SPOILER ALERT: The following piece contains plot details from the series finale of “The Comeback,” now streaming on HBO Max. Five minutes before the credits roll, “The Comeback” is s…
The Amazon Prime Video comedy "Bait" has two contradictory concepts that uncomfortably co-exist inside the same six-episode season. On the one hand, the show is a deeply personal story from …
"The Comeback" is everywhere now. Once a pop cultural Cassandra doomed to swift cancellation after a single season on HBO in 2005, the brainchild of comic actor Lisa Kudrow and veteran TV wr…
Per its title, the NBC sitcom "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins" is a comeback story, but it's also a reunion. Comedian Tracy Morgan has produced a wide-ranging body of work since his bre…
Even before Saoirse-Monica Jackson turns up around the halfway point, it's clear "How to Get to Heaven from Belfast" comes from the same sensibility as "Derry Girls," in which Jackson played…
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from "Eyes Without a Face," Season 4, Episode 5 of "Industry," now streaming on HBO Max. On "Industry," heroes are hard to come by. B…
Kaley Cuoco seems to have caught the international thriller bug. The actress followed up her decade-plus stint on "The Big Bang Theory" with two seasons of "The Flight Attendant," the globe-…
It's always hard to believe a public figure is gone after their unexpected passing. But in the case of Catherine O'Hara, it's especially difficult, because the actor and comedian remained su…
Over the last few years, the Golden Globes has made a concerted effort to improve its reputation. Once somewhat infamous for a small voting body easily influenced by star power, a setup that…
The protagonist of the lighthearted new Fox series "Best Medicine" may be a doctor, but the hourlong show isn't really a medical procedural. Instead, the series borrows a time-honored setup …
Saturday marked comedian Bowen Yang's final appearance as a regular cast member on "Saturday Night Live," a move Yang had already confirmed and cemented by tearing up on live TV alongside Ar…
Marissa Irvine, the protagonist of the Peacock thriller "All Her Fault," bears a superficial resemblance to Siobhan Roy. For one thing, both characters are played by Sarah Snook, the Austral…
For the monologue of his second stint as a guest host of "Saturday Night Live," actor Miles Teller told an endearing anecdote. As children, he and his sisters would dress up as iconic charac…
In his seminal video essay "Los Angeles Plays Itself," a definitive exegesis on the sprawling metropolis and its depiction on screen, critic Thom Andersen takes issue with the city's nicknam…
"Slow Horses" is the unlikely seed of a franchise. Now in its fifth season, the Apple TV drama follows a gang of screw-up spies who are nobody's idea of the Avengers, led by Gary Oldman's ir…
"Interview With the Vampire," the opening salvo of AMC's attempt to turn the oeuvre of fantasy author Anne Rice into a so-called Immortal Universe of television shows, is one of the best sho…
Let no one say "The Lowdown" is shy about its influences. Ethan Hawke's hero, a Tulsa "truthtorian" by the name of Lee Raybon, ruffles feathers as a freelance reporter "Â but for his not-a…
The central metaphor of the Netflix crime thriller "Black Rabbit" is obvious enough. When Brooklyn-born brothers, ex-bandmates and restaurant co-founders Jake (Jude Law) and Vince Friedken (…
It's been a long while since the USA Network last premiered an original drama. (Five years, to be precise, since the one-and-done "Briarpatch.") A lot has happened since " so much that…
You don't know what you've got till it's gone. And what we had in the "Sex and the City" sequel series "And Just Like That," which ends this week after three seasons, was a cringey, sweet, t…
When the comedian Leanne Morgan reached her mid-50s, her life drastically changed. The same is true of the namesake character she plays on the Netflix sitcom "Leanne," albeit in a less inter…
SPOILER ALERT: The following piece contains plot details from the first two episodes of "Smoke," now streaming on Apple TV+. Three years ago, crime writer Dennis Lehane and actor Taron E…
Following up "Succession" is a daunting feat " so much so that it's best to think of the HBO film "Mountainhead" as more of a palate-cleanser than a next act. Written and directed by "Succes…
SPOILER ALERT:Â This story contains spoilers for the Season 4 finale of "Hacks," now streaming on Max. In its Season 4 finale, "Hacks" goes where the Emmy-winning comedy has never gone bef…