Darren Franich

Darren Franich

Darren is a TV Critic. Follow him on Twitter @DarrenFranich for opinions and recommendations.

Steve McQueen's boldly unclassifiable five-part investigation into Black history couldn't compete with superheroes.
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Mike White's HBO miniseries travels to a vacation resort full of bitter resentment and awkward self-discovery.
In HBO Max's sequel to 'Gossip Girl,' a new generation struggles to balance trashy-rich thrills with aspirational self-seriousness.
Short answer: No. Long answer: Only by changing everything.
The host left late night in a sincere, meandering, clip-heavy finale.
We're already halfway through the year and EW's TV critics couldn't narrow their best-of list down to 10. Nature is healing!
It's brutal out here; thankfully, we have 14 new records to get us through it.
Returning director Justin Lin rediscovers the franchise's over-the-top sincerity, but problems persist in this way-too-huge sequel.
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And GaTa is better than ever.
We're getting more Marvel Studios than ever before. But is Hollywood's most successful franchise haunted by its own legacy?
Annie Murphy stars as a desperately unhappy sitcom wife in AMC's 'Kevin Can F**K Himself,' but EW's critics aren't loving this marriage of multicam comedy and dark drama.
Two critics debate Terrence Malick's family-and-everything-else epic.
Tom Cruise stars, but Jon Voight is the brisk thriller's monstrous soul.
Netflix's ridiculous bloodfest has the right hero and an unusual villain.
HBO's historical fantasy reveals its fascinating true mission in the midseason finale.
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Colson Whitehead's prize-winning novel becomes an expansive miniseries.
Renée Elise Goldsberry and Sara Bareilles star in Peacock's musical comedy about Y2K pop stars reuniting for an unlikely comeback.
Good weird, bad weird, artsy weird, revolutionary weird, Glenn Close doing "Da Butt" weird. Weird!
Anthony Mackie and Carl Lumbly starred in the show that should have been. Everyone else starred in a Civil War rehash. Yeesh, that costume.
"Two Futures" has a darkest timeline that looks too familiar.
Orion Lee and John Magaro gave awards-worthy performances in Kelly Reichardt's overlooked moral fable/bovine heist thriller.
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Ten years after HBO's fantasy epic premiered, its patience is a lost virtue.
All four seasons of the cosmically mysterious cartoon are on HBO Max now.
Kate Winslet plays a troubled cop in HBO's miniseries.