TV Reviews9/25/20Sep 25SaveTV Reviews9/25/20B-TV ReviewsEveryone starts making choices in the penultimate episode of Raised By WolvesArielle Bernstein92One of the defining features of civilization in the world of Raised By Wolves is the lack of true choice. The…
TV Reviews9/24/20Sep 24SaveTV Reviews9/24/20A-TV ReviewsAn excellent new Raised By Wolves delivers on the show’s potentialArielle Bernstein51In an earlier episode this season, Mother expressed sadness that she would never be able to have her own child. In…
TV Reviews9/18/20Sep 18SaveTV Reviews9/18/20B+TV ReviewsRaised By Wolves explores whether people (or androids) can changeArielle Bernstein60What is our core self? Is it something we possess when we are born? Or something that is shaped by time and…
TV Reviews9/17/20Sep 17SaveTV Reviews9/17/20B-TV ReviewsFather is the most compelling character in Raised By WolvesArielle Bernstein52We’re in the second half of the season and what started as a really compelling new world now seems increasingly…
TV Reviews9/11/20Sep 11SaveTV Reviews9/11/20B-TV ReviewsRaised By Wolves asks what a robot girl wants without offering any interesting answersArielle Bernstein67“Infected Memory” provides our first real glimpse at Mother’s origin story. After many episodes of hearing talk of a…
TV Reviews9/10/20Sep 10SaveTV Reviews9/10/20ATV ReviewsIn Raised By Wolves, empathy is a problem and a potential vehicle for changeArielle Bernstein28Throughout Raised By Wolves, human civilization is presented as unwaveringly brutal, so much so that Paul’s first…
TV Reviews9/5/20Sep 5SaveTV Reviews9/5/20A-TV ReviewsRaised By Wolves explores the stories we tell each other and ourselvesArielle Bernstein80In the first few moments of “Virtual Faith,” Mother tells the children—Campion (Winta McGrath), Hunter (Ethan…
TV Reviews9/4/20Sep 4SaveTV Reviews9/4/20B+TV ReviewsHBO Max’s Raised By Wolves asks big questions about identity in its second episodeArielle Bernstein30After the shockingly violent end of episode one, “Pentagram” shifts our attentions away from Mother in order to…
TV Reviews9/3/20Sep 31TV Reviews9/3/20A-TV ReviewsIn the Raised By Wolves premiere, Mother is optimistic—and so are weArielle Bernstein163In the thrilling and foreboding first episode of Raised By Wolves, we learn that Earth has been destroyed and that…
TV Reviews3/9/20Mar 93TV Reviews3/9/20ATV ReviewsUnlike recent depictions of fascism, David Simon’s Plot Against America refuses to sanitize or glorify hatredArielle Bernstein67The Plot Against America, David Simon’s engrossing HBO series based on Philip Roth’s 2004 novel of the same name, is…
TV Reviews12/9/19Dec 9 20191TV Reviews12/9/19ATV ReviewsMidge goes straight up antihero in a rollercoaster of a season finale on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Arielle Bernstein263The biggest critics of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel have always complained that the show is a bunch of…
TV Reviews12/9/19Dec 9 2019SaveTV Reviews12/9/19B-TV ReviewsEveryone takes a step back when The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel returns to New YorkArielle Bernstein30If “Kind of Bleu” was about disappointment, “Marvelous Radio” is about all kinds of despair, as characters who want…
TV Reviews12/8/19Dec 8 20191TV Reviews12/8/19B+TV ReviewsMidge learns an important lesson in The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselArielle Bernstein36As the title implies, “Kind of Bleu” is an episode about important realizations, as well as disappointments. It…
TV Reviews12/8/19Dec 8 2019SaveTV Reviews12/8/19ATV ReviewsEverything is sizzling as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel heads to MiamiArielle Bernstein60Everything is hot, hot, HOT in Miami, as Midge continues on the next leg of her tour at the gorgeous Fontainebleu…
TV Reviews12/7/19Dec 7 2019SaveTV Reviews12/7/19A-TV ReviewsThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel explores what Midge wantsArielle Bernstein46Who is the marvelous Mrs. Maisel exactly? Is she a woman who craves her freedom or a lady who continues to be bound…
TV Reviews12/7/19Dec 7 2019SaveTV Reviews12/7/19BTV ReviewsMidge lands in Sin City when The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel heads to VegasArielle Bernstein18“Panty Pose” is an episode about taking genuine risks, as each character explores new and untested waters. What…
TV Reviews12/6/19Dec 6 2019SaveTV Reviews12/6/19B+TV ReviewsEveryone is going through big changes on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Arielle Bernstein62One thing I love about The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is its commitment to allowing Midge to have a bad night. “It’s the…
TV Reviews12/6/19Dec 6 2019SaveTV Reviews12/6/19B+TV ReviewsMidge pursues her "bad feminist" dreams in the season premiere of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Arielle Bernstein34In the opening shot of “Strike Up the Band”, we see a close up of Midge’s face as she wakes from her one night stand…
TV Reviews12/9/18Dec 9 2018SaveTV Reviews12/9/18BTV ReviewsMidge figures out what she wants in the funny yet uneven season finale of The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselArielle Bernstein129If “Vote for Kennedy, Vote for Kennedy” was a pitch perfect episode, “All Alone” is a strangely uneven season…
TV Reviews12/9/18Dec 9 2018SaveTV Reviews12/9/18ATV ReviewsMidge shows just how far she's come when she gets her first TV gig in The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselArielle Bernstein23When Midge first hit the stage back in season 1, she was bold and funny, but she was also a train wreck, drunk on…