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Allison Shoemaker

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Biography:

Entertainment editor, FOX Digital. Author, How TV Can Make You Smarter. Allison is a member of the Television Critics Association and the Chicago Film Critics Association. She is also a producer and co-host for the Podlander Presents network of podcasts.

Reviews

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Outlander: Season 6 (2022) 89% B+ EDIT “A few moments of thinking, "okay, lets move this along" seem like a fair trade when the result is otherwise so strong.” – Fox 10 Phoenix Mar 8, 2022 Full Review Worst Roommate Ever: Season 1 (2022) 100% EDIT “Watching this Blumhouse docuseries is a surefire way to never want to live with another person ever, ever again.” – Fox 10 Phoenix Mar 1, 2022 Full Review From: Season 1 (2022) 96% EDIT “"From" should be catnip for fans of character-driven small-town horror -- big Stephen King vibes here -- but the real key to its success is its clever world-building.” – Fox 10 Phoenix Feb 18, 2022 Full Review Severance: Season 1 (2022) 97% A- EDIT “It's a crackerjack premise brought to life by a uniformly excellent ensemble, and those are reasons enough to watch this corker of a series. ” – Fox 10 Phoenix Feb 18, 2022 Full Review Suspicion: Season 1 (2022) 48% EDIT “...Scratches a very particular itch, emitting vibes that are perhaps best described as "90s paranoiac thriller starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman or maybe Sandra Bullock and the Internet." ” – Fox 10 Phoenix Feb 3, 2022 Full Review The Chair: Season 1 (2021) 86% EDIT “Peet and Wyman's sharp, empathetic writing alone makes The Chair worth taking a seat for.” – Fox 10 Phoenix Aug 20, 2021 Full Review Reservation Dogs: Season 1 (2021) 98% EDIT “With sharp wit and even sharper teeth, Reservation Dogs tells a deeply-felt story that's ... anchored by the excellent performances of its four young stars” – Fox 10 Phoenix Aug 12, 2021 Full Review RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars: Season 6 (2021) B EDIT “What a bounty. What a cavern of delights. And what a perfectly acceptable but not all that thrilling premiere.” – AV Club Jun 28, 2021 Full Review Whitstable Pearl: Season 1 (2021) 86% EDIT “...A solid balance of the somber, the suspenseful, and the cozy-mysterious.” – AV Club May 31, 2021 Full Review DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 6 (2021) 100% B EDIT “As always with the start of a new Legends season, there's the energy that comes with a new pure-chaos problem, this time the scattering of a whole shit-ton of aliens (and maybe some other beings?) through the timeline.” – AV Club May 12, 2021 Full Review Ginny & Georgia: Season 1 (2021) 68% EDIT “Lampert, Fisher, and company are at their best when writing for Ginny, and Gentry doesn't miss a beat.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 25, 2021 Full Review Kenan: Season 1 (2021) 69% EDIT “The most promising aspects of the proceedings, namely the star's warm presence and the endearing rapport of this sitcom family, fall flat.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 15, 2021 Full Review Young Rock: Season 1 (2021) 91% EDIT “When Young Rock stops long enough to focus on any one story, it's handled pretty well.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 15, 2021 Full Review Painting With John: Season 1 (2021) 100% EDIT “Whether joyful or absurd, melancholic or cranky, lonely or communal, it is always a celebration of art and artists, of the process of creation.” – RogerEbert.com Jan 23, 2021 Full Review Mr. Mayor: Season 1 (2021) 44% EDIT “As it stands now, neither Danson's impeccable timing nor his internal vat of charisma can compensate for the teeth-grinding sameness of Mr. Mayor.” – RogerEbert.com Jan 7, 2021 Full Review The Stand: Season 1 (2020) 57% EDIT “A sometimes dazzling, often frustrating, and undeniably assured effort that swings hard and occasionally connects. When it does, it's riveting television; when it doesn't, well, it's not boring.” – RogerEbert.com Dec 17, 2020 Full Review How to With John Wilson: Season 1 (2020) 100% EDIT “It's not often that a viewer comes across a TV series that feels completely and utterly itself.” – AV Club Dec 15, 2020 Full Review What We Do in the Shadows: Season 2 (2020) 98% EDIT “If [the first season] was missing something in the age of binging, it was the kind of energy that compels you to just let that 'play next' feature keep a-rolling. That's not a problem anymore. They grow ever stronger, feeding off of all of us.” – RogerEbert.com Dec 14, 2020 Full Review The Flight Attendant: Season 1 (2020) 97% EDIT “Like the best of all such genre-melding stories, it's a lot more complicated ... thanks in no small part to a career-best performance from Kaley Cuoco.” – RogerEbert.com Nov 27, 2020 Full Review I Hate Suzie: Season 1 (2020) 95% EDIT “Each episode works as a thoughtful, even bracing exploration of its stated theme, but at no point do the proceedings become orderly.” – RogerEbert.com Nov 20, 2020 Full Review No Man's Land: Season 1 (2020) 57% EDIT “It's distressingly incurious about the war, the country, the people who live there, the people who fight there, and even the all-important Europeans and Americans who suck up most of the oxygen in this series.” – RogerEbert.com Nov 18, 2020 Full Review The Crown: Season 4 (2020) 96% EDIT “10 episodes of television that may not be uniformly among the show's finest, but which are somehow its most authentic.” – RogerEbert.com Nov 13, 2020 Full Review Industry: Season 1 (2020) 76% EDIT “it's definitely worth toughing out the endless lines of coke to see what happens next, but even in a typical year [Myha'la Herrold] would earn Industry the benefit of the doubt.” – RogerEbert.com Nov 9, 2020 Full Review The Queen's Gambit: Season 1 (2020) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “Anchored by a magnetic lead performance and bolstered by world-class acting, marvelous visual language, a teleplay that's never less than gripping, and an admirable willingness to embrace contradiction and ambiguity, it's one of the year's best series.” – RogerEbert.com Oct 23, 2020 Full Review Soulmates: Season 1 (2020) 74% EDIT “It's hard not to walk away feeling as if you've spent hours watching the writers attempt to free themselves from their pitch.” – RogerEbert.com Oct 7, 2020 Full Review
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