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Noah Berlatsky

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Noah Berlatsky is a film and television critic. He writes for NBC Think Online, the Verge, the Escapist, Chicago Reader, and other venues. He is the author of Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics from Rutgers University Press.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Vladimir: Season 1 (2026) 73% EDIT “ Vladimir abandons deeper explorations in favor of convenient punchlines, but Rachel Weisz still shines. ” – Chicago Reader Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Severance: Season 2 (2025) 94% EDIT “The second season is excellent television. Season one, though, was more than that—at least half the time.” – Chicago Reader Jan 23, 2025 Full Review The Boys: Season 4 (2024) 92% EDIT “The Boys has always had a flair for the grim, but there are sequences in season 4 that are among the absolute bleakest television that I have ever seen. ” – Observer Jun 11, 2024 Full Review 3 Body Problem: Season 1 (2024) 78% EDIT “The background material is weak, and the new ideas are virtually all depressingly familiar.” – Chicago Reader Mar 12, 2024 Full Review Sex Education: Season 4 (2023) 88% EDIT “There aren’t a lot of television shows that make the world a better place by existing. Sex Education is one.” – Chicago Reader Sep 22, 2023 Full Review The Boys: Season 3 (2022) 98% EDIT “Season 3 is, predictably, not as solid as its predecessor. It’s still solid, though. And its weaknesses help clarify for fans what, specifically, is the strength of the series.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jun 25, 2023 Full Review The Diplomat: Season 1 (2023) 84% EDIT “The Diplomat is great pulpy espionage fun, with Kate as a frazzled, determinedly inelegant female James Bond.... Pulpy espionage fun, though, doesn't have a lot to do with the actual workings of democracy. ” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jun 21, 2023 Full Review Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.: Season 1 (2022) 88% 4/10 EDIT “Director Chris Smith is swayed by the appeal of easy scandal and smug both-sidesism.” – Seasonal Cravings Nov 21, 2022 Full Review The Essex Serpent: Season 1 (2022) 75% 6/10 EDIT “Apple TV’s The Essex Serpent is an atmospheric, melancholy mystery/love story about abuse, repression, and renewal. But its critique of misogyny is confusedly undermined when it blames its central character for inspiring love.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) May 13, 2022 Full Review The Wilds: Season 2 (2022) 86% 7.8/10 EDIT “Cathartically overthrowing the bad guys can be fun. But Prime Videos trashy YA adventure series The Wilds takes a surprisingly more subtle, and in many ways more painful approach...the patriarchy is everywhere; theres no one person you can punch.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) May 2, 2022 Full Review The Flight Attendant: Season 2 (2022) 86% 6.5/10 EDIT “The first season of HBO Maxs The Flight Attendant was a harrowing, brutal exploration of trauma and addiction. Season two, in contrast, after two episodes, is a zany spy comedy. ” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Apr 27, 2022 Full Review Barry: Season 3 (2022) 99% 8.3/10 EDIT “The enthusiasm for acting which lit up Haders mobile features in the first two seasons is drained away. Hes now barely going through the motions of redemption. A show about faking it feels more fake, and therefore more true to itself than ever.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Apr 23, 2022 Full Review The Boys Presents: Diabolical: Season 1 (2022) 97% 6/10 EDIT “Not quite as consistent as I hoped, but a lot better than I feared. Given its frankly mediocre origins, The Boys continues to be much better as a franchise than it has any right to be.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Mar 4, 2022 Full Review Making Fun: Season 1 (2022) 100% 7.5/10 EDIT “Children and not-children working together can make wonderful, weird art, and even if Jimmy and his pals havent quite figured out how to capitalize on that fully, theyve gotten within T.Rex taco-spitting distance of greatness. ” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Mar 4, 2022 Full Review Severance: Season 1 (2022) 97% 8.5/10 EDIT “Severance is a strikingly thoughtful meditation on the way that work functions as a prison.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Feb 18, 2022 Full Review Suspicion: Season 1 (2022) 46% 4.5/10 EDIT “By the time you reach the series end, the genre pleasures and the politics have gotten so tangled together and muddled that its hard to care either what happens to the characters, or what the series is trying to say.” – Wealth of Geeks Feb 8, 2022 Full Review The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window: Season 1 (2022) 53% 2.8/10 EDIT “"despite strong leads and a number of potentially promising ideas, it's not a very good rip-off of a rip-off.'” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 30, 2022 Full Review The Beatles: Get Back: Season 1 (2021) 93% EDIT “Like the Beatles themselves, by the time the final episode drags itself to a close, viewers are likely to be ready, finally, to quit.” – NBC News THINK Nov 25, 2021 Full Review A Discovery of Witches: Season 2 (2021) 83% EDIT “The character development is weak, just for starters, and the chemistry between her and Matthew is almost ludicrously poor. But even mediocre television can do better with its casting and writing choices.” – NBC News THINK Jul 27, 2021 Full Review Blindspotting: Season 1 (2021) 100% EDIT “Blindspotting is a high-quality, ambitious show, and it makes a number of dramatic stylistic choices, with varying success.” – Observer Jun 14, 2021 Full Review Panic: Season 1 (2021) 67% EDIT “"Panic," in its best moments, suggests that facing down individual demons doesn't really matter when the demons can make money off of you” – NBC News THINK Jun 4, 2021 Full Review The Wilds: Season 1 (2020) 92% EDIT “The show can sometimes feel like a teen problem of the week after-school special. But the actors are uniformly excellent, and the writers do a good job of keeping characters sympathetic even when they make transparently terrible choices.” – NBC News THINK Dec 9, 2020 Full Review The Boys: Season 2 (2020) 97% EDIT “The genius of the series, though, is that - unlike the Garth Ennis comic it's based on - it's not just an exercise in pointless desecration.” – NBC News THINK Sep 8, 2020 Full Review Lovecraft Country: Season 1 (2020) 88% EDIT “H.P. would hate this show with every fiber of his being. It's pleasing to imagine the horror of that old racist as a bunch of talented Black artists wreak bloody vengeance on his monstrosities.” – NBC News THINK Aug 17, 2020 Full Review Space Force: Season 1 (2020) 39% EDIT “A gentle, heartwarming comedy about our current political situation. Unfortunately, gentle, heartwarming comedies about our current political situation seem at best irrelevant and at worst immoral.” – NBC News THINK May 29, 2020 Full Review
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