Apr 24 2018
2
C-
When the writers of The Flash decide to hammer home a theme, they don’t hold back. You could hardly miss it this…
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Apr 22 2018
2
B+
Sometimes it’s hard to believe Billions hasn’t already been on for 10 years, given the tangled web of backstory it…
Apr 22 2018
1
A-
Forget Carrie Mathison’s personal life. She certainly has. As the episode title “All In” indicates, Carrie has made…
Apr 18 2018
1
Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re…
Apr 17 2018
6
B-
All season long, The Flash has been trying to pull off a tricky balancing act by bringing back the humor and Silver…
Apr 15 2018
4
B+
A big part of what makes Billions fun is the tension between the show taking its characters seriously and treating…
Apr 15 2018
2
B
By the end of “Clarity,” a sense of relief has taken root in the homeland. True, the president appears unhinged, is…
Apr 11 2018
3
Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re…
Apr 10 2018
3
C+
Kevin Smith’s first two directorial outings on The Flash were played relatively straight, sticking closely to the…
Apr 8 2018
2
B
The president’s name has yet to mentioned, but there’s no question that Billions has entered the Trump era. It might…
Apr 8 2018
3
B
Some hard-hearted viewers probably wished it was true—that Carrie really had run over Franny, putting an end to our…
Apr 4 2018
1
Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re…
Apr 1 2018
2
B+
When you have power and money, what is it that truly makes you happy? If you’re a character on Billions, the top…
Apr 1 2018
2
B-
Homeland has never shied away from wild plot twists, and when doled out properly over the course of a season,…
Mar 28 2018
1
Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re…
Mar 25 2018
8
B
Chuck Rhoades has a mess to clean up, and in a sense, so do Billions showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien,…
Mar 25 2018
4
B
More often than not, Carrie’s family life has been the bane of Homeland, an ill-advised attempt at humanizing the…
Mar 21 2018
1
Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re…
Mar 18 2018
4
It took nearly half the season to get there, but Homeland is finally pulling all of its threads in one direction. If…
Mar 11 2018
3
B+
Previously on Homeland, things were going badly. “Active Measures” turns down the temperature a bit following the…