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Nothing disappoints me more than a TV show that fails to live up to the expectations set by its first season. It’s called the “sophomore slump.” It happens more often than you think. Some shows deliver a near-perfect first season before taking a noticeable dip in quality.

When Halloween rolls around, it’s hard to resist a good horror story, especially when there’s a killer on the loose and nobody is safe. Who doesn’t love a good slasher during this time of the year, right? It’s almost like this plot delivers everything you’d want for a proper horror night. And while movies are…

AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” has become one of the most distinctive shows on television. It oozes style, boasts titanic, almost operatic performances, and even became a full-on musical (sort of) in its most recent season. It’s a masterclass in high genre and cataclysmic emotional stakes.

Though Netflix sometimes has a reputation for prioritizing quantity over quality, the streamer offers plenty of choice programming for your next binge-watch. One area where they’ve found success is book-to-screen adaptations, and novels have provided material for many of their best shows. Books don’t always translate well to the small screen, but these series honor…

There’s a reason that HBO is considered in the minds of many to be synonymous with prestige television. After taking off with hit shows like “The Sopranos,” “Band of Brothers,” and more in the late 1990s and early 2000s — not to mention the cultural phenomenon that was “Game of Thrones” for eight seasons from…

Books are a reliablege part of Hollywood today. As a longtime bookseller, Amazon knows this better than most, and Prime Video has churned out a number of excellent small-screen adaptations of novels over the last decade

So, you’ve finally finished “The Sopranos.” If you’re not still trying to make sense of the finale that broke the internet, you’re probably trying to figure out what — if anything – could possibly live up to the series you’ve just experienced. Few television dramas have managed to match its combination of sharp writing, morally complicated characters,…

Outsized emotions, awkward interactions with your peers, the struggle of trying to figure out who you are — these are some of the experiences that characterize life as a teenager. The highs and lows of being a young adult make for great television, which is probably why the genre is so popular among viewers of…

Some of the best World War II stories were made for television rather than the big screen.

We’re hitting the halfway point of October, and despite some unseasonably warm temperatures on the East Coast of the United States (where I happen to generally reside), we’re all looking forward to this perfectly crisp season. We’re baking sourdough. We’re pulling our sweaters out of storage. We’re picking apples and making pies. We’re thinking about…