TV Reviews4/13/20Apr 13 2020SaveTV Reviews4/13/20BTV ReviewsOuter Banks hunts for gold but can’t find its footing with female charactersKayla Kumari Upadhyaya14Outer Banks, the new Netflix series about a bunch of teens hunting for long-lost treasure and finding lots of…
TV Reviews4/12/20Apr 12 2020SaveTV Reviews4/12/20ATV ReviewsOutlander uses silent film to hauntingly explore trauma and griefKayla Kumari Upadhyaya26“Famous Last Words” deals with the traumatic aftermath of last episode’s haunting final image: Roger hung from a…
TV Reviews4/9/20Apr 9 2020SaveTV Reviews4/9/20B+TV ReviewsAs How To Get Away With Murder reckons with the past 3 years, everyone is an unreliable narratorKayla Kumari Upadhyaya12With the FBI the closest to nabbing Annalise Keating as they’ve ever been, Asher dead, and the group fractured, the…
TV Reviews4/9/20Apr 9 2020SaveTV Reviews4/9/20B-TV ReviewsThe Good Fight attempts to rewrite reality in its season four premiereKayla Kumari Upadhyaya21The Good Fight has dabbled in political fanfiction before, but in its four premiere, it goes all the way in on a…
TV Reviews4/2/20Apr 2 2020SaveTV Reviews4/2/20BTV ReviewsHow To Get Away With Murder is back with another murder to chaotically solveKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11In its midseason premiere, How To Get Away With Murder drops us right back into the chaos that it ended on last…
TV Reviews3/29/20Mar 29 2020SaveTV Reviews3/29/20ATV ReviewsOutlander gets up-close and personal in its big battle episodeKayla Kumari Upadhyaya34Outlander has often delved into the horrors of war with an intense focus on the actual humans who fight it. The show…
TV Reviews3/22/20Mar 22 2020SaveTV Reviews3/22/20C+TV ReviewsEven when the story isn't, the sex is good on OutlanderKayla Kumari Upadhyaya34We’re now six episodes into season five of Outlander, and I’m struggling to grasp at exactly what the season is…
TV Reviews3/15/20Mar 15 2020SaveTV Reviews3/15/20A-TV ReviewsA contemplative Outlander messes with memory and timeKayla Kumari Upadhyaya20In “Perpetual Adoration,” Outlander employs an extended metaphor regarding time. Time is god and memory is devil.…
TV Reviews3/12/20Mar 12 2020SaveTV Reviews3/12/20ATV ReviewsNetflix’s Feel Good has more depth and hilarity than a feel-good storyKayla Kumari Upadhyaya9Feel Good, the new Netflix comedy created by and starring Canadian comedian Mae Martin, throws itself into addiction…
TV Reviews3/8/20Mar 8 2020SaveTV Reviews3/8/20B-TV ReviewsOutlander goes all in on romance but keeps over-relying on one-off charactersKayla Kumari Upadhyaya9Week to week, Outlander decides what kind of show it’s going to be. It’s an impressive and occasionally overwhelming…
TV Reviews3/1/20Mar 1 2020SaveTV Reviews3/1/20B+TV ReviewsOutlander gives Jamie and Claire an urgent, scary side-questKayla Kumari Upadhyaya22Though it started with a wedding, season five of Outlander wastes no time mounting several sources of conflict at…
TV Reviews2/23/20Feb 23 20201TV Reviews2/23/20A-TV ReviewsOutlander delves into the challenges and consequences of time-travelKayla Kumari Upadhyaya41“Time, space, history be damned,” Claire tells Brianna. “Between Two Fires” actively engages with the challenges and…
TV Reviews2/16/20Feb 16 20201TV Reviews2/16/20B+TV ReviewsOutlander's season five premiere tells a different kind of love story with Jamie and MurtaghKayla Kumari Upadhyaya49Fittingly for a time-traveling love story, Outlander opens its fifth season with a lovely travel back in time. This…
TV Reviews2/12/20Feb 12 2020SaveTV Reviews2/12/20ATV ReviewsVisible: Out On Television brilliantly traces LGBTQ representation through TV historyKayla Kumari Upadhyaya2In Visible: Out On Television, a new five-part docuseries from Apple TV+ that tracks LGBTQ representation in…
TV Reviews1/26/20Jan 26 2020SaveTV Reviews1/26/20C+TV ReviewsIn its season finale, Generation Q tries too hard to satisfyKayla Kumari Upadhyaya7First season finales are a tough formula to crack. There has to be just enough resolution to satisfy, a natural—if…
TV Reviews1/19/20Jan 19 2020SaveTV Reviews1/19/20BTV ReviewsEveryone leans into their bad patterns on The L Word: Generation QKayla Kumari Upadhyaya8When it comes to Bette Porter and Shane McCutcheon in particular, watching The L Word: Generation Q in the context…
TV Reviews1/12/20Jan 12 2020SaveTV Reviews1/12/20A-TV ReviewsGeneration Q revels in discomfort and intimacyKayla Kumari Upadhyaya13“Loose Ends” is the first episode of Generation Q to not feature a sex scene, which wouldn’t necessarily be…
TV Reviews1/9/20Jan 9 2020SaveTV Reviews1/9/20ATV ReviewsEvery character comes to life in Sex Education’s horny and heartfelt 2nd seasonKayla Kumari Upadhyaya36My So-Called Life changed the high school drama game by opening its world to not just include the parents, but make…
TV Reviews1/5/20Jan 5 2020SaveTV Reviews1/5/20B+TV ReviewsThe L Word: Generation Q's afterparty mess delights and disturbsKayla Kumari Upadhyaya9After a wild party comes the cleanup and the come down, the reckoning of bad mistakes made, the untangling of new,…
TV Reviews12/29/19Dec 29 2019SaveTV Reviews12/29/19B+TV ReviewsThe L Word: Generation Q gets nostalgic, with mixed resultsKayla Kumari Upadhyaya14Nostalgia: a powerful, sometimes destabilizing drug. “LA Times” has it in spades. And for good reason: It’s Shane…