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A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “Headspace,” coming up just as soon as I jazz scat… The title of “Headspace” primarily points to this week’s Keeley-Roy plot, a very smart bit of business that creates a temporary hiccup in their relationship without undercutting what makes them such an entertaining …

A review of “Jig-a-Bobo,” this week’s Lovecraft Country, coming up just as soon as that Cream of Wheat ad watches me go… “The white folks, they just keep coming.” —Montrose Running a television show is such an all-consuming job that you can’t blame the people who do it for not …

A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “Trying,” coming up just as soon as I slut-shame a guinea pig… That is very much more like it. In recent weeks, I’ve grown a bit frustrated with Nine-Nine not only repeating old patterns, but ones that the show had mostly evolved beyond, …

A review of the penultimate episode of The Good Place, “Patty,” coming up just as soon as I sign like a middle-school girl with a crush on Zac Efron… What happens when you die? Of all the Big Questions humanity has been asking going back to the caveman days, that …

A review of this week’s The Deuce, “This Trust Thing,” coming up just as soon as I stand on your menu… “I gotta go, Vince.” This is Mike, late in this hour that comes late in the series. He has recently been diagnosed as HIV-positive, and his recent bout with …

Another The Good Place season has come to an end. A review of the finale, “Pandemonium,” coming up just as soon as I set up Drake and Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a secret couple … Even a show like The Good Place that takes such pleasure in surprising and confounding …

Mass shootings, police brutality, the prison industrial complex, a telepath or two — OK, so Castle Rock isn’t strictly a case of art imitating life. But its very good fourth episode — “The Box” — contains enough real-world ugliness to make the supernatural stuff almost superfluous. (Almost.) It’s the clearest …