Mike Hale
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Past articles by Mike:
‘Secret Invasion’ Review: Marvel Welcomes Back Samuel L. Jackson
Nick Fury gets back in the fight in the latest Disney+ series from the Marvel assembly line. → Read More
‘Trigger Point’ Review: Pure Pressure à la ‘Line of Duty’
A new Peacock series about a London bomb squad bears the mark of its showrunner, Jed Mercurio, Britain’s master of the crime melodrama. → Read More
‘The Ipcress File’ Review: In the Footsteps of Michael Caine
A new series on AMC+ remakes a fan-favorite 1960s Cold War thriller, with a “Peaky Blinders” star in the role Caine made famous. → Read More
‘The Essex Serpent’ Review: Claire Danes, the Disrupter
The “Homeland” star returns as another headstrong force of nature in a Victorian monster story from Apple TV+. → Read More
‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ Review: Making the Leap, Again
HBO’s new adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi romance comes from a “Sherlock” creator and “Doctor Who” mainstay. → Read More
‘Ridley Road’ Review: Undercover With the Neo-Nazis
An intrepid young Jewish woman gets cozy with the enemy in a PBS drama that explores a little-known corner of British history. → Read More
‘I Love That for You’ Review: The Art of the Sellout
The “Saturday Night Live” alum Vanessa Bayer stars in a Showtime comedy about illness, lies and home shopping. → Read More
‘Slow Horses’ Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Failure
Gary Oldman stars as an MI5 has-been in a darkly comic thriller about the spies no one wants to talk about. → Read More
‘Killing Eve’ Review: The End of the Road
In the darkly comic spy thriller’s final season, the wild ride has become a tired jog to the finish line. → Read More
‘Gomorrah’ Review: The End of TV’s Sleekest Italian Import
The final season of a gangster saga that combined brutal realism and high style arrives on HBO Max. → Read More
Review: ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ Gives a ‘Star Wars’ Icon His Own Chapter
Disney+ follows “The Mandalorian” with a series about the fan-favorite bounty hunter Boba Fett, long believed to have died in the Sarlacc’s belly. → Read More
Review: ‘The Witcher,’ a Netflix Heavy Hitter, Finally Returns
Still ranking in the service’s Top 5 in viewership, the medieval fantasy is back for a second season after a two-year hiatus. → Read More
Review: A Tale of Two Hawkeyes
Disney+’s new Marvel series, “Hawkeye,” finally gives Jeremy Renner a headlining role — as mentor and straight man. → Read More
Review: ‘Dr. Brain,’ Your New South Korean TV Crush
In the afterglow of Netflix’s “Squid Game,” Apple TV+ premieres its first Korean-language series, a mind-melding sci-fi mystery. → Read More
Review: What if ‘Star Wars’ Really Were Japanese?
“Star Wars: Visions,” a collection of short films on Disney+, lets Japanese animators play with a franchise that has deep roots in their country’s storytelling traditions. → Read More
Review: Martin Short Kills in ‘Only Murders in the Building’
Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez star in a Hulu comedy about homicide, podcasts and the peculiarities of life in a New York luxury prewar building. → Read More
Review: ‘Laetitia,’ a French True-Crime Gem, Comes to HBO
The Oscar-winning documentarian Jean-Xavier De Lestrade turns to fiction to tell a story of grisly murder in western France. → Read More
The 21 Best TV Comedies of the 21st Century (So Far)
These are the American shows that made us laugh (and cringe and think and feel) the most over the past two-plus decades. → Read More
Winter TV Preview: 21 Shows to Watch
Newcomers and old favorites include a Marvel series, the long-awaited return of “Gomorrah” and Judi Dench among the orangutans. → Read More
Review: A Classic Western Sheriff on the Other Side of the World
In “Mystery Road,” Aaron Pedersen plays a lawman with Indigenous roots and John Wayne style. → Read More