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American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden: Season 1 (2025) 100% 4/4 EDIT ““American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden” is a useful, riveting documentary docuseries that brings back some important recent history — history that already feels like long ago.” – San Francisco Chronicle Mar 10, 2025 Full Review The Decameron: Season 1 (2024) 70% 0.5/4 EDIT “The Decameron could have been part of the healing, but its creators chose to be flippant about something that we all know, from recent experience, was the farthest thing from a joke. ” – San Francisco Chronicle Jul 25, 2024 Full Review The Veil: Season 1 (2024) 57% 1/4 EDIT “There is a kind of bad writing that is sometimes mistaken for good writing because it sounds literary, not like human speech. That’s the kind of writing we get in “The Veil.”” – San Francisco Chronicle Apr 26, 2024 Full Review Under the Bridge: Season 1 (2024) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Aside from [some] caveats, Under the Bridge is a superior mini-series, with lots of interesting characters and situations.” – San Francisco Chronicle Apr 16, 2024 Full Review Ripley: Season 1 (2024) 86% 1/4 EDIT ““Ripley” is neither Highsmith nor a plausible substitute. If anything, it’s a missed opportunity.” – San Francisco Chronicle Apr 4, 2024 Full Review The Gentlemen: Season 1 (2024) 75% 3/4 EDIT “Ritchie’s new eight-part Netflix series “The Gentlemen” is the best thing he’s ever done.” – San Francisco Chronicle Mar 6, 2024 Full Review The Brothers Sun: Season 1 (2024) 84% 1/4 EDIT “Aside from the presence of Michelle Yeoh, “The Brothers Sun” is an awful series that’s bad in almost every way.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 4, 2024 Full Review John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial: Season 1 (2023) 45% 3/4 EDIT “The most comprehensive Lennon assassination documentary, in terms of showing what happened on that fatal night to this great musician and songwriter, and in explaining the subsequent legal process.” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 4, 2023 Full Review Depp v Heard: Season 1 (2023) 25% 3/4 EDIT ““Depp v. Heard” brings back and encapsulates a fascinating story.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 18, 2023 Full Review Painkiller: Season 1 (2023) 51% 2.5/4 EDIT “Expect to like “Painkiller” while watching it, only to later cringe when thinking about it.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 10, 2023 Full Review The Ashley Madison Affair: Season 1 (2023) 100% 3/4 EDIT “It is compulsive viewing. Do not start watching it if you don’t want to watch the whole thing.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jul 10, 2023 Full Review FUBAR: Season 1 (2023) 49% 1/4 EDIT ““FUBAR” isn’t wild or surprising. It’s not even crazy enough to be crazy. It’s just crazy enough to be a lazy, sloppy mess beyond all recognition.” – San Francisco Chronicle May 25, 2023 Full Review Bupkis: Season 1 (2023) 78% 3/4 EDIT “It’s hard not to like a character this sincere, open and thoroughly messed up, and just as hard to dislike a performer willing to present himself in this way.” – San Francisco Chronicle May 3, 2023 Full Review Citadel: Season 1 (2023) 51% 3/4 EDIT “Criminal masterminds are practically a cliche in spy stories, but in casting Manville, the show’s creators found a way to take something old and make it feel new.” – San Francisco Chronicle Apr 27, 2023 Full Review Golden Globes: Season 80 (2023) 61% EDIT “Let’s hope by next year, should the ceremony get another telecast, the HFPA feels they can loosen up enough to give us what they’re good at — an entertainingly irrelevant and irreverent awards show.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 11, 2023 Full Review The New York Times Presents: Season 2, Episode 1 (2022) 3/4 EDIT “Two takeaways seem undeniable. The first is that Musk has overhyped the technology and presented aspiration as accomplished fact.” – San Francisco Chronicle May 18, 2022 Full Review Ozark: Season 4 (2022) 85% EDIT “Yes, I watched the second half of the Netflix hit series’ final season, and no, it wasn’t good. And I say this as someone who used to like the show.” – San Francisco Chronicle May 2, 2022 Full Review Shining Girls: Season 1 (2022) 84% 1/4 EDIT “There was simply not enough here to fill all that screen time. “Shining Girls” would have been better as a 105-minute movie.” – San Francisco Chronicle Apr 27, 2022 Full Review The Andy Warhol Diaries: Season 1 (2022) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Bottom line, if you love or are fascinated by the work of Andy Warhol, you’ll be delighted by “The Andy Warhol Diaries.”” – San Francisco Chronicle Mar 9, 2022 Full Review Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy: Season 1 (2022) 82% 2/4 EDIT “The fatal weakness of “Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy” is that it ultimately seems like it was made for an audience of one: Kanye West.” – San Francisco Chronicle Feb 14, 2022 Full Review Murderville: Season 1 (2022) 74% 3/4 EDIT “The material is lukewarm, but the comic talent is outstanding, and it's fun watching the actors working off one another, improvising bits.” – San Francisco Chronicle Feb 1, 2022 Full Review Janet Jackson.: Season 1 (2022) 68% 2.5/4 EDIT “Throughout, Janet Jackson doesn't tell you everything, but she tells you just enough that you can make inferences, even ones she doesn't intend.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 28, 2022 Full Review All of Us Are Dead: Season 1 (2022) 89% 3/4 EDIT “"All of Us Are Dead" is nothing if not self-aware. It's also quite well executed, even when it feels more like an exercise than an organic creation.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 26, 2022 Full Review Pam & Tommy: Season 1 (2022) 78% 3/4 EDIT “Made to look remarkably like Anderson, James is full of feeling and grows over the course of eight episodes.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 26, 2022 Full Review The Beatles: Get Back: Season 1 (2021) 93% 4/4 EDIT “Take all the films and interviews with the Beatles and put them off to the side. This is the most informative and illuminating record of what these men were like and of the nature of their interaction.” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 25, 2021 Full Review
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