Reviews
Primetimer's reviewers weigh in on what you should (and shouldn't) be watching
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POSTED November 20, 2020
Tragedy Plus Time in Showtime's Belushi
Director RJ Cutler's engaging new doc paints an intimate portrait of a singular but fading legend.
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POSTED November 17, 2020
ABC's Big Sky Has a COVID Problem
Setting your show in the pandemic is one thing. Not being responsible about it is another.
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POSTED November 12, 2020
HBO's Transhood Captures the Struggles of Transgender Kids
Shot over five years, this unflinching documentary is more than an advocacy film.
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POSTED November 11, 2020
Netflix's Trial 4 Tells Yet Another Troubling Tale of Police Corruption
The co-directors of The Staircase bring their riveting style to the story of a Black man who served 22 years in a cop killing.
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POSTED November 10, 2020
A Teacher Crosses the Line in New FX on Hulu Limited Series
Kate Mara and Nick Robinson star in this unusually intense psychological thriller.
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POSTED November 5, 2020
CBS’s B Positive Hopes to Make Dialysis Hilarious
The latest from Chuck Lorre’s sitcom factory pairs an odd couple over a kidney donation.
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POSTED October 23, 2020
Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit Is the Movie Hollywood Couldn’t Make
Anya Taylor-Joy lights up the screen as a 1960s chess prodigy in this long-overdue adaptation of Walter Tevis’ novel.
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POSTED October 9, 2020
Netflix's Deaf U Is More Than a Party-School Reality Show With Hand Gestures
There are layers to this insider look at Gallaudet, the world's first university for the deaf.
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POSTED October 1, 2020
Showtime's The Good Lord Bird Is a Raucous Tour de Farce
Ethan Hawke's adaptation of the James McBride comic novel is a wildly entertaining history lesson.
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POSTED September 30, 2020
Same Shepard Smith, New Cable Home
The longtime Fox News anchor brings his play-it-straight approach to CNBC.
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POSTED September 25, 2020
Showtime's The Comey Rule Fails to Keep Up With Our Peak Reality
Jeff Daniels plays the FBI director in a flawed adaptation of James Comey's tell-all book.
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POSTED September 23, 2020
HBO's Agents of Chaos Skillfully Recounts How Russia Disrupted the 2016 Election
But is the past really prologue?
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POSTED September 17, 2020
Watch Out, Ellen — Drew Barrymore Is Irresistible
And her new daytime talk show may be unstoppable.
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POSTED September 16, 2020
Netflix's Challenger: The Final Flight Tells an Unforgettable Story That America Somehow Forgot
This top-notch docuseries captures the day the space program lost its innocence.
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POSTED September 11, 2020
HBO's Coastal Elites Delivers Sanctimony in Monologue Form
Paul Rudnick's uneven play features four Trump haters and Kaitlyn Dever as a nurse working the pandemic.