TV Reviews

Review: Netflix's 'Black Earth Rising' Stars British Actress Michaela Coel

8:31am January 25, 2019

by Eric Deggans

Black Earth Rising is a fictional thriller about the modern repercussions of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The series, which debuts Friday, offers a compelling look at the atrocity.

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Brooke (Heléne Yorke) and Cary (Drew Tarver) ride the product-placed coattails of their younger brother in The Other Two.

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Siblings Struggle (Hilariously) In Their Kid Brother's Shadow: 'The Other Two'

5:49pm January 24, 2019

by Glen Weldon

When their 13-year-old brother (Case Walker) becomes a YouTube star, directionless New Yorkers Brooke (Heléne Yorke) and Cary (Drew Tarver) reluctantly find themselves drawn into his entourage.

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'Black Monday,' Cheadle Win A Big Windfall By Shorting Subtlety

8:02am January 20, 2019

by Eric Deggans

NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans says the new comedy about the stock market crash of 1987 is heavy-handed, profane and outrageous — and completely worth your time.

Festival attendees wound up dragging their luggage to tents — and that's only one of the indignities documented in the Netflix film Fyre.

Fighting 'Fyre' With 'Fyre Fraud': Two Documentaries About The Same Disaster

8:04am January 18, 2019

by Linda Holmes

Netflix and Hulu both have documentaries about the fiasco of Fyre Festival available this week. Both are serviceable, but there are some differences, and some ethical questions about both.

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Dominic Cummings, the top strategist for Britain's "Leave" campaign in the HBO film Brexit.

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Breezy And Irreverent 'Brexit' Captures Big Truths About Today's Politics

4:59pm January 17, 2019

by John Powers

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the top strategist for Britain's "Leave" campaign in a new HBO film that offers a jaunty — if incomplete — take on the U.K.'s pending departure from the EU.

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Johnny (Eugene Levy) and Moira (Catherine O'Hara) get some things to crow about in season 5 of Schitt's Creek.

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'Schitt's Creek' Flows Smoothly Into Season 5

11:29am January 16, 2019

by Glen Weldon

The characters have grown, their relationships — to each other, and to viewers — have deepened, the writing's sharp and the actors are having a ball. Dive in.

Jeanine Mason as Liz and Nathan Parsons as Max in the CW's Roswell, New Mexico.

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Everyone Is A Traveler As The CW Returns To 'Roswell, New Mexico'

12:02pm January 15, 2019

by Linda Holmes

In a reboot of the late-'90s drama, three secret space aliens struggle to hide their secret in a town trained to look for them. And believe it or not, it's a solid show.

"I'll just ... I'll just wait here, shall I?": On The Passage, evil Tim Fanning (Jamie McShane) can't help but look bored as he bides his time. And bides, and bides and bides.

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'The Passage' Keeps Its Viral Vamps Waiting In The Wings, For Now

1:38pm January 14, 2019

by Glen Weldon

This FOX series based on the Justin Cronin trilogy combines the pulpiest elements of science-gone-awry thrillers with shlocky creature-features, but — early on at least — skimps on the fun.

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'True Detective' Regains Its Footing In A Meditative 3rd Season

1:24pm January 11, 2019

by Soraya Nadia McDonald

Mahershala Ali is a small-town cop grappling with the disappearance of two high-school students — while also dealing with his own isolation — in the new season of the HBO series.

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The Masked Singer dares to dangle the question ... who is the Peacock?

Introducing 'The Masked Singer,' Featuring Television's Hottest Peacock-Hippo Battle

3:40pm January 03, 2019

by Linda Holmes

Fox's The Masked Singer, based on a South Korean show, is a little like American Idol — if all the contestants were celebrities hidden inside college mascot costumes.