Will Patton

America is about to see a sharp upturn in hard-luck stories, which makes Kelly Reichardt’s small-scale drama Wendy and Lucy sadly timely.

An existential nightmare of maddening uncertainty, a notion only emphasized by Reichardt’s commitment to ambiguity.

[Gives] Weaver equal billing with everyone's favorite Southern spitfire, Holly Hunter. Teaming up these heavyweights is the genius notion of Copycat, a solid serial-killer thriller elevated by phenomenal acting.

Cannily plays in equal measure to the sci-fi TV crowd and families, to red states and blue states, and it's a formula—refined in Season Two—that seems to be working.

Because Green loves the material enough to have some good, old-fashioned fun in this playground, he’s able to bring the audience along with him.