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Dark Winds: Season 4 (2026) 100% EDIT “At this point, Dark Winds is already doing variations on its own themes. But they're good themes, and interesting variations. Change can be overrated sometimes, when you're already good at what you do. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Riot Women: Season 1 (2025) 92% EDIT “This is a delicate thing, where if the balance isn't exactly right, the drama feels weightless and the comedy much too heavy. The great majority of the time throughout this excellent first season, Wainwright gets it just so.” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Wonder Man: Season 1 (2026) 90% EDIT “This is one of the most entertaining MCU shows -- if deliberately weird and non-superheroic in a way that I expect to baffle many Marvel fans -- in quite some time. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Jan 28, 2026 Full Review The Beauty: Season 1 (2026) 70% EDIT “By [the finale], whatever renewed enjoyment of Murphy's work I'd felt earlier in the season had largely dissipated. You play the game with Murphy, you take your chances. This one kept looking like a winner for far longer than I expected, at least. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Jan 21, 2026 Full Review A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1 (2026) 94% EDIT “"Knight"'s ambitions are modest, its charms are huge. It's a reminder that while Game of Thrones is best remembered for its spectacle, many of the series' most effective moments were similarly modest” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: Season 3 (2026) 100% EDIT “Over and over, I found myself with my jaw on the floor and my fist pumping at the scale and ingenuity of the latest set piece. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: Season 1 (2026) 88% EDIT “Does this blend of old and new -- at least, new to Star Trek -- actually work? At times, almost shockingly well. At others, there are as many growing pains and awkward interactions for Starfleet Academy itself as there are for its students. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Pitt: Season 2 (2026) 99% EDIT “On the whole, what worked brilliantly before works just as brilliantly now -- in some ways, better.” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Best Medicine: Season 1 (2026) 77% EDIT “It's self-consciously quirky. It's formulaic. But it's also a formula that works more often than not. And Tuccillo knows how to write for his cast.” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Fallout: Season 2 (2025) 96% EDIT “There are definitely more of the parts of Fallout that work this season than last, but still not enough to get me past the rest of it. If you were happy with all the slow-motion violence ironically scored to mid-20th pop songs, prepare for a lot more.” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season 2 (2025) 100% EDIT “Season Two begins in roughly the same place, but shows enough growth as it moves along to give me some optimism that Riordan and everyone else are starting to figure out how to translate what's worked so well in print to the small screen. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Spartacus: House of Ashur: Season 1 (2025) 92% EDIT “Another examination of autonomy and liberation that gleefully engages in bloody action, sweaty sensuality and devious machinations? All I can say is: Gratitude. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5 (2025) 83% EDIT “If the actors are too old to be doing this, Stranger Things itself feels fairly energetic and youthful... The formula still largely works after all this time, and in most ways, the new episodes are a substantial improvement over the bloated fourth season.” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review A Man on the Inside: Season 2 (2025) 92% EDIT “I was glad I watched. But... the return of A Man on the Inside illustrates what an impressive balancing act that first year was, and how hard it is to do that again. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Blue Lights: Season 3 (2025) 100% EDIT “Blue Lights definitely wants to be the Belfast equivalent of The Wire. It never quite gets there, but there's also no shame in not living up to one of the greatest TV dramas ever made. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Beast in Me: Season 1 (2025) 84% EDIT “It's an example of why tropes become tropes in the first place: because they work. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Down Cemetery Road: Season 1 (2025) 79% EDIT “Down Cemetery Road has its moments, but overall is a reminder that what Slow Horses does is a lot harder than it appears.” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Death by Lightning: Season 1 (2025) 90% EDIT “I laughed. I choked up. I wished better things had happened for both Garfield and Guiteau. And I was glad that enough people remembered them to tell their tale this well. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1 (2025) 98% EDIT “It's the genuine article, not a impressive simulacrum. There's just a sweetness, a texture, and a flavor to what Gilligan is doing here that's been largely absent from television since Better Call Saul ended. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Nobody Wants This: Season 2 (2025) 79% EDIT “Kristin Bell and Adam Brody remain criminally adorable together.” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Boots: Season 1 (2025) 90% EDIT “The show is an engaging coming of age story.” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Hal & Harper: Season 1 (2025) 94% EDIT “It's clear that Raiff is a film guy coming to TV, in ways good and frustrating... But the way he portrays the passage of time, and how he lets the show's different eras bleed into one another is absorbing and lovely.” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Oct 18, 2025 Full Review Chad Powers: Season 1 (2025) 58% EDIT “Even when Powell has played abrasive characters in the past... he's proven so innately charismatic that you tend to like him despite how he behaves. So it's impressive in a way that he and Waldron have managed to make him so unpleasant in this one.” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Oct 10, 2025 Full Review The Chair Company: Season 1 (2025) 100% EDIT “The Chair Company is definitely not a show made by people who have compromised their vision. They've just shown that they can expand it and still be incredibly funny. ” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Black Rabbit: Season 1 (2025) 67% EDIT “You can see the outline of a series that more successfully blends The Bear with whatever crime show you prefer. The brothers, though, are such a drag that the rest of Black Rabbit can't overcome them.” – What's Alan Watching? (Ghost.io) Oct 7, 2025 Full Review
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