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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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February 23, 2026
Max Minghella on Playing the Big Bad of ‘Industry’ Season 4: “I Would Almost Black Out Shooting the Show”
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from “Points of Emphasis,” Season 4, Episode 7 of “Industry,” now streaming on HBO Max. Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella) is in the wind. ...
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February 20, 2026
Netflix Animated Comedy ‘Strip Law’ Is a Joke-Dense Love Letter to Las Vegas Lunacy: TV Review
Animation suits Las Vegas. From “CSI” to “Hacks,” Sin City has no shortage of representations on television. But the Netflix comedy “Strip Law” — created by Cullen Crawford, an alum of the satirica...
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February 13, 2026
HBO’s Josh Safdie-Produced Docuseries ‘Neighbors’ Is Nextdoor Brought to Life by Way of ‘Uncut Gems’: TV Review
Every episode of the HBO docuseries “Neighbors” begins with the camera zooming in from outer space. But before the action alights in the location of the latest dispute between adjacent property own...
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February 12, 2026
‘Derry Girls’ Follow-Up ‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’ Is Another Delightful Northern Irish Romp — This Time With a Dead Body: TV Review
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 anxiou...
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February 7, 2026
‘Industry’ Star Miriam Petche on Taking the London Finance Drama to Africa and Sweetpea’s Big Moment: ‘I’m Worried for Her!’
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. But in t...
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February 6, 2026
The Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Was a Playful Celebration of Italian Culture: TV Review
The winter Olympic games are often seen as more of an appendix to their larger summertime counterparts than a tentpole in themselves. But in 2026, the parallels between Milan — which co-hosts the 2...
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February 5, 2026
Savannah Guthrie’s Mom’s Disappearance Has Rocked ‘Today’ — and Strained Morning TV’s Image of a Joyful Family
Many workplaces sell themselves as a family, but broadcast morning shows are somewhat unique in doing so on live TV for hours each day, beamed into people’s living rooms. Long before podcasts popul...
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January 25, 2026
Patrick Dempsey Plays a Hitman with Dementia in Fox’s Muddled, Bland ‘Memory of a Killer’: TV Review
Fiction is filled with criminals who lead bifurcated double lives, but Angelo Doyle (Patrick Dempsey) takes this to an extreme. By day, Angelo is a suburban salesman mourning his late wife and help...
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January 21, 2026
Apple TV Wine Drama ‘Drops of God’ Matures and Gets More Complex With Age: TV Review
The superb, globe-trotting wine drama “Drops of God” debuted in the spring of 2023, almost concurrently with the final season of “Succession.” On the one hand, the two series rhymed with fitting sy...
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January 15, 2026
Emilia Clarke Leaves Daenerys Behind With Peacock’s Endearing Spy Caper ‘Ponies’: TV Review
The espionage term “Ponies,” explains the title card to the Peacock spy drama of the same name, derives from the acronym for “persons of no interest.” In the winter of 1977, that’s exactly who Bea ...
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January 13, 2026
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Is Minor ‘Game of Thrones’ — and That’s a Good Thing: TV Review
The first two television series adapted from fantasy author George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” saga are about epic struggles for the fate of Westeros — civil wars in which an entire fict...
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January 12, 2026
Golden Globes’ Strong Winners and Charming Host Were Nearly Derailed by Polymarket Predictions, Podcast Awards and Other Distracting Stunts: TV Review
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 culmin...
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January 11, 2026
‘The Night Manager’ Season 2 Isn’t Worth the Decade-Long Wait: TV Review
To the extent that “The Night Manager” has survived in the cultural memory since the limited series — adapted from the John Le Carré novel on the same time — aired a full decade ago, it was as a sh...
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