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Scarpetta: Season 1 (2026) 60% 2/4 EDIT “But though the actors are famous and talented, they can't pull "Scarpetta" up from its ho-hum bootstraps into something bigger and better.” – USA Today Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Rooster: Season 1 (2026) 88% 3/4 EDIT “Rooster might as well be a big teddy bear you got at a carnival. Somewhat artificial, but still soft, comforting and there for you. And sometimes that's all you need your TV show to be.” – USA Today Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Vladimir: Season 1 (2026) 73% 3/4 EDIT “It happily lampoons the parties involved and uses the uncertainty of the community as an ideally chaotic backdrop for bad characters to do bad things.” – USA Today Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Love Story: Season 1 (2026) 81% 3/4 EDIT “This real-life Shakespearean tragedy gets the full prestige mini-series treatment, from the painstaking recreation of specific tabloid moments and 1990s outfits, to not-so-subtle examination of what the Kennedy myth means to the American story.” – USA Today Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Bridgerton: Season 4 (2026) 82% 2/4 EDIT “Season 4 could have been an open door to something new, even though the writers were hampered with less than ideal source material. Instead, it's tiresome and slow-going between rare moments of real heat and intrigue.” – USA Today Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Wonder Man: Season 1 (2026) 91% 2.5/4 EDIT “Though "Wonder Man" isn't perfect, it is a worthy effort. There's as much superhero fatigue in the real world as there is in the Hollywood Simon and Trevor occupy, and if the comic book adaptations aren't going away, it's imperative we try something new.” – USA Today Jan 27, 2026 Full Review The Beauty: Season 1 (2026) 72% 1.5/4 EDIT “Murphy doesn't hit the nail on its zeitgeisty head.” – USA Today Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Memory of a Killer: Season 1 (2026) 50% 2.5/4 EDIT “Without actors as talented and charming as Dempsey and Imperioli, it would be entirely forgettable. Their powerful, charismatic presence, however, suggest this is worth sticking with beyond the two-night premiere.” – USA Today Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Ponies: Season 1 (2026) 96% 3/4 EDIT “That kind of unfussy, easygoing but still absolutely thrilling, action series that you can't wait to sit down and watch because it's such a joyous ride.” – USA Today Jan 15, 2026 Full Review A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1 (2026) 94% 1.5/4 EDIT “Knight might have been airy and fun but is instead torturous and drab, a pointless exercise in franchise-extension that scratches none of the original itches nor creates anything particularly exciting and new. ” – USA Today Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Pitt: Season 2 (2026) 99% 4/4 EDIT “ The themes are powerful and gut-wrenching. You won't want to − or even be able to − look away. And that's all we can ask for from our TV shows.” – USA Today Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Fallout: Season 2 (2025) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “Fallout remains a show that glories in high contrast visuals, emotions and characters.” – USA Today Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season 2 (2025) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “Percy is a shining light. There aren't enough stories anymore about growing up, finding your inner hero, being part of a community and a team and caring for each other. We should celebrate such stories whenever and wherever we find them.” – USA Today Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5 (2025) 82% 2.5/4 EDIT “It certainly feels like the "Stranger" we've come to know and love over nearly a decade. But it is a distinctly imperfect final bow; the season seesaws between thrilling and annoying, from emotionally satisfying to logically baffling.” – USA Today Nov 27, 2025 Full Review A Man on the Inside: Season 2 (2025) 93% 3/4 EDIT “In the new episodes there's a deepening of the characters, story and themes, so that most of the season actually feels like a show that you can sink your teeth into. ” – USA Today Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Beast in Me: Season 1 (2025) 85% 2/4 EDIT “There is something there, but it takes far too long to arrive at anything interesting. ” – USA Today Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Death by Lightning: Season 1 (2025) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “The series' self-assuredness is helped by a cast that is a joy to look at in their 19th-century getups before they utter a single word. ” – USA Today Nov 6, 2025 Full Review All's Fair: Season 1 (2025) 6% 1/4 EDIT “It's so stilted, artificial and awkward not even a glass of wine and leftover Halloween candy can make it remotely enjoyable to view.” – USA Today Nov 5, 2025 Full Review I Love LA: Season 1 (2025) 87% 1.5/4 EDIT “Prestige TV fantasy of the chronically online.” – USA Today Oct 30, 2025 Full Review IT: Welcome to Derry: Season 1 (2025) 80% 3.5/4 EDIT “Set in 1962 and steeped in mid-century suburban fantasy as much as the mysticism of "IT," "Derry" packs its scares with some thoughtful meditations about race and Americana. ” – USA Today Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Nobody Wants This: Season 2 (2025) 79% 1.5/4 EDIT “Perhaps the biggest sin of "Nobody" Season 2 is that it completely lacks the effervescent romance, that magical chemistry between Brody and Bell, that made the first season so irresistible. ” – USA Today Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy: Season 1 (2025) 96% 2/4 EDIT “Like so many similar shows in the genre, "Devil" can't transcend beyond a rehash of the facts.” – USA Today Oct 17, 2025 Full Review DMV: Season 1 (2025) 65% 2.5/4 EDIT “The jokes are funny but not hilarious, and the characters are likable but not memorable.” – USA Today Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Murdaugh: Death in the Family: Season 1 (2025) 69% 1/4 EDIT “Exploitative, dull and lacking a point of view, "Murdaugh" is a new lowpoint in our collective murder obsession.” – USA Today Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Boots: Season 1 (2025) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “A series entirely made of heart and soul, a military dramedy that eschews tired boot-camp tropes and wooden, stereotypical characters for a cast of complex and misunderstood individuals. ” – USA Today Oct 9, 2025 Full Review
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