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Ben Travers

Ben Travers

Critic & Deputy Editor, TV at Indiewire

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'Our Flag Means Death' Season 2 Review: Be Careful What You ... - IndieWire

David Jenkins and Taika Waititi’s pirate romance hits choppy waters in a second season that’s matured its story yet dulled its dynamic.
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‘Frasier’ Review: New Frasier Isn’t Quite the Old Frasier (Reboot) ...

The Paramount+ series, starring Kelsey Grammer and no one else from the original “Frasier” (or “Cheers”), is decent by revival standards, but suffers by comparison.
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‘Fall of House of Usher’ Review: Netflix Show Fights Rich, Real Gho...

For his annual Netflix horror story, the “Haunting of Hill House” director riffs on Edgar Allan Poe while broadly skewering undying greed.
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'Lessons in Chemistry' Review: Apple TV Show Doesn't Come ... - Ind...

Brie Larson’s Apple TV+ adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’ bestselling novel can’t balance its saccharine love story with so many “surprises.”
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'The Curse' Premiere Casts a Spell on NYFF, with Nathan Fielder ......

The New York Film Festival screened the first three episodes of Showtime’s upcoming comedy series, as fans laughed, cheered, and squirmed — while the co-creators sat and watched.
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'Fellow Travelers' Review: Showtime's Steamy Romance Strikes a ... ...

Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey power a poignant adaptation of Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel, as two lovers trapped in an era of feigned freedoms.
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Matthew Perry's Sarcasm Made Him a Star. His Sincerity Made Him ......

The actor, who died Saturday night, was a sitcom icon whose lasting impact is as much a credit to his earnest naturalism as his scorching wit.

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'The Gilded Age' Season 2 Review: Too Nice For TV, Even for ... - I...

Class warfare fought along a ladder laid flat, Julian Fellowes’ HBO drama somehow slackens its season-long social squabbles beyond their already innocuous status.
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‘Billions’ Finale: Creators on Secrets You May Have Missed —Spoiler...

Brian Koppelman and David Levien speak to IndieWire about the motives, music, and moral uncertainty built into “Billions” final season.
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Bass Reeves Review: Taylor Sheridan 'Lawmen' Series Is Criminally ....

Less interested in Bass Reeves than the policing framework he provides, Taylor Sheridan’s seasonal anthology series is about as boilerplate as they come.
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'The Curse' Review: Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder's Shocking ... - ...

Following a married couple as they shoot an HGTV show, Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s Showtime series is a shocking, razor-sharp satire of, well, quite a lot.