The show and the restaurant still have their cracks. The Faks still attack, we meet unnecessary new characters, and the series remains a savory drama with comedy sprinkles. .... But if the superb, affecting penultimate episode is any indication of what’s to come, The Bear‘s series finale should eat.

We still like a lot about Sugar, including Farrell’s perormance as well as the show’s film noir look and feel, but after the first season’s revelations, the show needs to have something more than just a missing-person mystery to make it not feel like it’s going backwards.

America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders continues to do a good job of showing how much the hopefuls and veterans work and sacrifice to make the DCC squad. We just wish the format was a little different this season.

Patience continues to be an effective mystery series because of Ella Maisy Purvis’ portrayal of a person who is on the autism spectrum who puts her abilities to use in the best way she knows how.

House of the Dragon Season 3 transcends television and is sheer explosive entertainment.

Let Rebecca Hall guide you down a rabbit hole of auditory madness — and maybe a kind of ecstasy? — in The Listeners. We heard you’re gonna love it.

Outlast: The Jungle is a good continuation of the Outlast franchise, adding heat and torrential downpours to the hazards the show’s players have to face in order to collect a share of the $1 million prize.

The Evil Lawyer is a bit overdramatic, but it sets up an intriguing scenario where Jittri and Mek defend more impossible clients while Mek faces his own fate in court.

Calabasas Confidential has what it takes to become Netflix’s next big reality show.

The Art Of Sarah looks like it’s going to be an intriguing, multilayered mystery about a woman who built a luxurious life from a complex lie and the cop that figures those lies out.

Alice And Steve gets funnier the more the tension between Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement’s characters ramps up. But the effective way their friendship is established is what makes the tension work.

The Vampire Lestat is a bit of a left turn in the Interview With The Vampire story, but it’s campy fun with good music and a Lestat that is funnier the more seriously he takes himself.

Despite some issues with the first episode of Cape Fear, we enjoyed Javier Bardem’s lower-key Max Cady so much that we definitely want to see how he inflicts himself into the lives of Anna Bowden and her family.

Regardless of whether you’re a Critical Role fan, Dungeons & Dragons player, or a returning viewer of The Legend of Vox Machina, if you love strong animation, well-written characters, an intriguing plot, and a big adventure, then do yourself a favor and STREAM IT.

Jeremy Clarkson loves knowing everything, even when he doesn’t know anything, and this inherent conflict continues its bountiful crop yield in Season 5 of Clarkson’s Farm. It’s a consistently fun show, because you can see the contours of Top Gear and The Grand Tour within it, how the host combines thoughtful observations with smart-alecky asides.

Everybody around the space program knows what they’re not allowed to say, and yet a lot of them feel tempted to say it. Which is a tension we can believe in as the series continues to unfold its detailed alternate reality.

Rafa is hardly the first documentary following the final days of an athlete’s career, but it’s one of the only ones that feels brave enough to show the depth of sacrifice made for glory.

The dynamics of Deli Boys have changed as DarCo’s business has grown, but there are still enough funny moments to make the second season fun to watch.

While the plot of the second season of The Good Girl’s Guide To Murder feels a bit less focused than the previous season’s story, it’s still watchable because Emma Myers and the community of friends that help Pip investigate things.

The second season of The Four Seasons doesn’t quite have the same fun group dynamic that the first season had, but it still has funny moments and more than enough chemistry between its cast members to be very watchable.

As comprehensive as World War II With Tom Hanks seems it will be, even people who consider themselves experts in World War II might learn some new information about the massive conflagaration during the show’s 20 episode.

Spider-Noir is a good looking show, that should be fun to watch in either black-and-white or color, but it’s boosted by Cage’s performance and a knack for nailing the classic detective noir genre.

Berlin And The Lady With An Ermine has lost none of the Berlin series’ charm or joie de vivre. It’s still a show that’s more fun than thought-provoking, which is exactly what it’s intended to be.

The stellar cast of The Boroughs is the biggest reason to watch this series, even if the story might be a bit predictable.

It’s Not Like That is a multigenerational family drama that shines due to fine writing and acting and fantastic chemistry between Scott Foley and Erinn Hayes.

As overstuffed as Rivals is, the back and forth between Tony and Rupert is so delicious to watch that the frustration over the underserved storylines is secondary to the viewing experience.

Dutton Ranch nicely foregrounds their relationship – a boon for fans coming over from Yellowstone – and immediately plunges Beth, Rip, Carter, and their very livelihood into tons of new trouble.

There is a lot about Nemesis that’s clunky and cliche. But we liked the performances of both Law and Noel, and we hope that the complexity of both of their characters’ lives will be explored with more depth as the series goes along.