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TV REVIEW: LENOX HILL Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA Netflix’s new series follows four doctors at New York City’s renowned Lenox Hill Hospital—two are neurosurgeons who take on the tough cases that have been turned away elsewhere, one is an emergency room physician, and the fourth is a chief resident OB-GYN, the […]

TV REVIEW: THE LAST KINGDOM Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA Beginning in 866 A.D. and covering more than four decades through the fourth season, the series follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), a Saxon noble captured by the Danes as a child and raised first as a slave and then as a […]

TV REVIEW: HOMECOMING Where’s it playing? Amazon Prime What’s it rated? TV-MA Micah Bloomberg, Eli Horowitz, and Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot, who also directed the first season) created this mystery thriller about the secretive Geist Group, a company that purportedly helps soldiers transition to civilian life. The first season revolves around counselor Heidi Bergman (Julia […]

TV REVIEW: THE END OF THE F***ING WORLD Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA In its first season, this inky black British comedy pulls off the neat trick of exploring real issues of attachment, abandonment, narcissism, adolescence, insecurity, and homicidal urges while disguised as a mere amusement. Based on a graphic novel of […]

TV REVIEW: THE MIDNIGHT GOSPEL Where’s it playing? Netflix What’s it rated? TV-MA File The Midnight Gospel in the frying-on-shrooms, late-night-dorm-room-discussion category. The surrealist animated series revolves around Clancy (voiced by Duncan Trussell), an outer-space podcaster with one listener, who uses his malfunctioning multiverse simulator to visit dying worlds and interview their inhabitants.  In episode […]

TV REVIEW: LITTLE AMERICA Where’s it playing? Apple TV Plus What’s it rated? TV-14 Inspired by true stories chronicled in Epic Magazine, Little America features an anthology of eight separate tales of immigrants to the U.S.—many funny, poignant, and indicative of the complicated relationship America has with its newest arrivals. For instance, the third episode, […]