitriolic criticism of Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair has been more predictable than warranted.

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.

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...

Call me naive, but I genuinely thought that Mango was going to be a deceptive title laced with some kind of hidden meaning. But no...

It has been difficult to keep track of Loot in Season 3. It definitely dropped the ball in a lazy England-set third episode, but it managed to course correct a little with a half-hour reintroducing John Novak for a ridiculous guest appearance.

In Episode 4 of DMV, things are half-improved. The secret is keeping Colette away from Noa for a while, since that dynamic was already becoming tired.

I never thought I'd hear the term "revenge vagina", but here we are. There are certain things you can rely on Ryan Murphy for, and it's probably stuff like this.

I have a personal theory that most things would be improved by the presence of Sarah Paulson, and this seems as true of All's Fair as it is of anything else.

Only rarely have I ever seen a show lay out the basic shape of its premise as quickly as All's Fair does.