Brian Tallerico

What’s most interesting is that “Mating Season” gets better when it stops trying to be “Big Mouth 2,” allowing the writers and voice cast to play adult idiots with the same horny glee as they did their teenage ones for years, but turn them into characters that stand on their own four feet.

Overall, it’s a fun ride with just enough emotional weight given to it by an excellent ensemble.

The pieces of its puzzle—involving a single mom and a murder mystery that begins online—don’t all fit together perfectly, but it’s hard to care too much about an abundance of coincidences and lucky timing on a show this well-paced, wonderfully performed, and unpredictable.

Despite some ever-timely themes about the inequity and systemic failures of the mental health system in this country, “Devil in Silver” feels flat, likely a factor of being too faithful to its source (LaValle himself gets writer credit, which is often a mistake) or a rushed production that never quite found its voice on set.

The personal and the political intertwine in this moving, novelistic series, a reminder that Granik is a filmmaker who deserves to be mentioned alongside the best working today.

It is truly unlike anything else on TV, a wild swing of tonal shifts that works because it commits so fully to both halves of the equation.

Every chance to do something inventive and interesting in “Tales from ‘85” is ignored for lazy fan-fic writing, slack plotting, and inconsistent characters.

It’s really a show that works on so many levels, from individual jokes that reflect a sense of humor that understands the pop culture world of 2026 to the bigger issues of wealth inequity, gender disparity, and even the generation gap.

[Julia] Doyle brings new energy to a season that really needs it. .... There needed to be more momentum in season four, and that could have come with a more defined threat. .... I also have a feeling that the last four episodes of the season that weren’t sent to press will finally give us some answers and raise those slight stakes.

“Big Mistakes” sometimes feels a bit too derivative of things that its creators know people love from the accidental criminals of “Ozark” to the dysfunctional siblings of “Schitt’s Creek,” but it’s ultimately smart enough to overcome that criticism.