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Reason Online

Reason Online is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Glenn Garvin, Kurt Loder
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Title/Year
Author
1
Call Your Mother: Season 1 (TV, 2021)

Glenn Garvin

Oh, there are a few chuckles... More often, though, Call Your Mother is unleashing punchlines that misfire or just plain miss.
Posted Jan 8, 2021
2
Trickster: Miniseries (TV, 2021)

Glenn Garvin

Trickster isn't the worst of the genre, but that's light-years away from calling it good.
Posted Jan 8, 2021
3
Call Me Kat: Season 1 (TV, 2021)

Glenn Garvin

As for laughs, well, at UCLA, Bialik wrote a thesis for a doctorate in neuroscience called "Hypothalamic regulation in releation to maladaptive, obsessive-compulsive and satiety behaviors in Prader-Willi syndrome." You'll find more of them in there.
Posted Jan 6, 2021
4
Mr. Mayor: Season 1 (TV, 2021)

Glenn Garvin

The characters are all well-drawn and hysterical, but they are by no means the whole show. Like 30 Rock, the air on Mr. Mayor crackles with hilarity. Every throwaway line is subversively funny.
Posted Jan 6, 2021
5
The Stand: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Unfortunately, the sabotage of the novel's truly enthralling story-telling leaves its ideology as its strongest element.
Posted Dec 13, 2020
6
The Wilds: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Like slumber parties, The Wilds bounces around from silly to interesting and back. It's helped by some very good performances, particularly that of Sarah Pidgeon.
Posted Dec 4, 2020
7
The Flight Attendant: Miniseries (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

It's a blackly hilarious comedy, a grim character study, a slow unraveling of a troubling past, a dazzling coming-out party for comedienne Kaley Cuoco as a lead actress and, yeah, a vexatiously fascinating murder mystery.
Posted Nov 20, 2020
8
Big Sky: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Big Sky is a wild, fast, and contorted ride that leaves its audience gasping -- sometimes for breath, sometimes to control gag reflexes.
Posted Nov 16, 2020
9
Murder on Middle Beach: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Murder on Middle Beach is like watching a surgeon wield a scalpel on his own body, uncovering new layers of infection every time he cuts. It's hard to say what's more horrifying -- that he keeps carving or that you keep watching.
Posted Nov 6, 2020
10
B Positive: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Somehow during all the raucous punchlines, some engaging characters start to show up... They turn out to be likeable.
Posted Oct 30, 2020
11
The Undoing: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Exquisitely written and acted, melding doubt, tension, wit and occasional outright terror into simmering pots of dread.
Posted Oct 23, 2020
12
Devils: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

With Devils, the fall season ends not with a bang but a surly grunt.
Posted Oct 6, 2020
13
Swamp Thing: Season 1 (TV, 2018-2019)

Glenn Garvin

While Swamp Thing is determinedly derivative -- or rip-off-ish, if you prefer -- its extraordinary execution makes it a lot of spooky fun to watch.
Posted Oct 2, 2020
14
neXt: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Next, with its deranged riffs on the existential threats of coffee pots and cell phones, seems more of the here and now.
Posted Oct 2, 2020
15
Star Trek: Discovery: Season 3 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

For hard-core Trekkies, this is one of several unforgiveable deviations from canonical truth. The rest of us can just sit back and enjoy the smell of photon torpedoes in the morning.
Posted Sep 28, 2020
16
Cosmos: Possible Worlds: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

It's got too many CGI special effects; too much distorting of voices and blurring images, giving the unsettling feeling of a bad 1960s movie about LSD... and, mostly, too much Tyson.
Posted Sep 28, 2020
17
Fargo: Season 4 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Buckley's daft performance is the star turn of a very talented cast. Evaluating the rest of the show, however, is more difficult, particularly its attempt to establish a moral footing for itself.
Posted Sep 28, 2020
18
Manhunt: Deadly Games (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

The stupidly-titled Manhunt: Deadly Games is a crisp, absorbing recounting of the search for the bomber who killed two people and injured 150 others at the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta.
Posted Sep 18, 2020
19
Filthy Rich: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

The only thing more hacky than the script is Cattrall's wayward Southern accent.
Posted Sep 18, 2020
20
L.A.'s Finest: Season 1 (TV, 2019)

Glenn Garvin

L.A.'s Finest is a female-buddy cop drama that shows a deft touch in mixing tart humor with impressively violent action sequences.
Posted Sep 18, 2020
21
Van Der Valk: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Van der Valk is a pure, hard-boiled throwback to the days of Mickey Spillane and Jim Thompson.
Posted Sep 11, 2020
22
Woke: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Hulu's new comedy series Woke is little short of a miracle. It manages to carefully and very funnily thread a needle through a political and social straitjacket.
Posted Sep 4, 2020
23
Lovecraft Country: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Pulp horror stories are best consumed in a single, quick encounter, before their limitations of plot and characterization become too obvious to ignore. Lovecraft Country is reduced to one of the walking dead long before its final credits roll.
Posted Aug 14, 2020
24
We Hunt Together: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

It's twice as gory, twice as creepy, and twice as much fun as anything else you've seen this summer.
Posted Aug 7, 2020
25
Hitmen: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

The humor is darker than a witch's heart, most of it consisting of pranks played on people who are about to have their brains blown out. Surprisingly, this gets old after about the first five minutes.
Posted Jul 31, 2020
26
Coroner: Season 1 (TV, 2019)

Glenn Garvin

The very essence of Canadian tepidity.
Posted Jul 31, 2020
27
Tell Me a Story: Season 1 (TV, 2018)

Glenn Garvin

The veteran Williamson can really rattle your bones even when he's not necessarily engaging your intellect. And he certainly does so with Tell Me a Story, in which a bunch of dull and seemingly unrelated stories suddenly merge into a shudder-filled whole.
Posted Jul 24, 2020
28
Helter Skelter: An American Myth: Miniseries (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

The six-part Helter Skelter: An American Myth is the most comprehensive documentary on Charles Manson and his pathological family, the most thorough, and the most fascinating. It's excellent journalism and great television.
Posted Jul 20, 2020
29
Stateless: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Stateless is not a work of propaganda. It's a drama, and a fine one. The characters' evolution as they're exposed to the immigration center and trapped in webs of secretive contradictions that ruin careers and families produces irresistible story lines.
Posted Jul 10, 2020
30
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

I'll Be Gone in the Dark as an account of a true-crime blogger's pursuit of a serial killer is a confused, confusing, and yet compelling piece of work.
Posted Jul 6, 2020
31
Kevin Can Wait: Season 1 (TV, 2016-2017)

Glenn Garvin

Like that one, the punchlines fly thick, fast and pointed in Kevin Can Wait, and enough of them land to make it a diverting, if unenlightening, experience.
Posted Jun 24, 2020
32
Angel From Hell: Season 1 (TV, 2016)

Glenn Garvin

[Lynch's] chemistry with Lawson is the best since Madame Curie hooked up with radium, and just as radioactive.
Posted Jun 24, 2020
33
Perry Mason: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Matthew Rhys uses self-mocking wit and caustic charisma to make you love a guy who is not the least bit lovable. Perry Mason is the ugliest fun-to-watch show since Showtime's cuddly serial-killer-next-door series Dexter left the air.
Posted Jun 22, 2020
34
Agent X: Season 1 (TV, 2015)

Glenn Garvin

How this nutball script ever attracted such a talented cast... is a question for the ages.
Posted Jun 19, 2020
35
Into The Dark: Season 2 - Good Boy (TV Episode)

Glenn Garvin

Good Boy is well-served by the unlikely but undeniable chemistry between Greer and Chico, who plays her loyal canine pal Reuben.
Posted Jun 12, 2020
36
I May Destroy You: Miniseries (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

I'm sure Coel intended to say something important about sex, consent and male sexual privilege. But the net effect of all her confused impulses is a kind of your-parents-warned-you video about the dangers of stoner dissolution.
Posted Jun 5, 2020
37
Laurel Canyon: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Laurel Canyon is a warm remembrance of things past for anybody who was part of the 1960s, and an instructive text about why we loved it so much for anybody who wasn't. It's history, it's gossip, it's a love letter, and you can dance to it.
Posted Jun 1, 2020
38
The Great: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Historically bonkers, but so witty it will make your brain melt.
Posted May 22, 2020
39
Telenovela: Season 1 (TV, 2015)

Glenn Garvin

A lot of Telenovela's humor will stretch across any cultural divide.
Posted May 20, 2020
40
Snowpiercer: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

The smoothly played cat-and-mouse game between the equally deceptive Cavill and Layton is far more interesting than the class-warfare plot, partly because it's better written and partly because Connelly and Diggs are extraordinary talents.
Posted May 15, 2020
41
I Know This Much Is True: Miniseries (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

The obvious question is why or even how anybody could or would sit through such a thing. And the answer, equally obvious to anyone who watches even five minutes, is the awesome performance of Mark Ruffalo as both twins.
Posted May 8, 2020
42
Mrs. America: Miniseries (TV, 2020)

Kurt Loder

Schlafly was a dark-mirror reflection of the angry feminists she so ferociously opposed.
Posted May 8, 2020
43
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

[Natalie Dormer's] four performances are a real tour de force... But they're undone by Executive Producer John Logan and his writers' room, whose favorite direction is over the top.
Posted Apr 24, 2020
44
Little Fires Everywhere: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

It's a show that's sometimes funny, sometimes, touching, often disturbing, and almost always hard to look away from except in horror.
Posted Apr 20, 2020
45
Belgravia: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

[Has] a generous supply of cutting dialogue, withering glares, and a cast of Brit television actors that know exactly how to deploy them. It glows with Dickensian villainy. Against all odds, Belgravia is both interesting and entertaining.
Posted Apr 10, 2020
46
Broke: Season 1 (TV, 2019)

Glenn Garvin

Broke crackles with acerbic wit and precision-timed physical humor.
Posted Apr 3, 2020
47
NOVA: Season 47 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

Partly an absorbing exploration of the use of immunology in the treatment of cancer, and partly an embarrassingly puffy ode to the Castro brothers' totalitarian island.
Posted Mar 27, 2020
48
Tiger King: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Kurt Loder

Nothing in this-not the bad clothes, the bad haircuts, the lamentable life choices-suggests an origin here on Earth. Or maybe I just need to get out more.
Posted Mar 27, 2020
49
Spy Wars with Damian Lewis: Series 1 (TV, 2019)

Glenn Garvin

Captivating... Spy Wars resembles a chess match more than a Bond movie, a series of strategic mole wars, full of fakes and feints.
Posted Mar 20, 2020
50
The Plot Against America: Season 1 (TV, 2020)

Glenn Garvin

If you ignore the show's macropolitical level and focus instead on its characters and their little chunk of the world, the superlative story-telling skills of Simon and Burns assert themselves.
Posted Mar 13, 2020