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Brian Moylan reviews the good, the bad, and the ugly of television's newest offerings
  • Minnie Driver and the cast of Speechless.

    Speechless: Minnie Driver's fast-paced sitcom has a lot to say

    The Oscar nominee anchors a new family comedy that features a son with cerebral palsy, but it’s about much more than disability
  • Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia in This is Us.

    This is Us: manipulative drama is in desperate pursuit of your tears

    Emotions are high – but not high enough – in this new show about seemingly disparate characters. But wait there’s a twist ...
  • ‘It’s a wonderfully sweet, candy-colored confection’ ... Kristen Bell in The Good Place.

    The Good Place: Kristen Bell’s afterlife comedy is simply divine

    When a bad woman is sent to heaven instead of hell, being the only bad apple doesn’t spoil the bunch, it makes for a great new sitcom
  • Son of Zorn: a fish out of water

    Son of Zorn: the strangest comedy on TV

    It’s a classic fish-out-of-water tale, except in this case the fish is a hyper-macho cartoon character from the land of Zephyria
  • Tig Notaro in One Mississippi: baring her scars

    One Mississippi: Tig Notaro bares her scars in intensely dark comedy

    The comedian draws on her experience of cancer, family trauma and death to create a sitcom some viewers may find hard to take
  • Rutina Wesley and Dawn-Lyen Gardner in Queen Sugar.

    Queen Sugar: Oprah’s latest drama is a sweet success

    Pairing up with Selma director Ava DuVernay, Winfrey puts a contemplative spin on a family story of a sugar dynasty in the rural south
  • gommorah

    Gomorrah: the second coming of The Sopranos lands with a bang

    The show inspired by Roberto Saviano’s book and subsequent film isn’t for the faint-hearted as it pulls back the curtain on the contemporary Cosa Nostra
  • Hoping to go viral: the MadTV 2016 cast

    MadTV: sketch show makes disappointing return

    You know a comedy show is in trouble when even the Trump impressions miss their mark – MadTV has plenty of work to do to recapture the glory days
  • Vice Principals Danny McBride, Walton Goggins

    Vice Principals: Danny McBride’s new comedy is too cruel for comfort

    This sitcom about two warring white men trying to take down their black, female boss revels in politically incorrect humor but has a mean streak a mile wide
  • Roadies

    Roadies: latest show in the old man nostalgia parade that is ruining TV

    Cameron Crowe shares similar delusions with Martin Scorsese’s Vinyl and Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom – clinging to bogus sentimentality and outdated ideology
  • Queen of the South

    Queen of the South: addictive story of a drug baroness à la Narcos

    Loosely based on a true story, this gripping show puts a different spin on the narco drama – and the main character is a Latina MacGyver, but with better hair
  • Family matters: the American Gothic clan

    American Gothic: Boston serial killer drama is a case of slash 'n' slow burn

    Created by a Good Wife veteran, CBS’s new drama mixes familial discontent with an unsolved murder and the goings-on at a concrete company
  • Animal Kingdom: oh, brother ...

    Animal Kingdom: nihilistic feast of bros, bare butts and bad behavior

    In this crime family drama, everyone carries a handgun and has multiple tattoos, and their dinner parties all end with snorting white powder off a glass coffee table
  • Danny Pino and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in BrainDead.

    BrainDead: The Good Wife creators make a self-aware, allegorical B-movie

    With its army of ants invading Congress members’ brains, the jokes could hardly be less subtle – but its wit and low-rent aesthetics make this lots of fun
  • Voltron: Legendary Defender – heavy metal

    Voltron: Legendary Defender – cartoon reboot deserves a hero’s welcome

    Netflix revives the five lions that turn into one giant robot for a new generation, or old dudes who want to feel young again
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    Outcast: Walking Dead creator's exorcism drama doesn't possess spirit

    Robert Kirkman’s new Cinemax horror series, based on his comic of the same name, looks dark and creepy, but the shallow characterisation is a fatal flaw
  • Coupled: smartphones on the sand

    Coupled: tropical Tinder sees women fighting over guys – again

    There’s a luxe location, gorgeous contestants and sexual tension you could cut with a knife, but ultimately this dating show trades in the same old stereotypes
  • Paul W Downs in Time Traveling Bong.

    Time Traveling Bong: stoner comedy is smarter than it needs to be

    Broad City’s Ilana Glazer and Paul W Downs bring subversive observations about race and gender to a surreal weed-fueled comedy perfect for bingeing on 4/20
  • Containment: unlikely to go viral

    Containment: show about a deadly plague is unlikely to go viral

    It’s a world with no law and order, where people could die at any minute ... so why is everyone acting as though it’s a boring Sunday and brunch got cancelled?
  • Game of Silence

    Game of Silence: hokey prison drama won't get people talking

    When four friends who survived torture in juvenile detention get involved in multiple murders, it’s less a whodunit and more ‘why should we care’?
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