Joe Reid
Senior Writer
Joe is the senior writer at Primetimer and co-host of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast. His work has appeared in Decider, NPR, HuffPost, The Atlantic, Slate, Polygon, Vanity Fair, Vulture, The A.V. Club and more.
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POSTED April 28, 2022
The Real World Homecoming's Julie Stoffer Is the Most Stressful Character on TV Right Now
A night out in N'Awlins brought the bad kind of twentysomething flashbacks for the one-time ingénue of The Real World: New Orleans.
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POSTED April 28, 2022
Survivor 42 Confronts Its Own Optics at an Emotional Tribal
A split-tribe twist yields two vote-outs and a serious conversation about race.
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POSTED April 27, 2022
The Time The Real World's Danny Roberts Guested on Dawson's Creek
If The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans has you yearning for year 2000 youth culture, this episode is just the nostalgia bomb you need.
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POSTED April 26, 2022
How ‘Format Creep’ Became a Hallmark of Peak TV
Ongoing series that should be limited, limited series that should be movies... it's a golden age of misformatted TV.
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POSTED April 26, 2022
The Kardashians Crash April's Streaming Power Rankings
A bad month for Netflix was a great one for Hulu.
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POSTED April 26, 2022
Recommended: Under the Banner of Heaven on FX on Hulu
Andrew Garfield is riveting as a Mormon detective in this gripping true crime drama.
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POSTED April 21, 2022
Who's in the Driver's Seat as Survivor 42 Hits the Jury Phase?
After a fairly predictable boot, the endgame is starting to take shape.
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POSTED April 20, 2022
Recommended: They Call Me Magic on Apple TV+
The life and career of basketball legend Magic Johnson gets the docuseries treatment.
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POSTED April 19, 2022
30 for 30 Loves a Sports Failure (And So Do We)
Shark, about Greg Norman's Masters nightmare, is the latest in a long line of stellar docs about the agony of defeat.
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POSTED April 19, 2022
Recommended: Gaslit on Starz
Julia Roberts and Sean Penn skillfully balance the sinister with the silly in this glittery Watergate era tale.
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POSTED April 18, 2022
Recommended: Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story on Hulu
A true crime doc about a landmark case ends up becoming a complex polemic on true crime TV itself.
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POSTED April 15, 2022
The View Podcast: Who Is Julia Haart and Why Didn't The View Ask Her the Tough Questions?
PLUS: Sunny sharpens her knives for Alyssa Farah.
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POSTED April 15, 2022
Recommended: Come Dance with Me on CBS
Dance Moms (and dads) take to the floor with their kids in this endearing new TV dance competition.
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POSTED April 14, 2022
Survivor 42 Pits Its Dumbest Twist Against One of Its Best Casts
The merge twist made its unwelcome return, but Season 42's stellar cast did their level best to salvage the episode with an epic strategic scrum.
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POSTED April 13, 2022
Each Episode of Apple TV's Roar, Ranked
The streamer's surreal new eight-episode anthology is predictably hit or miss.