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It’s that time of year again. The days are short, the temps are falling (at least here in Chicagoland), and it’s nearly the end of 2022. Which means that it’s time for my annual Top Ten TV Shows list! It was a heck of a year for television. Network comedies roared back into prominence with […]
One of the brighter surprises of the 2022 television year was the debut of the British counter-intelligence drama Slow Horses on AppleTV+. Smart, bracing, complex, and unafraid to kill its darlings, the first season of the series – an adaptation of Mick Herron’s novel of the same name – was a critical and commercial success. […]
The murder mystery – or rather, the dark comedy murder mystery – is having a bit of a resurgence on the small screen with the success of Hulu’s Murderer’s in the Building. But now AppleTV+ has gotten into the game with the exceptional, dark, moving, and yes, funny, Bad Sisters, an adaptation of the Flemish […]
The third season of Mythic Quest, that other workplace comedy on AppleTV+, premiers on Friday, November 11, and it’s in fine form. While the series has more bite than its streaming service partner Ted Lasso, the third season is decidedly more balanced and better structured than its more popular cohort – and really cements itself […]
On the surface, Black Bird, the new psychological thriller from AppleTV+, seems like something we’ve seen before. And really, it is. An adaptation of James Keene’s autobiographical novel “In With the Devil,” we follow Jimmy Keene (a great Taron Egerton, showing range he’s never had the chance to delve into before), a mid-level drug kingpin […]
On paper, Loot, the new AppleTV+ comedy series, sounds like a sure-fire home run. Created by Matt Hubbard (30 Rock and Parks and Recreation) and Alan Yang (Parks and Recreation and Master of None), and starring comedy geniuses Maya Rudolph, Joel Kim Booster, Nat Faxon, and Ron Funches – along with the always great Michaela […]
I’ll be honest: I’ve struggled with what to write in this particular review. I’m not sure if I’m holding For All Mankind to a higher standard than I would another drama, considering the near perfection of its second season, or if the elements I’m taking issue with would have caused the same reaction if this […]
Shining Girls, a psychological thriller coming to AppleTV+ that is based on the novel by the same name, is a curious television series. After watching the entire eight episode first season provided for critics, I know I enjoyed what I saw, but I also have far more questions than answers – and I’m at a […]
If you’re a fan of old-fashioned spy thrillers – especially if you love a good MI5/British Intelligence yarn – then have I got a show for you. The impressively plotted Slow Horses begins this Friday on AppleTV+ and, in addition to sporting a hell of a British cast (Kristen Scott Thomas, Gary Oldman, Jonathan Pryce), […]
Pachinko*, AppleTV+’s stunning adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s novel, is the next great television series from the emerging streaming network. Telling the story of three generations of a Korean family, the series jumps throughout the 20th century, taking viewers from Busan in 1931 up to 1989 Tokyo as we learn about the path that brought […]