Reviews
Primetimer's reviewers weigh in on what you should (and shouldn't) be watching
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POSTED May 14, 2019
Do You Believe John Ramsey? Casting JonBenet Won’t Change Your Mind
That’s the point behind this unsettling Netflix docu-experiment about belief in spite of the facts.
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POSTED May 9, 2019
'New York Is Ferguson on Steroids’: The Chilling Lesson of Crime + Punishment
A stunning documentary about abusive policing at the NYPD has lessons for every city and town in America.
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POSTED May 6, 2019
The Americans Had No Idea How Right It Was
The celebrated spy thriller was set in the Reagan years because Russian spies were a thing of the past — not!
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POSTED May 2, 2019
Life on Mars Was the Time-Travel Show of the Future (And the Past)
The UK retro-detective series is hard to find these days but well worth the effort.
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POSTED April 30, 2019
American Crime: Once You’ve Seen It, You See America Differently
The overlooked third season of John Ridley’s anthology examined the hidden costs of our low-price economy.
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POSTED April 25, 2019
The Justice System Is Held Accountable in Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Why was the 2,531st-largest bank in the U.S. the only one to face criminal charges after the financial meltdown of 2008?
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POSTED April 19, 2019
Raunchy Laughs Are Northern Ireland’s Latest Export
Whatever happens with Brexit, Netflix viewers will get to enjoy the absurdity and profanity of Derry Girls.
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POSTED April 16, 2019
What? You Still Haven’t Watched 13TH?
The documentary from When They See Us producer Ava DuVernay is essential viewing for an age defined by racial injustice.
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POSTED April 1, 2019
Comrade Detective, The Greatest Romanian Buddy Cop Show That Never Was
Amazon’s weirdly subversive miniseries parodied ’80s buddy-cop films, Communist propaganda and 21st-century anti-Americanism.
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POSTED April 1, 2019
The Power of Rectify Was In What It Didn’t Say
Aden Young’s quiet performance stood out in this 2013 drama about an ex-prisoner’s bewildering first weeks of freedom after leaving death row.