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May 22, 2026
‘Big Mouth’ Creators Take Their Signature Raunch to the Animal Kingdom With Follow-Up ‘Mating Season’: TV Review
Late in the first season of the Netflix animated comedy “Mating Season,” the protagonists — beta bear Josh (Zach Woods), randy raccoon Ray (Nick Kroll), Sapphic fox Penelope (Sabrina Jalees) and si...
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May 20, 2026
Apple TV’s Cam Boy Crime Comedy ‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ Loses Sight of Its Juicy Hook: TV Review
Watching the premiere of “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed,” Apple TV subscribers may get a distinct sense of déjà vu. Just last month, the streaming service premiered “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” a li...
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May 14, 2026
‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff ‘Dutton Ranch’ Cuts and Pastes the Taylor Sheridan Tentpole Into Texas: TV Review
The first contemporary “Yellowstone” spinoff, “Marshals,” kept the Montana setting but switched genres from big-budget soap opera to humble broadcast procedural. The second, “Dutton Ranch,” maintai...
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May 11, 2026
‘The Comeback’ Didn’t Earn a Happy Ending — But It’s Still Nice to Get One
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 set to end on a ...
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May 8, 2026
Apple TV Israeli Thriller ‘Unconditional’ Gets More Absurd (and Enjoyable) As It Goes: TV Review
Despite what the obligatory disclaimer before each episode may say, the Israeli thriller “Unconditional” — which aired on Keshet 12 in its country of origin last month before coming to Apple TV in ...
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May 7, 2026
Steve Coogan and Tom Burke Excel as Undercover Agents in Netflix War on Drugs Drama ‘Legends’: TV Review
In the parlance of undercover operatives, a “legend” is the false identity one concocts to infiltrate a criminal network. “Your legend has to come from you, or it won’t work. Your legend has to be ...
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May 4, 2026
Netflix’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ Adaptation Is a Harrowing Watch With a Stellar Young Cast: TV Review
“The Lord of the Flies” is the kind of show you praise by emphasizing how hard it is to watch. Adapted from William Golding’s classic 1954 novel by Jack Thorne (co-writer of “Adolescence”), directe...
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April 29, 2026
Apple TV Horror Comedy ‘Widow’s Bay’ Walks a Tonal Tightrope to Bewitching Effect: TV Review
The blend of horror and comedy — two genres driven by tension that culminates in a cathartic payoff — has thrived in recent years at the box office, championed by auteurs like Jordan Peele and Zach...
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April 23, 2026
‘Stranger Things’ Animated Spinoff ‘Tales From ’85’ Is a Depressing, Cynical Retread: TV Review
Most spinoffs expand their flagship shows in a direction. That direction could be forward, following a beloved character past the events of the original story, á la “Frasier”; it could be backward,...
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April 20, 2026
Animated Comedy ‘Kevin’ Is an Enjoyably Chaotic Feline Coming-of-Age: TV Review
Over eight seasons on Netflix, the animated series “Big Mouth” made raunchy humor out of anthropomorphizing human emotions. Starting with the Hormone Monster, who personified the raging id of puber...
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April 17, 2026
‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Didn’t Have a Defining Disaster — and Proved It Doesn’t Need One
Just two seasons into its run, “The Pitt” is already playing with audience expectations. The real-time medical drama debuted to acclaim when it began an old-fashioned, week-by-week rollout in Janua...
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April 16, 2026
‘Beef’ Is Overcrowded and Unfocused in an Unnecessary Season 2: TV Review
In transitioning from a standalone story to a multi-season anthology, all shows in the genre Ryan Murphy took mainstream with “American Horror Story” face the same existential question. If a series...
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April 13, 2026
‘DTF St. Louis’ Creator on Who Killed Floyd and That Heartbreaking Finale: ‘All the Sweetness in the World Can’t Save’ Him
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from “No One’s Normal. It Just Looks That Way from Across the Street,” the series finale of “DTF St. Louis,” now streaming on HBO Max. “DTF ...
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April 12, 2026
AMC Silicon Valley Satire ‘The Audacity’ Is a Sharp, Sweeping Take on What Makes Tech Moguls Tick: TV Review
For a show about men — and some women, but mostly men — working to build the future, “The Audacity” feels a little old-fashioned. That’s mostly a good thing: This ambitious, sprawling, talky satire...
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April 9, 2026
Peacock Sci-Fi Comedy ‘The Miniature Wife’ Weighs Down an Amusing Marriage Metaphor With Too Much Padding: TV Review
When Lindy Littlejohn (Elizabeth Banks) complains her husband Les (Matthew Macfadyen) “made me small,” she assures her audience that the condition is “not a metaphor”: Les, a scientist, has made hi...
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April 8, 2026
‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Feels Like Entertaining but Disjointed Fan Fiction: TV Review
“That’s the beauty of this country we call America,” a new acquaintance tells Rue (Zendaya) in the Season 3 premiere of “Euphoria.” “Anyone can reinvent themselves.” It’s a line that practically de...
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April 6, 2026
‘The Boys’ Ends Right on Time With a Heavy, Blood-Soaked Season 5: TV Review
If you thought “The Boys” was dark before, just remember that the penultimate season of the pitch-black superhero satire aired prior to the reelection of President Donald J. Trump. That chapter, yo...
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April 6, 2026
‘Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord’ Is an Uneven but Promising Extension of the ‘Clone Wars’ Saga: TV Review
Next month, the “Star Wars” franchise will return to theaters after an astonishing seven-year absence with Jon Favreau’s “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” a feature spinoff of the director’s hit Disney+...
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March 26, 2026
Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb’s Tearful ‘Today’ Interview Shows the Complications of Covering a Story So Close to Home
Savannah Guthrie has returned to the airwaves of “Today,” but not as an anchor — as a subject. Nearly two months into the unimaginable ordeal of her 84-year-old mother Nancy’s kidnapping from her h...
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March 26, 2026
Netflix Wedding Horror Series ‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Has a Great Hook, But Takes Too Long to Get There: TV Review
I have a pet theory that horror, as a genre, is an awkward fit for television. The tension necessary for effective scares is difficult to maintain over several hours; the mystery that creates suspe...
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March 25, 2026
Riz Ahmed’s Meta James Bond Casting Comedy ‘Bait’ Is Too High-Concept for Its Own Good: TV Review
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 star an...
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March 22, 2026
‘The Comeback’ Season 3 Is a Bittersweet Swan Song for Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish — and Hollywood as We Know It: TV Review
“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 writer Mi...
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March 11, 2026
‘Drops of God’ Team on the Season 2 Finale, That Shocking Death and How the Show Has Changed Them: ‘You Realize How Personal Wine Is’
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from “The Price of Passion,” Season 2, Episode 8 of “Drops of God,” now streaming on Apple TV. The first season of the Apple TV drama “Drops...
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March 5, 2026
Netflix’s Steamy Campus Sex Comedy ‘Vladimir’ Has Chemistry Between Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall, But Never Reaches a Climax: TV Review
When attached to a story about sexually indiscreet academics of fine literature, the name “Vladimir” automatically invokes the author Nabokov. (Problematic age gaps in teacher-student relationships...
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March 4, 2026
Padma Lakshmi on Building Her Own Cooking Competition After Being ‘Burnt Out’ by ‘Top Chef’: ‘I Didn’t Want to Go Back to Just Being Talent’
Padma Lakshmi didn’t think she’d ever return to cooking competition shows. In 2023, when she stepped away from the Bravo touchstone “Top Chef” after hosting for 19 seasons, Lakshmi was “burnt out” ...
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March 2, 2026
‘Industry’ Bosses on That Shocking Finale and Whether [SPOILER] Was Inspired by Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘All of This Was in Her From the Very First Moment’
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from “Both, And,” the Season 4 finale of “Industry,” now streaming on HBO Max. “Industry” ends its penultimate season both strangely hopeful...
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March 1, 2026
‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff ‘Marshals’ Turns Taylor Sheridan Franchise Into a Workmanlike CBS Procedural: TV Review
“Marshals” is a new kind of “Yellowstone” spinoff. Rather than a prequel series tracing the Dutton family back through generations of Western migration and conflicts over land, it’s a contemporary ...
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March 1, 2026
HBO’s ‘DTF St. Louis’ Is a Perversely Hilarious Spin on an Erotic Thriller: TV Review
It is both an ineffective sales pitch and generally accurate to call “DTF St. Louis” the unsexiest erotic thriller ever made. The HBO limited series, all seven episodes of which were written and di...
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