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Samuel R. Murrian

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Samuel R. Murrian is a Nashville-based entertainment journalist, critic and animal welfare enthusiast.

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The Seduction: Season 1 (2025) 73% 8/10 EDIT “So long as you're not expecting iron-clad faithfulness to the enduring, admittedly superior and nearly 250-year-old novel, The Seduction will easily ensnare you as a handsomely appointed, inspired creation all its own.” – Collider Nov 13, 2025 Full Review The Monster of Florence: Season 1 (2025) 53% 7/10 EDIT “Despite some flaws in execution, The Monster of Florence is a frightening and impressively thoughtful exploration of what kind of mind could conceivably carry out serial murder.” – Collider Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Boots: Season 1 (2025) 90% 8/10 EDIT “... it's edgy, funny, and fresh, but what really makes it work is a combination of strong craftsmanship and narrative discipline that evokes every television show that has successfully stood the test of time.” – Collider Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Hotel Costiera: Season 1 (2025) 90% 3/10 EDIT “The premise, which feels something like The White Lotus meets Taken, feels like it had genuine potential to be breezy and diverting entertainment, but Hotel Costiera falls disappointingly flat in nearly every possible way.” – Collider Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Tempest: Season 1 (2025) 100% 9/10 EDIT “If you've never watched a K-drama and are curious to dip a toe into the genre, it's hard to imagine a more perfect place to start than this.” – Collider Sep 9, 2025 Full Review The Terminal List: Dark Wolf: Season 1 (2025) 75% 9/10 EDIT “If anything, Dark Wolf is even better than the original series, compulsively bingeable and striking a balance between grittiness and escapism.” – Collider Aug 27, 2025 Full Review Long Story Short: Season 1 (2025) 100% 9/10 EDIT “Long Story Short is an uncommonly entertaining and inventive dramedy that feels like a pure memoir even as it weaves in and out of the outlandish.” – Collider Aug 22, 2025 Full Review Untamed: Season 1 (2025) 83% 4/10 EDIT “The title ends up being rather ironic, or at the very least wildly out of place. This series doesn't feel unexplored in the slightest; viewers have been here before.” – Collider Jul 17, 2025 Full Review The Waterfront: Season 1 (2025) 68% 9/10 EDIT “Easy to emphatically recommend to a wide audience, The Waterfront is the mercilessly entertaining flex of a showrunner who knows exactly what he's doing.” – Collider Jun 19, 2025 Full Review Olympo: Season 1 (2025) 43% 8/10 EDIT “Netflix's young adult sports drama series Olympo is an unexpected, highly bingeable summer treat that's likely to appeal to a wide audience, even those who might not consider themselves fans of the sports genre.” – Collider Jun 16, 2025 Full Review Tires: Season 2 (2025) 78% 7/10 EDIT “Arriving almost exactly one year after the surprisingly leggy success of the premiere season, the latest round of Tires has a marked increase in confidence, and the likable performances are more energetic this time around.” – Collider Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Dept. Q: Season 1 (2025) 88% 6/10 EDIT “Dept. Q will likely grip fans of whodunit fare well enough, but with some crucial tweaks, it's not hard to imagine it becoming a better show if further seasons are to follow.” – Collider May 29, 2025 Full Review And Just Like That...: Season 3 (2025) 45% 7/10 EDIT “And Just Like That still doesn't nearly match Sex and the City for innovation or gut-busting laughs, but now that it's been its own thing for several years, perhaps it's time to stop comparing the two.” – Collider May 29, 2025 Full Review Secrets We Keep: Season 1 (2025) 100% 9/10 EDIT “... Secrets We Keep explores similar thematic territory to this year's most zeitgeisty hits Adolescence and The White Lotus, and in some ways handles its dark material even better.” – Collider May 15, 2025 Full Review The Glass Dome: Season 1 (2025) 88% 8/10 EDIT “This enterprise certainly gets the job done as a whodunit, but it's more tantalizing as a character study; it's at its most gripping when we're in Lejla's head.” – Collider Apr 16, 2025 Full Review The New York Times Presents: Season 1, Episode 6 (2021) EDIT “Samantha Stark and The New York Times' sobering doc was in the middle of all of it... and is by all accounts an illuminating, even essential look at a disturbing human rights violation.” – Parade Magazine Jan 4, 2022 Full Review Squid Game: Season 1 (2021) 95% 4.5/5 EDIT “Hwang has created one of the most immersive television worlds since Game of Thrones, with relentless entertainment value and remarkably fleshed-out, sympathetically flawed characters. It's a provocative morality play.” – Parade Magazine Oct 12, 2021 Full Review The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: Season 1 (2019) 89% 5/5 EDIT “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance expands and improves upon its predecessor. This is a high-fantasy masterclass that's richer and more satisfying than we could have anticipated, an experiment on a grand scale that paid off.” – Parade Magazine Aug 26, 2019 Full Review
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