The final stretch of Charmed’s first season has reiterated exactly what the show does well. It has been a bumpy first season, the show often dropping some of its best stories in favor of a more traditional Monster Of The Week supernatural drama structure. And some of those short-term narratives have worked, but a lot…

In its third season, The Good Fight pushed the boundaries of its own universe. Characters broke the fourth wall; random musical interludes interrupted scenes; the story’s Big Bad was literally...Donald Trump. In its finale, the world is ending—from climate change-induced balls of lightning, maybe, or maybe from some…

Netflix is doing the work to inject life back into the rom-com genre, and its latest effort in that field is Someone Great, an NYC-set heartbreak story written and directed by Sweet/Vicious creator Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and starring Gina Rodriguez, Brittany Snow, and DeWanda Wise as three longtime best friends.…

“This is still going to be the most beautiful, deep, real, cool, and hot, meaningful, important relationship of my life,” Ilana tells Abbi on the Brooklyn Bridge in Broad City’s absolutely gutting yet still hilarious series finale. Broad City turned in an ambitious final season, pushing its central friendship into new…

More and more on this season of The Good Fight, characters are turning to decidedly morally bad tactics in order to win their battles. Playing dirty is the name of the game in “The One Where Diane Joins The Resistance,” and everyone is making bold moves that immediately have consequences in order to win their…

Documentary Now! turned in a third season full of strikingly character-driven documentaries, and in its finale, it delivers three compelling character arcs within its hilarious sendup of the incredibly mundane and yet very human 2006 bowling documentary A League Of Ordinary Gentlemen. “Any Given Saturday Afternoon”…

Broad City always brims with callbacks, a testament to its makers’ improvisation backgrounds, the specificity of its world, and the inside-jokey nature of its central friendship. But in this final season, those callbacks have an extra layer of nostalgia to them, each beat of this final chapter soaked in familiar,…

Halfway through “The One Inspired by Roy Cohn,” Cush Jumbo as Luca Quinn delivers a lengthy, gripping, emotionally potent monologue to her small infant son, splayed next to her, unable of course to understand a word she’s saying. She talks through her options, through unnerved confusion about how drawn to motherhood…

Episodes of Documentary Now! naturally stand on their own as self-contained installments, connected to the original work they send up but not necessarily to each other. And yet, there are some clear throughlines in this third season, whether intentional or not. Many of these episodes have a subtle underlying theme…

The Good Fight’s season three premiere has a lot going for it, playing to all of the show’s strength with spectacular finesse. It’s a tour de force of acting, writing, and directing. But one element shines brightest of all: Audra McDonald.

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer don’t get to flex their dramatic acting skills very often on Broad City. The madcap style of this comedy means that they’re most often giving over-the-top comedic performances. That’s not to say that there isn’t nuance in their performances from week to week. Both women have proven time…

“Searching for Mr. Larson: A Love Letter From the Far Side” is less about satirizing the documentary upon which it is based—Dear Mr. Watterson, about the creator of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes—and more about interrogating the very idea of a male, super-fan documentarian. It’s a painstaking account of one man’s…

Charmed has a lot of meta fun with its hokey setup this week, poking some fun at itself while satirizing its genre roots. Macy accidentally summons the main characters from a television series she grew up watching in which two brothers were sent from heaven to fight demons. Like a 90s version of Supernatural, with…

At this point, it’s hard not to sound redundant when writing about Documentary Now!, because the show keeps on playing to its own strengths, keeps proving time and again that it’s one of the most innovative shows on television. It shouldn’t work so well, and yet it does...over and over. Episodes, of course, are…

As last episode’s reveal suggested, so much of this season finale hinges on the inter-family dynamics of the Castillo family. That’s not a completely bad thing; the issues that plague Laurel’s family touch on a lot of the recurring themes of this show: struggle for power, inherited trauma as well as inherited evil,…

“Lost and Found” is a super queer, super Jewish, super New York episode of Broad City and therefore feels like the show in its truest form, a celebration of Abbi and Ilana’s identities as well as the city they inhabit. The episode presents yet another twisty adventure for the friends but manages to bring up some…

Documentary Now! is a show not just for fans but for fanatics. It’s so precise in its parody that whatever subject material its original source material celebrates is similarly celebrated in the parody—or, in some cases, whatever its source material criticizes, the parody sharply criticizes with equal gusto. In the…

“I’m not sure of anything anymore,” Annalise tells Tegan at the top of “Make Me the Enemy,” and boy is that an apt way to kickoff season five’s penultimate episode. How To Get Away With Murder has packed so many twists and turns into the final chapters of the season that it has lost all sense of coherence. Going off…

Broad City is really seizing the opportunity of a planned final season to really push Abbi and Ilana through some really big moments in their lives. “Artsy Fartsy” follows a pretty typical episode structure for the series and includes a lot of the show’s signature weirdo moments that just feel so much like they could…