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‘The Last of Us’ Review: Season 2 of HBO’s Hit Video Game Adaptation Is Thrilling, Addicting and Incomplete
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are joined by newcomers Catherine O'Hara, Isabela Merced and Kaitlyn Dever in a fresh chapter that picks up five years after the last finale.
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Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and Trump, Reunited
As the sixth and final season lands on Hulu, THR’s chief TV critic reflects on how the dystopian series was shaped by the first Donald Trump presidency — and how it hits differently during the second.
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‘Pulse’ Review: Netflix’s Enjoyably Juicy Medical Drama Will Scratch That ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Itch
The Carlton Cuse-produced series centers on a group of ambitious residents navigating personal and professional crises in one of Miami's busiest emergency rooms.
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‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Review: Jon Hamm Anchors an Apple TV+ Crime Dramedy that Plays Things Too Safe
Already renewed for a second season, the Jonathan Tropper-created series follows a hedge fund manager who turns to larceny after losing his job.
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‘The Bondsman’ Review: A Bloody Good Kevin Bacon Leads Amazon’s Uneven Horror Dramedy
Produced by Blumhouse Television, the half-hour series follows a Georgia bounty hunter who is murdered and then brought back to life with a new job: capturing escaped demons.
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‘MobLand’ Review: Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan Offer Mumbly Menace in Derivative Paramount+ Crime Thriller
Guy Ritchie directs the first two episodes of the series co-starring Helen Mirren, in which two rival factions escalate violence to take control of London's criminal underbelly.
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‘Mid-Century Modern’ Review: Nathan Lane and Matt Bomer Lead a Hulu Comedy That’s the Edgiest Sitcom of 1987
'Will & Grace' creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick present a trio of gay friends living in Palm Springs in this show co-starring Nathan Lee Graham and the late Linda Lavin.
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‘Dying for Sex’ Review: Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate in an Erotically Adventurous, Emotionally Incurious FX Cancer Dramedy
Inspired by the Wondery podcast of the same title, the series follows a 40something woman who embarks on a journey of self-discovery after receiving a terminal diagnosis.
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‘Side Quest’ Review: Apple TV+ Anthology Is a Pleasant but Aimless Ramble Through the ‘Mythic Quest’ Universe
The four standalone episodes step outside the main offices to explore the other individuals whose lives have been touched by the game.
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Critics’ Conversation: On That ‘White Lotus’ Bromance and TV’s Incest Obsession
As the Ratliff brothers spiral over their drug-fueled encounter, THR critics dive into the recent wave of small-screen storylines about intra-familial sexual connections.
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‘The Residence’ Review: Uzo Aduba Solves a Murder at 1600 in a Netflix Mystery That Amuses and Exhausts in Equal Measure
Homages abound in Paul William Davies' eight-episode White House-set comic thriller, co-starring Randall Park, Jane Curtin and Ken Marino.
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‘Good American Family’ Review: The Most Shocking Thing About Hulu’s Ellen Pompeo-Headlined Natalia Grace Drama Is How Dull It Is
Katie Robbins ('Sunny') created the series about a girl (Imogen Faith Jenkins) with dwarfism whose adoptive parents accuse her of being an adult posing as a child.
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‘Happy Face’ Review: Dennis Quaid Plays a Serial Killer in a Paramount+ Drama That’s Half-Real, Half-Fictionalized and Entirely Misconceived
Annaleigh Ashford plays a TV makeup artist whose dad is notorious serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson in the eight-episode season.
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‘Dope Thief’ Review: Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura Make a Compelling Duo, but Apple TV+ Crime Thriller Loses Steam
Peter Craig's eight-episode adaptation of Dennis Tafoya's novel follows two petty criminals who get in big trouble in post-pandemic Philadelphia.
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‘Long Bright River’ Review: Amanda Seyfried Stars in a Philly-Set Peacock Mystery That Treads Water for Too Long
The eight-episode adaptation of Liz Moore's novel tells a story of sisterhood, addiction and murder set in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.
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‘The Studio’ Review: Seth Rogen’s Apple TV+ Hollywood Comedy Is So Hilarious It Hurts
Kathryn Hahn and Ike Barinholtz also star in the series about a beleaguered film executive, co-created and directed by Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
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