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AMC The Genteel, Supernatural Smut of A Discovery of Witches
Vampires and witches and demons, oh my
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NBC Saturday Night Live Brings Back a Folksy and Handsy Joe Biden
Jason Sudeikis returned to satirize the likely presidential candidate as a “tactile politician” who’s simply out of touch with current norms.
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Eric Liebowitz / FX Moving Past the ‘Singular Genius’ Version of the Bob Fosse Story
The new FX limited series Fosse/Verdon explores the director-choreographer’s complicated relationship with the dancer Gwen Verdon.
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BBC America Killing Eve Season 2 Is as Macabre and Audacious as Ever
The BBC America drama navigates its way into a gratifying second year.
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The CW How Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Revived the TV Musical—And Liberated Its Heroine
The CW show, which is ending after four seasons, gave new life to a genre that was losing ground on the small screen.
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HBO The Scams Are Winning
American language suggests that grift can be separated from everything else. American life suggests otherwise.
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CBS All Access What the Twilight Zone Reboot Is Missing
The Jordan Peele–produced revival of the classic speculative series has a stellar lineup, but pales in comparison with the original.
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HBO Barry and the Banality of Evil
The dark HBO comedy by Bill Hader and Alec Berg turns even more pensive in Season 2.
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Ben Macdonald Netflix’s Our Planet Says What Other Nature Series Have Omitted
In a groundbreaking move, the beautiful but uncomfortable documentary forces viewers to acknowledge their own complicity in the decline of nature.
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Colleen Hayes / HBO Veep’s Dark Take on ‘Thoughts and Prayers’
The premiere episode of the HBO show’s seventh and final season explored the most caustic of satires: an environment in which gun violence is so common as to become unremarkable.
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Will Heath / NBC Saturday Night Live Wades Into the Chaos of the Mueller Report
“Well, this week made me feel insane.”
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HBO Veep’s Final Season Ponders a Horrifying Thought
Might these characters have feelings after all?
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Jonathan Prime / Amazon Studios The Subversive Thrills of Hanna
Amazon’s new eight-part series about a 15-year-old girl trained as a ferocious killer is—intermittently—a blast to watch.
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Comedy Central / The Atlantic The Small, Radical Choice That Broad City Has Always Made
Its conclusion celebrated what the show has done from the beginning: Insist that friendship can carry the same vitality as romance.
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AP / Tony Avelar Apple TV+ Isn’t Trying to Be the New Netflix
The tech company’s planned streaming service, set to debut in the fall, will emphasize star power and quality over quantity.
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Netflix The Dirt Celebrates the Soullessness of Mötley Crüe
Netflix’s shiny biopic of the hair-metal band barely tries to understand the destruction it portrays.
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Hulu Motherhood Is Monstrous in The Act
The new Hulu series is a fascinating, queasy blend of horror, fantasy, and true crime.
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Amazon The Transcendent Final Season of Catastrophe
The boisterous Amazon Prime series from Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney ended with a finale that honored the love and grief of its protagonists and creators alike.
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Netflix / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Radical Sincerity of The OA
More than two years after the surprise release of their Netflix series about an interdimensional traveler, Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij are back with an installment that’s even more ambitious than the first.
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Pop The Bombastic Matriarch of Schitt’s Creek
With her eccentric vocabulary and fashion sense, Moira Rose (played by Catherine O’Hara) deploys her words and her wardrobe as a kind of plumage.
