If MTV ever dies, The Real World will be in the first line of its obituary. After debuting in 1992, the pioneering reality series not only catalyzed the network's transformation into a youth lifestyle brand,...

Daytime soap operas are a breed unto themselves. Benignly addictive, they compensate in volume for what they lack in originality and talent. But in order to survive in prime time, especially amid so much competition,...

Gen Z is sad--or so their elders have heard. And it isn't just teen angst. Too young to remember 9/11, they had relatively peaceful childhoods that have given way to existential struggles on both political...

If the show pulled some punches to get viewers hooked on early episodes, it isn't shying away from painful truths anymore.

You hear her before you see her. Less than three minutes into the second season of Big Little Lies, as images crescendo into violence, a familiar, mellifluous female voice whispers the first line of the...

Instead of keeping viewers up at night with speculative political hellscapes, season 5 revels in the absurdity of how we live now.