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Television Review: “Hacks” — Even Funnier on Tour

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.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Hacks, Hannah Einbinder, HBO, Jean Smart

Television Review: “Barry” in Season Three — Even More Malign

Season three of Barry is just as dark as its predecessors. In fact, in some ways it may even be darker.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Barry, Bill Hader, HBO, Sarah Osman

Television Review: “Gentleman Jack” — Even More Spellbinding in Season Two

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.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: BBC, Gentleman Jack, HBO, Sally Wainwright

WATCH CLOSELY: HBO’s “Landscapers”

Landscapers is a true crime series that compellingly weaves together dream and reality.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: David Thewlis, HBO, Landscapers, Olivia Colman, true crime, Will Sharpe

Television Review: “The Sex Lives of College Girls” — Wonderfully Down-To-Earth

Let’s hope The Sex Lives of College Girls is given a second season because, much like Sex Education, it is a reminder of the value of the real at a time Big Tech and others are trying to pull us into living and loving in the virtual.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: HBO, Sarah Osman, The Sex Lives of College Girls

WATCH CLOSELY: HBO”s “Scenes from a Marriage” — Love, Naturally

These are people behaving badly, even while they struggle to retain their dignity.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Television Tagged: HBO, Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac, Peg Aloi, Scenes from a Marriage

Film Review: “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage” — Hell on Earth

The premier entry in the HBO documentary series “Music Box” shows how everything about the concert celebrating the 30th anniversary of Woodstock goes terribly wrong, then gets worse.

By: Ed Symkus Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Television Tagged: Garrett Price, HBO, Music Box, Woodstock 99

Television Review: “Class Action Park” — The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

Visitors (of all ages?) were invited to drink copious amounts of liquor and possibly get laid. This was as close to Pinnochio‘s Pleasure Island as they were ever going to get.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Action Park, Class Action Park, Gene Mulvihill, HBO, Sarah Osman, The Most Insane Amusement Park Ever

Television Review: HBO’s “Perry Mason” — American Justice, with Loose Ends

The parallel plot — maybe the real plot — percolates just below the surface: the meta-textual challenge of figuring out how the HBO Perry Mason will morph into something resembling its CBS progenitor.

By: Thomas Doherty Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: HBO, Matthew Rhys, Perry Mason, Raymond Burr

Television Review: “Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn” — A Soulless Man

Roy Cohn was much more pernicious than Joe McCarthy because he was far more adept at undercutting the relevance of so-called American values.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn, documentary, HBO, Matt Hanson, Roy Cohn

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