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Kristen Baldwin

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Kristen Baldwin is a freelance writer who previously worked as the TV Critic at Entertainment Weekly and Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo Entertainment. She's a member of the Television Critics Association and the Critics Choice Association, and she does not trust people who haven't seen The Wire.

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Nobody Wants This: Season 2 (2025) 79% B- EDIT “The new episodes reveal a show that’s chosen narrative stasis rather than risk developing its characters and premise beyond the safe boundaries established in season 1.” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Boston Blue: Season 1 (2025) 82% B+ EDIT “Sometimes, the best thing a show can do is deliver exactly what the viewers want — nothing more, nothing less. ” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 14, 2025 Full Review The Chair Company: Season 1 (2025) 100% B+ EDIT “Fans of 'I Think You Should Leave,' Robinson and Kanin’s cheerfully bizarre sketch-comedy series, will find 'The Chair Company' suitably weird. ” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Chad Powers: Season 1 (2025) 59% C- EDIT “The creators of 'Ted Lasso' knew that if you’re going to build a show on a wisp of a concept, you better make sure the world and the characters in it are fully developed. Alas, everything in 'Chad Powers' feels a little slapdash.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 26, 2025 Full Review The Paper: Season 1 (2025) 85% B- EDIT “The writers can’t seem to decide if Ned is a Michael Scott or a Jim Halpert. Sometimes, Ned is the level-headed voice of reason... Just as often, though, he’s a gaffe-prone bumbler whose impulsive, foolish actions create more problems than they solve.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 3, 2025 Full Review King of the Hill: Season 14 (2025) 98% A- EDIT “When 'King of the Hill' does take on more fraught issues of the day — cultural appropriation, the manosphere, misinformation, surveillance culture, online shaming — it does so with its signature blend of insight, sly humor, and silliness.” – Entertainment Weekly Jul 26, 2025 Full Review The Bear: Season 4 (2025) 84% B+ EDIT “Though not quite at the level of the sublime second season, the new episodes put Carmen and company back on track by allowing them to confront, at long last, “the f---ing elephant in the f---ing restaurant.”” – Entertainment Weekly Jun 26, 2025 Full Review The Gilded Age: Season 3 (2025) 95% A- EDIT “The new episodes of HBO's Gilded Age finally deliver stories for its Black characters that are as robust as those for their white counterparts — and the result is the show's most satisfying and entertaining outing yet.” – Entertainment Weekly Jun 12, 2025 Full Review Stick: Season 1 (2025) 81% C- EDIT “There’s a kind of emptiness to the writing, as though someone typed “inspiring sports comedy + golf” into Chat GPT. ” – Entertainment Weekly Jun 3, 2025 Full Review Dept. Q: Season 1 (2025) 88% A- EDIT ““Broken people healing themselves by providing closure for crime victims” can be an especially effective sub-genre if the writing, directing, and casting align — and in Dept. Q, everything gels beautifully.” – Entertainment Weekly May 29, 2025 Full Review Nine Perfect Strangers: Season 2 (2025) 44% C EDIT “Though the eight episodes are peppered with twists — including one late reveal that feels recycled from season 1 — Nine Perfect Strangers forgot a key ingredient for its storytelling smoothie: Fun. ” – Entertainment Weekly May 19, 2025 Full Review Murderbot: Season 1 (2025) 95% B- EDIT “The first half of Murderbot's 10-episode season is puzzlingly light on plot momentum and laughs. While the action, characters, and comedy do gel by the end, viewers will likely have to wait for a season 2 to see Murderbot reach its killer potential.” – Entertainment Weekly May 12, 2025 Full Review FOREVER: Season 1 (2025) 97% B+ EDIT “While it encompasses all the butterflies and betrayals of first love, 'Forever' also tells a deeper story about the challenges and heartache of raising exceptional Black kids in our fraught modern era.” – Entertainment Weekly May 8, 2025 Full Review The Rehearsal: Season 2 (2025) 98% B+ EDIT “Though Fielder allows himself some tangents in season 2, he lets the show’s concept shine, using mind-boggling production design, psychological engineering, and comedy to answer a relatable question: Why is it so hard to say what we really feel? ” – Entertainment Weekly Apr 21, 2025 Full Review Dying for Sex: Season 1 (2025) 98% B+ EDIT “Inspired by the true story of Molly Kochan and the titular podcast she hosted with Nikki Boyer, 'Dying for Sex' is a heartbreaking (and horny) story about female friendship, self-actualization, and the realization that it’s never too late to heal.” – Entertainment Weekly Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Good American Family: Season 1 (2025) 50% B EDIT “The clever, focus-shifting structure allows showrunners Katie Robbins and Sarah Sutherland to dramatize the most lurid, horror-movie aspects of the story without appearing to endorse one version over another. ” – Entertainment Weekly Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Running Point: Season 1 (2025) 79% C- EDIT “Created by Elaine Ko, Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz, and David Stassen, Running Point wastes Hudson’s star power and the significant comedic talents of its ensemble on uninspired writing and unlikable characters.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Beyond the Gates: Season 1 (2026) 100% B+ EDIT “Trust that many of the other hallmarks of an engrossing soap are there: Budding romances, dastardly revenge plots, and blissfully perfect couples who are just one dark secret away from being brought low. ” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 24, 2025 Full Review Love Is Blind: Season 8 (2025) 67% D EDIT “The first six episodes are long on dull, meandering chats in the pods... What’s puzzling is that even when the potential for interesting human drama is there, producers let it fizzle out rather than nurturing their contestants’ candor.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 14, 2025 Full Review The White Lotus: Season 3 (2025) 86% B EDIT “Just when it seems like this hotel-based franchise might be getting a little run down, season 3 develops into an engrossing mystery about beautiful people who have everything they could ever want, but nothing they really need.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Paradise: Season 1 (2025) 86% B- EDIT “Paradise starts strong, but the series undermines its compelling opener with predictable, trope-heavy storytelling that’s only partially salvaged by the drama’s excellent leads.” – Entertainment Weekly Jan 24, 2025 Full Review The Pitt: Season 1 (2025) 95% A- EDIT “As difficult as The Pitt can be to watch, I'm looking forward to spending another 15 hours in this ER.” – Entertainment Weekly Jan 9, 2025 Full Review Severance: Season 2 (2025) 94% A- EDIT “In season 2, 'Severance' forces both its characters and its viewers to confront our ugly tendency to assess another’s worth based primarily on how that person’s needs and desires align with our own.” – Entertainment Weekly Jan 7, 2025 Full Review Squid Game: Season 2 (2024) 84% B EDIT “As entertaining as this new group of players is, it’s disappointing that season 2 has them spending more time in the dorms arguing about whether to continue the games than playing the games themselves.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 26, 2024 Full Review Yellowstone: Season 5 (2022) 79% B+ EDIT “The series, which proved linear television could still produce a gargantuan hit, ended as it began, celebrating an idealized America where a man (always a man) can live life the way his God intended — independent and free from the tyranny of the Other.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 16, 2024 Full Review
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