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Let's be honest: not every single HBO show is an outright winner. The premium network may "not be TV," according to its original tagline, but it's also not entirely perfect. For every excellent show like "The Sopranos," "The Wire," "Succession," or "Game of Thrones," there's at least one dud kicking around on HBO Max that probably didn't deserve much more than a single season.

HBO has won well over 100 Emmys throughout its run thanks to its slate of (mostly) genuinely great television, and again, I need to be clear: a lot of HBO shows are genuinely incredible. Across a vast number of shows and different genres, from comedies to dramas to shows that fall into the liminal place between those two, there are a handful that just aren't really worth your time. Still, these shows might not be the best that HBO has to offer, but it also doesn't mean that they're "bad,...

Part of The Offices success came from finding humor in an average, unremarkable office, and there was another workplace TV show airing on HBO that was like The Offices dramatic, political counterpart: The Newsroom. Set at a fictional cable news office, The Newsroom was a show that explored the lives of the people in front and behind the camera. Both The Office and The Newsroom use the setting of a workplace as a way to tell the stories of the personal and interpersonal lives of the ensemble casts.

Fans of the show were not tuning in to hear about Dunder-Mifflins paper sales, but The Newsroom was more focused on the work of reporting the news. Created by Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom covered real news topics from the hindsight of three years in the future from when the show is set. But the real hook of The Newsroom was the relationships between the characters,...

The cast of the Captain Jean-Luc Picard series, which currently in the works at CBS All Access, is continuing to take shape.

Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway and Isa Briones have jumped aboard as series regulars alongside Sir Patrick Stewart in the upcoming untitled “Star Trek” series.

They join previously announced cast members Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd and Evan Evagora.

As previously reported, the series will see Patrick Stewart reprise the role he played for seven seasons on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Exact plot details are still being kept mostly under wraps, though the series is said to tell the story of the next chapter of Picard’s life, indicating that it will take place after the events of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

Pill, who is represented by CAA and The Burstein Company, is best known for playing Maggie Jordan on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO series “The Newsroom.” Treadaway...