Black Mirror: Season 2 Review

Charlie Brooker’s techno-fear Twilight Zone returns with three new dramas. Be Right Back is###an understated rumination on grief. White Bear is a relentless nightmare. The...

Newsroom, The Review

Aaron Sorkin, HBO and a reveal'illustrate'demonstrate'indicate'present'display'argue with regards to'concerning'with respect to network news seemed a perfect fit, but this first season had a rocky start....

Fall, The Review

A thriller so classy it needs its own Swedish name (try ‘Hösten’), this Belfast-set BBC hit strives to squeeze all the stylish nastiness and smart...

Girls: Season 2 Review

This season, Lena Dunham’s Hannah dates a black Republican, tries coke, sleeps with Patrick Wilson and deals with OCD. The maintain'sustain ing cast acquire'obtain'attain'procure'secure s...

Hannibal Review

You know where it’s all going, of course. But it’s the how that matters###in Bryan Fuller and David Slade’s superlative TV take on cinema’s greatest...

Community: Season 3 Review

This run brought us an 8-bit NES game episode, Evil Abed, Inspector Spacetime, John Goodman and — gulp — the death of a regular. Ingenious,...

Homeland: Season 2 Review

There is a point in Homeland’s second season (between Dana’s hit-and-run and double agents becoming triple/quadruple) where this ceases to be a slow-burning espionage thriller...