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American Crime Story: Season 3 (2021) 69% EDIT “It's a little hard to suss out how much of this is purposeful and how much inadvertent, because even as we, like Tripp, are observing what the relationship is doing to Monica... the show is fuzzy on the question of Clinton himself.” – Slate Sep 7, 2021 Full Review The White Lotus: Season 1 (2021) 90% EDIT “By the end of the six-episode miniseries, the farce is still ongoing, but the joke is thinking that things could have turned out any other way. Fates were always sealed.” – Slate Jul 30, 2021 Full Review Gossip Girl: Season 1 (2021) 38% EDIT “Gossip Girl's plum role, lead bitch, has been left vacant. Every table at Frenchette can't help a show missing a true protagonist.” – Slate Jul 9, 2021 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 93 (2021) 24% EDIT “Many of the films found there were very good, and the year's nominees reflected that. The near plot is in good, if underwatched shape. But the deep plot-it's a shambles.” – Slate Apr 26, 2021 Full Review The New York Times Presents: Season 1, Episode 6 (2021) EDIT “Misogyny is one of the lenses through which to see Spears' mistreatment, but there's another one to use too: social class.” – Slate Feb 19, 2021 Full Review WandaVision: Season 1 (2021) 92% EDIT “WandaVision is an extremely effective expansion of a huge intellectual property franchise to TV, a project that erases some of the lingering distinctions between TV and film even as its buffs them.” – Slate Jan 14, 2021 Full Review Will & Grace: Season 1 (2017) 89% EDIT “Will and Grace are Sisyphean sitcom figures, rolling the rock for romantic love, only to wake up at the end of every story arc back at the bottom of the mountain, making pop culture jokes with their besties instead.” – Slate Jan 8, 2021 Full Review The Undoing: Season 1 (2020) 75% EDIT “It was a bumpy flight that wound up in a dingy parking lot.” – Slate Dec 1, 2020 Full Review Ready for Love: Season 1 (2013) 29% EDIT “[Ready for Love] is not only not a "revolution" of the dating genre, it is not even an evolution or advancement, just a mishmash.” – Salon.com Oct 12, 2020 Full Review Ted Lasso: Season 1 (2020) 92% EDIT “On Ted Lasso, American innocence, humility, and heroism are all alive and well-and you don't have to consciously notice any of that for it to bring you comfort.” – Slate Sep 30, 2020 Full Review Fargo: Season 4 (2020) 84% EDIT “If all of this sounds like a lot of strands to tie together, it is-but unlike in previous seasons, many of these strands really feel ancillary to the gangland drama that stodgily occupies center stage.” – Slate Sep 28, 2020 Full Review Emmys: Season 72 (2020) 88% EDIT “They had to clear a bar so low it might as well have been buried in the ground. Nevertheless: They did it. By the end of the night, the weirdest thing about the Pandemic Emmys was how normal they felt.” – Slate Sep 22, 2020 Full Review Ratched: Season 1 (2020) 62% EDIT “No longer a chilling avatar of implacable, self-satisfied state violence who needs no reason to exist other than that the system will always find people like her to keep running, Nurse Ratched is now just another poor, misunderstood antihero.” – Slate Sep 17, 2020 Full Review Outsourced: Season 1 (2010) 34% EDIT “For the show to be funny, less uncomfortable, and all around better it will have to be less concerned about alienating its American audiences -- we actually don't have a problem identifying with Indian people if they're well-drawn characters.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 10, 2020 Full Review Virgin Territory: Season 1 (2014) 60% EDIT “Virgin Territory tries to get into psychological explanations for all of this unwanted virginity, because like the participants' friends, MTV thinks it's weird.” – Slate Sep 2, 2020 Full Review Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp: Season 1 (2012) 6% EDIT “A window onto Bristol's genuinely strange life, wherein her bigotry is constantly reaffirmed because men screeching at her in bars will, on occasion, agree with her that they hate her mother because they are gay.” – Salon.com Aug 27, 2020 Full Review Lovecraft Country: Season 1 (2020) 88% EDIT “Lovecraft Country has an extraordinary ability to wink and keep a straight face at the same time, to be fun and serious simultaneously.” – Slate Aug 20, 2020 Full Review EDIT “Where there had once been toothless rebellion, now there was eager compliance-even if the show had trained me to see insincerity floating in the air, like the afterimage from decade-old flash.” – Slate Jul 17, 2020 Full Review EDIT “Cosmos is offering viewers a way to reconcile science and faith: Don't let your god be too small.” – Slate Jul 2, 2020 Full Review I May Destroy You: Season 1 (2020) 98% EDIT “I May Destroy You, though, is fantastic, in ways that both do and do not have anything to do with its multivalent treatment of rape and trauma.” – Slate Jun 22, 2020 Full Review Perry Mason: Season 1 (2020) 75% EDIT “The conclusion of Perry Mason is not overly cheerful, but it's not entirely cynical either. Perry Mason, after all, is back on the job.” – Slate Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Space Force: Season 1 (2020) 39% EDIT “Space Force is not exactly embarrassing -- everyone involved is too talented -- but it is shockingly unfunny for a show made by people who are so talented.” – Slate May 29, 2020 Full Review The Big Flower Fight: Season 1 (2020) 56% EDIT “The challenges are so overwrought and specific they deny the contestants the chance to do what is most satisfying, for them and us: make something truly inventive from a simple prompt” – Slate May 18, 2020 Full Review I Wanna Marry Harry: Season 1 (2014) 18% EDIT “A show predicated on the uncomfortable, but not entirely insupportable, supposition that audiences totally will watch something icky, sordid, and morally wanting, so long as a minimal effort is made to make it look like a love story.” – Slate May 13, 2020 Full Review Naked and Afraid: Season 1 (2013) 60% EDIT “The experience looks very difficult, but also a little boring, which explains the need for the in-your-face title: "Filthy and Exhausted" just doesn't have the same ring.” – Salon.com May 6, 2020 Full Review
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