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‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Review: Netflix’s South Korean Smash Loses Its…
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The 10 Best TV Performances of 2024
THR's critics celebrate their favorite small-screen turns of the year, from character actors getting their day in the sun and relative newcomers in star-making turns to familiar faces plumbing fresh depths.
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The 10 Best TV Episodes of 2024
THR critics run down their favorite small-screen installments of the year, including an impassioned and insightful documentary, a breathless Christmas detour, a brilliant fake finale and a couple of real ones.
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‘Laid’ Review: Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet Liven up Peacock’s Uneven Sex-and-Death Comedy
A 30something woman discovers that her exes are dying off one by one in a series created by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna ('Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23').
‘Get Millie Black’ Review: HBO’s Jamaica-Set Crime Drama Puts a Sharp, Vivid Spin on Familiar Tropes
The first series from Booker-winning author Marlon James ('A Brief History of Seven Killings') stars Tamara Lawrance as a former Scotland Yard officer looking for a missing girl in Kingston.
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‘Leonardo da Vinci’ Review: Ken Burns Steps Outside His Comfort Zone for His Latest PBS Docuseries, With Fascinating Results
The two-parter explores the life and legacy of the 'Mona Lisa' artist and boundary-breaking polymath, with insights from scholars, experts and enthusiasts including filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.
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‘Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse’ Review: The ‘Maus’ Author Tells His Story Again in an Engaging but Too-Familiar New Doc
Debuting at DOC NYC ahead of its eventual PBS 'American Masters' release, the documentary traces the biography, work and influence of the underground comics legend.
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‘Landman’ Review: At Least Taylor Sheridan’s Mediocre Paramount+ Soap Gives Billy Bob Thornton Plenty of Fuel
Jon Hamm, Demi Moore and Ali Larter also star in the West Texas-set drama about a corporate fixer navigating the booms and busts of the oil industry.
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‘Cross’ Review: Aldis Hodge Elevates Amazon’s Otherwise By-The-Book James Patterson Drama
A tenacious but troubled Washington, D.C. police detective investigates a serial killing spree that may or may not be connected to a case from his own past.
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‘The Day of the Jackal’ Review: Eddie Redmayne Kills in Peacock’s Occasionally Gripping, Frequently Padded Game of Cat-and-Mouse
Lashana Lynch also stars in the 10-episode thriller about a professional assassin and the intelligence officer chasing him, adapted from Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel.
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‘Say Nothing’ Review: FX/Hulu’s Tale of the Troubles Is Powerful, Ambitious and a Little Too Scattered
The nine-episode adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe's book centers on two young sisters who join the Irish Republican Army, and the 1972 kidnapping of a Belfast mother.
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‘Dune: Prophecy’ Review: HBO’s Somber ‘House of the Dragon’-Style Prequel Could Use a Bit More Spice
Emily Watson, Olivia Williams and Mark Strong lead the cast of a sci-fi drama set over 10,000 years before the events of the Denis Villeneuve-directed movies.
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‘Like Water for Chocolate’ Review: A Magical Romance Gains Welcome Depths in an HBO Latino Adaptation Worth Savoring
Based on Laura Esquivel's novel, the six-part drama centers on a young woman in 1910s Mexico who infuses her cooking with her own emotions.
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‘St. Denis Medical’ Review: NBC’s Hospital Mockumentary Has Heart but Lacks Teeth
Allison Tolman, David Alan Greer and Wendi McLendon-Covey lead the ensemble of an emergency room-set comedy from 'Superstore' and 'American Auto' creator Justin Spitzer.
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‘Before’ Review: Billy Crystal Is Convincingly Somber in Apple TV+’s Otherwise Unconvincing Supernatural Dud
The veteran comedy star plays a child psychiatrist trying to fix a very disturbed kid while grieving his wife in this 10-episode thriller.
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‘Music by John Williams’ Review: Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and More Celebrate the Iconic Composer in a Winning Disney+ Doc
Director Laurent Bouzereau ('Five Came Back') serves up an affectionate portrait of the man behind the much-loved scores for 'Jaws,' 'Star Wars' and many, many more.
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‘Territory’ Review: Netflix’s Epic but Derivative Cattle-Ranching Drama Plays Like Aussie ‘Yellowstone’
Anna Torv and Robert Taylor lead the six-part series about a powerful dynasty hurled into a succession crisis after the death of its chosen heir.
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‘Poppa’s House’ Review: Damon Wayans Sr. and Jr.’s Warm Familial Chemistry Boosts an Otherwise Slight CBS Sitcom
Essence Atkins and Tetona Jackson round out the cast of the multi-cam comedy about the somewhat fraught relationship between a radio host and his aspiring filmmaker son.
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‘Happy’s Place’ Review: The Great Reba McEntire Deserves So Much Better Than This Generic NBC Sitcom
The comedy centers on two very different women who discover they're half-sisters whose late father has left them each half of his beloved Nashville watering hole.
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‘It’s Florida, Man’ Review: HBO’s Star-Studded Collection of Sunshine State Misadventures Could Stand to Be Quirkier
Danny McBride is among the executive producers of this late-night comic anthology of wild true tales reenacted by Anna Faris, Simon Rex, Sam Richardson and more.
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