Television

Where No One Has Gone Before, For Good Reason: (L-R): Penny Johnson Jerald, Mark Jackson, Seth MacFarlane, Peter Macon, Scott Grimes, Adrianne Palicki, J. Lee and Halston Sage star in The Orville.

Make It So-So: Fox's 'The Orville'

by Eric Deggans

Unable to fix on a tone, the series "is trying so hard not to be so many things, it isn't fully any one thing," says critic Eric Deggans, who calls it "the strangest misfire of the fall TV season."
Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Candy, a prostitute who begins to see a way off the street, in HBO's The Deuce.

In 'The Deuce,' Sex Isn't Titillating — It's Business

by Eric Deggans

David Simon's gritty new drama follows pornography's transition from back-alley pursuit to billion-dollar industry. The sex scenes are transactional, but also explicit, with equal opportunity nudity.