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Michael Haigis

Michael Haigis's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Emily in Paris: Season 5 (2025) 70% 1/4 EDIT “The show's money-hungry motives are baked into the very fabric of its plot and character motivations, robbing it of any potential value as comfort TV, or even camp. ” – Slant Magazine Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Truth Be Told: Season 1 (2019) 28% 1.5/4 EDIT “The series attempts to derive excitement solely from its overly calibrated performances.” – Slant Magazine Dec 2, 2019 Full Review Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Season 2 (2019) 70% 1.5/4 EDIT “The occasionally thrilling second season relies on generic action cribbed from other, more distinct espionage fiction.” – Slant Magazine Oct 28, 2019 Full Review The Politician: Season 1 (2019) 59% 3/4 EDIT “The series nearly approaches farce as its shocking developments pile up, defying reality and credulity.” – Slant Magazine Sep 23, 2019 Full Review The Deuce: Season 3 (2019) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “The show's third and final season struggles to consistently build gripping stories for its characters to inhabit.” – Slant Magazine Sep 7, 2019 Full Review Succession: Season 2 (2019) 97% 3/4 EDIT “The series demystifies the billionaire class while simultaneously painting a terrifying picture of their unstoppable momentum.” – Slant Magazine Aug 10, 2019 Full Review Dear White People: Season 3 (2019) 90% 3/4 EDIT “In its third season, the series weaves social critique into its narrative with a newfound subtlety.” – Slant Magazine Aug 1, 2019 Full Review Harlots: Season 3 (2019) 100% 2.5/4 EDIT “While initially suffering some narrative foundering, season three retains the show's campy flourishes.” – Slant Magazine Jul 8, 2019 Full Review Legion: Season 3 (2019) 93% 3/4 EDIT “The show's third and final season is a visual achievement, typified by imaginative flights of absurdism.” – Slant Magazine Jun 19, 2019 Full Review Black Mirror: Season 5 (2019) 66% 3.5/4 EDIT “The new season recalls the most human elements of past episodes while levying urgent indictments of the present.” – Slant Magazine Jun 4, 2019 Full Review Unspeakable: Season 1 (2019) 2/4 EDIT “The miniseries fails to tackle the unseen forces which enable and encourage the institutional rot that wrecks people's lives.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Barry: Season 2 (2019) 100% 4/4 EDIT “The show's storylines cohere around the reflexive lies people tell themselves.” – Slant Magazine Mar 26, 2019 Full Review Hanna: Season 1 (2019) 67% 1.5/4 EDIT “The series fails to uphold, subvert, or otherwise comment on the stylistic vision or thematic coherence of its source material.” – Slant Magazine Mar 22, 2019 Full Review After Life: Season 1 (2019) 74% 1.5/4 EDIT “The series is ultimately just an excuse for Ricky Gervais to spit his acerbic wit at easy targets.” – Slant Magazine Mar 5, 2019 Full Review Russian Doll: Season 1 (2019) 97% 3/4 EDIT “The show's premise is like a playfully morbid Escher painting.” – Slant Magazine Feb 4, 2019 Full Review Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders: Season 1 (2018) 71% 1.5/4 EDIT “The miniseries transforms Agatha Christie's novel into a formulaic, adamantly bleak exercise.” – Slant Magazine Jan 31, 2019 Full Review The Other Two: Season 1 (2019) 95% 2/4 EDIT “The series operates in the same world-weary register as its superior predecessors.” – Slant Magazine Jan 23, 2019 Full Review Black Earth Rising: Season 1 (2018) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “Black Earth Rising's compelling core narrative can become overwhelmed by tangential storylines.” – Slant Magazine Jan 23, 2019 Full Review Black Monday: Season 1 (2019) 55% 2/4 EDIT “Black Monday dabbles in farce, social commentary, and character study, without managing to establish a coherent point of view.” – Slant Magazine Jan 11, 2019 Full Review Nip/Tuck: Season 6 (2009) 64% EDIT “Even though it may not have the lasting impact of its contemporaries, Nip/Tuck was a bell weather, revealing the true potential of FX.” – Screen Rant Nov 13, 2018 Full Review The Kominsky Method: Season 1 (2018) 80% 1.5/4 EDIT “The Kominsky Method's broad, formulaic humor undercuts any poignancy in the show's portrayal of men in their twilight.” – Slant Magazine Nov 12, 2018 Full Review Homecoming: Season 1 (2018) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “Homecoming's visual ambition is complemented by its intellectual curiosity.” – Slant Magazine Oct 31, 2018 Full Review Wanderlust: Season 1 (2018) 71% 1.5/4 EDIT “The series arrives at the underwhelming conclusion that the grass only seems greener on the other side.” – Slant Magazine Oct 17, 2018 Full Review Camping: Season 1 (2018) 27% 3/4 EDIT “Camping focuses primarily on why things happen rather than merely striving toward hijinks.” – Slant Magazine Oct 11, 2018 Full Review The Romanoffs: Season 1 (2018) 49% 2/4 EDIT “The Romanoffs is ambitious but disappointingly inconsistent.” – Slant Magazine Oct 10, 2018 Full Review
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