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AMC Silicon Valley Satire ‘The Audacity’ Is a Sharp, Sweeping Take on What Makes Tech Moguls Tick: TV Review

For a show about men — and some women, but mostly men — working to build the future, “The Audacity” feels a little old-fashioned. That’s mostly a good thing: This ambitious, sprawling,...

‘The Boys’ Ends Right on Time With a Heavy, Blood-Soaked Season 5: TV Review

If you thought “The Boys” was dark before, just remember that the penultimate season of the pitch-black superhero satire aired prior to the reelection of President Donald J. Trump. That chapter,...

‘Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord’ Is an Uneven but Promising Extension of the ‘Clone Wars’ Saga: TV Review

Next month, the “Star Wars” franchise will return to theaters after an astonishing seven-year absence with Jon Favreau’s “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” a feature spinoff of the director’s hit Disney+ series...

Netflix Wedding Horror Series ‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Has a Great Hook, But Takes Too Long to Get There: TV Review

I have a pet theory that horror, as a genre, is an awkward fit for television. The tension necessary for effective scares is difficult to maintain over several hours; the mystery...

‘The Comeback’ Season 3 Is a Bittersweet Swan Song for Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish — and Hollywood as We Know It: TV Review

“The Comeback” is everywhere now. Once a pop cultural Cassandra doomed to swift cancellation after a single season on HBO in 2005, the brainchild of comic actor Lisa Kudrow and veteran...

‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff ‘Marshals’ Turns Taylor Sheridan Franchise Into a Workmanlike CBS Procedural: TV Review

“Marshals” is a new kind of “Yellowstone” spinoff. Rather than a prequel series tracing the Dutton family back through generations of Western migration and conflicts over land, it’s a contemporary show...

HBO’s ‘DTF St. Louis’ Is a Perversely Hilarious Spin on an Erotic Thriller: TV Review

It is both an ineffective sales pitch and generally accurate to call “DTF St. Louis” the unsexiest erotic thriller ever made. The HBO limited series, all seven episodes of which were...

Max Minghella on Playing the Big Bad of ‘Industry’ Season 4: “I Would Almost Black Out Shooting the Show”

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from “Points of Emphasis,” Season 4, Episode 7 of “Industry,” now streaming on HBO Max. Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella) is in...

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