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Chad Powers: Season 1 (2025) 59% EDIT “Although the details are, of course, different—including the choice of sport—there are lots of similarities with the first breakthrough Apple+ series, ‘Ted Lasso.’ ” – RogerEbert.com Sep 28, 2025 Full Review The Paper: Season 1 (2025) 85% EDIT “The series is as interested in the particulars of fact-checking and deadlines as it is the concessions we make to capitalism’s indifference to humanity.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 4, 2025 Full Review House: Season 2 (2005) 100% EDIT “A show not just about doctors and their cases, but a drama about mentors and students, and an inquiry into what really matters in life -- a metaphysical procedural.” – Newark Star-Ledger Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Bones: Season 1 (2005) 72% EDIT “The characters and actors are appealing, particular Deschanel, who plays Brennan as a socially inept but tough/sexy dame in the Veronica Mars/Crossing Jordan mold. But the series is still going to have to work overtime to emerge from the shadow of House.” – Newark Star-Ledger Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Stax: Soulsville, U.S.A.: Season 1 (2024) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “This is a thrilling and often moving production, one that pushes the outer edge of the envelope of its innate limitations as product, and illuminates the material in a sorrowful, sensitive manner.” – RogerEbert.com May 24, 2024 Full Review Shōgun: Season 1 (2024) 99% EDIT “Do we control our drives or the other way around? That’s the question here, and Shōgun has the good taste never to answer it.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 28, 2024 Full Review The Last Movie Stars: Season 1 (2022) 100% 4/4 EDIT “It's easy to imagine people who know nothing about Newman and Woodward being mesmerized by [this series].” – RogerEbert.com Jul 22, 2022 Full Review Music Box: Season 1.4 (2021) 96% 3/4 EDIT “When Lane gets away from the man himself and focuses on the details of the business of music, a new frontier of understanding opens up.” – RogerEbert.com Dec 2, 2021 Full Review We Are: The Brooklyn Saints: Season 1 (2021) 91% EDIT “We Are the Brooklyn Saints is beautiful, not just in terms of its subject matter, but in its look and sound and rhythm: the vibe of the thing.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 1, 2021 Full Review The Mosquito Coast: Season 1 (2021) 64% EDIT “It can seem as if the writers are unnecessarily running out the clock... But there's enough going at the level of performance and characterization that you rarely feel as if a given scene is devoid of purpose.” – New York Magazine/Vulture May 4, 2021 Full Review Gangs of London: Season 1 (2020) 91% EDIT “Finch is a terrific audience surrogate, radiating the disgruntled lumpenprole badassery of Charles Bronson.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 2, 2021 Full Review The Good Lord Bird: Season 1 (2020) 98% EDIT “The Good Lord Bird speaks to the present as well as the past. This is one of the most thoughtful and surprising series of an already impressive year: a historical epic of real vision.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 8, 2020 Full Review NY Med: Season 1 (2012) 100% EDIT “Wrong's series are laid-back and plainspoken. He seems to think that if he shows us recognizable people in situations we can relate to, we'll be intrigued enough to keep watching. He's right.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 1, 2020 Full Review Fargo: Season 4 (2020) 84% EDIT “When one character asks a question of another and then announces with a self-regarding smirk that it was rhetorical... Fargo disappears into its own navel, where even the lint is annotated.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 28, 2020 Full Review Lovecraft Country: Season 1 (2020) 88% EDIT “With each new episode, we gain more appreciation of the thought that's been put into every aspect of Lovecraft Country's production, including the cultural baggage that accompanies each reference - Lovecraft more than any other.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Aug 12, 2020 Full Review EDIT “The show deploys blockbuster-quality visual effects, triumphant orchestral music by Alan Silvestri, and cartoon interludes... But its greatest special effect is the laid-back charisma of its host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 2, 2020 Full Review I'll Be Gone in the Dark: Season 1 (2020) 96% EDIT “You come away from this production thinking of McNamara not just as an author, detective, wife, mother, and friend but as a rare individual who was able to treat human experiences as a series of mirrors that she could hold up to each person she met.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jun 26, 2020 Full Review Salvation: Season 1 (2017) 48% EDIT “There is no direction to speak of, just shots of people saying lines, all cut together as chaotically as possible, the better to suggest "excitement" that the mini-series itself can't generate.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jun 23, 2020 Full Review Mrs. America: Season 1 (2020) 96% EDIT “It lets us watch eccentric, fascinating characters bounce off each other as they try to figure out what populist buttons to push to inspire voters and legislators to produce the results they and their supporters desire.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 15, 2020 Full Review Westworld: Season 3 (2020) 73% EDIT “It's the most frustratingly not-quite-there show on TV: structurally bold, visually arresting, often brilliantly acted, show-off-ily erudite... and woefully predisposed to turn subtext into text.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 13, 2020 Full Review Better Things: Season 4 (2020) 100% EDIT “Season four of Pamela Adlon's Better Things... boasts four episodes that are stone-cold classics, endlessly rewatchable and rewarding.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 2, 2020 Full Review The Office: Season 8 (2011) 44% EDIT “Fact is, the show's first post-Steve Carrell year has been a mess, at times bordering on a disaster.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 25, 2020 Full Review The Office: Season 7 (2010) 83% EDIT “How do you solve a conundrum like Michael Scott's exit?... The producers, writers and cast chose option No. 2. It was a smart move.” – Salon.com Feb 25, 2020 Full Review Emmys: Season 63 (2011) 58% EDIT “It was an altogether strong crop of winners. And the ceremony itself was briskly paced, blessedly free of the saggy midsection that usually drags down televised awards shows.” – Salon.com Dec 17, 2019 Full Review Nancy Drew: Season 1 (2019) 53% EDIT “All of which makes the new Nancy Drew a full-circle reminder that sometimes works that appear to borrow from what came before are actually reclaiming inspirations that these gifted to pop culture long ago.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 11, 2019 Full Review
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