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Severance Season Two Review

I won’t bury the lede for you: the long-awaited second season of Severance is great. I easily found myself swept back up into the world of Lumon, rewatching several of my screeners just to be sure that I caught everything I needed to catch to piece together the various arcs unspooling this time around (a […]

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Silo Season Two Review

When we last left Silo, AppleTV+’s post-apocalyptic series about the denizens of an underground Silo – where the inhabitants are segregated by a rudimentary caste system and three individuals (the Mayor, the Judge, and the Sheriff) control the goings on in society – Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson), the former Sheriff, had opted to take her chances […]

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Before Review

Billy Crystal, Rosie Perez, Judith Light. With a cast list that includes those names, one would expect the series to be worth a look – and, perhaps, that it might be a light comedy. Unfortunately, Before, the new AppleTV+ miniseries with each of them (created by Sarah Thorp) is neither. This overlong, often ridiculous Sixth […]

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Pachinko Season Two Review

After a two-year hiatus, Pachinko, easily the best series currently airing on AppleTV+, has returned for its second season. And what a season it is. Everything that you loved about the gorgeous and emotionally challenging first season is back, only this time our knowledge of the characters and their histories – both personally and with […]

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Presumed Innocent Review

Before I embarked on my television critic career, I was a lawyer. Which means I have a heck of a hard time watching legal shows without finding myself yelling at the screen as they butcher the practice of law in order to make it seem suspenseful or at all interesting (because, in reality, being a […]

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The Big Cigar Review

About midway through the second episode of The Big Cigar, the latest AppleTV+ series, I found myself wondering just why this particular story hadn’t been made into a movie instead of an over-long and wholly unnecessary six-episode limited series. And when I dug a little bit, I discovered that in fact, it was originally optioned […]