TV Reviews8.5/10
Netflix’s Yiddish-Language Miniseries Found Its Audience Without Chasing One
Netflix's Yiddish-language miniseries Unorthodox won Shira Haas acclaim and gave Germany its first Primetime Emmy for directing.
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Television we have watched and scored.
TV Reviews7.6/10
Rugrats: The Cartoon That Took Babies Seriously, and Ran for Thirteen Years
Rugrats ran on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 2004, a toddler's-eye cartoon that helped build the network. Review of its best seasons and its limits.
TV Reviews8/10
‘No Game No Life’ Still Hasn’t Earned Its Reputation 12 Years On
No Game No Life: Madhouse's 2014 anime about shut-in gamers Sora and Shiro, the Ten Covenants, and why the twelve-episode series still holds up.
TV Reviews7/10
The Middle” at 7.0: A Nine-Season, 215-Episode Case for the Heck Family of Orson, Indiana”
A review of ABC's The Middle, the nine-season sitcom about a lower middle class family in Orson, Indiana, starring Patricia Heaton.
TV Reviews8/10
Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold Review: A Proper Encore for the Gold Saints
Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold brought the twelve Gold Saints back for a 13-episode 2015 spin-off. A review of Aiolia's arc, the cast, and why it works.
TV Reviews7/10
Thalía’s Marimar Turned a Telenovela Villain Into the Show’s Real Draw
Marimar (1994): Thalía's double role as a poor girl turned socialite powers this classic telenovela. Review, plot, cast and score.
TV Reviews8.1/10
El Chapulín Colorado: The Superhero Who Falls Down, and the Joke That Outlasted Him
El Chapulín Colorado, Roberto Gómez Bolaños' superhero parody, ran 289 episodes from 1973 to 1979 and holds an 8.1 on TMDB. Here's why the joke still works.
TV Reviews7.3/10
CSI: NY: Nine Seasons, 197 Episodes, and Four Actors Who Never Missed One
CBS canceled CSI: NY in 2013 after nine seasons and 197 episodes. A look at Mac Taylor, the cast changes, and the four actors who never missed an episode.
TV Reviews7.7/10
Syfy’s Warehouse 13 Ran on a Reliable Case-of-the-Week Loop for Years
Warehouse 13 ran five seasons on Syfy, 64 episodes from 2009 to 2014. A look at the cast, the case-of-the-week formula, and why 7.7/10 is the honest score.
TV Reviews7.2/10
Godfather of Harlem: Four Seasons of Forest Whitaker Holding the Line
Godfather of Harlem ran four seasons and 40 episodes on Epix and MGM+, with Forest Whitaker as Bumpy Johnson. A final two-hour episode is set for 2026.
TV Reviews8/10
Animaniacs Was a Variety Show in Cartoon Clothing, and That Is Why It Lasted
Animaniacs ran five seasons of fast, smart variety-show chaos. A look back at the Warners, the songs, eight Daytime Emmys and why it still holds up.
TV Reviews8.6/10
I Am Not an Animal: Peter Baynham’s Six-Episode Vivisection Lab Comedy Still Bites
A review of Peter Baynham's I Am Not an Animal, the 2004 BBC Two black comedy about talking animals in a four-star vivisection lab.