CHEERS!
Joel McHale’s beast-heavy workplace sitcom shows even more promise in Season 2.
Vikram Murthi is a contributing writer for The Nation and the editor of Downtime Magazine. He has also written for publications like Reverse Shot, Filmmaker Magazine, and Criterion. He’s still very much for hire.
WORK IN PROGESS
The controversial comic’s semi-autobiographical series returns to Hulu for a second season of uneven dramedy.
FAILURE TO LAUNCH
NatGeo’s new documentary “The Space Race,” about the U.S.’s first Black astronauts, is an interesting but unfocused primer.
Stale Air
Zach Woods voices an insufferable liberal fraud in “In the Know,” a new stop-motion series that’s funnier around the margins.
APOCALYPSE WOW
Even if a comet were heading rapidly towards Earth, the new animated curiosity “Carol & the End of the World” would be worth your time.
ANGER MANAGEMENT
Bill Burr’s directorial debut is better at being self-righteous than it is at being funny.