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Niv M. Sultan

Niv M. Sultan is a writer based in New York. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Drift, Public Books, and other publications.

The Morning Show

Review: The Morning Show Boldly Navigates the Nuances of the Me Too Era

by Niv M. Sultan
October 28, 2019

The series is an uneasy, sometimes nauseating, and often fascinating examination of our current moment.

Daybreak

Review: Daybreak Depicts a Unique but Indulgent Apocalyptic Wasteland

by Niv M. Sultan
October 22, 2019

Insipid comedy aside, the Netflix series offers evocative reflections on the premature death of a generation’s childhood.

Catherine the Great

Review: Catherine the Great Is an Alluring, If Shallow, Dip Into Russia’s Golden Age

by Niv M. Sultan
October 11, 2019

While the miniseries is mesmerizing to take in, beneath its aesthetic splendor lie vast, unplumbed depths.

Modern Love

Review: Modern Love Aims for Universality but Suffers from Tunnel Vision

by Niv M. Sultan
October 2, 2019

The show’s fundamental goal isn’t to present love that’s unique to the current moment, but to expose the universality of its stories.

Bless the Harts

Review: Bless the Harts’s First Episode Is a Madcap, If Uneven, Introduction

by Niv M. Sultan
September 22, 2019

You can feel Fox’s new animated series figuring itself out in its first episode.

Unbelievable

Review: Unbelievable Is a Wikipedia Article Dressed Up As a TV Show

by Niv M. Sultan
September 4, 2019

The series feels like a vehicle built merely to convey the information dug up by its progenitors.

Carnival Row

Review: Carnival Row Is a Haphazardly Stitched-Together Genre Pastiche

by Niv M. Sultan
August 16, 2019

The series is a genre patchwork whose individual elements fail to coalesce into a coherent whole.

The Righteous Gemstones

Review: The Righteous Gemstones Is an Uneven but Compelling Study of Faith

by Niv M. Sultan
August 6, 2019

The series is a compelling and humanizing study of its characters, the faith they profess, and the world they strive to proselytize.

Years and Years

Review: Years and Years Is a Captivating Dystopian Family Drama

by Niv M. Sultan
June 14, 2019

The series manages to pile on the cataclysms without taking pleasure in the pain of its characters.

Big Little Lies

Review: Season Two of Big Little Lies Fails to Justify Its Existence

by Niv M. Sultan
June 1, 2019

The series works best when it focuses on intimate, human moments rather than on broad social critiques.

Catch-22

Review: Hulu’s Catch-22 Lyrically Depicts a War’s Inanities and Horrors

by Niv M. Sultan
May 15, 2019

Hulu’s adaptation of Joseph Heller’s novel invites our laughter, contemplation, and shock in equal measure.

Dead to Me

Review: Dead to Me Is a Quietly Radical Depiction of Grief’s Emotional Haze

by Niv M. Sultan
May 1, 2019

The series is at its strongest when using dissonance to reorient our understanding of loss.

Ramy

Review: Ramy Is a Poignant Dismantling of the Myth of the Self

by Niv M. Sultan
April 27, 2019

The series derives its soulfulness from the myths that Ramy, his family, and his friends tell themselves and those around them.

Chambers

Review: Chambers Liberally Borrows from Horror Tropes to Uneven Results

by Niv M. Sultan
April 19, 2019

Netflix’s latest horror offering only rarely assumes a form greater than its individual elements and references.

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