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News Articles: TV Reviews

On Saturday Night Live's cold open, James Austin Johnson played President Donald Trump and Emil Wakim played Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a sketch about Trump's Middle East trip.

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  • TV Reviews

SNL's 50th season proved it's still relevant. Can it stay that way?

The season finale, with host Scarlett Johansson and musical guest Bad Bunny, didn't give any answers about rumored cast departures.

May 19, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
Alexander Skarsgård in <em>Murderbot</em>, out Friday on Apple TV+.

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  • TV Reviews

'Murderbot' is the best new comedy of 2025. You read that right

The Apple TV+ show takes what might be the oldest sci-fi premise there is — what does it mean to be human? — and mines it for comedy gold.

May 16, 2025
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  • Glen Weldon
Alexander Skarsgård in <em>Murderbot</em>, which starts Friday on Apple TV+.

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  • Television

Too many great sci-fi shows go unnoticed. I hope 'Murderbot' won't be the next

The new Apple TV+ show starring Alexander Skarsgård features a mix of special effects-laden action, deadpan humor and social commentary. It deserves a big audience.

May 13, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
NPR TV critic Eric Deggans picks his favorite performances of 2025 so far, including, clockwise from top left, Catherine O'Hara in <em>The Last of Us</em> and <em>The Studio</em>, Noah Wyle in <em>The Pitt,</em> Uzo Aduba in <em>The Residence, </em>Carrie Coon in <em>The White Lotus, </em>Tramell Tillman in <em>Severance </em>and Owen Cooper in <em>Adolescence</em>.

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  • Television

The best 6 TV performances I've seen so far this year

NPR TV critic Eric Deggans picks his favorite performances of 2025 thus far, including Noah Wyle in The Pitt, Catherine O'Hara in The Last of Us and The Studio, and Carrie Coon in The White Lotus.

May 05, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
Tina Fey as Kate and Steve Carell as Nick in <em>The Four Seasons.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

3 couples plus 30 years of friendship — it all adds up in 'The Four Seasons'

The Netflix series is Tina Fey's touching tribute and knowing update to a 1981 Alan Alda movie — a smart, nuanced take on marriage, friendships and the way changing circumstances can affect them both.

May 02, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
Diego Luna as Cassian Andor.

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  • TV Reviews

'Andor' and 'You' are back this week

Andor, featuring Diego Luna's charismatic performance as a rebel operative, has come at a perfect moment.

April 22, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
Investigative journalist Jane Mayer is the author of the 2016 book <em>Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. </em>The book inspired filmmaker Alex Gibney's two-film project out this week, <em>The Dark Money Game.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

What's on TV: 2 new documentaries, a Western, a comedy, and 'The Rehearsal'

A new HBO film project traces how the Citizens United decision has reshaped democracy in recent years. Also this week, a new Netflix Western looks a lot like Yellowstone, and The Rehearsal is back.

April 14, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
Bella Ramsey in Season 2 of <em>The Last of Us. </em>

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  • TV Reviews

Lies and consequences lend new weight to 'The Last of Us' Season 2

The second season of HBO's hit zombie series takes what works the first season and turns it upside down, mining new drama from the uncertainty.

April 13, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
Rashida Jones in "Common People," a new episode of <em>Black Mirror. </em>

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  • TV Reviews

The new season of 'Black Mirror' is different, in a good way

Previous seasons of the show have taken a bleak stance on how humans use new technologies. The new season takes a more ambivalent approach, showing both threats and opportunities.

April 12, 2025
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  • Linda Holmes
Dr. Michael Robinavitch — Robby (Noah Wyle) — in the season finale of <em>The Pitt.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

15 hours later, a grueling ER shifts ends in 'The Pitt' season finale

The first season of The Pitt focused on the toll that work takes on doctors and nurses. It's also been a stellar season of TV.

April 10, 2025
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  • Linda Holmes
Coop (Jon Hamm) loses his job and embarks on a series of burglaries in <em>Your Friends & Neighbors</em>

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  • TV Reviews

Jon Hamm puts a twist on his Don Draper swagger in 'Your Friends & Neighbors'

Wealth comes lined with rage and melancholy in a new Apple TV+ series about a hedge-fund hotshot who loses his job and begins to steal from his suburban friends.

April 10, 2025
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  • John Powers
Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder).

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  • TV Reviews

'Hacks' is back – with the same conflicts, but they still satisfy

When the last season left off, Deborah was offered her second chance at late night — and Ava resorted to blackmail. It's hard not to feel like the new season continues to take these two in circles of fight and reconciliation.

April 10, 2025
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  • Linda Holmes
Elisabeth Moss as June in Season 6 of <em>The Handmaid's Tale.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

What's on TV: 'Hacks,' 'Doctor Who' and a final season for 'The Handmaid's Tale'

The sixth and final season of The Handmaid's Tale, which debuts Tuesday, explores questions of trauma and revenge. Also this week: Hacks returns and Jon Hamm stars in a layered whodunit.

April 09, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
A young woman wearing headphones walks past a billboard advertisement for YouTube in 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

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  • Television

Older viewers are turning to YouTube. It's recently led me back to some favorite shows

Plus, Kevin Bacon plays a bounty hunter in The Bondsman starting Thursday, and a new medical drama premieres on Netflix.

March 31, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
Ike Barinholtz and Seth Rogen in<em> The Studio.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

'The Studio' explains how good artists make bad movies

In The Studio, Seth Rogen plays an insecure studio executive who loves movies – but gets in the way of the people who make them. The new Apple TV+ series is about the systems that become far more destructive than any one well-meaning person can easily fix.

March 26, 2025
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  • Linda Holmes
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