Aaron Barnhart
Overwhelmed by Peak TV? Aaron Barnhart is your guide to the good, the great, and the skippable.
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POSTED October 13, 2021
Hulu's Dopesick Is a Hokey, Overlong Morality Play That Everyone Should Watch
The opioid crisis is turned into an eight-hour movie-of-the-week, but a lot of people like watching those.
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POSTED October 7, 2021
A Special Episode Highlights Why United States of Al Is Such a Special Show
An episode crafted in the aftermath of Kabul’s fall to the Taliban shows the strength of this Chuck Lorre CBS comedy.
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POSTED October 6, 2021
CSI Is Back, And There’s Absolutely No Mystery Why
Franchises are the name of the game in TV these days, and none was better at its prime than the CSI franchise.
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POSTED September 30, 2021
There’s a Problem with The Problem With Jon Stewart
The former Daily Show anchor’s new show on Apple TV+ is not like his old show — but that’s not the problem.
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POSTED September 23, 2021
Heval Is an Incredible Find from Curiosity Stream (As In, You Won’t Believe It)
The all-doc streamer’s first original film is the all-true tale of a 50-ish actor who embeds with anti-ISIS fighters in Syria.
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POSTED September 21, 2021
FOX’s Our Kind of People Reveals America’s Black Upper Class
From Lee Daniels and a showrunner on Mixed-Ish comes an unusual soap about old versus new money in Black America.
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POSTED September 17, 2021
Rise and Shine, Apple TV+’s The Morning Show Is Back
Season 2 has the enjoyable launch that Season 1 didn’t, thanks to Jennifer Aniston.
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POSTED September 14, 2021
Trevor Noah Needs His Audience Back
Without a crowd that its host can play to, late night's least entertaining home show is now the least entertaining one taped at a TV studio.
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POSTED September 9, 2021
Amazon’s LuLaRich Examines a Multi-Level-Marketing Meltdown
The most compelling parts of this docuseries are the stories of the women left broke and unhappy by LuLaRoe.
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POSTED September 1, 2021
Netflix’s Turning Point Is a Sobering Journey From 9/11 to the Kabul Airport
With the perspective of 20 years, this searing docuseries relives the Sept. 11 attacks and retraces their tragic aftermath.
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POSTED August 31, 2021
Only Murders in the Building Is a Throwback Mystery for the Hulu Age
Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez star in the Murder, She Wrote reboot we didn’t know we needed.
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POSTED August 10, 2021
Fantasy Island Is Back, and It's in Good Hands
The 1970s hit, which brought magical realism to the masses, gets a welcome refresh that’s aimed at the ladies.
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POSTED August 2, 2021
The 25 Most Impactful People in Late-Night TV History
All the hosts, execs and funny lady writers who helped shape the late-night landscape.
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POSTED July 27, 2021
James Corden's Late Late Show Is Living on Borrowed Time
Neither he nor CBS needs the 12:35 a.m. time slot anymore.
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POSTED July 20, 2021
Gutfeld! Is The Right's Inevitable Answer to Stephen Colbert
Partisanship has poisoned the one hour when it used to be OK to be politically incorrect.