The HBO show’s wealthy characters may be villainous, but that doesn’t make their lives any less alluring.

While streaming shows often fall into bloated storytelling, HBO’s latest has the pace and drama of classic television.

The new prequel on HBO plays like a watered-down “Game of Thrones.”

The HBO show, in its third and final season, is a a miniature epic about grief and acceptance.

Has TV wealth ever felt this hollow? Have friendships and family on TV ever felt this mutually destructive?

The prequel inherited the “Games of Thrones” empire—but doesn’t know quite what to do with it.

Park Chan-wook’s new miniseries on HBO takes American imperialism to task.

Larry David crafted a show about mortifying social encounters that somehow left us feeling comforted. 

Julian Fellowes’s ode to nineteenth-century wealth has decided it has a story to tell about organized labor.

The HBO docuseries follows recruits as they face hazing from their bosses, mistrust in the community, and a legacy of dispossession.

Max is stripping back its prestige offerings and going big on shows like “House Hunters”—a shift decades in the making.

No other show better understands the slippage between who we are in private and who we are in public.

Tina Satter’s film “Reality” on HBO captures the cruelty of the surveillance state.

Over six episodes, “The Rehearsal” becomes a show not about helping people but about its creator’s anxieties and compulsions.

How movies about the political system fell in love with cynicism and messaging

Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Max.… With so much content, why does it feel like there’s nothing to watch?

As Logan and Kendall go to war, it’s impossible to tell good intentions from cynicism and hypocrisy.

The new LeBron James–Looney Tunes crossover movie isn’t just bad. It’s a harbinger of worse to come.

Where the classic masculine detective is an expert in the art of disguise, his female counterpart is genuinely part of the furniture—especially if she’s of a certain age.

The deal between AT&T, Time Warner, and Discovery is just the latest shift toward consolidation as media companies fight hopelessly for market supremacy.