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Matthew Gilbert

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The Bear: Season 3 (2024) 89% EDIT “Creator-writer Christopher Storer doesn’t strain to outdo himself this time out so much as maintain the intensity of last year’s tone... The results are consistent, eye-opening in terms of restaurant culture, and at times moving, if not next level.” – Boston Globe Jun 27, 2024 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 2 (2024) 84% EDIT “The show remains highly watchable, and it mostly supports its status as a Sunday night ritual... But the absence of Paddy Considine as King Viserys leaves a large hole, as he was one of only a few acting heavyweights in the mix. ” – Boston Globe Jun 20, 2024 Full Review Presumed Innocent: Season 1 (2024) 79% EDIT “A solid beach read of a whodunit... The fun here is in popping the popcorn, trying to guess the identity of the killer, and letting yourself be toyed with by a playful writer.” – Boston Globe Jun 12, 2024 Full Review Queenie: Season 1 (2024) 87% EDIT “It has a lot to offer in terms of its protagonist, 25-year-old Queenie Jenkins, and the actress who plays her, Dionne Brown. Together, they deliver a portrait of a much-needed quarter-life psychological audit.” – Boston Globe Jun 6, 2024 Full Review We Are Lady Parts: Season 2 (2024) 95% EDIT “This show brings me joy, as it brings these women to life with such glee. It has a positivity to it that never compromises the complex questions it raises about faith, friendship, fame, and the power of music.” – Boston Globe Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Eric: Season 1 (2024) 72% EDIT “It’s all in service of an unwieldy, overstuffed 1980s-set story line that’s too ambitious for its own good, alas -- but still, there’s a lot to admire in these six fast-paced episodes” – Boston Globe May 30, 2024 Full Review Bodkin: Season 1 (2024) 68% EDIT “One of the big problems with “Bodkin” is that it hardly adds up to much. All of the investigation goes to some absurd places, and I don’t think that was intentional. And there are plot holes galore along the way.” – Boston Globe May 29, 2024 Full Review Interview With the Vampire: Season 2 (2024) 100% EDIT “The scripts are elegant and, at times, moving, as they capture the sometimes grandiose and sometimes sophisticated language of beings that have lived through many eras. And the acting is uniformly excellent. ” – Boston Globe May 24, 2024 Full Review Bridgerton: Season 3 (2024) 87% EDIT “It’s all sumptuous fun. The spectacular balls with the orchestrated pop songs and the old-old-old-school line-dancing continue to dazzle. ” – Boston Globe May 23, 2024 Full Review Hacks: Season 3 (2024) 98% EDIT ““Hacks” remains thoroughly enjoyable. The writing is smart, as it follows a once-popular comic balancing aging with an unwaning desire to entertain, and the acting is both humorous and poignant. ” – Boston Globe May 21, 2024 Full Review Maryland: Season 1 (2023) 93% EDIT “A great opportunity to admire two of the finest actors from across the pond.” – Boston Globe May 8, 2024 Full Review A Man in Full: Season 1 (2024) 50% EDIT “[A Man in Full] isn’t boring so much as it’s overblown, even cartoonish, while it treads some overtrodden turf. ” – Boston Globe May 3, 2024 Full Review The Tattooist of Auschwitz: Season 1 (2024) 77% EDIT “The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a valuable Holocaust story, but it doesn’t rate with the best of the genre.” – Boston Globe May 2, 2024 Full Review Elsbeth: Season 1 (2024) 92% EDIT “As far as simple pleasures go, “Elsbeth” is just fine. There are no big surprises or twists coming at us; just some lighthearted perp-finding amid plenty of fish-out-of-watering, as our sunny heroine deals with New York City toughness. ” – Boston Globe Apr 30, 2024 Full Review Baby Reindeer: Season 1 (2024) 99% EDIT “There is nothing pat or simplistic in the way Gadd lays it all out across seven half-hour episodes, and, most interestingly, there is very little self-righteousness afoot. ” – Boston Globe Apr 30, 2024 Full Review Franklin: Season 1 (2024) 71% EDIT “While some of the French figures on the show blur together, and while the eight episodes do at times feel longer than is necessary for this particular story, Douglas keeps it all quite watchable.” – Boston Globe Apr 12, 2024 Full Review Mary & George: Season 1 (2024) 94% EDIT “It drips with attitude, wit, and archness, which can sometimes work -- see “The Great” -- but fails to provide enough character and narrative to back it all up. It doesn’t build so much as tread water.” – Boston Globe Apr 9, 2024 Full Review Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 12 (2024) 94% EDIT “It’s odd to feel sentimental about such an abrasive show, but there it is. I remain a fan of “Curb,” even as it is in season 12, a lesser thing than it was when it started. ” – Boston Globe Apr 5, 2024 Full Review The Regime: Season 1 (2024) 52% EDIT “If you’re going to make a joke out of a dictator for six episodes, you also need to have plots that engage us along the way, above and beyond the main thematic point. Instead, the miniseries has just kept hammering home the same bit.” – Boston Globe Apr 5, 2024 Full Review Ripley: Season 1 (2024) 86% EDIT “Scott holds it all together with a gripping performance. He gives us a bleak man who feels he has nothing to lose, who hit an existential bottom early in life and has never shaken it. ” – Boston Globe Apr 4, 2024 Full Review We Were the Lucky Ones: Season 1 (2024) 94% EDIT “Yes, the miniseries is challenging, and steeped in heartbreak, and unrelenting. But it joins a growing inventory of important, eye-opening, memorable, and timely TV takes on the Holocaust and World War II. Ultimately it is as rewarding as it is harrowing.” – Boston Globe Mar 28, 2024 Full Review Alice & Jack: Season 1 (2024) 38% EDIT “It might all make more sense if Riseborough and Gleeson had more spark between them. But their parts are under-written, anyway, so that neither character has much dimension or motivation. ” – Boston Globe Mar 21, 2024 Full Review 3 Body Problem: Season 1 (2024) 78% EDIT “Benioff and Weiss have been slammed for their unsatisfying final season of Game of Thrones, but, so far, 3 Body Problem reestablishes their reputations as top-notch adaptors.” – Boston Globe Mar 21, 2024 Full Review Palm Royale: Season 1 (2024) 56% EDIT “At times, there doesn’t seem to be enough story line to fuel 10 hourlong episodes. A little more drama -- or even some heavier satire -- might have given the show more weight and purpose. Still, it’s an enjoyable, if forgettable, romp.” – Boston Globe Mar 20, 2024 Full Review Nolly: Season 1 (2023) 100% EDIT “It’s a warm, smart, and concise portrait of British actress Noele Gordon, known as Nolly, who, in 1981, was abruptly fired from her TV soap opera, “Crossroads,” after 17 years. ” – Boston Globe Mar 18, 2024 Full Review
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