Just Alice boasts enough potential to lift its guilty pleasure entertainment value into a more sophisticated piece on marriage and gender — as long as the series' promising start carries its strengths through to the end.
Between its triumphant sincerity, spectacular visuals, and compulsive energy, Glass Heart is altogether watchable and oddly comforting to boot — like unexpectedly hearing your favorite song on the radio.
Besides a handful of easily fixable stumbles, Code of Silence's debut season cements itself as an instant classic: compelling, entertaining, and trailblazing, with Ayling-Ellis' unmissable star turn as the best boon of all.
Another version of this series doesn't need to elevate its drama beyond its protagonist's proven history. Yet Carême's striking visual style, fast-paced tension, and entertainingly lusty escapades remain compulsively watchable even when the series' ambitions stray into predictable melodrama.
Government Cheese's standout moments, while quite sharp, could have benefited from tighter pacing to match, but it's still a joy to watch a project with its feet on the ground and its head in the clouds, and its leap of faith sticks the landing.
A remarkably gripping thriller and an exquisitely tender family drama, the series does its breathlessly daunting goals justice even though it lacks certain key viewpoints.
Even though Happy Face's initial tonal and dialogue weaknesses contribute to it falling just short of its potential, its comprehensive message — living with intricate wounds, elevating the scum of the earth while abandoning the victims, America's profoundly flawed justice system, and the racist incarceration system — slices through the noise loud and clear.
The number one rule upon which good horror is predicated is having likable protagonists. To that end, the Prills feel like a real family. .... Appropriately enough, however, Wilson is Cassandra's ultimate scene stealer.
With three episodes screened out of Season 2's eight total, it's fair to admit that we don't advance too far with the characters' individual growth or dive too deep into unraveling every strand of the numerous interconnecting mysteries. That said, the first three episodes are a solid, satisfying indicator of how the rest of the season will unfold.
