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Television
HBO's 'Nuclear Family' Shows A Gay Family Fighting To Exist
By Madeleine Carlisle
Netflix’s Catholic Horror Story
Midnight Mass
Is One Hell of a Halloween Binge
By Judy Berman
Pour One Out For the Network Comedy
By Judy Berman
How
Reservation Dogs
Is Opening Up a Crucial Conversation About Suicide in Indigenous Communities
By Devery Jacobs
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American Rust
Sounds a Lot Like
Mare of Easttown
. Sadly, It Isn’t
Jeff Daniels stars in a Rust Belt crime drama too mired in small-town misery to say anything new
By Judy Berman
September 10, 2021
FX’s Epic
Y: The Last Man
Adaptation Gets Off to a Shaky But Intriguing Start
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. So goes the old feminist slogan. But that doesn’t mean life on Earth would continue as normal if every mammal with a Y chromosome suddenly dropped dead.
By Judy Berman
September 8, 2021
HBO's
Scenes From a Marriage
Remake Is Trying to Break Your Heart, All Over Again
HBO casts Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac in a loosely gender-flipped remake of Ingmar Bergman's classic miniseries.
By Judy Berman
September 4, 2021
Impeachment: American Crime Story
Frames the Clinton Scandal as a Case of Women Sabotaging Women. Is That Really So Revolutionary?
If there’s a point to this exercise, it gets lost amid so many scenery-chomping reenactments of scenes we’ve seen replayed on the news and parodied in late-night comedy for more than two decades
By Judy Berman
August 31, 2021
Best New TV Shows Our Critic Watched in August 2021
From Spike Lee's controversial love letter to New York to Sandra Oh's satire of life in academia.
By Judy Berman
August 31, 2021
Steve Martin’s
Only Murders in the Building
Is a Droll, Cozy Mystery for Modern Manhattan
Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez team up on murder podcast in this charming trifle from Hulu
By Judy Berman
August 30, 2021
The 33 Most Anticipated TV Shows of Fall 2021
From Impeachment: American Crime Story to Midnight Mass, here are the buzziest fall TV releases
By Eliana Dockterman
August 27, 2021
'The Chair' on Netflix Hits Home for Academia's Women of Color
I’ve been an English professor for nearly 20 years, but people still tell me I don’t look like one. Not because I’m young (I’m not), but because I’m Asian American. Whenever professors are depicted in...
By Beth Nguyen
August 23, 2021
New
Jeopardy!
Host Mike Richards Steps Down Amid Criticism. But He's Not Leaving the Show Entirely
Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards has officially stepped down as incoming host of the long-running game show
By Megan McCluskey
August 20, 2021
Netflix’s Sharp Satire
The Chair
Throws Sandra Oh Into the Politicized Powder Keg of Higher Ed
This perceptive, perfectly cast, if rushed, comedy follows the first female chair of a chaotic college English department
By Judy Berman
August 19, 2021
Alexandra Daddario on the
White Lotus
Finale and Rachel's Big Decision
The actor and key member of the ensemble of Mike White's breakout HBO series talks about her character's climactic decision in the finale
By Andrew R. Chow
August 15, 2021
Two Feminists Who Love Reality TV Wrap Their Minds Around the
FBoy Island
Finale
FBoy Island was far better than it had any right to be. But was it more feminist than other dating shows?
By Judy Berman
August 13, 2021
Netflix Horror Noir
Brand New Cherry Flavor
Tastes Terrible
What little the showdoes contribute to the post-#MeToo discourse around predatory men, vulnerable women and the price of fame falls somewhere between reactionary and obvious
By Judy Berman
August 6, 2021
Amazon’s Divine Period Romance
The Pursuit of Love
Gives Classic Social Satire a Modern Twist
Writer-director-actor Emily Mortimer hits all the sweaty, swooning highs and melancholic lows of Nancy Mitford's roller-coaster plot, with a particular eye for comedy
By Judy Berman
July 30, 2021
Why Is Music Television So Nostalgic?
In the years since MTV abandoned its eponymous mission, much of the programming devoted to an art form synonymous with youth, newness and immediacy has become weirdly nostalgic
By Judy Berman
July 29, 2021
TV's Hot Reality Trash Summer
When it comes to entertainment value—the only criterion by which it’s fair to judge this stuff—the distance between good and bad trash can be vast
By Judy Berman
July 23, 2021
Ted Lasso and TV's Quest to Build the Perfect Man
In the age of toxic masculinity, shows like Ted Lasso give us characters that sometimes read more as instruction manual for manhood than real human person
By Judy Berman
July 19, 2021
Atypical
Fell Short as Both Autistic Representation and Entertainment. At Least It Was Eclipsed During Its Own Time
The Netflix dramedy about an autistic teenager was far from a game changer, but a new crop of autistic-informed entertainment has emerged in the four years since it debuted
By Sarah Kurchak
July 16, 2021
The True Story Behind Peacock's 'Dr. Death'
A medical horror story, based on a true crime podcast, finds a surgeon intent on using his scalpel to harm patients
By Mahita Gajanan
July 16, 2021
Loki Brings New Hope for MCU Villains
The 'Loki' finale introduced a new villain who may well prove to be the most satisfying Marvel baddie yet
By Eliana Dockterman
July 15, 2021
Here's What the
Loki
Finale Means for Future Marvel Movies
The Loki finale changed the MCU forever. Here's how the show will impact the future Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp and Thor films
By Eliana Dockterman
July 15, 2021
My Unorthodox Life Is More Bravo Docusoap Than Unorthodox
Netflix, like Eve in the Garden of Eden, has finally seized the low-hanging fruit—and it’s a juicy one.
By Judy Berman
July 14, 2021
HBO Max's
Gossip Girl
Reboot Is Perfectly Fine for a Show That Shouldn't Exist
Tailored to the sensibilities of current teens, 'GG' 2.0 is less “problematic” and more diverse than its predecessor
By Judy Berman
July 5, 2021
Let's Discuss the Top Chef: Portland Finale
Did the right person win?
By Judy Berman
July 2, 2021
HBO's Luxury Resort Satire
The White Lotus
Is the Must-See Show of the Summer
'Enlightened' creator Mike White returns to HBO with a darkly hilarious, existentially terrifying wealth satire set at a luxury resort
By Judy Berman
June 30, 2021
Netflix’s Steamy New Drama
Sex/Life
Is So Bad, It’s Funny
There’s room for all kinds of programming aimed at grown-ups—including sexy shows whose target audience is female. Everyone has their own preferred brand of trash. And it can succeed on its own terms without being, you know, deep. But 'Sex/Life' drowns itself in the shallow end.
By Judy Berman
June 25, 2021
What’s the Point of Trying to Understand Ghislaine Maxwell?
A Peacock docuseries searches the psyche of Epstein's alleged accomplice for answers, but it's asking the wrong questions
By Judy Berman
June 24, 2021
The House of Flowers
Is Proof That Telenovelas Are Changing—and So Is the Way We Watch Them
“I grew up in a society where I never felt represented. I needed to change that," says director Manolo Caro
By Suyin Haynes
June 23, 2021
AMC’s
Kevin Can F**K Himself
Squanders a Thrillingly Subversive Premise
The AMC show satirizes sexist sitcoms in the Kevin James mold. If only it had more insight into the messages TV sends.
By Judy Berman
June 18, 2021
How Pop Culture Got Over the Girlboss Heroine
Even if she harmed other women in the course of her quest for self-actualization, the girlboss’ triumphs were understood to be a credit to all of womankind.
By Judy Berman
June 17, 2021
Lil Dicky Delivers a Hilarious K-Pop Episode of 'Dave'
Featuring CL, the episode parodies how Western artists have scrambled to plunder K-pop for their own gain
By Andrew R. Chow
June 17, 2021
What to Know About the Literary Origins of Netflix’s Buzzy Crime Drama
Lupin
Maurice Leblanc's fiction provides a roadmap for the series starring Omar Sy
By Annabel Gutterman
June 11, 2021
We Need More Cinematic TV Shows Like Lupin
With its slick visuals, dazzling action scenes and charismatic star, this French-language crime drama is reminiscent of the best stylish, heart-pounding heist movies
By Judy Berman
June 10, 2021
Chris Harrison Leaves Bachelor Franchise Host Role
Chris Harrison, the longtime host of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, is leaving the franchise permanently following a racism controversy—and has reportedly received a major parting deal. According to Deadline, Harrison's exit after nearly two...
By Cady Lang
June 8, 2021
Kim's Convenience Controversy Explained
Actors Simu Liu and Jean Yoon say the racial climate behind the scenes of a relentlessly positive show was fraught
By Andrew R. Chow
June 8, 2021
Lupin
's Return to Netflix Is Putting Omar Sy Back in the Spotlight, Whether He Wants It or Not
In January, when Netflix launched its wildly popular French TV series Lupin, its star Omar Sy went into the Metro station under the Louvre in Paris. In the show, Sy plays a thief who takes...
By Vivienne Walt
June 8, 2021
Stephen King Adaptation
Lisey's Story
Is Mawkish, Dull and Too Long by Half
Technical competence can't save a skeletal plot held together by pseudo-psychology or a script pocked with bad lines
By Judy Berman
June 4, 2021
Pose
Was More Than Just a TV Show. It Changed the Culture, Onscreen and Off
Pose placed several very different Black and Latinx trans characters—all played by trans actors—at the center of its story, obliterating the binary of “positive” vs. “negative” representation
By Judy Berman
June 3, 2021
Peacock's All-Girl Muslim Punk Band Comedy
We Are Lady Parts
Is a Rockin' Good Time
It’s possible to tell a culturally specific story without reducing the experiences of so many discrete characters to a constant confrontation with politicized adversity
By Judy Berman
June 2, 2021
The Best TV Shows of 2021 So Far
From Barry Jenkins' brilliant adaptation of Colson Whitehead's masterpiece 'The Underground Railroad' to Netflix's ridiculously addictive reality hit 'The Circle'
By Judy Berman
May 21, 2021
Glossy Starz Comedy
Run the World
Is
Living Single
for 30-Somethings
The obvious comparison is 'Sex and the City,' but this aspirational sitcom about female friends thrives on specificity
By Judy Berman
May 16, 2021
Review: Halston on Netflix
Ryan Murphy's latest Netflix series struggles to say something new about the iconic fashion designer and Studio 54 fixture
By Judy Berman
May 14, 2021
FX's 'Pride' Covers 60 Years of LGBTQ Activism
The inspired docuseries does justice to all of the many letters, colors and identities that make up the LGBTQ rainbow
By Judy Berman
May 14, 2021
Barry Jenkins'
The Underground Railroad
Is a Stunning Adaptation and a Brilliant Critique of Black Suffering as Entertainment
This could be yet another graphic reenactment of Black suffering under slavery, crafted by well-meaning Hollywood types as a reminder of historical racism. Look deeper, though, and you'll find an incisive response to pop culture that fetishizes Black people’s pain
By Judy Berman
May 13, 2021
Why Is Ellen DeGeneres Ending Her Talk Show?
DeGeneres's announcement comes in the wake of a tumultuous year for her long-running show
By Megan McCluskey
May 12, 2021
'Hacks' Is the Hilarious Star Vehicle Jean Smart Deserves
The core of the show is Smart’s performance, which brings the perfect balance of steeliness and vulnerability
By Judy Berman
May 12, 2021
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