Comedy

In most films and TV shows, a family reunion is a cause for some jubilation, but not quite in Romance in the House. The plot...

This is good, isn’t it? I know I’ve said it before, but Episode 4 of Love Next Door only crystallizes my point that recapping this...

In Episode 6, you can kind of feel Romance in the House gearing up towards a happy ending. That’s expected, obviously, but one wishes it...

Love Next Door is an interesting show because there’s really very little that’s noteworthy about it, and yet it somehow feels quite momentous in its...

Episode 5 brings Romance in the House very close to its midpoint, and it feels like the plot is still beginning to pick up. I’m...

The problem with Baby Fever is that it is an authentic and well-produced drama, but the lead character, Nana, remains questionable, even in the depths...

Bad Monkey is even more relaxed than usual in Episode 3, which is both a good and a bad thing. The upside is that it...

Hats off to Langston Kerman. He is not deterred by being in the center of an intimate room. What’s more difficult for a stand-up set?...

Sometimes what you want from a TV show is comfort and familiarity. Love Next Door fits the bill. It’s a classic friends-to-lovers tale with all...

Romance in the House is an odd, slightly confounding show, but with every episode, it seems to be getting closer to cohering into a much...

In Episode 3, Romance in the House continues to be a bit hit and miss, with lurching shifts in tone that don’t always work and...

I know what you are thinking. I’m a critic, so I’m going to predictably pan The Union as a trashy popcorn movie as part of...

The premiere of Romance in the House largely worked on the basis of mystery, but nobody – including me – stopped to wonder if perhaps...

There isn’t much to The Instigators. It’s a surface-level crime caper with a forgettable plot, few big moments, and largely one-note characters. And yet I...

Mission: Cross is like a South Korean Mr. and Mrs. Smith, without high-octane sexual tension and playfulness. It leans toward an exhausting, miserable marriage, where...

A happy ending was always an inevitability for Miss Night and Day, but it was still important for the show to stick the landing. Episode...

Episode 15 is the penultimate outing of Miss Night and Day, and you can tell. The stakes were already pretty high at the end of...

Set and filmed in South Africa, Lobola Man is a distinctly regional take on the romantic comedy genre that revolves around an African tradition many won’t be...

The first season of Kleo didn’t seem like it begged for a continuation. It left some things unresolved, sure, but in the world of partially...

The problem with shows about spies, secret police, quarreling world governments, and times of momentous political flux, is that it’s hard to know who to...