Category: HBO

Although not explicitly marketed as such, Zackary Drucker and Kristen Lovell’s latest documentary, The Stroll, can be seen as a haunting ghost story. As we accompany Kristen and her fellow…

As soon as I saw the opening credits sequence for HBO Max‘s new crime drama Love & Death, I understood the show was taking the “Big Little Lies approach” to…

With a deceptively simple plot, a somewhat evasive tone and a cast of stars who are far better known on the Other Side of the Pond, the new half-hour dramedy…

If the rule for covers of widely cherished songs — make it your own, or leave it alone — holds for adaptations of beloved television shows, then in one respect,…

Agreat number of prequels have risen and died in the three years since Game of Thrones came to an uneasy conclusion, but one has survived the long night of HBO…

Many of us have seen The Staircase before. Specifically, we saw it in the form of the 2004 docuseries that tracked the complicated murder case against Michael Peterson, a North…

A few episodes into “Our Flag Means Death,” aristocrat turned pirate ship captain Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) admires his spoils with a frisson of glee. “Why can’t one be a…

Julian Fellowes chased his new series, “The Gilded Age,” for a decade. Call it his white whale. Beginning Monday on HBO, you can watch it drag him and a large,…

The most striking homage to the legacy of “Sex and the City” in the new series “And Just Like That” lands like a bit of bitter irony, or a joke…