Variety.com

The further it goes, the more Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy” strives to ladle on distinctiveness. 

The new TBS comedy “Miracle Workers,” starring Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi, wonders if God was one of us.

Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine star as 13-year-old versions of themselves in this frank and funny new comedy.

Part of what makes the series so special is its meticulous construction, shedding layer after surprising layer until the bittersweet end.

Ivo van Hove’s stage adaptation fine-tunes its feminism for our own sexist age — image-obsessed, anti-aging, the time of Time’s Up.

Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano star as battling brothers in a disappointing Broadway revival of Sam Shepard’s classic.

Jeff Daniels takes on the towering figure of Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee’s famous novel.

Bryan Cranston gives a full-throated roar as Howard Beale, a TV news anchor who is “mad as hell” about his corrupt society.

Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” finds an artist enduring hardship in the public eye, and making one of the best pop albums of the year.

Lady Gaga raises the bar for Vegas residencies with a show that gets by even more on live vocals and ace choreography than unceasing glitz.

21 Savage’s “i am > i was” has A-list guests — Childish Gambino, Post Malone, J. Cole — yet it’s strongest when Savage is solo.

Eight years after “Dancing on My Own,” Robyn triumphantly returns with an album of bittersweet pop filled with the heartache that went into its creation.