"As the titular fight stretches from those initial moments across days, weeks, and months, Beef does a fine job balancing Amy and Danny’s practical intelligence and impractical passions; their bitterness toward the other driver ebbs and flows as their personal lives better or worsen, and it’s in these moments that the half-hour drama thrives. The series isn’t interested in picking sides. It’s designed to evoke empathy for each combatant, while exploring their shared humanity and collective hardships."

—Ben Travers

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"The series is a prequel to Grease, the 1978 film itself adapted from the 1971 stage musical... The film became a cultural sensation (raking in $366.2 million at the global box office) thanks in part to the memorable supporting cast, especially the Pink Ladies girl gang led by Stockard Channing as the hard-edged Rizzo. Rise of the Pink Ladies tells the origin story of the Pink Ladies, set in 1954 (four years before the original film) and chronicles how the original members of the group came to rule Rydell High."

—Wilson Chapman

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"The pandemic briefly brought the industries to a halt, and forced productions to make massive changes once work was able to resume — but many shows opted not to center their storylines on COVID at all. That’s one of the many things that makes P-Valley, a show about a business that relies on physical closeness, so unique... That mirror had to begin with the residents of Chucalissa. The show’s crafts artists took every opportunity to use design choices to illustrate characters’ pandemic-induced internal turmoil without sacrificing what made them great in the first place."

—Christian Zilko

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"Beyond the endearing nostalgia, the series boasted an intriguing, layered mystery and a dynamite cast comprised mainly of breakthrough child actors... Waffles and nosebleeds and D&D were changed forever. When the series concludes it will have run for almost 10 years and five seasons, the last of which have some of Netflix’s longest runtimes and largest production budgets... Like its villain, the show mutates, moving from classic sci-fi to spy thriller to full-on bloody horror in later seasons." 

—Proma Khosla

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"She’s creepy and she’s kooky, mysterious and spooky, and all together uber-popular. “Wednesday,” the Netflix teen-comedy series about everybody’s favorite “Addams Family” member, has broken the streaming service’s record for the most hours viewed in a week for an English-language series.

According to numbers shared by Netflix, more than 50 million households watched 341.23 million hours of “Wednesday” during its first week of availability, from its debut on (appropriately) Wednesday, November 23, through Sunday, November 27."

— Wilson Chapman

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"It’s downright weird to watch the adults hang out, drink, and laugh together at the end of the day — but also heartwarming. The disconnect comes from knowing that while do share uniquely horrible life experience, they did not necessarily weather their trauma as a united front. Nat asks the key question: 'How much do you guys remember?' It’s the first explicit acknowledgement of how much the Yellowjackets repress, or maybe didn’t commit to memory in the first place. It explains why Shauna and Lottie can cheerfully drink together in this scene like one of them didn’t previously beat the other to the brink of death."

—Proma Khosla

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