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Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen: Season 1 (2026) 88% EDIT “There’s a lot going on, including a spinning of wheels. It may not be “very bad,” I hasten to add, but the “something very bad” in “Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen” is the pumping of 10 gallons of horror into a 5-gallon vehicle.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints: Season 2, Episode 5 (2026) EDIT “The topic may be obvious; the approach is not. Created and directed by Matti Leshem and written by the esteemed film critic/filmmaker Kent Jones (the very Catholic “Diane”), the action applies humanity to divinity.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Henry David Thoreau: Season 1 (2026) EDIT “Providing voices are Ted Danson, Meryl Streepand, most remarkably, Jeff Goldblum, who as Thoreau abandons anything associated with standard Jeff Goldblum and creates a vocal character full of self-reflection, naïveté and awe. Thoreau would have approved.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 26, 2026 Full Review The Count of Monte Cristo: Season 1 (2024) 88% EDIT “Once Mr. August gets us past his very soft and charmless introduction, his version gains momentum. Especially when Edmond goes to prison.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Scarpetta: Season 1 (2026) 60% EDIT “In Italian, scarpetta involves the scooping up of the leftover gravy. In crime fiction, the best-known Scarpetta deals in human remains. Either way, it suggests something of a mess. And so it is. “Scarpetta.”” – Wall Street Journal Mar 16, 2026 Full Review The Madison: Season 1 (2026) 61% EDIT “Ponderous in its messaging, glacial in its pace, “The Madison” stars some pretty substantial people... Purely as entertainment, it is inert.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 13, 2026 Full Review Born to Bowl: Season 1 (2026) 100% EDIT “An affectionately made five-part series that takes neither the sport nor itself too seriously. ” – Wall Street Journal Mar 13, 2026 Full Review Mudtown: Season 1 (2025) EDIT “The performances are first-rate; Claire and Pete, for instance, are imbued by Ms. Richards and Mr. Cullen with a distinctly unstable chemistry. ” – Wall Street Journal Mar 13, 2026 Full Review American Classic: Season 1 (2026) 94% EDIT “The concept of a theater family is both literal and figurative in “American Classic,” and while there might be a revival -- as in a second season -- one hopes not. It couldn’t be this good.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Vladimir: Season 1 (2026) 73% EDIT “Despite the assemblage of first-rate parts, ignition proves elusive. Ms. Weisz never seems quite comfortable... And only if she were would the story about inappropriate lust between students and faculty be as amusing as she has to pretend it is.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Rooster: Season 1 (2026) 88% EDIT “Steve Carell’s character in the likable, watchable and even lovable “Rooster” is classic Steve Carell: Self-aware, charming, boyish, incapable of reading a room, sidestepping a faux pas or calculating nuance.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Formula 1: Drive to Survive: Season 8 (2026) EDIT “What the more casual spectator wants, and gets, is a highly dramatic, bingeable distillation of a sport that involves multimillion-dollar cars going in eccentric circles. And which provides better camera angles than you’d get from any grandstand.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 5, 2026 Full Review DTF St. Louis: Season 1 (2026) 88% EDIT “Mr. Bateman is always a supremely watchable actor, but if there’s a standout in this exceptional cast it’s Mr. Harbour, who has sort of gone “Raging Bull” for his role as Floyd. ” – Wall Street Journal Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Young Sherlock: Season 1 (2026) 84% EDIT “As one might deduce, “Young Sherlock” is fun enough, though for reasons visual rather than strictly narrative.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Murder in Glitterball City: Season 1 (2026) 78% EDIT “It’s unusual for filmmakers to base their project on a work of nonfiction and then make a mockery of their source material, but Messrs. Bailey and Barbato have some bitchy fun with “A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City."” – Wall Street Journal Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Wild Boys: Strangers in Town: Season 1 (2026) EDIT “Directors Hammerling and Baghdadi don’t have a huge mystery on their hands, and the direction and choice of imagery and editing generate a sense of ethereal wonder and elusiveness, rather than suspense or high drama.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Portobello: Season 1 (2025) 100% EDIT “The level of indignation, courtesy of the masterly Bellocchio, may be even more than a viewer will be comfortable with; the cynical perspective of so many Milanese jurists is appalling. But it is television with teeth.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Neighbors: Season 1 (2026) 62% EDIT “The series is a guilty kind of pleasure, though the pleasure is mostly grounded in a realization that you are not them. And that the things that really set these people off are often the things you overlook, if you want to be a good neighbor.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Can You Keep a Secret?: Season 1 (2026) 92% EDIT ““Can You Keep a Secret?” is certainly a cut above the standard TV comedy, which is why Paramount has it streaming rather than on, say, CBS... But it has a bit of a tonal imbalance.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 17, 2026 Full Review NOVA: Season 53, Episode 3 (2026) EDIT “The most remarkable of the test cases seen in this very entertaining program are Australian shepherds and border collies, which are known for their intelligence.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 17, 2026 Full Review NOVA: Season 53, Episode 4 (2026) EDIT “The frequent appearance of animated creatures suggests someone was quite fond of the CGI available, but the 3-D images of fossilized remains on the screens of the biological historians are consistently fascinating. So are the conclusions. ” – Wall Street Journal Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Out of Bounds: Season 1 (2025) EDIT ““The Sports Betting Boom,” narrated by D. C. Douglas, is a bit supercilious in tone but, to Vice’s credit, it’s also a critique of the channel’s own target demographic. And ought to be required viewing by the same.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Glitter & Gold: Ice Dancing: Season 1 (2026) 100% EDIT “Director Walsh is never invasive -- these people would never let her be. But she does delve into the personal lives of her subjects off the ice. And she does capture enough candid moments to provide a portrait of perfectionist people.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Memory of a Killer: Season 1 (2026) 50% EDIT “Mr. Dempsey is solid. And with a curated selection of chase scenes, the show has traction.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!: Season 1 (2026) 100% EDIT “The laughs in “99 Year Old Man!” arrive virtually every time its subject opens his mouth, but his career, as he tells it, has had as many plateaus as successes.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 22, 2026 Full Review
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