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May 1, 2020
Philippa Snow
Hollywood Keeps Trying to Rewrite Its History
Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series is the latest to imagine a better, fairer Golden Age, while never truly reckoning with the past.
April 24, 2020
Alex Shephard
Can Michael Jordan Fill the Huge Sports-Size Hole in Our Hearts?
A new 10-part documentary about the NBA legend is unexpectedly poignant now that sports are gone.
April 20, 2020
Philippa Snow
Merritt Wever Is Too Good For
Run
In the new HBO thriller, Wever is a triumph. Why does her character have to spend time loathing her body?
April 17, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Samantha Irby Is All Grown Up
The most distinctive voice in blogging returns with a third essay collection, “Wow, No Thank You.”
April 1, 2020
Alex Shephard
Sunderland ’Til I Die
Is TV’s Best Show About Failure
The Netflix documentary series is the next best thing to watching sports themselves.
March 19, 2020
Philippa Snow
The Brilliant Fault Lines of
Little Fires Everywhere
The Hulu show is a drama of misplaced intentions, exploitation, and white fragility.
March 16, 2020
David Klion
The Plot Against America
’s Powerful Warning
The new HBO show, adapted from Philip Roth’s novel, imagines life under a fascist president.
March 2, 2020
Jennifer Wilson
Lena Waithe Insists on Irreverence
Her semi-autobiographical comedy,
Twenties,
is both about making it in Hollywood and about what makes good black art.
February 4, 2020
Jessica Weisberg
Everything Is OK in
Goop Lab
The
Goop Lab
Netflix show with Gwyneth Paltrow conjures a fantasy of living without friction or anguish.
January 23, 2020
Philippa Snow
The New Pope
’s Tireless Commitment to Transgression
Paolo Sorrentino’s new HBO show plays a variation on the decadence of “The Young Pope.”
November 26, 2019
Parker Richards
The Crown
’s Case for the Monarchy
The Netflix show portrays the awkward dance between ceremony and democracy.
November 21, 2019
Rumaan Alam
The Dark Side of Bikram Yoga
A new documentary trains a lens on the abuses and lies of legendary yogi Bikram Choudhury.
November 8, 2019
Philippa Snow
The Surprising Success of an Irreverent Emily Dickinson
It would be easy to make fun of “Dickinson.” But the new Apple TV+ show is stranger and more charming than it has any right to be.
November 6, 2019
Andrew Lanham
Philip Pullman’s Defense of Free Thought
His new book and “His Dark Materials” on HBO dramatize the difficulty of moral action.
October 28, 2019
Rumaan Alam
In
Mrs. Fletcher
, Porn Is the Path to Self-Discovery
Kathryn Hahn plays a different kind of empty-nester in HBO's newest offering.
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