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July 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Report: Roger Ailes is done at Fox News.
July 15, 2016
Eric Thurm
Vice Principals: Love and Toxic Masculinity
The new HBO series from the creators of Eastbound and Down is a meditation on homosocial desire—with poop jokes.
July 11, 2016
Sarah Marshall
The Night Of: Welcome to Dead Girl Town
The eight-part miniseries keeps a tight focus on the perpetrator as protagonist.
July 1, 2016
Pan Wang
How TV Dating Shows Changed Love and Marriage in China Forever
As TV became more commercialized, so did marriage.
June 27, 2016
Clio Chang
Game of Thrones has a travel-time problem.
June 21, 2016
Michelle Dean
UnREAL: The Drama of Meaningless Work
The spoof reality show doesn't depict female empowerment, but a toxic office culture.
June 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
Game of Thrones has chosen violence.
June 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
ABC helpfully reminds everyone why interviews with TV actors are usually so boring.
June 10, 2016
Joyce Millman
Maya & Marty: A Courageous Throwback
Don't dismiss the variety show as "old person" TV.
June 8, 2016
Esther Breger
Netflix released a “Binge Scale,” but it still won’t tell us how many people watch its shows.
June 3, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump and Morning Joe is daytime TV’s worst on-again, off-again romance.
May 31, 2016
Alex Shephard
Braavos is the new Dorne.
May 27, 2016
Alex Shephard
Which Game of Thrones characters will die in Episode 6?
May 26, 2016
Sarah Weinman
O.J.: Made in America: How Do You Like Him Now?
The new documentary shows how O.J. Simpson became whatever you wanted him to be—narcissist, athlete, hero, or murderer.
May 25, 2016
Alex Shephard
Death created time to grow the things that it would kill, like True Detective, which is dead now.
May 23, 2016
Alex Shephard
Is Benjen Stark about to return to Game of Thrones?
May 23, 2016
Alex Shephard
Game of Thrones book readers are finally through the looking glass.
May 20, 2016
Sarah Marshall
Welcome to Maria Bamford’s Neighborhood
In Netflix's 'Lady Dynamite,' Bamford mines comedy from mental illness.
May 18, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Can Megyn Kelly Become the Taylor Swift of TV News?
Her Donald Trump interview was her latest play for mainstream success—and she's got something Katie Couric doesn't.
May 16, 2016
Alex Shephard
Game of Thrones’s most important storylines are coming full circle.

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