Television
Author and journalist Massoud Hayoun’s novel Building 46 probes behind the air-brushed image of China’s capital city to offer a fascinating (and incisive) look into the everyday lives of Beijing dwellers.
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The Canadian sports comedy Shoresy works as its own series, but it doesn’t match the sharp wit of its predecessor, Letterkenny.
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Love on the Spectrum U.S. generates the same joy as its Aussie version: all of the singletons are enormously likable.
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Ozark supplied some vital, if depressing insights, about what liberal Americans really value: money and power, rather than what they say they treasure, family and equality. The catch is that this is no longer news.
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Like the films of the 2000s, Senior Year is filled with chuckles but eschews substance.
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It is not unusual for most series to hit a sophomore slump, but Hacks manages to avoid this fate, partly because of how deftly it expands on its original premise.
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The show never grapples with the casualties of corporate crashes because it would mean critiquing a system that is making a lot of people at the top rich (looking at you, Apple).
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Season three of Barry is just as dark as its predecessors. In fact, in some ways it may even be darker.
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The Survivor examines what happens to someone who made the decision to survive in Auschwitz — no matter how.
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The emphasis isn’t on gratuitous sensuality: Gentleman Jack’s throes of passion are designed to reveal more about the psychological makeup of its characters.
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