The Bear Recap: Say Matte!Exploding toilets, bad breakers, and parking lot coke deals knock The Original Beef gang down but not out.
ByMarah Eakin
urgent reconsideration
Atlanta Season Three Was a Bad TripAfter a four-year break, Donald Glover’s FX series returned unsure of what it wanted to say. Four Vulture writers and critics try to make sense of it.
The Bear Series-Premiere Recap: BallbreakerSet in a worn-down Chicago restaurant, The Bear tells the story of superstar chef Carmen Berzatto, who’s come home to take over the family business.
ByMarah Eakin
tv review
The Bear Never Stops MovingThe energy and stress of a busy kitchen fuels this instantly compelling, tense, beautiful new series.
The Old Man Recap: Scrambled EggsWe meet Amy Brenneman’s cheerless divorcée and Alia Shawkat’s junior FBI agent — the two truly compelling characters of the series.
BySarene Leeds
overnights
The Old Man Series-Premiere Recap: On the RunThe new FX series follows Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges), the old, grizzled ex-CIA operative with a very special set of skills — and a very checkered past.
Atlanta Recap: For Them, by ThemAl continues to navigate fame and what it means to perform offstage when he’s asked to join a diversity board for a fashion brand.
Atlanta Recap: Bitch Better Have My MoneyWith another stand-alone episode, Atlanta throws its hat in the reparations ring and wrestles the topic’s enormous implications with satire.
Atlanta Recap: Season’s GrievingsPaper Boi’s celebrity might be on the rise on his European tour, but anti-Blackness works to close the distance between Atlanta and Amsterdam.
Atlanta Returns, Singular As EverThe long-awaited third season kicks off with yet another stand-alone episode that suggests Donald Glover’s comedy is, at heart, an anthology series.