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As a detective story, it’s top-of-the-line, and its detective is a character that will endure long after the mystery is solved.

Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin lead one of TV’s best ensemble casts in a sharp season that’s even better than the first.

Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw shine in a story of thwarted gay love and revenge in Amazon’s new limited series.

“Queer Eye” was always fun TV, but, in ways that are realer than reality TV tends to get, it’s now verging on great.

In its pre-Broadway version premiering in Chicago, “The Cher Show” sings but doesn’t soar.

West coast audiences are treated to the rare pleasure of seeing Tom Hanks on stage as the actor reinterprets Shakespeare’s buffoon.

Lucy Barton’s personal meditation blossoms into something bigger than itself — a portrait of America, even of history as a whole.

Jim Parsons heads a super ensemble in this revival of Mart Crowley’s landmark play about gay friends at a birthday party.

Listening to “Scorpion” feels less like taking a journey than circling around and around on a cul-de-sac in a luxurious gated community.

How does Beyonce and Jay-Z’s “Everything Is Love” rate as an album? Solid and generally satisfying, but not the best from either.

On Christina Aguilera’s “Liberation,” it’s clear she wants to move further toward hip-hop.

If this is all another chapter in his long saga of outrages he’s daring fans to indulge, maybe it’s time to say “enough.”