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The Pitt: Season 2 (2026) 99% EDIT “It’s a testament to “The Pitt’s” workaday competence that this show feels like a well-oiled machine — watchable and rewarding — even without one.” – Washington Post Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5 (2025) 82% EDIT “Most shows would lose themselves under all that cultural baggage, but “Stranger Things” (mostly) didn’t.” – Washington Post Nov 27, 2025 Full Review The Beast in Me: Season 1 (2025) 85% EDIT “The best part of “The Beast in Me” isn’t the gossip or the carnage; it’s the story about an unlikely friendship.” – Washington Post Nov 14, 2025 Full Review All Her Fault: Season 1 (2025) 79% EDIT “Starring a murderers’ row of gifted actors including Snook, Dakota Fanning, Jake Lacy, Abby Elliott, Jay Ellis, Sophia Lillis and Michael Peña, the series is an engaging thriller with an improbably high rate of satisfying twists.” – Washington Post Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Death by Lightning: Season 1 (2025) 90% EDIT “The fact that this is not a major story in the annals of American history gives it space to simply be a rollicking story set in American history, unburdened by the pressure to speak to present-day concerns. And on this front, it undoubtedly succeeds.” – Washington Post Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Nobody Wants This: Season 2 (2025) 79% EDIT “A well-paced, engaging season of television marred by a finale that feints toward originality but swerves.” – Washington Post Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Mr. Scorsese: Season 1 (2025) 98% EDIT “Miller honors her subject by addressing his flaws frankly, cinematically reinforcing them such that they become undeniable and, in the end, withholding judgment. ” – Washington Post Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Boots: Season 1 (2025) 90% EDIT “It’s a fine comedy ensemble, and the show develops its characters quickly and well. ” – Washington Post Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Slow Horses: Season 5 (2025) 96% EDIT “If the season holds back on the fireworks and fights, it compensates with more narrative and comedic and even dramatic justice than the pleasantly pessimistic series typically delivers.” – Washington Post Sep 24, 2025 Full Review The Morning Show: Season 4 (2025) 72% EDIT “Four seasons in, it remains shallow, glossy and awfully entertaining. Like the talk shows it apes, which pivot seamlessly from tragedy to puppies, it understands the value of lightness.” – Washington Post Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Only Murders in the Building: Season 5 (2025) 89% EDIT “The threat this season poses is that the evil rich — here, the mob and the sinister billionaires — might take the Arconia over. The most appealing part of that story is the fantasy that they haven’t already done so.” – Washington Post Sep 9, 2025 Full Review The Paper: Season 1 (2025) 85% EDIT “There's plenty to enjoy in the meantime while the sitcom, like the Truth Teller, finds its feet.” – Washington Post Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Alien: Earth: Season 1 (2025) 94% EDIT “The pilot delivers only slivers of the story viewers will come to know, and I won’t get into the alien plot to avoid spoilers, but there’s plenty of Xenomorph carnage.” – Washington Post Aug 12, 2025 Full Review Wednesday: Season 2 (2025) 87% EDIT “[Ortega's] remarkable stage presence imbues the prickly teenager with enough humanity to anchor and sometimes justify the show’s horror and clichés and patchy, not-quite-persuasive lore.” – Washington Post Aug 6, 2025 Full Review Too Much: Season 1 (2025) 80% EDIT “Too Much doesn’t dig its way out of the rom-com into something else. It isn’t trying to judge or to correct. That might, ironically enough, be the one way it departs from the formula it so lovingly replicates and deconstructs and honors.” – Washington Post Jul 11, 2025 Full Review The Bear: Season 4 (2025) 84% EDIT “I tend to find the show’s engagement with real-world food culture quite interesting on its own terms but oddly detrimental to the central story. In this regard, the fourth season, which returns to the core ensemble, is a massive improvement.” – Washington Post Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Stick: Season 1 (2025) 81% EDIT “For a show that talks a fair bit about when to take big swings — and when not to — “Stick” is disappointingly timid.” – Washington Post Jun 5, 2025 Full Review The Rehearsal: Season 2 (2025) 98% EDIT ““The Rehearsal” develops into a sideways anthropological treatise on pilots, who turn out to be a reserved and lonely bunch. ” – Washington Post May 28, 2025 Full Review Overcompensating: Season 1 (2025) 94% EDIT “The show is an equal-opportunity satire stacked with great performers.” – Washington Post May 15, 2025 Full Review Murderbot: Season 1 (2025) 95% EDIT “It’s a decidedly silly show, but one in which Skarsgard, who so brilliantly plays sociopathic men, portrays a disdainful but soft-eyed killing machine with a lot of anxious “humanity.”” – Washington Post May 15, 2025 Full Review The Four Seasons: Season 1 (2025) 78% EDIT “The result is a warmhearted but uneven TV rom-com that feels like the throwback it is.” – Washington Post May 2, 2025 Full Review Andor: Season 2 (2025) 97% EDIT “One of many factors that set “Andor” apart from the majority of Star Wars properties was how firmly it kept its focus on regular folks in a universe whose narratives have historically drifted toward the royals.” – Washington Post Apr 22, 2025 Full Review The Last of Us: Season 2 (2025) 92% EDIT “The season fulfills the promises that the Season 1 finale made by homing in on vexed interpersonal dynamics. ” – Washington Post Apr 14, 2025 Full Review Dying for Sex: Season 1 (2025) 98% EDIT “The result is tonally original; this is a first-rate comedy about dying.” – Washington Post Apr 9, 2025 Full Review The Studio: Season 1 (2025) 92% EDIT ““The Studio” excels at cringy humor, but it’s also doing some high-octane, technically impressive stuff and feathering a goofy Rogen comedy with layer after layer of nerdy film goodies.” – Washington Post Mar 26, 2025 Full Review
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