TV Review: Sarah Jessica Parker’s 'Divorce' on HBO
For better or worse, HBO's "Divorce" is the spiritual sequel to the network's nearly 20-year-old “Sex and the City,” which followed the love lives of four single women in New York from gritty…
Reviews
TV Review: Frontline’s ‘The Choice’ Offers Welcome Perspective to Election 2016
In the deluge of information that prefigured Monday night's debate came an interesting statistic from polling conducted by Monmouth University: While three-quarters of likely voters intended to watch…
TV Review: ‘Westworld’
A beautifully restored old train deposits visitors in Sweetwater, a manufactured Old West town and the central settlement within "Westworld," the role-playing resort in which paying customers can…
TV Review: ‘Marvel’s Luke Cage’
You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who would say that 2016 has been a banner year; when it comes to politics, violence and matters of race, the past 10 months have been especially trying. Thus…
TV Review: Netflix’s ‘Easy’
From writer, director, and executive producer Joe Swanberg comes “Easy,” Netflix's latest original series. “Easy” is an eight-episode collection of vignettes depicting sexual or romantic…
TV Review: ‘Versailles’
The opening credits to "Versailles" are scored by a track off of M83's "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming," a 2011 synth-pop album. "Outro," the track in question, is a electronic, dreamy song that isn't…
TV Review: ‘Timeless’
Every now and then, a show comes along that is so ridiculous — so expansively silly — that it goes around the bend from meaningless to meaningful, from a blank canvas to one whose emptiness signifies…
TV Review: ‘The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey’
It was hard not to experience a sinking feeling as the first installment of "The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey" progressed. This two-part investigation of the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey, which aired…
TV Review: ‘Lethal Weapon’ and ‘MacGyver’
Nostalgia for the semi-recent past is everywhere in television: Shows set in the '80s and '90s or that tweak legacy properties have become common. Networks want to break through the pop-culture…
TV Review: '68th Primetime Emmy Awards'
This year's Emmy ceremony did not need dragons to dazzle. Sure, as expected, "Game of Thrones" won as best drama. But aside from the awards for “Thrones" and "Veep," very few of the other wins felt…
TV Review: ‘The Good Place’
The greatest strength of "The Good Place" may lie in what it is not. It doesn't explore a recognizable workplace, nor does it follow the rhythms of the typical family sitcom. Rather, this earnest…
