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Wonder Man: Season 1 (2026) 90% EDIT “Wonder Man is consistently charming, though, when Abdul-Mateen and Kingsley are together, playing a very odd couple whose friendship is repeatedly put through the wringer in the style of “Midnight Cowboy,” a film they bond over. ” – New York Times Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Tehran: Season 3 (2026) 100% EDIT “Tamar’s missteps and compromises give her a sympathetic vulnerability; they give the show an atmosphere of ambivalence and a constant sense of grinding, Sisyphean effort. ” – New York Times Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Blossoms Shanghai: Season 1 (2024) 100% EDIT “It is visually enveloping, if not in a notably rich or interesting way. ” – New York Times Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Beast in Me: Season 1 (2025) 84% EDIT “Even when the character’s choices are risible, Danes’s choices — her micro-expressions, her postures, her irritated responses — feel right. ” – New York Times Nov 14, 2025 Full Review American Experience: Season 36, Episode 14 (2025) EDIT “The question of motives versus methods is central to the film, and it is argued passionately by historians, journalists and, most pertinently, people who served under Kissinger when he was Richard M. Nixon’s national security adviser.” – New York Times Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Down Cemetery Road: Season 1 (2025) 79% EDIT “Thompson’s wonderfully assured performance makes you glad for every extra minute the character has been put onscreen.” – New York Times Oct 30, 2025 Full Review The Gold: Season 1 (2023) 93% EDIT “The Gold is a witty and effective police procedural, tracing the work of a task force set up to identify the various crooks (check) and find the missing gold (oops). ” – New York Times Oct 6, 2025 Full Review Unforgotten: Season 6 (2025) EDIT “Unforgotten is in most ways a happily formulaic British mystery, with the ritualistically cryptic introduction of suspects at the beginning of each season and the nimble hopping between plot lines that generates many small cliffhangers in each episode.” – New York Times Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Chief of War: Season 1 (2025) 92% EDIT “Chief of War rumbles along for eight episodes as the kind of handsomely produced epic that you might remember fondly if you saw it when you were young enough.” – New York Times Aug 1, 2025 Full Review Washington Black: Season 1 (2025) 83% EDIT “The show’s ending, in particular, is a master class in betraying the spirit of your material.” – New York Times Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Untamed: Season 1 (2025) 83% EDIT “It’s conventional stuff, but Bana and Santiago play off each other reasonably well, and the mystery is a little more rigorously worked out than the Netflix norm.” – New York Times Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Squid Game: Season 3 (2025) 78% EDIT “Some honest nihilism, on the one hand, or some old-fashioned, nuanced melodrama and compassion, on the other, could make it matter. Lacking those, we’re left with a body count.” – New York Times Jun 27, 2025 Full Review Ironheart: Season 1 (2025) 76% EDIT “If you’re still hanging on with Marvel, this isn’t the one that will make you give up; it’s a respectable piece of work. But it’s not going to revive anyone’s flagging interest.” – New York Times Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Families Like Ours: Season 1 (2024) 93% EDIT “It is a high-class consumer item, deliberate and hushed.” – New York Times Jun 12, 2025 Full Review Dept. Q: Season 1 (2025) 88% EDIT “And as is usually the case in [Scott] Frank’s productions, “Dept. Q” has an overall flow and fluency — a style that is, if not always seductive, consistently engaging.” – New York Times May 29, 2025 Full Review The Eternaut: Season 1 (2025) 96% EDIT “[Stagnaro] has taken a story about a small band of people with a few simple personality quirks each and added layer upon layer of melodramatic detail and mystery.” – New York Times May 1, 2025 Full Review Government Cheese: Season 1 (2025) 73% EDIT “What “Government Cheese” really offers is something softer and more common: a mildly sardonic, artfully presented magical realism.” – New York Times Apr 17, 2025 Full Review The Last of Us: Season 2 (2025) 92% EDIT “The 19-year-old character is not as fresh and funny as the 14-year-old was, but Ramsey continues to cleave through the well-made melodrama and get to something real.” – New York Times Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Wolf Hall: Season 2 (2024) 100% EDIT “Lewis’s contained, preternaturally magnetic performance is as sure an embodiment as you could imagine of the force of a powerful monarch.” – New York Times Mar 24, 2025 Full Review Dope Thief: Season 1 (2025) 87% EDIT ““Dope Thief,” which consistently cuts its angst and violence with reasonably clever, farcical comedy, is the much better use of eight hours.” – New York Times Mar 13, 2025 Full Review Long Bright River: Season 1 (2025) 72% EDIT “Neglects credible crime solving in favor of gothic melodrama that jumps between clichés of family reconciliation and feminist empowerment.” – New York Times Mar 13, 2025 Full Review Daredevil: Born Again: Season 1 (2025) 87% EDIT “The lack of narrative shaping takes away any force the themes of vigilantism might have had, reducing them to limp excuses for the sometimes stomach-turning violence.” – New York Times Mar 5, 2025 Full Review American Primeval: Season 1 (2025) 72% EDIT “As it is, Smith juices the story in the later episodes by going weird and by breaking with the historical record in ways that may bemuse the average viewer but will likely displease any Latter-day Saints who have made it that far.” – New York Times Jan 9, 2025 Full Review Interior Chinatown: Season 1 (2024) 87% EDIT “In its early episodes, before the angsty meta-crime drama takes over, “Interior Chinatown” plays more like a comic mystery — “Only Murders in the Ethnic Enclave” — with magical realist touches. There is a lot of charm in these episodes...” – New York Times Nov 22, 2024 Full Review The Franchise: Season 1 (2024) 73% EDIT “But the show’s general note of sour disdain for the genre it is depicting works against the humor, deadening it. There is not much point in satirizing something that you don’t have at least a little love for.” – New York Times Oct 8, 2024 Full Review
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