‘The Underground Railroad’: Barry Jenkins’s transfixing adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel is fabulistic yet grittily real.Īfter the titles, we find Ted back in Sharon’s office, where he’d collapsed on the sofa last week. ‘Succession’: In the cutthroat HBO drama about a family of media billionaires, being rich is nothing like it used to be. ‘Dickinson’: The Apple TV+ series is a literary superheroine’s origin story that’s dead serious about its subject yet unserious about itself. ‘Inside’: Written and shot in a single room, Bo Burnham’s comedy special, streaming on Netflix, turns the spotlight on internet life mid-pandemic. Here are some of the highlights selected by The Times’s TV critics: Television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope. While yelling at other parts of the newspaper - “Let me know if they ever talk back,” says Nate’s mother - he ignores the back-page story about his suddenly famous, soccer-coach son. But his father is still utterly dismissive. As self-evidently wonderful as Roy is, living with Angry Yoda 24/7 does sound a bit exhausting.Īnd then, another subplot, more concerning still: Nate is obsessed with social media declaring him a hero after the win over Tottenham. 
At least, that’s how things feel for Keeley. To Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe,” the show posits the downside of a perfect relationship: Your jobs, interests and romantic ideals overlap so utterly that you are around each other every single minute. Let’s instead start at the beginning of the episode.
What we do know is a little bit more about Ted and the journey he appears to be on this season. We don’t even know their next opponent in the FA Cup, following last week’s shocking upset of Tottenham Hotspur. We still have no idea of AFC Richmond’s chances of rejoining the Premier League. At last: A clear vision of the trajectory of this season - hinted at last week - has come into focus.
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