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Shrinking: Season 3 (2026) 90% EDIT “Our need for solace is acute, and “Shrinking” is meeting it with an exceptional, timely arc about taking shelter in the communities we create.” – Salon.com Feb 10, 2026 Full Review A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1 (2026) 95% EDIT “This is easily the most enjoyable season of anything related to Game of Thrones, whether you’ve read everything Martin’s written or only watched the shows. ” – Salon.com Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Golden Globes: Season 83 (2026) 45% EDIT “For the time being, Glaser merely endeavored to set the bar at the line between clever and stupid, which she claimed at the end of the show was her goal. In this respect, the host succeeded. ” – Salon.com Jan 12, 2026 Full Review The Pitt: Season 2 (2026) 99% EDIT “This extremely human rendering of the healer’s challenge conveys a broader scope of comprehension than any other medical drama, even if Robby’s struggles to refrain from taking every victory or failure personally fit a prevalent archetype.” – Salon.com Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Heated Rivalry: Season 1 (2025) 96% EDIT “Most TV attempts at sex and sensuality are meager offerings. “Heated Rivalry” fulfills by serving its romance hot and molten, and with heartfelt meaning.” – Salon.com Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1 (2025) 98% EDIT “No matter where you sit on these spectrums, there’s a strain within “Pluribus” that speaks directly to your feelings, much like the disembodied voices on Carol’s phone that cheerily ask her what she needs whenever she picks up her handset.” – Salon.com Nov 26, 2025 Full Review The Beast in Me: Season 1 (2025) 84% EDIT “Improbable scenarios are part of this show’s bargain with viewers... But the series’ demonstration of what many of us are willing to excuse to rise on the wings of wrongdoing makes absolute sense.” – Salon.com Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Landman: Season 2 (2025) 83% EDIT “Is “Landman” a drama or an unintentional comedy? Is it good TV or one of the silliest time-killers you will watch in any given week? It’s all this, and no critical assessment, one way or the other, really matters. ” – Salon.com Nov 18, 2025 Full Review All's Fair: Season 1 (2025) 6% EDIT “Break out a stopwatch, start the timer the moment the action begins, and see how long it takes for your jaw to detach from the rest of your face.” – Salon.com Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy: Season 1 (2025) 96% EDIT “Such a measured approach enables the real people still connected to the story to retain their humanity and dignity.” – Salon.com Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Monster: Season 3 (2025) 21% EDIT “It may seem as if the point is to turn the mirror on society’s endless appetite for monstrosity. But, as usual, the makers of “Monster” want to have it all ways.” – Salon.com Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Breaking the Deadlock: Season 1 (2025) EDIT ““Breaking the Deadlock” exists as a model of what a sensible exchange of views should look like while depicting how partisan biases are distorting our discourse.” – Salon.com Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Murdaugh: Death in the Family: Season 1 (2025) 69% EDIT “If you’re still hurting for an answer to how we got here, Arquette offers an engrossing, maddening one in her portrait of Maggie Murdaugh.” – Salon.com Oct 16, 2025 Full Review The Chair Company: Season 1 (2025) 100% EDIT “For all its familiar eccentricity, “The Chair Company” is ultimately a satisfying exercise of give-and-take, with Robinson empowering his costars to draw us into their squeamishness and oddity as frequently as his everyman stampedes through his.” – Salon.com Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Boots: Season 1 (2025) 90% EDIT “In its portrayal, strength isn’t about posturing but an individual hallmark that can be shored up and channeled. ” – Salon.com Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Peacemaker: Season 2, Episode 6 (2025) EDIT “Online viewership figured out Earth X’s fatal flaw early in the season. I did, too. I’m not saying this to brag, but rather, to affirm the shrewd experiment that series creator James Gunn concocted within this second season.” – Salon.com Oct 3, 2025 Full Review The Lowdown: Season 1 (2025) 98% EDIT “Fans of Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye" and other heavy hitters from that era will glean a special satisfaction in watching it.” – Salon.com Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Emmys: Season 77 (2025) 33% EDIT “Bargatze may want to take a few notes before he tries this again or, better yet, stick to touring and leave the Emmys out of it.” – Salon.com Sep 16, 2025 Full Review aka Charlie Sheen: Season 1 (2025) 75% EDIT “An uneasy good time.” – Salon.com Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Task: Season 1 (2025) 96% EDIT ““Task” asks us to swim in deep waters that get murky in spots, but safely brings us to the opposite shore, satisfied to have enjoyed the experience.” – Salon.com Sep 9, 2025 Full Review The Paper: Season 1 (2025) 86% EDIT “It’s easy to traffic in cheap jokes at the expense of professions most of the audience doesn’t hold in high regard or think about much, if at all. “The Paper” refuses to do that.” – Salon.com Sep 4, 2025 Full Review With Love, Meghan: Season 2 (2025) 17% EDIT “If you embrace lifestyle programming as a soothing agent, you may be just as content to put the haters on mute and flop on the couch like a collapsed meringue as these four-plus new hours float on by.” – Salon.com Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Limitless With Chris Hemsworth: Season 1 (2025) EDIT “Darren Aronofsky, returning as its executive producer on the series, knows what he’s got here. But it’s better about presenting Hemsworth as an example, not the exemplar, of what functional fitness can look like.” – Salon.com Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser: Season 1 (2025) 72% EDIT “Like the show it criticizes, it is an exercise in rubbernecking, capitalizing on the contestants’ anguish and suffering instead of offering healthy media analysis in hindsight as medicine. ” – Salon.com Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Peacemaker: Season 2, Episode 2 (2025) EDIT ““The Ties that Grind" is violent, gory, and trades in uproarious humor that doesn’t give a bleep about delicate ears and sensibilities. It also boasts one of the most evenhanded depictions of queerness shown in superhero movies and TV series.” – Salon.com Aug 29, 2025 Full Review
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