Variety.com

“Mayans” is an easy watch for anyone who misses “Sons of Anarchy’s” mix of broad humor, big emotions, and bursts of gunplay.

In the show’s first three installments, there are thrills, shocks, and plenty of approbation for the fictional universe’s bad guys.

“Jack Ryan’s” first four episodes are cause for optimism; the best sign is the casting of John Krasinski, a happily low-key star.

More often than not, “Kidding” feels caught between too many tones and ideas to become quite as distinctive as it could be.

Stubbornly inconsequential, it’s a morally uplifting fairy tale of which everyone, young and old alike, can be skeptical.

Baz Luhrmann’s iconic, trippy movie comes to the stage with its grandeur and craziness intact.

Graft some hits from the Go-Go’s songbook onto an Elizabethan prose poem and you get a lot of silly stuff.

A musical take on the Bard offers the spirit of community, a lesson in gender identity and an infectious good time.

On the fresh and freaky “Kamikaze,” the rapper’s voice hasn’t sounded quite so whiny, impassioned, or enraged since his early days.

With help from producers Pharrell Williams and Max Martin, Ariana Grande has made a fourth album that lives up to its upper title.

Nicki Minaj’s 19-track “Queen” is epic and overstuffed, but stands as her best and boldest album to date.

Listening to “Scorpion” feels less like taking a journey than circling around and around on a cul-de-sac in a luxurious gated community.