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Television

Television Review: “Shrinking” — When a Therapist Goes Off the Rails

The bottom line: if you don’t find Jason Segel charming, Shrinking is skippable.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Apple TV, Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein, Harrison Ford, Jason Segel, Shrinking

Watch Closely: Dark Depths of Winter (Viewing)

Here’s my TV suggestions for the late-January period of long cold dark days and nights.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: "Watch Closely", David Tennant, Inside Man, Les Sorcières à Hollywood, or The Witches of Hollywood, Peg Aloi, Stanley Tucci, Will Sharpe, Witches

Television Review: “The Big Payback” — The Road Toward Reparations

The Big Payback doesn’t exhibit a clear slant either way: it simply tells the tale of how a bill asking for reparations came to be, along the way highlighting how past injustice shapes present inequities.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Erika Alexander, Sarah Osman, The Big Payback, Whitney Dow

Watch Closely: New Year, New Format, New TV

I’m going to try out a new format in 2023. Along with posting longer reviews of single series, I will also be experimenting with a new (weekly!) format where I include several features in one column.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: "Watch Closely", Peg Aloi, Raised by Wolves, The School for Good and Evil, Woman of the Dead

Television Review: “Koala Man” — Rowdy Aussie Hijinks

The animation itself is akin to what you will see in familiar domestic cartoons, such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Bob’s Burgers. So it’s the quirky humor that makes Koala Man uniquely Australian.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Koala Man, Michael Cusack

Television Review: “Dance Monsters” — Do the Monster Mash

If dancing around as a giant CGI monster makes someone happy, then that is enough to make me happy. Let’s embrace what makes us different and do what we love.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Ashley Banjo, Dance Monsters, Lele Pons. Ne-Yo, Netflix, Sarah Osman

Arts Commentary: It’s Not Funny — “Saturday Night Live” and the Mark Twain Prize

Adam Sandler receiving a Mark Twain Prize is one more SNL achievement that defies understanding.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Adam Sandler, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Television Review: “Kindred” — More than a Mystery

In this adaptation for Hulu, Octavia E. Butler’s hybrid sci-fi novel has been reduced to a misguided time travel mystery.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Black Literature, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Hulu, Kindred, Octavia E. Butler, science-fiction

WATCH CLOSELY: “1899” — A Sumptuous Terror

1899‘s excellent design work makes this series an opulent and memorable visual odyssey.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: 1899, Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese, Netflix, Peg Aloi

Arts Feature: According to Our Critics — The Best That TV Offered in 2022

Were we able to watch all the new TV shows we wanted to in 2022? Hell, no! But here are some favorites.

By: Peg Aloi and Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Television Tagged: Matt Hanson, Peg Aloi, Sarah Osman

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