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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 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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