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Jan Thijs/Amazon Prime Video Amazon’s reportedly spending more than a billion dollars on their upcoming Lord of the Rings show, but they must’ve saved a hefty chunk of change to pay for Carnival Row, a sumptuous steampunk mystery/fantasy/allegory that’s as jumbled and baffling as that mashed-up description sounds. Based on a movie script that’s been […]

Previews of Wu-Tang: An American Saga, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and Carnival Row.

Kirsten Dunst in On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Patti Perret/Sony/SHOWTIME There are a lot of things to like in On Becoming a God in Central Florida, although I doubt any two people are going to like exactly the same things about it. In its best moments, On Becoming a God hits upon a […]

Netflix It’s strange that Netflix didn’t provide critics with advance screeners for the second season of Mindhunter, the true-crime thriller about the origins of the FBI Serial Crime Unit in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Instead, the nine new episodes hit the streaming service last Friday with little advance fanfare, and this week the […]

FRED NORRIS / HBO It may be best to focus on all the things The Righteous Gemstones is and not worry about the things it’s not. It is the latest HBO comedy series from longtime collaborators Danny McBride, Jody Hill, and David Gordon Green, whose track record for television includes the brilliant Eastbound & Down […]

Wilson Webb / Annapurna Pictures Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Where’d You Go, Bernadette drops the epistolary technique of Maria Semple’s book in favor of a more straightforward movie narrative, but this is still a muddled puzzle of incongruous pieces that don’t fit together. As Bernadette, Cate Blanchett is hyper-competent, precise, and a bit bloodless. A […]

The new Danny McBride show doesn’t go far enough.

Colman and corgis. It doesn’t get better than this, folks. Netflix Biggest news first—Netflix has finally announced when The Crown is coming back: November 17, nearly two full years after season two. (Unusually for Netflix, this is a Sunday, not a Friday, the day of the week they typically unload new content so as to […]

Peter Kramer/HBO Season two of Succession starts this Sunday, August 18 on HBO. At first, Succession didn’t look especially promising. The HBO series stumbled out of the gate with its first couple of episodes, which were mired in an uncomfortable blend of drama, commentary, and cruelty. Succession embedded us within the obscenely wealthy Roy family, […]