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Matt Roush

Ask Matt: Bingeing on ‘Boroughs,’ Ghosting ‘Ghosts,’ Tracking ‘Tracker’ & More

Welcome to the Q&A with longtime TV critic — also known to some TV fans as their “TV therapist” — Matt Roush, who’ll try to address whatever you love, loathe, are confused or frustrated or thrilled by in today’s vast TV landscape. (We know background music is too

Roush Review: Duffer Brothers’ ‘The Boroughs’ Is a Terrifying But Funny Supernatural Romp

You’re never too old to be a Scream Queen. That becomes clear in the shocking opening of The Boroughs, a supernatural romp that quickly sets a tone of terror tinged with humor, grounded in a Stephen King-like fusion of the ordinary and the fantastic with a heaping helping

Roush Review: Rip and Beth Take on Texas in ‘Dutton Ranch’

Of all wildcats in the modern Wild West, Beth Dutton (the fierce Kelly Reilly) should know better than to tempt fate. “We’re free now, baby,” she coos to her cowboy soulmate Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) in the tranquil opening moments of the anything-but-tranquil Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch.

Ask Matt: Will Trent’s Overkill, Sweeps Stakes & More

Welcome to the Q&A with longtime TV critic — also known to some TV fans as their “TV therapist” — Matt Roush, who’ll try to address whatever you love, loathe, are confused or frustrated or thrilled by in today’s vast TV landscape. (We know background music is too

Roush Review: Richard Gadd’s Brotherly Love-Hate Fable ‘Half Man’ Will Make You Squirm

Cain and Abel have nothing on Niall and Ruben, the combative Scottish “brothers from another lover” who are each other’s worst nightmare. These men forge a mutually self-destructive though unshakable bond over three decades in Half Man, Richard Gadd‘s emotionally harrowing and psychologically shattering follow-up to

Ask Matt: ‘Madison’s Mixed Reception, Benching ‘Ghosts,’ ‘DTF St. Louis’ & More

Welcome to the Q&A with longtime TV critic — also known to some TV fans as their “TV therapist” — Matt Roush, who’ll try to address whatever you love, loathe, are confused or frustrated or thrilled by in today’s vast TV landscape. (We know background music is too

Roush Review: TV’s Wackiest Family Returns in Hilarious ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Reunion

“And someone actually asked for more of this,” muses the voice of Bryan Cranston, following a rapid-fire montage intro of silly slapstick antics and grody sight gags from Malcolm in the Middle‘s seven-season reign of side-splitting domestic terror from the early 2000s. If I’d known