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Megan Garber

Megan Garber's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Saturday Night Live: Season 50, Episode 16 (2025) EDIT “Last night’s cold open brought a new dimension to the satire. The gender-swapping was also a matter of age-swapping -- adults became teenagers and men became girls. ” – The Atlantic Apr 1, 2025 Full Review The Traitors: Season 3 (2025) 100% EDIT “The Traitors is all too aware of the world it is streaming into --one where hard-won rights are threatened, where expression is being curtailed, where a new bit of progress is being banished every day. That awareness serves the show's satirical edge.” – The Atlantic Mar 15, 2025 Full Review Succession: Season 4, Episode 6 (2023) EDIT ““Living+” offers its sharpest satire yet. It finds Kendall and Roman caught in a doom loop of ideation: fantasies of progress, unmoored from present realities.” – The Atlantic May 1, 2023 Full Review Yellowstone: Season 5 (2022) 79% EDIT “Played by the English actor Kelly Reilly, Beth is that too-rare figure in the world of prestige TV: an antihero who is also a woman. She is an agent of chaos. She is mercurial. She is cunning. She is funny. She is wise. She is cruel.” – The Atlantic Nov 17, 2022 Full Review Blockbuster: Season 1 (2022) 23% EDIT “It is a show fit for a moment shaped by regressions -- a time that has brought the dismantling of hard-won social progress; that finds leaders acting like children and young people stepping in to fill the void” – The Atlantic Nov 3, 2022 Full Review The Afterparty: Season 1 (2022) 90% EDIT “The show carefully calibrates shtick and insight. ” – The Atlantic Feb 23, 2022 Full Review Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: Season 41 (2021) EDIT “It celebrates what it means to be situated in a given place. The spots the show visits are not simply settings or backdrops or pin-drops on a map. They're home.” – The Atlantic Nov 29, 2021 Full Review Ted Lasso: Season 2 (2021) 98% EDIT “The show's first season embraced, with humanity and heart and excellent wordplay, the most optimistic elements of sports. Its second season, to its great credit, questions all the optimism.” – The Atlantic Jul 23, 2021 Full Review Hacks: Season 1 (2021) 100% EDIT “It is mordant. It is subtle. It is sweet. It understands how many ways there are for people to be coupled.” – The Atlantic Jul 19, 2021 Full Review Emily in Paris: Season 1 (2020) 61% EDIT “Emily in Paris does not speak the language of the place it has chosen to call home. It compensates for its ignorance by shouting, ever louder, in English.” – The Atlantic Dec 3, 2020 Full Review Ted Lasso: Season 1 (2020) 92% EDIT “Ted Lasso is breezy and fun and full of heart, but its easy escapisms are also uneasy ones. They are mordant, but they are mournful too.” – The Atlantic Dec 3, 2020 Full Review Bachelor in Paradise: Season 3 (2016) 90% EDIT “It is not serious. It is actively, aggressively absurd. But that is also what made the show's treatment of Chad's antics, in its way, especially powerful.” – The Atlantic Nov 14, 2020 Full Review The Goop Lab With Gwyneth Paltrow: Season 1 (2020) 29% EDIT “To watch The Goop Lab as a series, with its arcing assumptions about the limitations of medical science, is also to wonder where to locate the line between open-mindedness and gullibility.” – The Atlantic Jan 21, 2020 Full Review Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 21 (2019) 80% EDIT “SVU is still uncomfortably relevant; the show is less urgent, however, than it once was.” – The Atlantic Dec 2, 2019 Full Review The Good Wife: Season 7 (2015) 91% EDIT “The [slap] scene made a striking conclusion to a series that has been not just a legal procedural and a political drama and a subtle meditation on marriage, but also a study of female friendship. It was also a fittingly cynical one.” – The Atlantic Nov 5, 2019 Full Review The Bachelor: Season 21 (2017) 70% EDIT “The Bachelor has found something that might well be as compelling, good-TV-wise, as villainy: forgiveness. The Bachelor has always relied on fairy tale frames for its narrative drama; now, it will be Nick [Viall]...” – The Atlantic Sep 18, 2019 Full Review Big Little Lies: Season 2, Episode 6 (2019) EDIT “Each emotional crescendo, as the season draws to a close, might have offered new observations about the trauma that hovers over these characters, the way fog lingers over the crashing waves of the Pacific. Instead: Melodrama wins the day.” – The Atlantic Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Big Little Lies: Season 2, Episode 2 (2019) EDIT “Big Little Lies is at once a soap opera and a sitcom and a gimlet-gazed commentary on capitalism and its consequences. But the show is also, humming at its lower registers, a work of horror.” – The Atlantic Jun 17, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 6 (2019) EDIT “Bran's apparent inability to feel much of anything is treated, ultimately, as a gift to the citizens of Westeros... This is a profound misreading -- not only of the complexity of the human psyche, but also of the whole of human history.” – The Atlantic May 20, 2019 Full Review Veep: Season 7 (2019) 97% EDIT “This is satire of the darkest order...” – The Atlantic Apr 1, 2019 Full Review Broad City: Season 5 (2019) 100% EDIT “Broad City is in some ways a studiously small show: Its focus, over its five remarkable seasons, has been the wacky adventures and, more often, the wacky misadventures of its two protagonists... The pair's friendship is total, and totalizing.” – The Atlantic Mar 29, 2019 Full Review Lorena: Season 1 (2019) 82% EDIT “The rosy lens of hindsight. One of the many striking elements of Lorena, though -- despite the film's unflinching examinations of the ways the American culture of the '90s failed its star and subject -- is that it offers no such assurances.” – The Atlantic Feb 22, 2019 Full Review The Fourth Estate: Season 1 (2018) 72% EDIT “The documentary series The Fourth Estate tries to humanize the journalists who report the news. It can't help but fall into a trap.” – The Atlantic Dec 19, 2018 Full Review Make It or Break It: Season 3 (2012) 80% EDIT “Make It or Break It is not, to be clear, a great TV show, in the manner of the prestige stuff viewers are accustomed to today...And yet: It is compelling. It is addictive. That's because of the smaller-scale tensions that it explores.” – The Atlantic Dec 12, 2018 Full Review The Clinton Affair: Season 1 (2018) 75% EDIT “Riveting; it is also, in the end, exhausting. All this, to what end? What really changed? The status quo is a sturdy thing.” – The Atlantic Nov 26, 2018 Full Review
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