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| F | 38% | The Boondocks: Season 4 (TV, 2005-2014) |
This season has had very little as far as actual social commentary, real satire, or any of the insights you'd normally expect from this show. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 9, 2019
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| 100% | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 10 (TV, 2005-2019) |
There isn't a ton new to say about the latest batch of episodes, other than that they're another season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (and a pretty good one at that). - Grantland
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| Posted Oct 15, 2020
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| B+ | 98% | The Good Lord Bird: Miniseries (TV, 2020) |
Frankly, it rules. - AV Club
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| Posted Oct 5, 2020
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| B- | No Score Yet | The Jellies!: Season 1 (TV, 2017-2019) |
The Jellies! has more than enough going for it to justify watching a few 12-minute episodes, especially when each episode is guaranteed a least a couple of laughs. What more do you need from Sunday night TV? - AV Club
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| Posted Jun 24, 2020
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| B- | 100% | Black Jesus: Season 1 (TV, 2014-2019) |
For the most part, Black Jesus is a pleasant, relatively mindless high, and like an eager-to-please stoner, it's generally fun to hang out with for 20 minutes at a time. - AV Club
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| Posted May 27, 2020
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| 13% | Below Deck: Season 1 (TV, 2013) |
It doesn't even have enough drama to sustain one episode. - AV Club
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| Posted Apr 9, 2020
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| A- | 100% | Supernatural: Season 9 (TV, 2005) |
Hopefully this season Supernatural doesn't just turn into years-old leftovers, because a premiere this exciting from a show this old is nothing short of a miracle. - AV Club
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| Posted Feb 7, 2020
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| C | No Score Yet | Squidbillies: Season 8 (TV, 2005-2019) |
Jokes about Sean Hannity, and Early and Granny's complete faith in TV don't have much to them beyond making fun of the characters in an unfortunate bit of excess cynicism. - AV Club
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| Posted Aug 12, 2013
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| B+ | 90% | The New Pope: Season 1 (TV, 2020) |
Yes, the outfits are incredible; yes, the dialogue is sharp and funny; yes, Voiello's mole is a perfect work of art. But there are real stakes, which largely serves to make the back half of the episode all the more alarming-and hilarious. - AV Club
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| Posted Jan 14, 2020
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| No Score Yet | .hack//SIGN: Season 1 (TV, 2003) |
The vast majority of the show is just characters talking about their feelings. And it's great. - Polygon
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| Posted Jan 10, 2020
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| B | 83% | Marvel's Runaways: Season 3 (TV, 2017-2019) |
Runaways has been at its best, and remains at its best, when it's able to slow down and fully explore the intersection of teen drama and superhero show. - AV Club
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| Posted Dec 5, 2019
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| 93% | Watchmen: Season 1 - See How They Fly (TV Episode) |
For the most part, "See How They Fly" is, literally, spectacular. It feels big, and like a genuine superhero story in a way the series often hasn't, and in a way the Watchmen book rarely did. - Polygon
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| Posted Dec 16, 2019
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| 96% | Watchmen: Season 1 - A God Walks into ABar (TV Episode) |
Watchmen the TV show tries to answer these questions in "A God Walks Into Abar", positing Jon Osterman as being, fundamentally, human. The results are equally thrilling and deeply frustrating. - Polygon
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| Posted Dec 9, 2019
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| 93% | Watchmen: Season 1 - An Almost Religious Awe (TV Episode) |
"An Almost Religious Awe," feels like a noticeable stumble for the season, showing a mess of threads coming together in a way that feels less likely than ever to cohere. - Polygon
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| Posted Dec 2, 2019
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| 97% | Watchmen: Season 1 - This Extraordinary Being (TV Episode) |
The first five episodes of Watchmen have felt a bit like watching Damon Lindelof build a precarious Jenga tower. This is the episode that makes everything snap into place. There was a plan. - Polygon
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| Posted Nov 25, 2019
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| 100% | Watchmen: Season 1 - Little Fear of Lightning (TV Episode) |
Tim Blake Nelson is fantastic in this episode, playing Wade Tillman as a man with a craggy, worn body and the soul of a frightened teen boy. - Polygon
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| Posted Nov 18, 2019
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| 93% | Watchmen: Season 1 - If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own (TV Episode) |
"If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own" is probably the weakest episode of Watchmen so far. That's not saying much, but it feels more like a piece of the puzzle than a successful stand-alone hour. - Polygon
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| Posted Nov 11, 2019
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| 100% | Watchmen: Season 1 - She Was Killed by Space Junk (TV Episode) |
[Jean] Smart is riveting in this episode -- maybe excessively so. Laurie is bitter, disaffected, and deeply lonely, but she is also incredibly cool. - Polygon
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| Posted Nov 4, 2019
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| 95% | Watchmen: Season 1 - Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship (TV Episode) |
If the task of the first episode of Watchmen was to establish the show's world and starting to introduce us to the cast, the task of the second episode is to consider everything in the first episode. - Polygon
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| Posted Oct 31, 2019
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| 94% | Watchmen: Season 1 - It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice (TV Episode) |
If there's one note [Regina] King nails in this first episode, it's that Angela is hard and brittle. She's angry, but competent, and single-minded in her pursuit of justice. It's a fascinating, violent, potentially lethal combination. - Polygon
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| Posted Nov 1, 2019
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| 96% | Watchmen: Season 1 (TV, 2019) |
Though the comic inspires this level of devotion, Lindelof's Watchmen is great precisely because it rarely gives in to that impulse: If Watchmen has a foundational rule, it's that no one is ever cool. - Polygon
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| Posted Oct 17, 2019
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| 100% | The Powerpuff Girls: Season 6 (TV, 1998-2005) |
The original Powerpuff Girls' feminism was more like sugar, an extra ingredient that helped sweeten the excellent, surprisingly varied narratives beneath. - Slate
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| Posted Aug 21, 2019
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| 69% | The Powerpuff Girls: Season 1 (TV, 2016-2019) |
In this reboot, there's no real attempt at rocking the boat-no elaborate retelling of the Powerpuff Girls' origin story, no winking acknowledgment that this is a new version of a classic, not even a flashy redesign for any of the characters - Slate
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| Posted Aug 21, 2019
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| 93% | Legion: Season 3 (TV, 2017-2019) |
I responded to moments of Legion because I vibed with its project, but all of the aspects of that project ended up working better in other shows. - Polygon
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| Posted Aug 13, 2019
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| C+ | 50% | Love Island: Season 1 (TV, 2019) |
Some of the other elements that make the British Love Island work so well don't quite translate on this side of the Atlantic. - AV Club
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| Posted Jul 10, 2019
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| A- | 100% | Billions: Season 4 - Extreme Sandbox (TV Episode) |
The performances are excellent, and there are moments up there with the best the show has ever done. - AV Club
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| Posted Jun 10, 2019
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| 61% | Drunk History: Season 1 (TV, 2013) |
For all of Wild West that is successful, Drunk History still has a ways to go if it wants to be more than a longer, glorified version of the web series. - AV Club
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| Posted Apr 29, 2019
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| 96% | Doom Patrol: Season 1 (TV, 2019-2020) |
Doom Patrol is, somehow, pretty fun. - Polygon
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| Posted Mar 7, 2019
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| 100% | Samurai Jack: Season 4 (TV, 0-2017) |
It wears its considerable history on its sleeve, transforming a potentially boring and simplistic children's show into an often-breathtaking cult phenomenon. - AV Club
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| Posted Feb 7, 2019
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| A- | No Score Yet | Regular Show: Season 8 (TV, 2010-2018) |
Regular Show was many things, a frequently surreal, borderline adult show on a network primarily for children. But more anything else, Regular Show was fun. - AV Club
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| Posted Feb 1, 2019
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| B+ | 86% | Marvel's Runaways: Season 2 (TV, 2017-2019) |
Runaways is easily my favorite Marvel TV series, because it's the only one where it seems like anyone involved is having fun. - AV Club
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| Posted Dec 21, 2018
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| B- | 93% | Riverdale: Season 3 - Chapter Forty: The Great Escape (TV Episode) |
The big action set piece, which cross-cuts between the G&G game Jughead is leading for the Serpents and the prison break Veronica is leading for Archie, is genuinely cool and fun. - AV Club
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| Posted Nov 15, 2018
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| 100% | Counterpart: Season 1 (TV, 2017-2019) |
The restraint of Counterpart, especially given its potentially outsized, ridiculous premise, is impressive. In fact, it mirrors Simmons' performance -- by far the best reason to watch the show. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted Oct 16, 2018
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| 80% | The Young Pope: Miniseries (TV, 2017) |
It's got more chutzpah than almost anything else on the air. And even if this level of camp combined with self-seriousness isn't your jam, it's hard to deny the level of care that goes into each shot - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted Oct 16, 2018
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| 100% | Search Party: Season 1 (TV, 2016) |
There are many small pleasures in Search Party that, if you're going to watch the show, deserve to be savored. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted Oct 16, 2018
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| 56% | Will: Miniseries (TV, 2017) |
While Will is a bad addition to the canon of modern work about Shakespeare, it's a relevant addition to an even more important genre: dramas about hot versions of historical figures. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted Oct 16, 2018
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| 94% | The Americans: Season 5 (TV, 2013-2018) |
It would be easy to say that the spies of The Americans traffic in information, but it would be more accurate to say they specialize in leveraging emotions against uncertainty. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted Oct 16, 2018
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| 93% | Fargo: Season 3 (TV, 2014-2020) |
Unbearably shallow and convinced of its own greatness... Everything about Fargo is glossy, serving you a Big Mac and convincing you it's a steak. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted Oct 16, 2018
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| 97% | American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson (TV, 2016-2018) |
The cast is phenomenal. And Murphy's campiest, most over-the-top instincts are effectively and amazingly tempered by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. - Esquire Magazine
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| Posted Oct 16, 2018
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| 100% | Adventure Time: Season 10 (TV, 2010-2018) |
It focuses squarely on the warmth and attention to intimacy at the heart of Adventure Time, rather than dizzying spectacle or surreal humor. - Polygon
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| Posted Sep 24, 2018
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| 100% | Steven Universe: Season 5 (TV, 217-2019) |
For the first time in a while, there's no way to know what's going to happen on Steven Universe -- and it's thrilling. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 21, 2018
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| B | 100% | Steven Universe: Season 4 (TV, 217-2019) |
Steven's rounded character design has always made him look a little goofy, and given his attempts at composure a sort of farcical quality -- but here, it's impossible to not take him seriously. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 21, 2018
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| A | 100% | Steven Universe: Season 3 (TV, 217-2019) |
Steven Universe has built up such an impressive reserve of characters with such deft plotting, even the slightest episodes usually say something interesting about someone. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 21, 2018
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| A- | 100% | Steven Universe: Season 2 (TV, 217-2019) |
By subtly building the Gem mythology and developing the characters over the course of the season, the team has earned a certain level of trust, and they could take the show in essentially any direction. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 21, 2018
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| 100% | Steven Universe: Season 1 (TV, 217-2019) |
It's one of the stealthiest, smartest, and most beautiful things on the air. - Wired
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| Posted Sep 20, 2018
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| B+ | No Score Yet | The Boondocks: Season 4 - Good Times (TV Episode) |
Hitting a high this high is a sign that maybe, just maybe, we won't just get something adequate-we'll get a season close to the old ones. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 12, 2018
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| C+ | No Score Yet | The Boondocks: Season 4 - Breaking Grandad (TV Episode) |
There's not enough unique stuff going on to justify the slackness of the plot. This episode is weirdly paced, somehow managing to move through all of the standard beats you would expect a Boondocks Breaking Bad parody to hit. - AV Club
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| B- | No Score Yet | The Boondocks: Season 4 - Early Bird Special (TV Episode) |
There's a lot of interesting material at play here, but the jokes continue to only land occasionally, partially because there are a couple of different possible episodes going on at once. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 12, 2018
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| B | No Score Yet | The Boondocks: Season 4 - Freedom Ride or Die (TV Episode) |
Perhaps because it's satirizing the Civil Rights Movement, "Freedom Ride Or Die" doesn't have many outright laughs, but as the recent glut of mockumentary-style sitcoms has demonstrated, the documentary format lends itself to a lot of humor. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 12, 2018
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| C | No Score Yet | The Boondocks: Season 4 - Grandad Dates a Kardashian (TV Episode) |
What might actually separate "Granddad Dates A Kardashian" from the rest of The Boondocks-the reality show format, in which the episode is presented as a fake pilot for a new series-doesn't actually do that much work. - AV Club
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| Posted Sep 12, 2018
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