Bylined reviews with verdicts and scores — most recently published or updated first. Showing 217–240 of 283 TV reviews.
★★★★½
The Crown is Peter Morgan's lavish Netflix drama about Elizabeth II's reign, a six-season study of duty's personal cost with three superb actors in the lead role.
★★★★☆
The Day of the Jackal (2024) updates Frederick Forsyth's assassin thriller as a sleek 10-episode chase, anchored by a cold, precise Eddie Redmayne.
★★★★☆
The Diplomat is Debora Cahn's fast, witty Netflix political thriller, with Keri Russell as a reluctant US ambassador to the UK caught between crisis and marriage.
★★★☆☆
The Dream Maker is a 40-episode Chinese drama about local cadres turning a beach town into a modern city, led by Zhao Liying and Huang Xiaoming. Earnest, but long.
★★★½☆
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins is a joke-packed mockumentary sitcom pairing Tracy Morgan's disgraced football star with Daniel Radcliffe's earnest filmmaker.
★★★★☆
The Fall is Allan Cubitt's chilling Belfast serial-killer drama, with Gillian Anderson's detective hunting Jamie Dornan's killer across three tense seasons.
★★★★½
The Family Man is Raj & DK's Hindi spy thriller in which Manoj Bajpayee's intelligence officer battles terror plots while his home life quietly falls apart.
★★★★☆
The Gentlemen is Guy Ritchie's Netflix crime comedy in which Theo James inherits a dukedom and a cannabis empire hidden under it. Stylish, violent and very funny.
★★★½☆
The Ghost Bride is a six-episode Mandarin fantasy mystery set in 1890s Malacca, where a young woman refuses a marriage to a dead man. Gorgeous, if tonally uneven.
★★★½☆
The Gift is a Turkish Netflix mystery in which an Istanbul painter's lifelong symbol surfaces at Göbekli Tepe. Beren Saat anchors a bold but tangled mythic puzzle.
★★★★½
The Glory is Kim Eun-sook's 16-episode Korean revenge thriller, with Song Hye-kyo as a bullying survivor who spends years building a trap for her tormentors.
★★★★☆
The Heirs is Kim Eun-sook's glossy 2013 high-school chaebol romance with Lee Min-ho and Park Shin-hye, overstuffed and sagging mid-run but powered by star wattage.
★★★½☆
The House of the Spirits is Prime Video's Chilean, Spanish-language take on Isabel Allende's family saga: lush, angry and faithful in spirit, if hurried in places.
★★★★☆
The Immortal Ascension is a 30-episode xianxia drama in which Yang Yang's untalented village boy climbs toward immortality by patience and cunning rather than fate.
★★★★☆
The Inbetweeners is the crude, painfully accurate British sitcom about four suburban sixth-formers failing to be cool. Endlessly quotable, though some jokes have aged.
★★★★½
The IT Crowd is Graham Linehan's Channel 4 sitcom about two tech-support misfits and their clueless boss, a tightly built farce that is still hugely funny today.
★★★★☆
The K2 is a glossy 2016 Korean action thriller: Ji Chang-wook's fugitive mercenary guards a politician's hidden daughter amid blackmail, bruising fights and romance.
★★★★☆
The Knockout is China's sprawling 2023 crime saga about a stubborn cop and a fishmonger turned gang boss, powered by Zhang Songwen's mesmerising, star-making villain.
★★★★½
The Last of Us is HBO's adaptation of the post-apocalyptic game, with Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as a smuggler and teen crossing a ruined America. Devastating TV.
★★★★☆
The Legend of the Blue Sea is a lavish Korean fantasy romance: Jun Ji-hyun's mermaid falls for Lee Min-ho's con artist in Seoul, as their Joseon past life echoes.
★★★★½
The Long Season is Xin Shuang's melancholic Chinese crime drama, a 12-episode puzzle across three timelines in a declining industrial city, led by a superb Fan Wei.
★★★★½
The Mandalorian is Jon Favreau's Star Wars space western, pairing Pedro Pascal's bounty hunter with a mysterious child in a series that revived the franchise on TV.
★★★★☆
The Moon Embracing the Sun is a 2012 Joseon-era fantasy romance about a noblewoman lost to the palace who returns as a shaman. Lush, tearful and hugely popular.
★★★½☆
The Night Agent is Shawn Ryan's Netflix conspiracy thriller: an FBI agent on a quiet White House phone line takes one call and is pulled into a plot at the very top.
