Tim Goodman
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'Dublin Murders': TV Review
This BBC/Starz miniseries based on a pair of Tana French novels tries to cram too much unbelievable plot into a mystery about two killings. → Read More
'Back to Life': TV Review
'Back to Life,' a truly wonderful gem on Showtime, mines big laughs and surprising melancholy from one woman's journey to pick up the pieces of her life. → Read More
'Jack Ryan' Season 2: TV Review
The second season of the Amazon series starring John Krasinski keeps things entertaining — and just believable enough. → Read More
'For All Mankind': TV Review
The AppleTV+ series is a solid effort at epic, alternate-history storytelling, but feels a bit derivative and moves too slowly. → Read More
'The Cry': TV Review
SundanceTV's twisty, devastating and clever Australia-set miniseries revolves around the abduction of a baby. → Read More
'Living With Yourself': TV Review
THR review: Netflix's comedy 'Living With Yourself' stars Paul Rudd in a dual role as a midlife-crisis-afflicted married man and his more polished clone. → Read More
'Modern Love': TV Review
Amazon hits all the right notes turning the titular New York Times column about relationships into an anthology series starring Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey and Dev Patel. → Read More
'Mr. Robot' Season 4: TV Review
Sam Esmail's USA series starring Rami Malek returns for a final season with its buzz remarkably still intact. → Read More
'Raising Dion': TV Review
Netflix's new drama, with Michael B. Jordan appearing in a small role and executive producing, is not unlike a broadcast series — so why are you paying to see it? → Read More
'Godfather of Harlem': TV Review
An all-star cast led by Forest Whitaker fills out Epix's ambitious mob series 'Godfather of Harlem' but too many big themes weigh it down. → Read More
'Bless the Harts': TV Review
One episode doesn't really tell you much about Fox's new animated series 'Bless the Harts' other than it has a lot of stars and it's not 'King of the Hill.' → Read More
Critic's Notebook: 'This Way Up' Is More Than a Spiritual Cousin to 'Fleabag'
The recent Hulu acquisition got lost in the shuffle but the big Emmy haul for the thematically and tonally similar (but not too similar) 'Fleabag' may lead people to discover it. → Read More
'Criminal': TV Review
Netflix's new drama series 'Criminal' offers four spins (from the U.K., France, Germany and Spain) on the same inside-the-interrogation-box police procedural format. → Read More
Critic's Notebook: HBO's 'Succession' Gets Bigger, Better and More Nuanced in Season 2
A couple of little issues haven't derailed one of TV's elite dramas as it soars in its second season. → Read More
'Country Music': TV Review
Ken Burns tries to get to the heart of country music in this eight-part, 16-hour documentary for PBS. → Read More
How (and Why) I Cut the Cord: 12 Streaming Basics to Know
From the obvious to the packages available to a few things you might need to think about first, The Hollywood Reporter’s chief TV critic lays out the options. → Read More
'The Spy': TV Review
In the Netflix limited series 'The Spy,' a true-life espionage story, Sacha Baron Cohen delivers his best dramatic work yet. → Read More
How (And Why) I Cut the Cord: A TV Critic's Journey Over the Top
If cutting the cable cord actually saves money for people or streamlines the viewing experience while adding better options at roughly the same price for people not hung up on the money part — and it's shocking how easy all of this is to do — then why are more people not doing it? → Read More
Tim Goodman: 10 Musings from My Summer TV Watching
Re-thinking the endings of 'Patriot' and 'Catastrophe,' pointing out Showtime's 'Shangri-La' and other observations and suggestions from THR's co-chief TV critic. → Read More
Tim Goodman: Will Netflix Have to Change Its Strategy Soon?
The streamer seems less interested in individual shows than creating the illusion that it has all the shows you need — and that may be a problem soon. → Read More