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December 15, 2017
Rachel Syme
Enlightened
Dared Women to Speak Out
Why you should be rewatching the show in the wake of #MeToo
December 13, 2017
Magazine
Rachel Syme
Guilt Trip
Errol Morris searches for a link between a mourning son, the CIA, and LSD.
December 7, 2017
Rachel Syme
The Crown
’s Troubled Power Couple
The show's second season sees the young Queen weigh her public and private roles.
November 21, 2017
Rachel Syme
The Trouble With Our “Golden Age” of TV
The idea that a few brilliant men ushered in the era of prestige TV is both inaccurate and damaging.
November 3, 2017
Magazine
Rachel Syme
Hidden Powers
Why Margaret Atwood’s “Alias Grace” makes subversive television.
November 1, 2017
Rachel Syme
You’re The Worst
Is the Best Show We Have About Depression
Like "Bojack Horseman," the show looks directly at sadness in the brightest city in the country.
October 19, 2017
Magazine
Rachel Syme
Mom, Interrupted
Pamela Adlon’s "Better Things" has reinvented the family sitcom.
September 11, 2017
Rachel Syme
Bojack Horseman
’s Fourth Season Is A Masterwork of Sadness
As Bojack goes awol, the women of Hollywoo face a series of painful challenges.
September 8, 2017
Magazine
Rachel Syme
David Simon’s Mean Streets
"The Deuce" refuses to glamorize '70s New York.
August 10, 2017
Rachel Syme
Difficult People
Delivers a Dose of Political Satire
United by a love of sarcasm, two friends take on a regressive world in the show's third season.
July 29, 2017
Rachel Syme
The Constrained Elegance of
Room 104
The Duplass brothers' new HBO series shows how to do a lot with a little.
July 10, 2017
Magazine
Rachel Syme
How the New
Twin Peaks
Made Television Strange Again
David Lynch wanted to create a small-town Marilyn Monroe. He came up with Laura Palmer.
June 30, 2017
Rachel Syme
GLOW
Serves Up Liberation in Lycra
The women of wrestling grapple with their bodies and forge their own destinies.
June 15, 2017
Magazine
Rachel Syme
Self-Made Woman
Viewing Georgia O’Keeffe’s art and legend through her personal style.
May 1, 2017
Magazine
Rachel Syme
The Liberating Obsessiveness of
I Love Dick
Jill Soloway’s new show explores the tangled lives of women in the desert.
April 4, 2017
Rachel Syme
The Complicated Californian Dream of
Big Little Lies
The finale showed women who wanted more, uniting to fight for their land.
February 10, 2017
Magazine
Rachel Syme
The Big Short
Sarah Manguso's aphorisms feel powerful in our age of alternative facts.
October 18, 2016
Magazine
Rachel Syme
All of Her
Marina Abramović’s memoir is her most revealing performance yet.
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