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Peacemaker: Season 1 (2022) 93% EDIT “Peacemaker, like The Suicide Squad, dispenses with the pleasantries and gives us a piece of art that is much more real than anything in the MCU ever will be.” – Thrillist Jan 14, 2022 Full Review American Horror Stories: Season 1 (2021) 52% EDIT “Yes, the two stories we've gotten so far have each followed the "AHS" pattern -- the compelling initial premise that leads to an off-the-rails conclusion -- but they don't wear out their welcome.” – TheWrap Jul 26, 2021 Full Review Panic: Season 1 (2021) 67% EDIT “If you're the type who can vibe out with a trashy teen drama, "Panic" might just be the show for you.” – TheWrap Jun 2, 2021 Full Review Saturday Night Live: Season 46, Episode 18 (2021) EDIT “[Musk's] just a black hole of fun, without a shred of charisma, and he delivered a performance that's on the level of what you'd expect to see in a middle school play.” – TheWrap May 10, 2021 Full Review Homecoming: Season 2 (2020) 60% EDIT “This is the best thing about Season 2 of Homecoming, in my opinion: pulling back the curtain on a scene in such a way that it, basically, becomes a completely different scene.” – TheWrap May 26, 2020 Full Review American Horror Story: Season 9, Episode 9 (2019) EDIT “I gotta admit that I'm pretty upset after sitting through all nine episodes...the whole season was absolutely bizarre, and there wasn't much of a through-line from beginning to end.” – TheWrap Nov 14, 2019 Full Review Black Mirror: Season 5, Episode 1 (2019) EDIT “...this concept is a veritable cornucopia of madness if you drill down into it.” – TheWrap Jun 13, 2019 Full Review True Detective: Season 3 (2019) 84% EDIT “Given the cryptic and slow burning nature of the show - creator Nic Pizzolatto and co. are big on holding back key details until the right moment.” – TheWrap Jan 14, 2019 Full Review American Horror Story: Season 8, Episode 2 (2018) EDIT “Making this potentially weirder -- the Rubber Man was Tate Langdon, Michael's father who impregnated his mother while a ghost. So, maybe he's watching over Michael?” – TheWrap Sep 20, 2018 Full Review American Horror Story: Season 8, Episode 1 (2018) EDIT “It's "American Horror Story," so I guess we should have expected the first episode of "Apocalypse" to be weird and confusing, but this one feels particularly obtuse. That's not a criticism - just a note about how extra-weird this season is shaping up .” – TheWrap Sep 13, 2018 Full Review Black Mirror: Season 4, Episode 4 (2017) EDIT “A sweeter version of the cynicism people watch Black Mirror to see.” – TheWrap Aug 17, 2018 Full Review Marvel's Luke Cage: Season 2 (2018) 85% EDIT “There's just too much stuff to really do justice to any of it, and that lack of focus makes it tough to latch on to anything the season is trying to do.” – TheWrap Jun 22, 2018 Full Review Fear the Walking Dead: Season 4, Episode 1 (2018) EDIT “So here we are, at the much anticipated crossover event between "The Walking Dead" and "Fear the Walking Dead," and it was a hell of a doozie.” – TheWrap Apr 16, 2018 Full Review The Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 14 (2018) EDIT “Okay, look. Things are really getting out of hand in season 8 of The Walking Dead -- and I mean that as a compliment.” – TheWrap Apr 2, 2018 Full Review The Crown: Season 2 (2017) 89% EDIT “I'm assuming that creator Peter Morgan meant for it to be comedy. There's really no other explanation for why Jeremy Northam played Prime Minister Anthony Eden like he's having a nervous breakdown in every scene.” – TheWrap Dec 7, 2017 Full Review Dark: Season 1 (2017) 90% EDIT “The time travel conceit does more than give us a window into how these families have evolved over many decades - it's brings a whole new meaning to "things are not quite what they seem here."” – TheWrap Dec 1, 2017 Full Review The Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 6 (2017) EDIT “If there's one thing that watching the opening to Season 8, episode 6 of The Walking Dead drove home to me, it's that this entire season so far has taken place in a pretty compressed time frame.” – TheWrap Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Riverdale: Season 2, Episode 6 (2017) EDIT “The real fun part of this is that now we have to consider the possibility that there are two psychos calling themselves the Black Hood out there who each have totally different motivations. It really complicates this investigation!” – TheWrap Nov 21, 2017 Full Review Marco Polo: Season 2 (2016) 100% EDIT “It's all just a matter of perspective who your hero is. "Marco Polo" knows it, and that's why season 2 works so well.” – TheWrap Nov 21, 2017 Full Review Marvel's The Punisher: Season 1 (2017) 68% EDIT “Like all good noir stories, The Punisher can be very dense at times, but in a surprising twist for a Marvel show it does all come together in a way that makes sense.” – TheWrap Nov 13, 2017 Full Review The Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 4 (2017) EDIT “Finally, an Ezekiel-centric episode. Unfortunately, it's all about him struggling to deal with most of his friends being killed.” – TheWrap Nov 13, 2017 Full Review Riverdale: Season 2, Episode 5 (2017) EDIT “When a Stranger Calls is the best of the series so far. It's full of pain and misery, all earned rather than just being cheap, thanks to a pair of plotlines that feel all too familiar.” – TheWrap Nov 9, 2017 Full Review Riverdale: Season 2, Episode 3 (2017) EDIT “To recap: the letter is either sincere or insincere, and either someone else is pulling his strings or he's acting alone.” – TheWrap Oct 26, 2017 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 2 (2017) 94% EDIT “With a tighter focus 'Stranger Things' season 2 could have been great - as it stands, we'll have to settle for almost great, and hope the Duffers are planning to make those apparently divergent threads make sense in season 3.” – TheWrap Oct 25, 2017 Full Review The Walking Dead: Season 8 (2017) 65% EDIT “The AMC blockbuster has given viewers a welcome respite from getting kicked in the teeth, and that's made it much more enjoyable.” – TheWrap Oct 23, 2017 Full Review
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