How 'Heartstopper' became the anti-'Euphoria' with its tender coming-of-age tone
Nothing particularly dramatic happens during "Heartstopper," the British teen drama that returns for its second season this week. And that alone, oddly, makes the show -- which the San Francisco Chronicle rightly dubbed "the anti-'Euphoria'" -- feel somehow revolutionary, even more so a year after its US debut.
2023-08-03 20:53
'Good Omens' remains good fun thanks to Michael Sheen and David Tennant
Winging back to Amazon more than four years after its debut, "Good Omens" relies on the genial interactions of its cast in a whimsical trip filtered through the strange millennia-spanning relationship between an angel and demon. The plot, in fact, is practically irrelevant in this six-episode second season, other than providing the excuse for Michael Sheen and David Tennant's heavenly reunion.
2023-07-28 21:24
'The Witcher' swings into Henry Cavill's final season with a tighter focus
The off-screen attention regarding Henry Cavill's exit can't help but bleed into the new season of "The Witcher," which will mark the "Man of Steel" star's last with the Netflix show. Based on the initial episodes, Cavill could leave on a relatively high note, thanks to a tighter, more focused third season, at least initially, than the second offered.
2023-06-29 23:18
'The Bachelorette' Season 20 premiere had a few surprises
Chairty Lawson's hunt for a husband has begun.
2023-06-27 23:49
'And Just Like That...' again comes up short as it tries bringing 'Sex'-y back
To those wide-eyed romantics who dared hope that a second season would fix all the things wrong with the first one of "And Just Like That...," the "Sex and the City" sequel returns with its abundant flaws intact. Awkward, unconvincing and only sporadically funny, the show remains a kind of streaming Frankenstein, stitched together from a jumbled assortment of parts.
2023-06-22 22:15
'Squid Game' Season 2: New details revealed
Get ready, because everyone's favorite lethal game show is preparing for a big return.
2023-06-19 07:46
'Black Mirror's' new season is only occasionally all it's cracked up to be
A new season of "Black Mirror" is always something of an occasion, especially since Netflix opportunistically scooped up the sci-fi-ish anthology series in 2015. Coming four years after Season 5, the latest batch bats roughly two out of five in terms of memorable episodes in a run that tilts more heavily toward horror, and falls short of feeling like everything the acclaimed show is cracked up to be.
2023-06-16 00:56
'Succession' stages a funeral for the ages with 'Church and State'
For those keeping score, that's one wedding (sort of), one funeral this season on "Succession," with the latter joining the pantheon of memorable funeral-related entertainment -- on a level with "The Godfather" or the "Chuckles the Clown" episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," take your pick.
2023-05-22 11:28
'The Bear' Season 2 trailer will leave you hungry for more kitchen chaos
The first trailer for Season 2 of "The Bear" was released on Monday and, according to Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), the crew of the Chicago sandwich shop wants to "start fresh and clean."
2023-05-16 03:15
'Succession' tackles an election night with sobering echoes of reality
A brilliant episode brings politics and Waystar Royco's influence through its conservative cable network, ATN, together in a dizzying mishmash of 21st-century elections.
2023-05-15 10:29
'Ghosts' saves a cliffhanger and an heir-raising wrinkle for its season finale
"Ghosts" concluded its season with the smallest of cliffhangers, leaving the audience to dangle into the fall (and possibly beyond,
2023-05-12 20:46
'The Bear' Season 2 finally has a release date
We're ready for seconds, chef.
2023-05-09 02:54