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War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
After gut-churning torture scenes and eye-opening revelations, Episode 7 ultimately offers limited resolution. But there's immense personal significance in The Captain's attempt to restart.
Bring Back 'The Knick'
As Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton, the "Moonlight" and "High Flying Bird" star unveils more nuance than the speedy but stilted series around him.
Take Me Back to Ireland
With a game cast dramatizing true crime tropes (a small Irish town with suspicious townsfolk harboring dark secrets), "Bodkin" is primed to parody the popular, occasionally problematic genre. Instead, it merely adds to it.
Still Better Than "It's a Wonderful Life"
A scenic Chicago and solemn Joel Edgerton can't quite salvage Blake Crouch's adaptation of his own novel, about a married father who's forced to reconsider his life's biggest choice.
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The comedian's week-long Netflix special gets off to a promising — and very weird — start.
Too Much Ball Shaking, Not Enough Balls
Based on Tom Wolfe's 1998 novel, directed by Regina King, and adapted by courtroom drama addict David E. Kelley, the six-hour series races through a real estate mogul's bankruptcy crisis, a mayor's immoral reelection campaign, and a Regular Joe having the worst day imaginable.
Oh My God, the Gumby Joke
Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky's award-winning Max series pushes its central couple, Ava (Hannah Einbinder) and Deborah (Jean Smart), to joyful — and unexpected — extremes.
'Shining Girls' Is So Much Better Than This
Steven Knight's six-episode spy thriller sees the two-time Emmy-winner as a British operative tasked with breaking a suspected ISIS leader who plans to attack America.
What a Bonfire, Indeed
"War is inevitable!" shouts the man. And the earth shakes its head, "No."
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The true crime event of 2015 returns with six new episodes from director Andrew Jarecki.
A Costly Toll
The Oscar nominee stars alongside Riley Keough in Hulu's true-crime story about a missing teen, mean friends, and a justice system unable to serve any of them.
Achieving Little, Indeed
The last time Michael Douglas and Richard Plepler teamed up for a TV biopic, they spurned convention and produced a classic. Their latest, a listless history lesson on Benjamin Franklin's French intervention, fits far too comfortably within today's troublesome streaming standards.
