'Ratched' Is Pretty, But Very Silly
Produced by Ryan Murphy and packed with his signature gory excess, Ratched makes a great series of still photos but tells a very disappointing story.
TV Reviews
The Soothing 'Great Pottery Throw Down' Makes Great Isolation TV
If you like The Great British Baking Show, you'll recognize a lot of the charms of the BBC's pottery competition, all three seasons of which arrive on HBO MAX this week.
'Ratched' Gives A First Name — And A Backstory — To The Iconic 'Cuckoo's Nest' Nurse
Violence and humor create a complicated character arc in a Netflix series that serves as a prequel, of sorts, to Ken Kesey's famed novel. Sarah Paulson gives a star turn as Mildred, AKA Nurse Ratched.
'The Third Day' Makes Mysterious But Predictable Promises
The Third Day, which premiered Monday night on HBO, keeps presenting events that require explanation. But the explanations that come don't sustain the story.
In Teen Drama 'We Are Who We Are,' We're Still Figuring Out Who We Are
Director Luca Guadagnino brings his searching, emotionally intimate sensibility to HBO with this series about two American kids on a military base in Italy.
In 'Coastal Elites,' Five Stories Of Life In 2020
Paul Rudnick's HBO film features several fine actors in an uneven set of monologues about Donald Trump, the pandemic, and where we go from here.
Cartoonist Keith Knight Draws From Real-Life Wake-Up Call For 'Woke'
Hulu's comedy series Woke follows Keef Knight, a Black cartoonist set to launch a national comic strip until he's profiled by San Francisco police. It's based on real-life cartoonist Keith Knight.
'The Sit-In' Revisits A Landmark Week With Harry Belafonte As 'Tonight Show' Host
A new Peacock documentary chronicles the week in 1968 when Belafonte, then a prominent civil rights advocate, hosted the late night show. Guests included Aretha Franklin and Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 'I'm Thinking Of Ending Things,' A Couple Gets Stuck In A Dreamlike Limbo
In writer/director Charlie Kaufman's latest, a couple spouts pat, pseudo-intellectual bromides. But stay with it — because that's a clue to what's really going on in this tense, surprising film.
Ridley Scott Directs New HBO Max Series 'Raised By Wolves'
The show is about a pair of androids who raise a group of children on a barren, distant world after Earth is destroyed by religious war. Our TV critic says the show is inspired and a little flawed.