Reviews
Primetimer's reviewers weigh in on what you should (and shouldn't) be watching
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POSTED April 22, 2021
94 and Going Strong, David Attenborough Dazzles Again With Life in Color
For Earth Day, though, Attenborough’s other Netflix series has a more urgent message about the planet.
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POSTED April 14, 2021
Jamie Foxx Returns to Sitcom TV, But David Alan Grier Steals the Show
Netflix’s grown-up comedy Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! starts slow but eventually finds its groove.
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POSTED March 16, 2021
Can Michelle Obama's Kids' TV Series Do What Public Policy Can't?
In Waffles + Mochi, the former First Lady uses puppets, cartoons, and celebrity guests to cajole families into eating better.
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POSTED March 10, 2021
On Last Chance U: Basketball, a Coach For Whom Basketball Is More Than a Game
The first Black coach on the Netflix docu-franchise shows why we need sports back.
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POSTED February 16, 2021
Amend Is a Worthy Sequel to Netflix’s 13TH
Will Smith and his celebrity friends lend a lively, upbeat tone to this exploration of America's constitution.
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POSTED February 15, 2021
Marian Anderson’s Story Is Made Whole in a Powerful PBS Film
Voice of Freedom puts the singer known for her 1939 concert into the overall picture of systemic racism.
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POSTED February 4, 2021
Apple TV+’s Snoopy Show Proves Who’s the Real Star of “Peanuts”
Charlie Brown may have been Charles Schulz’s alter ego, but these days it’s all about the dog (and his feathered friend).
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POSTED January 26, 2021
Netflix's We Are: The Brooklyn Saints Is an Encouraging Story About Football and Manhood
Rudy Valdez's new docuseries about an inner-city boys football team is more about the coaches than the players.
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POSTED January 22, 2021
Losing Alice Is About the Midlife Crisis Hollywood Doesn’t Talk About
The Apple TV+ psychothriller from Sigal Avin traces the unraveling of a female film director.
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POSTED January 21, 2021
HBO’s Painting with John Is a Work of Art Itself
The man behind the cult classic Fishing with John creates another original.
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POSTED January 6, 2021
Netflix’s Pretend It’s A City Is the 2021 Reset We Need
Famed New Yorker Fran Lebowitz reminds us that someday we’ll get back to doing normal things — like complaining about New Yorkers.
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POSTED December 30, 2020
Amazon Prime’s Yearly Departed Is Just Like 2020
It started out promisingly. And then …
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POSTED December 21, 2020
Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall Is the Feel-Good Political Film We Need
The O.G. of Slow TV went to Boston to capture a government of the people and for the people.
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POSTED December 7, 2020
With Nurses, Canada Comes to America’s Rescue — Again
A diverse, well-paced Toronto medical drama plugs a hole in NBC’s schedule. (It should do well on Peacock, too.)
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POSTED November 27, 2020
CNBC's Empires of New York Is the Eighties as TV Remembers It
The new docuseries offers flashy profiles of five New Yorkers the media loved to cover, including a certain loudmouth developer.