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Malcolm Venable

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Ratched: Season 1 (2020) 62% 4/5 EDIT “Ratched works very well as a moody, sensual thriller even if it's not so much an intellectual exploration.” – TV Guide Sep 16, 2020 Full Review P-Valley: Season 1 (2020) 100% 100/100 EDIT “P-Valley blends the profane, the sacred, and the politics of the almighty dollar to tell engrossing stories about Black women on the margins who use their bodies to keep families and communities afloat. It's also one of the year's best new shows.” – TV Guide Jul 8, 2020 Full Review Black Monday: Season 2 (2020) 83% EDIT “Black Monday just lets its people move through its wild world in relatively sensible ways - paying back those who burned them and scheming to get more power, money, and ass. Bottom line: it's a lot of fun.” – TV Guide Jun 30, 2020 Full Review Sherman's Showcase: Season 1.1 (2020) 100% EDIT “What makes Sherman's Showcase (the overall series, but also this specific installation) so resonant and important is that it acknowledges Black struggle and pain, while remaining light and silly.” – TV Guide Jun 22, 2020 Full Review Hollywood: Season 1 (2020) 58% 3/5 EDIT “Hollywood is a retro fairy tale - a progressive, partly preposterous semi-lucid dream in which the underdogs actually win. It's unbelievable but sumptuous, just like all fairy tales should be.” – TV Guide May 2, 2020 Full Review Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker: Season 1 (2020) 68% 40/100 EDIT “As a piece of scholastic infotainment, the series has tons of merit. But as a piece of prestige television, it falls short.” – TV Guide Mar 18, 2020 Full Review Twenties: Season 1 (2020) 88% 3/5 EDIT “Twenties' is most enjoyable when it allows itself to be unapologetically silly, and one way it maintains its own sense of quirky identity is by peppering Old Hollywood references (black-and-white movies, Sinatra-style big band tunes) into the story.” – TV Guide Mar 6, 2020 Full Review Catch-22: Season 1 (2019) 84% EDIT “Bringing this work to TV was a risky move, but the finished product is exceedingly well done and, at a time when government gobbledygook has trumped all previous notions of unbelievability, perhaps more urgent than anyone could have predicted.” – TV Guide Nov 22, 2019 Full Review Godfather of Harlem: Season 1 (2019) 92% EDIT “It's gritty, pulpy and unpredictable and confident in a swagger that's not really trying to emulate the soft nuances of "prestige" crime dramas like Breaking Bad or The Sopranos.” – TV Guide Oct 6, 2019 Full Review The Politician: Season 1 (2019) 59% 70/100 EDIT “While The Politician's loopy turns can sometimes make it feel like the marriage of a live-action cartoon and a Wes Anderson movie, it's never dull and always comes back to the same question: What do you have to be made of to be president today?” – TV Guide Sep 23, 2019 Full Review David Makes Man: Season 1 (2019) 100% 88/100 EDIT “The rhapsodic and dreamy timbre of Moonlight, the film that won the Best Picture Oscar in 2017, comes to life again in David Makes Man, a gorgeous, attention-grabbing new series on the OWN Network.” – TV Guide Aug 14, 2019 Full Review Dear White People: Season 3 (2019) 90% EDIT “Dear White People is a very funny show with serious stories to tell, and it's more enjoyable than ever.” – TV Guide Aug 2, 2019 Full Review Grand Hotel: Season 1 (2019) 74% EDIT “It's glamorous, sexy and mysterious.” – TV Guide Jul 24, 2019 Full Review Euphoria: Season 1 (2019) 80% 4/5 EDIT “[Zendaya's] good, but what makes Euphoria grossly entertaining is the full cast, its interwoven stories, and the stunning visuals projected on the screen when substances alter their minds.” – TV Guide Jun 13, 2019 Full Review L.A.'s Finest: Season 1 (2019) 24% 85/100 EDIT “Obviously, some will see the gender of the leads a momentous occasion worth trumpeting, and it is, but the show is packaged so nicely and the partners are so complementary that their sex becomes moot.” – TV Guide May 9, 2019 Full Review Fosse/Verdon: Season 1 (2019) 80% 60/100 EDIT “Ignore its distractions and Fosse/Verdon is a savory, decadent treat, but ignoring Michelle Williams means depriving yourself of a show-stopping performance.” – TV Guide Apr 5, 2019 Full Review Veep: Season 7 (2019) 97% EDIT “These last Veep episodes feel like a respite from even thinking about our present reality. It's certainly funnier than reality.” – TV Guide Mar 29, 2019 Full Review The Act: Season 1 (2019) 88% 69/100 EDIT “The Act never seizes an opportunity to make us understand why Dee Dee manufactured this system of toxic codependency, missing out on an "Aha!" moment that might've made The Act magical. But for plain old Mommy horror fun, The Act does its job nicely.” – TV Guide Mar 18, 2019 Full Review GLOW: Season 2 (2018) 98% EDIT “One reason GLOW works so well is that it makes uncomfortable, complicated conversations about gender, sexual harassment, race and sexuality fun.” – TV Guide Jan 23, 2019 Full Review Black Monday: Season 1 (2019) 55% 82/100 EDIT “Black Monday takes conventional portrayals of Wall Street out for many, many drinks, pumps them full of cocaine and then shoots off into the night for a sloppy, insanely wild ride that doesn't always make sense.” – TV Guide Jan 18, 2019 Full Review The Masked Singer: Season 1 (2019) 52% EDIT “Even I, a person born before the Internet but not that long after Christ, thought it was cute, a welcome break from serious documentaries, heady dramas and troubling 60 Minutes segments like the one about birds eating plastic.” – TV Guide Jan 15, 2019 Full Review Tidying Up With Marie Kondo: Season 1 (2019) 81% EDIT “Indeed, Tidying Up leaves viewers oozing happy tears almost as much as the participants, making it very much like Netflix's other happy tears show, Queer Eye, in terms of emotional payoff.” – TV Guide Jan 15, 2019 Full Review Sally4Ever: Season 1 (2018) 97% 90/100 EDIT “Julia Davis, the English comedian, actor, writer and director who created the original (and better) version of Camping, brings a new cringe-comedy fest to HBO with Sally4Ever and it needs to be your new Brit-com obsession.” – TV Guide Nov 12, 2018 Full Review House of Cards: Season 6 (2018) 65% 50/100 EDIT “House of Cards never quite maintains momentum, again; the first five episodes sent to critics are sometimes promising, sometimes plodding.” – TV Guide Nov 1, 2018 Full Review All American: Season 1 (2018) 92% 70/100 EDIT “So yes, you've seen All American before, but despite its cliches, the first three episodes The CW sent to us in advance deem All American an engrossing, timely and relevant high school drama with loads of potential.” – TV Guide Oct 10, 2018 Full Review
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