‘Sunrise On The Reaping’ Shows That There’s Still A Ton of Life in the ‘Hunger Games’ IP
Haymitch origin story surprisingly shreds
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‘The Pitt’: Optimism, A Hooky Gimmick, and Hot Docs
An AFIB of realism and heart, from many of the people who brought you ER, revitalizes the hourly medical drama
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‘Abbott Elementary,’ ‘It’s Always Sunny,’ and the Art of the TV Crossover
A modern take on a venerable TV tradition
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The Age of the Traum-com
Why our TV comedies are so sad
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Talkin’ ‘Bout Bigeneration
Can ‘Doctor Who’ Be Saved in its 60th Year?
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Buffy Without Buffy
The strange phenomenon of the semi-star-studded but unofficial Buffyverse audio series ‘Slayers’
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The Broken Promise of Streaming
They offered us the world, and instead commercials are back
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Amazon Doesn’t Reinvent the ‘Wheel’
The Wheel of Time is back for a disappointedly but predictably middling Season 2
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You’ve Been Chopped
‘The Horror of Dolores Roach,’ an oddly-paced Sweeney Todd knockoff on Amazon
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Pop Propaganda
The ‘Wham!’ documentary is a wholesome fantasy of music stardom
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The Reign of ‘Queen Charlotte’
Odd historical revisionism aside, Shondaland’s breezy new offering doesn’t mess with the Bridgerton formula
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A Star is Born on ‘Jury Duty’
The Internet falls hard for Ronald Gladden, the unwitting regular-guy star of Freevee’s improvised legal comedy
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Fall of the Pink Ladies
The ‘Grease’ prequel show no one wanted or asked for is here
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‘Traitors’ in Our Midst
On Peacock, Alan Cumming hosts a delightful-cheesy social-deduction game show in his ‘Scottish castle’
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The Living Hell of ‘Velma’
Zoinks! Mindy Kaling’s dark Scooby-Doo universe take is a joyless dog
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