Jesse Hassenger
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‘The Franchise’ Review: HBO’s Superhero Movie Comedy Falls Flat
The creators of “Veep” bring the laughs but lack focus in their latest TV collaboration
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‘The Penguin’ Review: Colin Farrell’s Mob Drama Makes for Better Superhero TV Than Marvel
Cristin Milioti and more of the new cast help elevate HBO’s “The Batman” spinoff
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‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Review: Prime Video Show Has the Looks but Not the Moves of the ‘Animated Series’
Bruce Timm, Matt Reeves and J.J. Abrams team up for a more violent, cheaper looking take on Gotham’s hero
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‘Sunny’ Review: Rashida Jones Stumbles Through Apple’s Overstuffed Sci-fi Dramedy
The “Parks and Recreation” star can’t help the show move past its overwritten premise
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‘The Acolyte’ Review: New ‘Star Wars’ Series Has Prequel Vibes but Breaks New Ground
Amandla Stenberg stars in the murder mystery set 100 years before “The Phantom Menace”
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‘Sugar’ Review: Colin Farrell Plays a Film Nerd Detective in Beguiling Apple Series
The eight-episode drama feels like an extended pilot episode mirroring the impressionistic style of Los Angeles noir
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‘The Girls on the Bus’ Review: Max Series Crashes Into Brain-Melting Alternate Political Universe
Melissa Benoist and Carla Gugino headline an awkwardly glossy look at US politics in the modern era
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‘Constellation’ Review: Noomi Rapace Unravels in Uneven Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Thriller
The show from creator Peter Harness quadruples the runtime of a familiar movie premise
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‘Echo’ Review: Grounded Crime Drama Sticks With Marvel’s Same Old TV Mistakes
Even so, Alaqua Cox leads a focused story that could be described as the MCU’s answer to “Justified”
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‘Futurama’ Review: Hulu Reboot Defrosts Animated Classic With Savvy Commentary
The cult classic from “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening returns with comedic jabs at streaming television, Amazon and cryptocurrency
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‘Secret Invasion’ Review: Samuel L. Jackson Returns to the MCU in a Disney+ Series With Few Surprises
The latest Marvel show boasts an impressive cast, but offers little in the way of ingenuity or depth
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‘Mrs. Davis’ Review: Betty Gilpin Stuns in Damon Lindelof’s New Series That Takes AI Conversation to Scary Heights
Gilpin is a nun searching for the holy grail in this strange Peacock series from Lindelof and Tara Hernandez
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‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3 Review: Comedy Plays More Like a Network Drama in Possible Final Chapters
Jason Sudeikis and the cast are as good as ever, but the first four installments make it feel more like a back-to-school story with fewer laughs
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‘Alert: Missing Persons Unit’ Review: New Fox Procedural Packs on the Clunky Exposition
Scott Caan and Dania Ramirez lead the hourlong drama series about a specialized division of the Philadelphia Police.
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‘January 6th’ Review: Discovery+ Documentary Finds Value in First-Hand Accounts of Capitol Assault
Talking head interviews with those who were on the ground prove most eye-opening in this inessential yet valuable document