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Kathryn VanArendonk

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Staff writer at Vulture.

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Bridgerton: Season 4 (2026) 82% EDIT “Bridgerton’s fourth season, by comparison, does something that should be rudimentary and yet in the context of this show is remarkable: Its minor plots are thematically relevant to the main story. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Blue Lights: Season 3 (2025) 100% EDIT “Blue Lights has strong performances bursting out of every cop car and uniform locker, Brooke is the quiet lead of the show’s ensemble with Grace’s outsider status keeping her aware of and alive to the frustration of these long-entrenched criminal actors.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1 (2025) 99% EDIT “It is simultaneously just as committed to questioning Carol’s worldview and illustrating alternative ways of thinking about agency, happiness, and communal good. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 14, 2025 Full Review The Gilded Age: Season 3 (2025) 95% EDIT “The Gilded Age is a remarkably stable system. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 15, 2025 Full Review The Bear: Season 4 (2025) 84% EDIT “The show still lacks the balance its first two seasons were able to find, and by now, some of its moves have become familiar... But compared to its predecessor, this season is the better, more appealing, and more confident version of The Bear.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Stick: Season 1 (2025) 81% EDIT “Each step forward comes with two steps back. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jun 9, 2025 Full Review Hacks: Season 4 (2025) 98% EDIT “...the show now feels motivated and coherent in ways it has not accomplished before. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jun 3, 2025 Full Review FOREVER: Season 1 (2025) 97% EDIT “As much as Keisha and Justin are teens of their era, they are also the closest and most vital connection between this series and Blume’s original work... They make Forever feel timeless.” – New York Magazine/Vulture May 9, 2025 Full Review The Last of Us: Season 2 (2025) 92% EDIT “There are issues around the margins... But at its core, the show is full of the magic and horror of parenthood and how hard it is to let your children become their own people.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Pulse: Season 1 (2025) 48% EDIT “It’s not anything, really, except a frustrating mishmash of many better shows crammed into a blender and pulsed until any specific flavor or texture has been pulverized beyond recognition. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 4, 2025 Full Review The Baldwins: Season 1 (2025) 20% EDIT “One of the darkest and most bizarre hours of television to appear in recent memory. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 28, 2025 Full Review The White Lotus: Season 3 (2025) 86% EDIT “Campy, naughty, a little shocking, and a little old hat, The White Lotus’s third season has its flaws and its hang-ups, without question... But as with its first two seasons, The White Lotus succeeds at being fun TV first and foremost” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Clean Slate: Season 1 (2025) 87% EDIT “Clean Slate has gone all in on feel-good, and the effect on the series as a whole is that it’s both happier and emptier as a result. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2025 Full Review The Pitt: Season 1 (2025) 95% EDIT “A wholly engrossing show, competently made and beautifully edited.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 10, 2025 Full Review Severance: Season 2 (2025) 94% EDIT “Through to the end, the series remains at its best in short sequences and individual images, even when the underlying logic of the thing starts to shift and buckle. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 8, 2025 Full Review The Bear: Season 3 (2024) 89% EDIT “For every bit of preening self-congratulation, there’s another moment that can knock you sideways... But excellence is a hard thing to attain and an even harder thing to keep, and The Bear’s grip has started to slip.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jun 27, 2024 Full Review Bridgerton: Season 3 (2024) 87% EDIT “Bridgerton remains too much fun to consider breaking up with anytime soon. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jun 13, 2024 Full Review The Sympathizer: Season 1 (2024) 89% EDIT “The series is at its best when Park’s visuals and narrative devices clearly articulate everything going on under the story’s hood. It’s rare an essay prompt feels this fun.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 16, 2024 Full Review Jerrod Carmichael: Reality Show: Season 1 (2024) 95% EDIT “The series swings through moments of heartbreaking sincerity, tenderness, self-recrimination, rage, and puckish playfulness, and it lets those moods live together harmoniously.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 26, 2024 Full Review 3 Body Problem: Season 1 (2024) 78% EDIT “It’s well paced, generally compelling, and completely committed to being the most TV version of itself it can possibly be. If only more Netflix dramas did the same.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 19, 2024 Full Review The Regime: Season 1 (2024) 52% EDIT “Ultimately The Regime is a series desperate to say things but can only get as far as noticing them.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Season 1 (2024) 90% EDIT “It's... such a relief to watch a TV series that doesn’t strive for film-style plotting stretched over eight hours. There is some bumpiness in pacing and plotting, but Mr. & Mrs. Smith has a finely tuned sense of the world John and Jane are striving for.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 2, 2024 Full Review The Crown: Season 6, Episode 10 (2023) EDIT “After so many seasons of fruitful interpretive openness, at the end, The Crown can only make simplistic proclamations and shut the door.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 15, 2023 Full Review The Curse: Season 1 (2023) 93% EDIT “The show leaves too many of its ideas undeveloped, especially from its central themes about race and constructions of the self.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 6, 2023 Full Review The Wheel of Time: Season 2 (2023) 86% EDIT “In its second season, the Amazon fantasy series Wheel of Time, based on the unending Robert Jordan novels that start out like a Lord of the Rings rip-off, is a TV series that has figured itself out.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 11, 2023 Full Review
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