The CW’s Frequency Doesn’t Quite Justify Its Existence There’s no way to tell right now if Frequency can build on its ideas.
TV Review: Westworld Is Layered and Self-Aware HBO’s science-fiction epic owes as much to postmodern fiction and television criticism as it does to any post-Sopranos drama you can name.
Netflix’s Luke Cage Is Told Like a Classic Western It’s full of clichés, but still a pleasure to watch.
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How Do You Choose the Greatest Show of All Time? Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall explain their criteria.
Woody Allen’s Crisis Is a Tone-deaf Mad Men It’s far from the worst thing that Allen has done recently but nowhere close to his finest work.
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Mr. Robot Creator Sam Esmail on How He Handles Criticism of the Show“Everyone was bummed out [when people figured out the twist] because we were still shooting and everybody on set was like, Oh shit, this is fucked up .”
Joe Swanberg’s Easy Is a Refreshing Anthology Series That’s Easy to Enjoy These are short stories of the literary-fiction variety, though more casual and light than that phrase might suggest. And that’s fine.
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Talking Snowden With Director Oliver Stone Read a chapter from Vulture TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz’s new book about the filmmaker.
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Cinemax’s Quarry Is a One-Note Show The show strikes a particular note with great variety, but there are 87 other notes on a keyboard and you start to miss hearing them.
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Sept. 6, 2016
Ava DuVernay Breaks Down Her Directing Style “The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at.”
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Why The Simpsons Is the Best TV Show Ever The show is ambitious, intimate, classical, experimental, hip, corny, and altogether free in its conviction that the imagination should go where it wants.
TV Review: Atlanta and Better Things These are two of the best new comedies of the fall.
The Night Of Didn’t Live Up to Its Best MomentsThe show did extraordinarily difficult things with confidence and grace while neglecting basics.
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Aug. 29, 2016
BCS Team on the Difficulties of Making a Prequel“There are characters we’d love to have on from Breaking Bad who we just know met Jimmy/Saul for the first time on Breaking Bad .”
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Sundance Channel’s Gomorrah Is an Unglamorized View Into Mob Life Gomorrah seems to be striving for a documentary aesthetic, and for the most part, the “you are there” tricks work quite well.
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Aug. 18, 2016
Get Down Creator on the Show’s Messy Production“Sometimes I feel like I almost died in this last two-and-a-half years. It’s just been kind of crazy.”
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Aug. 18, 2016
Mr. Robot and Why TV Twists Don’t Work AnymoreI wouldn’t mind seeing a moratorium on this kind of screenwriting.
Netflix’s The Get Down Is a Spectacular Mixed Bag of a Show Anyone who watches this expecting it to be about the birth of hip-hop is going to be disappointed.
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Aug. 10, 2016
Why Is It So Hard to Get Serial Drama Right in 2016? The medium that ushered in TV’s Golden Age is in a slump.
Why Is It So Hard to Get Serial Drama Right in 2016? The medium that ushered in TV’s Golden Age is in a slump.
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Review: NBC’s Olympics Opening-Ceremony Coverage Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, and Hoda Kotb’s commentary didn’t help.
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Aug. 5, 2016
BoJack Horseman ’s Third Season Is TerrificWith its mix of curveball innovations and very BoJack elements, season three of Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s cartoon sitcom might be its best overall.
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The Best TV Shows and Performances of the Year There needs to be a whole category for ABC comedy parents.
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June 30, 2016
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The Best Show on TV Is Crazy Ex-Girlfriend It’s a comet passing through TV’s solar system, and we won’t see its like again soon.
The Best Show on TV Is Crazy Ex-Girlfriend It’s a comet passing through TV’s solar system, and we won’t see its like again soon.
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June 28, 2016
The Best Actor on TV Is Mr. Robot ’s Rami Malek Rami Malek is giving the subtlest, deepest lead male performance on TV.
Game of Thrones ’ Sixth Season Was One of Its BestThe long, slow fuse finally caught up with the powder keg.
HBO’s The Night Of Unfolds Like a Fat Crime Novel It’s the longest, bleakest Law & Order episode ever.
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June 23, 2016
Noah Hawley on Ewan McGregor’s Dual Fargo Role “One brother gets to look like Ewan McGregor, and then the other one will look like fatter, balder Ewan McGregor probably.”
OWN’s Greenleaf Is at Its Best When It Focuses on Spirituality Its missteps are a small price to pay for a show that tells a story we haven’t seen on TV before.
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June 16, 2016
O.J. Director on the Disturbing Charm of O.J.“I have empathy and sympathy [for him]. And then it goes away.”
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