The second season of "Severance" is still months away, but "Sunny" seems at least superficially ready to fulfull a similar niche: an actor people know from "Parks & Rec" (Rashida Jones) in a dark Apple TV+ comedy/drama with an unsettling sci-fi premise. Jones's character lives in a near-future Japan where talking service robots are fully integrated into society, and Jones hates them because a robot killed her father. But the titular robot, Sunny, is her only companion as she tries to solve the mystery of her missing husband and son, so a lot of the show is her having surly conversations with a chipper robot. Creator Katie Robbins has mostly written on more conventional cable drama fare ("The Affair," "The Last Tycoon"), so I'm a little surprised but I think she's come up with something pretty promising here. 

Everybody knows Lady Jane Grey died at 17. What this show presupposes is, maybe she didn't? It feels like there are so many shows like this now: soapy, irreverent historical shows full of modern dialogue and 21st century pop music, and often race blind casting and fantasy elements. "The Great" and "Dickinson" and "Mary & George" are the best of these, "Bridgerton" kind of counts too and has its moments, but "My Lady Jane" is in the just alright category with "The Buccaneers." Why are there people shapeshifting into animals? What the hell is going on? 

A Netflix show about people in London who start to develop superpowers. It follows a lot of the conventions of the superhero origin story genre, but is much more about the characters than the action scenes, I like it. 

Apple TV+ is slowly starting to make more non-English language shows, and this one takes place in Spain but has a familiar American star, Eva Longoria. A nice character-driven dramedy, don't love it but it's pleasant and sometimes funny or poignant. 

Tatiana Maslany starred in the original "Orphan Black" and then "She-Hulk: Attorney At Law," and Krysten Ritter starred in "Jessica Jones" and now "Orphan Black: Echoes," which makes me feel like there's an MCU/"Orphan Black" exchange program going on. Maslany's virtuoso performance as several clones with distinct personalities was always a big part of the draw of the original series, so I'm surprised that's not really the point of the spinoff, which simply takes place in the same narrative a few decades later, with the daughter of Maslany's character as a supporting character. I like it so far, but at a few episodes in I feel like I'm still waiting to see what the point of it all is supposed to be. 

I am fine with the consensus that "The Bear" is one of the best shows on television, but I do sympathize with the vocal detractors and understand a lot of the criticisms. My two least favorite episodes so far are the season 2 Thanksgiving episode that was overstuffed with celebrity cameos, and the season 3 premiere that was basically one long, interminable montage with frequent clips of the famous people from the Thanksgiving episode. After that rough patch, though, I mostly really enjoyed season 3. Neil was a very likeable character until they started constantly pairing him up with a similar but more broadly comedic character, Teddy, in the most tiresomely sitcommy scenes on the show, but there was a lot of great stuff, including the episode centered on Tina and the episode that introduced "Billions" creator Brian Koppelman as an obnoxious character named Computer. 

The first three seasons of "Shoresy" had a really enjoyable arc that is basically the end of Shoresy's hockey career has he gets too old to play. So I like that they ended season 3 basically calling it the end of "part 1" of the series and implying that he'll return in season 4 with a new job and probably a new supporting cast. I'm still amazed they took such a one-note supporting character from "Letterkenny" and made him a fairly nuanced protagonist. 

Just before season 4 started, Amazon announced that "The Boys" will end after season 5, which I think is a good call. They've kept escalating the insanity of the plot and the violence and the gore so consistently that I think it's good that they steer toward an ending before they break the show on some level and it becomes too ridiculous to enjoy. What I've watched of this season has been good so far, Sister Sage is a great character. And Firecracker continues the show's insidious tradition of evil women that I find extremely attractive. 

As famous as Jonestown is, I'm surprised I haven't seen something like this tell the story in this level of detail before, they talked to survivors and witnesses and it's really chilling stuff. 

For some reason, it's been two years since the second season of "P-Valley" aired and it's still not clear when season 3 is coming. In the meantime, Starz made this docuseries hosted by one of the show's stars, about a real strip club (but one in Memphis, so not exactly where the show takes place, Mississippi). I like the tone of the show, like "P-Valley" it treats the people in the club with respect while still being pretty blunt about the fact that it is a strip club, but it really feels like a thrown together stopgap for impatient fans of "P-Valley." 

I got my 9-year-old the Exploding Kittens card game for Christmas last year, and he really loves it. It's a pretty fun game, there's a lot of luck and silliness but a decent amount of strategy involved as well, we got the expansion pack so we can play with more people at family gatherings. I was a little disappointed to learn that Netflix's "Exploding Kittens" series is an 'adult cartoon' because my kid wouldn't really be able to watch it. But after seeing an episode, I dunno, maybe it's for the best that he doesn't watch it, it's really just dumb and boring. I don't expect a direct adaptation of the game or a masterfully plotted comedy, but the whole tone and pace of it feels so stale. 

A sci-fi fantasy animated series on Apple TV+, seems okay with some cool-looking beasts but I really do not like the animation style, the aesthetic and the color scheme have such a sickly pastel new age look. 

I'm glad that Apple TV+ is dedicated to doing so many Peanuts cartoons. The voice cast never sounds quite right to me as someone who grew up on the old animated specials, but they get the animation style and overall tone more or less right, and this latest one is a cute series with Snoopy and Woodstock and his bird friends at a summer camp.