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August 31, 2023
Magazine
Jennifer Wilson
The Real Horror in
Only Murders in the Building
: The Cost of Living in New York
In the Hulu show, everyone is struggling to get by in a hostile city.
August 24, 2023
Phillip Maciak
How HGTV Swallowed HBO
Max is stripping back its prestige offerings and going big on shows like “House Hunters”—a shift decades in the making.
August 14, 2023
Magazine
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
We’re All Preppy Now
How a style steeped in American elitism took over the world
July 28, 2023
Magazine
Phillip Maciak
Behind the Rage of Raylan Givens
“Justified: City Primeval” questions a lawman’s anger.
July 26, 2023
Magazine
Jennifer Wilson
Is Steph Curry Really
Underrated
?
A spate of documentaries produced by athletes and leagues are more interested in settling scores than in the game.
July 6, 2023
Prem Thakker
Peaky Blinders
Slams DeSantis for Using Clips in Homophobic Campaign Ad
The team behind the Netflix show says it “strongly disapproves” of the presidential candidate’s anti-LGBTQ campaign ad.
June 30, 2023
Phillip Maciak
Why
The Bear
Starts Over In Its New Season
The FX show is a raucous, romantic meditation on what it means to teach and to be taught.
June 15, 2023
David Klion
The Convenient Omissions in
Arnold
The Netflix documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t know quite what to do with his disturbing rise in politics.
June 9, 2023
Magazine
Phillip Maciak
The Other Two
Captures the Strangeness of Social Media Stardom
No other show better understands the slippage between who we are in private and who we are in public.
May 26, 2023
Phillip Maciak
The End of
Succession
Is the End of an Era in TV
Just not in the way you might think.
May 22, 2023
David Klion
Succession
at Last Found Its Moral Center
The show’s final episodes reject the cynicism and exhaustion of our moment.
May 12, 2023
Phillip Maciak
How the Writers’ Strike Will Actually Change TV
Stories from the last strike can’t explain the current action. Nor should they necessarily give us comfort.
May 9, 2023
Magazine
Phillip Maciak
Mrs. Davis
Is Weirder Than Anything AI Could Dream Up
The new Peacock series is a testament to human originality.
May 8, 2023
Magazine
Jennifer Wilson
The Strange Anti-Science Plot of
Dead Ringers
The Amazon Prime show starring Rachel Weisz is oddly suspicious of new technology in reproductive health.
May 5, 2023
Joanna Rothkopf
Yes, You Should Care About This Writers’ Strike, and Here’s Why
Hollywood writers are striking in part to preserve an endangered profession. The studios’ response? Quit whining.
March 28, 2023
Phillip Maciak
The New
Great Expectations
Is Very Rude
In the new FX adaptation, Dickens’s England is crass, vulgar—and thoroughly tainted by Empire.
March 20, 2023
Alex Shephard
How
Ted Lasso
Took Over the World of Sports Documentaries
A growing array of shows hype up the feel-good drama of modern sports—while tuning out the controversy.
March 15, 2023
Phillip Maciak
Ted Lasso
Just Can’t Win
At the start of its third season, the show’s plucky underdog premise is wearing thin.
March 3, 2023
Alexandra Molotkow
Daisy Jones and the Six
’s Big, Bland ’70s Rock Drama
Adapted from a bestseller, “Daisy Jones” was premium intellectual property. The show never had to be good, just marketable.
February 17, 2023
Phillip Maciak
Why
The Last of Us
Keeps Starting Over
The most satisfying—and most frustrating—features of HBO’s hit show are the future of TV.
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