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The Righteous Gemstones | Neon, from Monday ☆☆☆☆ “Coarse, loud and laced with heart … Danny McBride’s new HBO comedy expands on the sensibilities of Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals to tackle the tacky world of megachurches … As treatments of in-family cannibalism go, The Righteous Gemstones is a complementary, more overtly comedic, portrait […]

Quarry rock solid … Where’s Atlanta? … Employable Me pink slipped … The early reviews of SoHo’s newest drama series, Quarry, which premieres today week, suggest it’s not to be missed. TV Guide hailed it as a “compellingly extreme thriller” while Entertainment Weekly said “shows like this only click when you’re having some nasty fun, and fortunately we get […]

Vice Principals (SoHo, 9.00 Thursday) “In HBO’s meticulously unhinged new comedy, Danny McBride and Walton Goggins play the titular seconds-in-command at a typical American high school … Episode 1 promises a slow burn — but by episode 2, fires are starting. McBride has announced that Vice Principals is an 18-episode closed saga, and there’s a clarity of purpose in […]

Next month SoHo will premiere a New York City crime drama from Oscar-winning writer Steven Zaillian that could be the channel’s most electrifying series since the original True Detective. According to the publicity, The Night Of  “delves into the intricacies of a complex New York City murder case with compelling cultural and political overtones … through multiple, […]