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‘Shifting Gears’ Review: Tim Allen and Kat Dennings Are Stuck in Neutral in ABC’s Family…
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Critic’s Notebook: An Assured Nikki Glaser Boosts an Improved Golden Globes Telecast
The host was game and some of the speeches were stirring, though the Globes still struggled with pacing, presenter banter and strange production choices.
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‘The Pitt’ Review: Noah Wyle Scrubs in for Max’s Effective ‘ER’-Adjacent Medical Procedural
Hailing from 'ER' vets including R. Scott Gemmill and John Wells, the 15-episode real-time series follows the doctors and nurses at a Pittsburgh trauma center.
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‘Going Dutch’ Review: Denis Leary’s Fox Military Comedy Needs More Basic Training
'Brockmire' mastermind Joel Church-Cooper created this new half-hour sitcom about a military base of misfits in the Netherlands.
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‘Shifting Gears’ Review: Tim Allen and Kat Dennings Are Stuck in Neutral in ABC’s Family Sitcom
Yep, it's another story of a conservative father and a somewhat more liberal daughter having to end a lengthy estrangement.
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Critic’s Notebook: An Assured Nikki Glaser Boosts an Improved Golden Globes Telecast
The host was game and some of the speeches were stirring, though the Globes still struggled with pacing, presenter banter and strange production choices.
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‘The Pitt’ Review: Noah Wyle Scrubs in for Max’s Effective ‘ER’-Adjacent Medical Procedural
Hailing from 'ER' vets including R. Scott Gemmill and John Wells, the 15-episode real-time series follows the doctors and nurses at a Pittsburgh trauma center.
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‘Going Dutch’ Review: Denis Leary’s Fox Military Comedy Needs More Basic Training
'Brockmire' mastermind Joel Church-Cooper created this new half-hour sitcom about a military base of misfits in the Netherlands.
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‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’ Review: Colin Firth Lends Depth to a Peacock Historical Drama That Sorely Needs It
The first of this year's two miniseries about the 1988 Lockerbie bombing focuses on a father's grief-fueled investigation.
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‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Review: Netflix’s South Korean Smash Loses Its Edge
Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk and Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae are back for more death-defying games and nefariously masked villains as the series returns after a three-year absence.
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The 10 Best TV Performances of 2024
THR's critics celebrate their favorite small-screen turns of the year, from character actors getting their day in the sun and relative newcomers in star-making turns to familiar faces plumbing fresh depths.
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The 10 Best TV Episodes of 2024
THR critics run down their favorite small-screen installments of the year, including an impassioned and insightful documentary, a breathless Christmas detour, a brilliant fake finale and a couple of real ones.
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‘Laid’ Review: Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet Liven up Peacock’s Uneven Sex-and-Death Comedy
A 30something woman discovers that her exes are dying off one by one in a series created by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna ('Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23').
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best TV Shows of 2024
Favorites include a surreal trip through New York, a sweet slice-of-life comedy, a heartfelt sports doc and a slew of sumptuous literary adaptations.
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TV’s Current Craze Is The Comedic Weepie
From ‘Somebody Somewhere’ to ‘A Man On The Inside,’ laughing while crying is the trend this season.
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‘No Good Deed’ Review: Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano Bring Humor and Pathos to Netflix’s Chaotic Comic Mystery
Creator Liz Feldman returns to her 'Dead to Me' bag of tricks for the twist-filled story of a couple navigating grief, a failing marriage and the brutal challenges of the Los Angeles real estate market.
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‘Dream Productions’ Review: Disney+’s ‘Inside Out’ Spinoff Won’t Stir Big Emotions
Set between the two Pixar movies and featuring the voices of Maya Rudolph and Paula Pell, the animated series follows the goings-on at the studio responsible for crafting Riley's reveries.
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‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Review: Netflix’s Gorgeous, Ambitious Adaptation Captures Some of the Novel’s Magic
Based on Gabriel García Márquez's 1967 masterpiece, the Colombian drama follows several generations of the Buendía family and the fictional town of Macondo.
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‘The Sticky’ Review: Margo Martindale Anchors Amazon’s Watered-Down Maple Syrup Heist Comedy
Chris Diamantopoulos also stars in the Blumhouse-produced series, loosely inspired by a multimillion-dollar theft that took place in Quebec between 2011 and 2012.
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‘Black Doves’ Review: Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw Shine in Netflix’s Darkly Festive Spy Thriller
A group of operatives working for private espionage organizations attempt to prevent an international incident around the holidays, in a six-episode drama created by Joe Barton ('Giri/Haji').
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