More than a decade after the swift cancellation of the underrated show “Enlisted,” Fox has taken another bite at the apple of a broadcast workplace sitcom set within the United States military. As with its predecessor, the midseason premiere “Going Dutch” counters the global scope of its central employer with the intimate one of immediate […]

Toward the end of “Lockerbie: A Search for Truth,” Jim Swire (Colin Firth) meets a woman who asks about the pin on his lapel. When he explains it’s to honor the victims of the infamous bombing, her face draws a blank. More than 20 years earlier, Jim lost his daughter in the 1988 attack, which […]

Ruby Yao (Stephanie Hsu), the protagonist of the Peacock comedy “Laid,” is variously described as “selfish,” “a nightmare,” “the worst person I have ever met” and belonging “in jail.” Hsu’s performance and Ruby’s characterization as a whole are indeed intensely off-putting, in ways both intentional and not. But Ruby’s karmic comeuppance in this series, adapted […]

It is seemingly not possible for “Dexter,” as a franchise, to move forward. In the final moments of the sequel series “New Blood,” which aired eight years after the original series finale in 2013, Michael C. Hall’s serial killer was fatally shot. (Or at least, he appeared to be — more on that in a […]

An open house event for an upscale home already resembles a game of “Clue”: affluent people from various walks of life, gathered together in a large, attractive space. All that’s missing from this ready-made setup is a dead body, a gap easily filled by creator Liz Feldman in the Netflix black comedy “No Good Deed.” […]