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Daniel Fienberg
Chief Television Critic
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Chief TV Critic Daniel Fienberg joined The Hollywood Reporter in 2015. A former president of the Television Critics Association, Fienberg also hosts THR's weekly television podcast, TV's Top 5, with Lesley Goldberg. If that's not enough Fienberg content, subscribe to THR's Now See This newsletter, which offers recommendations, reminders and silly puns every Friday afternoon.
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Hayden Panettiere’s Talent Never Got the Next Chapter It Deserved
'Heroes' and 'Nashville' let the actress evolve from precocity to maturity, but her personal struggles left that journey incomplete.
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‘Lanterns’ Review: Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre’s Chemistry Helps HBO’s Clever Action-Comedy Transcend Lackluster Superhero Backdrop
Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof and Tom King created the series, in which Hal Jordan and John Stewart bicker more than they kick intergalactic butt.
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Critics Pick Summer TV’s Beauties and Bores
A globe-conquering sports event, a searing feminist thriller and a refreshing YA drama emerged among the season’s winners. Others missed the mark.
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TV’s 15 Best Teen Dramas of All Time, Ranked
As two very different teen dramas — FX’s ‘The Shards’ and Amazon’s ‘Sterling Point’ — reel in nostalgic viewers, THR’s TV critics pick their favorite entries in a storied small-screen genre.
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‘Anna Pigeon’ Review: USA’s National Park-Set Drama Is a Disposable Combination of Pretty Vistas and Flimsy Plotting
Tracy Spiridakos plays a crime-solving ranger in this series adaptation of Nevada Barr's literary mysteries.
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‘Monsters of God’ Review: ‘Tiger King’ Director’s HBO Docuseries About Reptile Trafficking Is (Relatively) Sober and Nuanced
Eric Goode's new five-parter focuses on the lucrative and illegal business of trafficking exotic snakes, tortoises and lizards.
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‘The Shards’ Review: Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis Team Up for FX’s Predictably Excess-Soaked Tale of Prep-School Sex, Drugs and Murder
Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Hayes Warner, Graham Campbell and Kaia Gerber lead this series adaptation of Ellis' loosely autobiographical novel set in early-'80s Los Angeles.
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‘Fightland’ Review: 50 Cent’s London-Set Starz Drama Blends Boxing and Crime Clichés in Forgettable Ways
Howard Charles plays a former heavyweight champ who returns to London after eight years in prison, eager to upset a drug empire and exact revenge.
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The 25 Best Documentaries of All Time, Ranked
From 'Grey Gardens' to 'The Gleaners and I,' 'Gimme Shelter' to 'Grizzly Man' and beyond, THR critics pick their favorite non-fiction films of all time.
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‘President Curtis’ Review: Adult Swim’s ‘Rick and Morty’ Spinoff Lacks the Original’s Wild Inspiration but Improves as It Goes Along
Keith David voices President Andre Curtis in Dan Harmon and James Siciliano's American history-skewing animated series.
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‘Furious’ Review: Emmy Rossum and Lola Petticrew Lead Hulu’s Complex, Ultimately Satisfying Epstein-Era Serial Killer Thriller
Elizabeth Meriwether created the eight-part cat-and-mouse series, loosely based on the 1987 Debra Winger/Theresa Russell film 'Black Widow.'
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‘The Hawk’ Review: Will Ferrell and a Stellar Supporting Cast Are Wasted in Netflix’s Whiff of a Golf Comedy
Molly Shannon, Jimmy Tatro and Luke Wilson co-star in a show that will remind you of better golf comedies and Ferrell-fronted sports stories.
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