Robert Lloyd

Television Critic

Robert Lloyd has been a Los Angeles Times television critic since 2003. Previously, he held that position at L.A. Weekly, whose music editor and critic he also was for some years, and was the author of the Today column at the late Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. His oral history of “Freaks & Geeks” appeared in the January 2013 issue of Vanity Fair. Sometimes, usually after dark, he masquerades as a musician (credits available on request).

Latest From This Author

Television
Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd are comedy masters. Just not in ‘The Shrink Next Door’
A true-tale podcast about the relationship of a manipulative psychiatrist and his needy patient becomes a formulaic, wearing miniseries on Apple TV+.
Television
Joe Pera reveals the secrets behind TV’s quietest, most artful comedy
Come for Pera’s discussion of ‘Joe Pera Talks With You,’ returning Sunday on Adult Swim. Stay for a perfect two-sentence story about ‘Jackass.’
Television
‘Star Trek’ is the greatest sci-fi franchise of all. Why it’s stood the test of time
Full of ideas and emotions, the ever-expanding ‘Star Trek’ canon is still finding new ways to go where no TV show has gone before, 55 years on.
Television
New Netflix animated show ‘Maya and the Three’ has a grand design
‘Maya and the Three’ review: Jorge R. Gutiérrez (“The Book of Life”) directs an animated miniseries with a Mesoamerican setting.
Television
TV critics have a conversation about the finale of ‘Only Murders in the Building’
TV critics Lorraine Ali and Robert Lloyd discuss ‘Only Murders in the Building’ as the first season finale airs.
Television
Hulu’s low-key thrilling ‘Dopesick’ carves Sackler name deeper into Wall of Shame
A ‘Spotlight’ for the opioid crisis, starring Michael Keaton as a small-town doctor ensnared in the epidemic, ‘Dopesick’ is schematic but effective.
Television
In Season 2, ‘Ted Lasso’ became part of a grand tradition: art worth fighting over
Anything effective enough to have fans — ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Doctor Who,’ Bob Dylan’s music — will have disgruntled fans. But what do the artists owe them?
Television
In the idealized America of CBS procedurals, cops can do no wrong
On ‘CSI,’ ‘FBI’ and ‘NCIS,’ law enforcement is capable, reliable, idealistic, free from corruption and outside of politics or prejudice.
Television
They weren’t superstars. But Tommy Kirk and Sam Riddle defined ’60s Hollywood
Actor Tommy Kirk and disc jockey and TV host Sam Riddle, both of whom died last week, were pop culture heroes to many in an age of great change.
Television
Critic’s pick: How Jared Harris sits in a chair in his new TV show
In ‘Foundation,’ now on Apple TV+, the ‘Mad Men’ and ‘The Crown’ veteran conveys something elemental about his character — without even standing up.