If you look a little harder, there is entertainment to be found in The Kardashians. In Season 5, this is partly thanks to new on-the-fly confessionals filmed in real-time.
The series is a genuine two-hander; when Siobhan and Gilbert investigate together, Forte and Cullen’s chemistry and their mutual commitment to fleshing out their characters’ neuroses helps the show jump off the screen in ways its subdued style otherwise wouldn’t allow.
OMG Fashun isn’t just a platitude dressed up as a competition show, it’s a television revelation and a revolution. .... Some additional time spent with everyone involved with the show would elevate the series even further. If OMG Fashun had hour-long episodes, I could easily see it becoming a must-watch event programming among friend groups.
Hacks’ third season, which drops its first two episodes on Max May 2, is punchy and lithe, bringing beloved comic Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and her socially conscious co-writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) back for a season that tightens the show’s focus, but keeps its ambitions broad. It’s a major triumph in an increasingly dreary streaming landscape.
Velma is great. It’s fast-paced and ridiculous, without being arrogant about how quick its wits are. What’s more: It’s got a knack for poking fun at itself and the Scooby-Doo franchise’s history, sprinkling little Easter eggs about for devoted fans to pick up and admire.
It’s another blissful, perfectly paced 10 episodes that hit the hardest when you least expect them to, the kind of television that insists upon the intelligence of its viewer, rather than itself.
Riley Keough and Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone, are certainly compelling as the two adult women wrapped up in the investigation, it’s the teen actors who run away with the series. They give the show an unnerving, deeply gut-wrenching sense of volatility and violence, one which makes Under the Bridge almost impossible to look away from.
If you glance at it too closely, you can see that Vanderpump Villa is a show held together with sticks, Elmer’s glue, and hope. And that’s what I like about it.
