Jason Bateman and Laura Linney in OzarkPhoto: Netflix Ozark’s final episodes are baffling. Not because they don’t do exactly the sort of thing Netflix’s ludicrous crime thriller has been doing since 2017, but because they do so with a sentimentality that’s uncharacteristically sappy. For a drama boasting multiple jump-scare executions and the unhinged depths of […]
Photo: MARK RALSTON/AFP (Getty Images) After months of “razzle-dazzle“and hullabaloo, the 2022 Oscars ceremony is now only days away. It’s time to finally see who will land at the top of the acting categories, and which film will take home the top prize for Best Picture. Ahead of the big night, The AV Club has […]
One of these two women is my best dressed for The Gilded Age season finale, and for once it wasn’t Carrie CoonPhoto: Alison Cohen Rosa/HBO Agnes: I feel like I’ve been watching a play in a foreign language After ending last week’s episode with Mrs. Russell being unceremoniously shoved out of the Astor home, the […]
Donald Glover and Bryan Tyree Henry in season two of AtlantaPhoto: Guy D’Alema/FX Atlanta ended its second season with a rep as one of the best shows on television. And it was well deserved: The series combined sublime comedy, high drama, piercing truths about relationships and race, and boundary-busting excursions into farce, surrealism, and horror, […]
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