Ben Travers

By the time Batman goes toe to toe with his greatest rival, he knows what — and who — he’s fighting for: not just a city, but a community; not just the pure of heart, but those who’ve lost their way; not just one victory, but a righteous crusade.

This is a crime drama, through and through, built around blunt-force action scenes and braindead emotional logic.

Rossum and Petticrew’s both richly embody the push and pull for their characters’ souls, while their supporting stars provide clear-eyed yet nuanced conviction to drive them toward a resolution. .... All together, their work takes a story you could claim you’ve heard before and turns it into superlative genre fare that will be hard to forget.

Never without spirit and repeatedly inspired, the new episodes continue to push the boundaries of what audiences expect from a “Star Trek” series, while honoring the franchise’s past through its reimagined characters and world-of-the-week framework.

Amid the random parts stitched together to fill 10 half-hour episodes (which are actually 30 minutes or less, thank God), there are intriguing patterns.

Overall, this is popcorn entertainment, safely made for the masses, but Waddingham is such a joy to watch and Spencer creates an ideal, idiosyncratic, Type-A foil.

If a distracting flight filled with good folks is all you’re looking for (perhaps to distract you on a future flight filled with loud babies and yipping dogs), “Lucky” will do the trick. There’s just a better version lurking inside, one that could’ve elevated the action-chase genre instead of merely loitering there.

Sonnenshine, who developed the reboot, doesn’t lay her lesson on too thick, wisely rooting it in a story as much about a family finding their home as they are finding themselves.

All told, and especially by the end, the limited series (which could, in theory, become an ongoing series) is best when it’s not taking itself too seriously.

“Trying” Season 5 feels like the hard-won reward after a decade of arduous parenting decisions.