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‘The American Buffalo’ Review: Even Not-Peak Ken Burns Is Still Worth a Watch
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‘TV’s Top 5’: Actors Strike at an Impasse, Marvel TV at a Crossroads
This week’s podcast also explores the new trend of streaming services saving shows produced for other platforms.
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‘John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams’ Review: Peacock’s Ho-Hum Horror-Doc Hybrid Fails to Live Up to Its Title
The 'Halloween' auteur goes behind the camera for one of six episodes in this re-enactment-heavy anthology series.
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‘TV’s Top 5’: How THR Critics Picked the Best Shows of the 21st Century
This week’s podcast also looks at all the shows that were canceled and scrapped during the past four-plus months and what to watch in October.
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‘The American Buffalo’ Review: Even Not-Peak Ken Burns Is Still Worth a Watch
Burns' new four-hour PBS doc studies the species' symbolism, its brutal near-extinction and the complicated and sometimes heroic struggle to bring the buffalo back.
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‘TV’s Top 5’: Actors Strike at an Impasse, Marvel TV at a Crossroads
Welcome to the 234th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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‘John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams’ Review: Peacock’s Ho-Hum Horror-Doc Hybrid Fails to Live Up to Its Title
The 'Halloween' auteur goes behind the camera for one of six episodes in this re-enactment-heavy anthology series.
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‘TV’s Top 5’: How THR Critics Picked the Best Shows of the 21st Century
Welcome to the 233rd episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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‘Bargain’ Review: Paramount+’s Korean Thriller Is Preposterous, and Preposterously Entertaining
Prostitution and human-trafficking take a backseat to survival in Jeon Woo-sung's six-episode drama, set in an earthquake's aftermath.
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‘Found’ Review: NBC Procedural Saddles Shanola Hampton With Too Much Twist-Driven Silliness
The 'Shameless' star plays the leader of a team of specialized investigators tackling the missing persons cases that slip through the police cracks.
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‘Loki’ Review: Season 2 Brings More Likable Pointlessness, Plus Ke Huy Quan
Something is wrong with the timeline and only Loki, Mobius and a new character played by the 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Oscar winner can save the universe in new episodes of Marvel and Disney+'s dramedy.
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‘TV’s Top 5’: Chris Keyser Explains the New WGA Deal (and Why He’s Done Negotiating)
Welcome to the 232nd episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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Critic’s Notebook: ‘Reservation Dogs’ Finale Caps an Unlikely and Magical Series to Cherish
Sterlin Harjo's Oklahoma-set series concludes its three-season run with a funeral, a spiritual send-off and plenty of showcase moments for its fictional Indigenous community and its real-life ensemble.
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‘Gen V’ Review: Amazon’s ‘The Boys’ Spinoff Refreshes the Snark-and-Gore Formula
The team behind the hit vigilante series shifts its focus from the corporate world to the campus, tracking the subversive, frequently gross adventures of new potential heroes at a superpowered university.
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‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ Review: Mike Flanagan’s Netflix Bloodbath Delivers Blunt Payback to Pharmaceutical Dynasty
The horror auteur uses his familiar acting troupe and the works of Edgar Allan Poe as the backdrop for an eight-episode takedown of an opioid-pushing family that somewhat resembles the Sacklers.
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‘Krapopolis’ Review: Dan Harmon’s New Fox Animated Comedy Is Atypically Bland
Set in the semi-mythological world of ancient Greece on the eve of civilization, the show has a vocal cast including Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry, Pam Murphy and Duncan Trussell.
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How the Entertainment Community Fund Is Supporting Workers Impacted by the Strikes
Welcome to the 231st episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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‘Sly’ Review: Netflix’s Sylvester Stallone Doc Is Alternately Illuminating and Evasive
The star is the subject of a film by Thom Zimny that includes Henry Winkler, Quentin Tarantino and Arnold Schwarzenegger among interviewees.
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‘TV’s Top 5’: Disney-Charter Winners and Losers; Plus the Latest Strike Updates
Welcome to the 230th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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‘Wilderness’ Review: Amazon Adultery Thriller Is Somehow Too Junky and Not Junky Enough
Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen play a couple whose marriage and road trip go astray because of infidelity and a ubiquitous Taylor Swift song.
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