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Hoai-Tran Bui

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Hoai-Tran Bui is a news writer and film and TV critic at SlashFilm.com. She has previously written for USA Today, reporting on TV and movies for its EntertainThis blog.

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Beef: Season 2 (2026) 86% EDIT “While a star-studded cast gives the series the patina of prestige, everything that made the first season of Beef feel like such a lightning in a bottle is lost in pursuit of creating a buzzier White Lotus. As a result, Beef Season 2 feels undercooked.” – Inverse Apr 16, 2026 Full Review Daredevil: Born Again: Season 2 (2026) 90% EDIT “Like many seasons before it, Born Again Season 2 is an occasionally thrilling, often frustrating, new chapter for the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen.” – Inverse Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Fallout: Season 2 (2025) 96% EDIT “Thankfully, with a renewed focus on the show’s most electric character dynamics and a dedication to casting character actors to chew up scenery, it lives up to the hype.” – Inverse Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Only Murders in the Building: Season 5 (2025) 89% EDIT “The show is now comfortable resting on its laurels, and that makes for a wonderfully entertaining, if slightly laidback, season.” – Inverse Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Alien: Earth: Season 1 (2025) 94% EDIT “Characters are frustratingly opaque to the point that Alien: Earth more frequently recalls Hawley’s failed directorial effort, Lucy in the Sky. And its lofty ideas about transhumanism are abandoned in favor of a few more (admittedly incredible) massacres.” – Inverse Aug 5, 2025 Full Review The Sandman: Season 2 (2025) 74% EDIT “Brief glimmers of something original and inventive start to get overshadowed by the morose tone and sluggish pace of the second half of the season.” – Inverse Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Doctor Who: Season 2 (2025) 92% EDIT “Where the show seemed to be uncertain of its audience and tone in the previous season, Season 2 charges confidently ahead, experimenting with form and social commentary in bold, exciting new ways.” – Inverse Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Lazarus: Season 1 (2025) 92% EDIT “Shinichiro Watanabe’s new anime isn’t groundbreaking, but it’s still cool as hell.” – Inverse Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Daredevil: Born Again: Season 1 (2025) 87% EDIT “In one of the rare cases of “nostalgia is good, actually!” Daredevil: Born Again is at its strongest when it feels less like a revival than a continuation of the old show. ” – Inverse Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Central Intelligence: The Agency: Season 1 66% EDIT “A sophisticated new spy series that is equal turns thoughtful and thrilling — willing to give as much time to its characters’ crumbling psyches as it does to hot-button political issues and international crises.” – Inverse Nov 25, 2024 Full Review Dune: Prophecy: Season 1 (2024) 65% EDIT “In reshaping a Dune story to fit this Game of Thrones mold, Dune: Prophecy sands off the most interesting aspects of its story, while making the series feel indistinguishable from the countless other Game of Thrones knockoffs.” – Inverse Nov 11, 2024 Full Review What We Do in the Shadows: Season 6 (2024) 92% EDIT “What We Do in the Shadows has been consistently funny, smart, and surprising as it goes down alternatively dark and absurd comedy avenues. Six seasons in, it feels like neither the cast’s energy nor the quality of the show’s sharp writing has waned.” – Inverse Oct 21, 2024 Full Review The Penguin: Season 1 (2024) 95% EDIT “Farrell’s wild, go-for-broke performance makes the series a must-watch, even as it goes down more brutal, dark avenues than you’d ever expect from a Batman spinoff.” – Inverse Sep 12, 2024 Full Review Disclaimer: Season 1 (2024) 77% EDIT “The kind of rich tapestry Cuarón is so adept at crafting, with a mysterious throughline that keeps the narrative twisting and turning.” – Inverse Aug 31, 2024 Full Review Batman: Caped Crusader: Season 1 (2024) 94% EDIT “Despite some of its lulls, Caped Crusader is a beast of an animated series... It’s the kind of novel, ambitious Batman series that doesn’t just satisfy itself by appealing to nostalgia.” – Inverse Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Doctor Who: Season 1 (2024) 93% EDIT “Confusing and a little bit alienating — but that’s par for the course for Doctor Who, a sci-fi show that has made its brand out of being tonally bizarre and occasionally brilliant.” – Inverse May 6, 2024 Full Review Under the Bridge: Season 1 (2024) 86% EDIT “Gladstone, in particular, is a saving grace, her turmoiled performance elevating it from its true-crime trappings into something more haunting and striking.” – Inverse Apr 17, 2024 Full Review The Sympathizer: Season 1 (2024) 89% EDIT “Park Chan-wook helms a twisty, stylish, and darkly thrilling seven-episode adaptation for HBO and A24, one that feels like a jolt of electricity to a genre you didn’t know needed it. ” – Inverse Apr 10, 2024 Full Review Sugar: Season 1 (2024) 81% EDIT “Sugar leans on genre riffs and the charisma of its star, as much as it leans on twists built on top of twists. But once that’s all peeled away, Sugar is underwhelming and awkward, leaving you perplexed that Farrell’s talents were wasted on this.” – Inverse Mar 27, 2024 Full Review 3 Body Problem: Season 1 (2024) 78% EDIT “3 Body Problem moves at a brisk, often breakneck speed to convey a sense of spectacle and awe. But in the process, it sacrifices the thing that made Three-Body so singular in the first place: the science.” – Inverse Mar 10, 2024 Full Review True Detective: Season 4 (2024) 93% EDIT “The most thrilling and invigorating season of the show since its first.” – Inverse Jan 2, 2024 Full Review Doctor Who: Season 0, Episode 1 (2023) EDIT “Reams of fan service and transparent franchise-building can be forgiven because of how wildly fun the whole thing is — even if clunky resolutions and cheesy narrative choices mean the episode doesn’t quite hold together.” – Inverse Nov 26, 2023 Full Review The Curse: Season 1 (2023) 93% EDIT “What’s most incredible about this knotty, tangled, patently absurd series is that — like any good Nathan Fielder show — it pushes the joke beyond any reasonable endpoint, until we’re left in wholly new territory.” – Inverse Nov 6, 2023 Full Review Scavengers Reign: Season 1 (2023) 100% EDIT “But even for all its deeply disturbing twists and overly grim tone, Scavengers Reign is a wonder. It’s a feat of animation, a feat of sci-fi storytelling, and by far one of the best surprises of the year.” – Inverse Oct 15, 2023 Full Review Only Murders in the Building: Season 3 (2023) 97% EDIT “Each mystery still unravels with a fizzy, stylish pop, and every new twist is more entertaining than ever.” – Inverse Aug 10, 2023 Full Review
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