THE EQUALIZER ON NETFLIX SERIES
THE EQUALIZER ON NETFLIX TV

Like WashingtonвЂ™s McCall in the films, sheвЂ™s accidentally drawn into her new career of do-goodery when she comes to the aid of a young woman in trouble. вЂThe Underground RailroadвЂ™: Barry JenkinsвЂ™s transfixing adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel is fabulistic yet grittily real.вЂSuccessionвЂ™: In the cutthroat HBO drama about a family of media billionaires, being rich is nothing like it used to be.

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вЂDickinsonвЂ™: The Apple TV+ series is a literary superheroineвЂ™s origin storyВ thatвЂ™s dead serious about its subject yet unserious about itself.вЂInsideвЂ™: Written and shot in a single room, Bo BurnhamвЂ™s comedy special, streaming on Netflix, turns the spotlight on internet life mid-pandemic.

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Here are some of the highlights selected by The TimesвЂ™s TV critics: Television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope. boss (played by Chris Noth) in a prime example of the dialogue, alternately stiff and threadbare, she has to do battle with. вЂњEverybodyвЂ™s playing chess, nobodyвЂ™s thinking about the living, breathing pieces that we sacrifice along the way,вЂќ she tells her former C.I.A. agent - who grew disillusioned with the governmentвЂ™s methods and retired. Like the male Equalizers played by Edward Woodward (in the original series) and Denzel Washington (in two films), LatifahвЂ™s Robyn McCall is a former intelligence operative - this time identified as a C.I.A. Latifah puts a human face on the formulaic silliness and incapacitates faceless bad guys with aplomb, but thereвЂ™s nothing in the pilot that requires her to do anything but coast on her charm. And on the evidence of Sunday nightвЂ™s premiere, the only episode available for review, CBS is firmly in control. In the words of the ad the Equalizer uses to solicit clients - placed in a newspaper in the 1980s television series, on Craigslist in the 2014 film remake and on social media in the new series - the odds are against her. But will a CBS procedural drama give her the room to do anything besides cash checks for seven or eight years?

When she cuts loose, in movies like вЂњBessieвЂќ and вЂњChicago,вЂќ she has a fierce and quick-witted swagger few performers can match. Hearing that Queen Latifah is playing the title role in a new iteration of вЂњThe EqualizerвЂќ - that combination of latter-day Robin Hood and action-movie vigilante - inspires equal measures of expectation and dread.

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