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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1 (2026) 95% EDIT “Through this duo, “Knight” recaptures a delightful aspect of “Game of Thrones”: the conversations and unlikely bonds between mismatched companions on the road.” – New York Times Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Riot Women: Season 1 (2025) 92% EDIT “Wainwright is too curious about her characters to sketch them in their simplest terms. By the end of its first season, the series has expanded beyond its putting-on-a-show premise to map out a rich network of the women’s family and social relationships. ” – New York Times Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1 (2025) 98% EDIT “The result is a wildly fanciful series that feels unsettlingly real at its core. ” – New York Times Nov 10, 2025 Full Review The Chair Company: Season 1 (2025) 100% EDIT “I was drawn in, wondering what strange, sleazy alley this shaggy dog would lead me down next. That Guy, it turns out, can still surprise you.” – New York Times Oct 13, 2025 Full Review The Lowdown: Season 1 (2025) 98% EDIT “What really drives “The Lowdown,” though, is charm and fighting spirit.” – New York Times Sep 22, 2025 Full Review The Paper: Season 1 (2025) 86% EDIT “The Paper... starts fast, funny and competent, with an easy command of its mockumentary template. But the template is also a problem” – New York Times Sep 3, 2025 Full Review Long Story Short: Season 1 (2025) 100% EDIT “It’s wildly funny, swinging, like “Bojack,” from deep emotion to loony tune slapstick.” – New York Times Aug 22, 2025 Full Review King of the Hill: Season 14 (2025) 98% EDIT “King of the Hill could just as well have stayed in a restful retirement. But for Hank, there are still odd jobs to do, and plenty of things that need fixing.” – New York Times Aug 4, 2025 Full Review Pee-wee as Himself: Season 1 (2025) 100% EDIT “In the end, if “As Himself” is necessarily incomplete, it stands as a tribute to Reubens’s genius and complexity. ” – New York Times May 22, 2025 Full Review The Studio: Season 1 (2025) 92% EDIT “The series is timely enough to be a little distinctive, and it knows its business well enough to be blisteringly entertaining.” – New York Times Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Common Side Effects: Season 1 (2025) 100% EDIT “What makes the series captivating is its style and deadpan voice.” – New York Times Feb 3, 2025 Full Review Squid Game: Season 2 (2024) 84% EDIT “But if the series is just a vehicle for more of the same high-design carnage, are we, collectively, just a bargain-basement version of the V.I.P.s? ” – New York Times Dec 26, 2024 Full Review Dune: Prophecy: Season 1 (2024) 65% EDIT “But everywhere in “Prophecy,” one feels the merciless tractor-beam pull of franchise service. ” – New York Times Nov 22, 2024 Full Review Disclaimer: Season 1 (2024) 77% EDIT “You can notice a thousand “Beware: Falling Footwear” signs and still be impressed by the aerial ballet when the shoe at long last drops. ” – New York Times Oct 11, 2024 Full Review English Teacher: Season 1 (2024) 98% EDIT “Amid its broad-strokes zeitgeist gags, it has enough quirk and complexity to capture the weirdness of adolescents and the people in charge of them. ” – New York Times Sep 3, 2024 Full Review The Decameron: Season 1 (2024) 70% EDIT “The Decameron is under no illusions about the terrors of death or the frailties and vanities of humanity, but it counterweights that with spirited comedy. As a 14th-century physician might say, its humors are well in balance.” – New York Times Jul 25, 2024 Full Review Fantasmas: Season 1 (2024) 94% EDIT “It’s more digressive than a sitcom, more serial than a sketch comedy. Think of it as a sketch fantasy.” – New York Times Jun 6, 2024 Full Review We Are Lady Parts: Season 2 (2024) 95% EDIT “What works about “We Are Lady Parts” is what works about great punk. You can still fashion something new out of the same old three chords. You just need a distinctive voice.” – New York Times May 31, 2024 Full Review Black Twitter: A People's History: Season 1 (2024) 88% EDIT “It’s an engagingly specific snapshot of the Twitter era and the social period it overlapped with: a time that was serious even when it was silly, that was fun until it wasn’t.” – New York Times May 9, 2024 Full Review Jerrod Carmichael: Reality Show: Season 1 (2024) 95% EDIT “The eight episodes are not unlike the installments of an autobiographical, auteurist sitcom. Carmichael, as producer of the show and his life, gives each one a theme, sometimes setting up situations for himself that impel conflict.” – New York Times Mar 28, 2024 Full Review 3 Body Problem: Season 1 (2024) 78% EDIT “If one thing holds it back from greatness, it’s the characters, who could have used some alien technology to lend them an extra dimension or two. But the series’s scale and mind-bending turns may leave you too starry-eyed to notice.” – New York Times Mar 20, 2024 Full Review The Regime: Season 1 (2024) 52% EDIT “The real-life overtones may not be funny, but the execution is.” – New York Times Feb 29, 2024 Full Review The Vince Staples Show: Season 1 (2024) 94% EDIT “It is mordantly funny and visually arresting, although at five brief episodes, it’s more of an EP than a magnum opus.” – New York Times Feb 15, 2024 Full Review A Murder at the End of the World: Season 1 (2023) 89% EDIT “At its best, “A Murder” has grandeur, chilly beauty and intellectual adventurousness (and it pulls off a satisfying final twist).” – New York Times Nov 14, 2023 Full Review Scavengers Reign: Season 1 (2023) 100% EDIT “A lush, magnificent, hypnotic story of human survival in a place that feels, in a way that sci-fi planets only occasionally manage, truly otherworldly.” – New York Times Oct 18, 2023 Full Review
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