Olivia Cooke is so gorgeous, I kind of lost enthusiasm for "Slow Horses" when she left after the first season, I guess to make time for that one "Game of Thrones" spinoff I haven't seen. But I guess she does have time to have a second gig, and this Amazon Prime miniseries is an entertaining rashomon about a woman (Cooke) and her boyfriend's mother (Robin Wright, who directed some of the episodes) who hate each other, and you're left constantly guessing about who's the real problem or if it's both of them. The story really escalates quickly in some interesting, unexpected ways, and it's probably the best and most complex performance of Cooke's career. 

Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy play heads of state caught up in kidnapping and blackmail in the Netflix series "Hostage." It kind of goes straight from introducing you to the characters to plunging you into the drama very quickly, 

Alicia Silverstone has kinda coasted for 30 years since her one undeniably great performance in Clueless. But she's really good in this new series where she plays an American lawyer who goes to Ireland looking for answers about her estranged Irish father. 

Given that Amanda Knox lost years of her life to a false accusation, I can't fault her for chasing a bag and producing a cable series about her innocence, starring a suitably attractive lead actress. The episodes I've watched so far feel almost disconcertingly unconcerned with Knox's murdered roommate Meredith at the center of this whole thing, though, and sometimes the tone kind of feels a little too flippant. 

I was never really that into the U.S. version of "The Office" and liked the British original more, but obviously it remains enormously popular, gave virtually every cast member a career, and is enormously influential on the last 20 years of TV comedy. It feels a little odd for Greg Daniels to make an "Office" spinoff now, especially since "Parks & Recreation" was initially developed as a spinoff before they decided to make it into its own thing. "The Paper" almost makes it worth it for the first episode's hilarious introduction of the one character from the previous series, Oscar, but I still think the show would be better without that explicit connection, it just feels forced. I like the cast, particularly Melvin Gregg (from a mockumentary series I like better than "The Office," "American Vandal"), Chelsea Frei, and a sorely underused Tim Key. 

"The Comic Shop" is an independently produced sitcom that just began releasing episodes on YouTube this month. It's very much a mockumentary-style workplace sitcom in the mold of "The Office," which again, isn't really my favorite kind of show to begin with, and it feels odd to see people adhering to that network-friendly formula outside the network system. It's got some potential, though, I think Shanae Cole stands out as the funniest member of the cash. 

The Australian Netflix series "Fisk" that just returned for its third season is probably the best 'awkward single camera workplace sitcom' going outside of "Abbott Elementary" right now. Julia Zemiro, Aaron Chen, and Marty Sheargold are such a good rogues gallery of baffling and ridiculous co-workers. 

I'm not a huge fan of shows getting abbreviated final seasons just to affordably tie up loose ends and do a quick curtain call. But Greg Daniels's Amazon Prime tech satire "Upload" kind of felt like it was being dragged out too long by the end of the third season, so I'm fine with it returning for a fourth and final season of just four episodes. It felt kind of weird that the show got more and more credulous about its AI love story over the course of the series, even as we see how ludicrous it is for people to have AI boyfriends and girlfriends in real life, so it just kind of lost its comedic bite and became a weird high-concept romance a lot of the time, and they kind of lost their nerve about how mean Allegra Edwards's character was. Andy Allo is really one of the most stunning women on television, though, she's Prince protege hot (because she actually was a Prince protege). 

It's weird that we got The Suicide Squad and the first season of "Peacemaker" all in the space of 6 months but then had to wait three and a half years for the second season. I like it a lot, though, "Peacemaker" might be my favorite thing James Gunn has made do date (have not seen Superman yet). The new season's opening sequence is not nearly as good as the first season's, which is kind of a letdown (it's still a goofy song-and-dance, but with a different song and a different dance). It also feels like they've kinda moved too quickly into making Cena's character into a straightforwardly sympathetic protagonist instead of an over-the-top weirdo, which is an arc that would play better if it was gradual over a few seasons. 

I'm not a big "BoJack Horseman" fan so I was pleasantly surprised that I like this new Netflix animated series from the same creator. It's a little earthbound and autobiographical, with no talking animals, and a great voice cast including Paul Reiser and Max Greenfield. 

Adult Swim's first Spanish-language show is a stop-motion animated series about the battle between two businesswomen on whether guinea pigs should be considered pets or a delicacy, it's pretty original and excellent. 

I tried watching this uhhh Italian teen erotic prison drama recently, not really my thing. 

The idea of a TV news anchor heroically going offscript to expose the truth feels so old-fashioned that I always had a hard time taking "The Newsroom" seriously, but this Japanese show does it earnestly enough to kinda work. 

I feel like one of the most unappealing things about these docs about the downfall of attention-hungry vloggers is that a lot of the talking head interviews are with other attention-hungry vloggers who don't even know them.