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The Morning Show: Season 4 (2025) 72% EDIT “Tig Notaro’s character’s main personality trait being Hates Alex Levy is so funny.” – Autostraddle Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1 (2025) 98% EDIT “Rhea Seehorn is already giving a stellar performance.” – Autostraddle Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Wayward: Season 1 (2025) 78% EDIT “Wayward gives just enough of the town’s backstory and the roots of its mystery to provide enough narrative scaffolding without becoming overly bogged down by the worldbuilding and mythology. ” – Autostraddle Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Hell Motel: Season 1 (2025) 69% EDIT “I don’t need too much depth to the characters in a slasher, but it’s like Hell Motel mistakes thick exposition for character depth.” – Autostraddle Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Poker Face: Season 2 (2025) 96% EDIT “I won’t spoil the specifics of the premiere’s murder or how Charlie eventually solves it, but the fuel keeping the pacing and story burning at every twist and turn is absolutely Erivo.” – Autostraddle May 12, 2025 Full Review Hacks: Season 4 (2025) 98% EDIT “Hacks injects enough specificity in the subplots and their surroundings to keep the game feeling fresh.” – Autostraddle Apr 14, 2025 Full Review No Good Deed: Season 1 (2024) 80% EDIT “No Good Deed replicates a lot of the best parts of Dead To Me: deep storytelling about grief that also manages to be mordantly hilarious, Linda Cardellini... a true blend of thriller and comedy genres and, it bears repeating, Linda Cardellini.” – Autostraddle Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Fifteen-Love: Season 1 (2023) 60% EDIT “Fifteen-Love expertly reveals how assumptions can obscure abuse, how our desire for a clear definition and evidence of harm can hurt victims.” – Autostraddle Aug 26, 2024 Full Review Sunny: Season 1 (2024) 90% EDIT “Sunny feels less like a warning of the dangers of AI and more like another effort to normalize it. As a grief drama and character study, it’s thrilling. As a tech dystopia, it’s murky.” – Autostraddle Jul 12, 2024 Full Review Wreck: Season 2 (2024) EDIT “While it sometimes gets lost in its own machinations, Wreck never pulls punches about that, and its commentary on class and the ultra-wealthy is both brutal and absurd...” – Autostraddle Jun 17, 2024 Full Review Hacks: Season 3 (2024) 98% EDIT “But just know: If you were among those who (myself included!) wondered if Hacks should come back for more, rest assured. It’s still very much giving.” – Autostraddle May 3, 2024 Full Review Heartbreak High: Season 2 (2024) 57% EDIT “In Heartbreak High, characters are often consumed by this impulse for self-possession, desperate to change themselves in the name of love or self-preservation. It’s in the ways these characters flounder and fail that the series succeeds.” – Autostraddle Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Apples Never Fall: Season 1 (2024) 48% EDIT “The psychological underpinnings of the series really are quite compelling, but the writing barely scratches the surface of them. ” – Autostraddle Mar 14, 2024 Full Review Such Brave Girls: Season 1 (2023) 100% EDIT “The script, penned by Sadler, is beyond acidic; it’s like guzzling gasoline.” – Autostraddle Dec 18, 2023 Full Review Everything Now: Season 1 (2023) 85% EDIT “Everything Now explores so many big emotions and fraught relationships with depth and specificity. Even when it traffics in teen drama tropes, its original voice shines through.” – Autostraddle Oct 12, 2023 Full Review The Afterparty: Season 2, Episode 10 (2023) EDIT “While there are flashes of the goofy, spoofy fun this series excels at, The Afterparty doesn’t end perfectly, playing the murder mystery wrap-up a little too close to the bone instead of bringing its full force of playfulness and experimentation.” – Autostraddle Sep 12, 2023 Full Review Harlan Coben's Shelter: Season 1 (2023) 88% EDIT “There’s a ton of narrative handholding to the script, yielding a series that’s trying so hard to be intense and mysterious but instead comes off overly simplistic and didactic.” – Autostraddle Aug 18, 2023 Full Review The Afterparty: Season 2 (2023) 95% EDIT “It’s funny and bright and over-the-top, but it’s also a real... ” – Autostraddle Jul 27, 2023 Full Review The Lake: Season 2 (2023) EDIT “Even at its zaniest, The Lake feels very grounded in the world the writers have constructed in rich detail over the past two seasons. ” – Autostraddle Jun 20, 2023 Full Review Dead Ringers: Season 1 (2023) 85% EDIT “A bloody and horny psychosexual thriller full of body horror, mind games, and sci-fi-ish strangeness unfurls its claws across the six-episode series.” – Autostraddle Apr 25, 2023 Full Review Beef: Season 1 (2023) 98% EDIT “It is one of the best explorations of obsession I’ve ever seen, especially because it’s such a strange and potent version of obsession between two strangers. ” – Autostraddle Apr 11, 2023 Full Review Riverdale: Season 7 (2023) EDIT “Betty's burgeoning bisexuality which she can't quite seem to grasp, is fully realized storytelling. It appeals precisely because it's at the margins of Riverdale's main storytelling. ” – Autostraddle Apr 10, 2023 Full Review Class of '07: Season 1 (2023) 100% EDIT “Class of ’07 is absurdist in its approach to a survival story, a loud, gross, goofy, fun, and often surprising show that isn’t trying to be as serious or scary as Yellowjackets... ” – Autostraddle Mar 22, 2023 Full Review Wreck: Season 1 (2022) 69% EDIT “Like a lot of horror-comedy, the social commentary Wreck makes is very explicit and heightened, but there are moments of nuance in there, too.” – Autostraddle Mar 10, 2023 Full Review Poker Face: Season 1, Episode 5 (2023) EDIT “in isolated aspects, the episode is a thrilling romp! But it also makes some choices that ultimately seem regressive and lazy, particularly when it comes to its depiction of the episode’s “villains” and positions the FBI as the good guys.” – Autostraddle Feb 2, 2023 Full Review
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