Joe Reid

Senior Writer

@joereid      

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.

• POSTED January 1, 2021

  
  RuPaul's Drag Race: Get to Know the Season 13 Queens
  2021 gets a queenly welcome as the flagship show returns with its first new episodes in months.
• POSTED December 31, 2020

  
  New Year's Eve From an Empty Times Square Is a Darkly Perfect Way to End 2020
  ABC, NBC, CNN, and FOX are planning to send the year out with performances, but few onlookers.
• POSTED December 30, 2020

  
  The Ten Best TV Episodes of 2020
  Shocking reveals, big laughs, and alternate realities loom large in our favorite TV episodes of the year.
• POSTED December 29, 2020

  
  TV's Most Valuable Players of 2020
  A sh*tshow of a year managed to make for some pretty great television.
• POSTED December 25, 2020

  
  Bridgerton Is Shondaland's Grand Netflix Debut
  Pride & Prejudice meets Gossip Girl in this addictive costume drama.
• POSTED December 24, 2020

  
  Five Life Lessons Learned From A Christmas Story
  There's more to the perennial holiday favorite than just "you'll shoot your eye out."
• POSTED December 23, 2020

  
  The Ten Best Props on TV in 2020
  The books, rooks, tablets, and unmentionables that helped make 2020 TV such a wild ride.
• POSTED December 18, 2020

  
  Five Life Lessons Learned From Frosty the Snowman
  Humans and snowmen weren't meant for long-term friendships...
• POSTED December 17, 2020

  
  How Grey's Anatomy Got Its Groove Back
  Leaning into the pandemic has given the ABC medical drama its best season in years.
• POSTED December 16, 2020

  
  There's No Place Like Saturday Night Live for the Holidays
  Whether it's poking fun at our beloved traditions or making some of their own, SNL has carved out its own holiday programming niche.
• POSTED December 15, 2020

  
  Hamstrung By Odd Choices, The Stand Falls Flat
  The new ten-part CBS All Access miniseries chops up Stephen King's plague opus to strange effect.
• POSTED December 15, 2020

  
  The Expanse: What You Need to Know Ahead of Season 5
  The crew of the Rocinante is back, set to face their most formidable foe yet.
• POSTED December 14, 2020

  
  The Stand: Who's Who in the New CBS All Access Stephen King Miniseries
  Whoopi Goldberg leads a ginormous cast of familiar faces and emerging talent.
• POSTED December 11, 2020

  
  Ryan Murphy's Netflix Report Card
  Taking stock two years into his mega-deal with the streaming giant.
• POSTED December 9, 2020

  
  MTV's The Challenge Has Become Reality TV's Ultimate All-Star Game
  With competitors from Survivor, Big Brother, the Olympics, and pro wrestling, The Challenge: Double Agents shows how far the show has come.