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'Presumed Innocent' stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Rusty Savage and Renate Reinsve as Carolyn Polhemus, shown here wearing suits, sitting together
Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel Innocent
The biggest red herring in David E. Kelley's monotonous mystery is casting Renate Reinsve in the original film's most thankless role, only to give her the same shallow treatment yet again.
'The Boys' Season 4 stars Anthony Starr as Homelander and Cameron Crovetti as Ryan, his son, shown here walking down the street
A World Full of Killing and Blood Spilling
Eric Kripke's action-satire returns as bloody and bold as ever, but the latest battle between average Americans and an encroaching fascism feels all the more dour in these trying times.
'House of the Dragon' Season 2 stars Matt Smith as Daemon, shown here sitting on a stump wearing a suit of armor
Dead Boy Objectives
Ryan Condal and George R.R. Martin's hit "Game of Thrones" prequel still feels like its merely biding time between battles in the first half of a fiendish, flickering second season.
Three people sit courtside at an LA Clippers game in a still from 'Clipped,' the FX series: Jacki Weaver as Shelley Sterling, Ed O’Neill as Donald Sterling, Cleopatra Coleman as V Stiviano
Go Celtics
In retelling recent history, creator and showrunner Gina Welch starts off by gleefully skewering Donald Sterling before closing with a savage slam on the broader system that supported him.
Benedict Cumberbatch stands on a subway platform with a furry, blue and white puppet monster in the Netflix series 'Eric'
'Kidding' Was a Good Show
Abi Morgan's sappy yet savage limited series follows a bad dad who — alongside his imaginary puppet monster — concocts a drunken, dangerous scheme to find his missing son.
Hoa Xuande in The Sympathizer, shown here standing in a cell with wooden walls, wearing a plain brown uniform
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
After gut-churning torture scenes and eye-opening revelations, Episode 7 ultimately offers limited resolution. But there's immense personal significance in The Captain's attempt to restart.
André Holland as Black Panther Huey Newton in 'The Big Cigar,' shown here sitting in a chair wearing a white button-down
Bring Back 'The Knick'
As Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton, the "Moonlight" and "High Flying Bird" star unveils more nuance than the speedy but stilted series around him.
Siobhán Cullen, Will Forte, and Robyn Cara sit at a small bar table in the Netflix series 'Bodkin'
Take Me Back to Ireland
With a game cast dramatizing true crime tropes (a small Irish town with suspicious townsfolk harboring dark secrets), "Bodkin" is primed to parody the popular, occasionally problematic genre. Instead, it merely adds to it.
Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly in 'Dark Matter,' the Apple series
Still Better Than "It's a Wonderful Life"
A scenic Chicago and solemn Joel Edgerton can't quite salvage Blake Crouch's adaptation of his own novel, about a married father who's forced to reconsider his life's biggest choice.
A Man in Full stars Jeff Daniels as Charlie Croker and Sarah Jones as Serena Croker, shown here walking one in front of the other
Too Much Ball Shaking, Not Enough Balls
Based on Tom Wolfe's 1998 novel, directed by Regina King, and adapted by courtroom drama addict David E. Kelley, the six-hour series races through a real estate mogul's bankruptcy crisis, a mayor's immoral reelection campaign, and a Regular Joe having the worst day imaginable.
'Hacks' Season 3 stars Hannah Einbinder as Ava (here, dressed as a caddy) and Jean Smart as Deborah Vance (in a pink vest and golf visor)
Oh My God, the Gumby Joke
Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky's award-winning Max series pushes its central couple, Ava (Hannah Einbinder) and Deborah (Jean Smart), to joyful — and unexpected — extremes.
Elisabeth Moss looks over her shoulder in the Hulu series 'The Veil'
'Shining Girls' Is So Much Better Than This
Steven Knight's six-episode spy thriller sees the two-time Emmy-winner as a British operative tasked with breaking a suspected ISIS leader who plans to attack America.
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