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Jonathan Birch / Sundance Now Sympathy for the Movie Star
Ten Percent, a remake of the popular French series Call My Agent, is a surprisingly tender ode to acting.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Netflix Bubble Is Finally Bursting
The days of seemingly unlimited new content from the streamer appear to be ending.
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Jackson Lee Davis / Showtime When a TV Show Undermines the People It’s Trying to Celebrate
The First Lady tries to honor three underappreciated political spouses. Instead, it blends their life stories and reduces them all.
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Netflix The Cruel Twist of Russian Doll
The show’s second season is more audacious, but also harder to bear.
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VH1 Who’s Watching RuPaul’s Drag Race Now?
The show has evolved into a valuable institution—even if some viewers are sick of it.
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Greg Gayne / Peacock / Getty Bel-Air and the Flawed Logic of ‘Black Excellence’
Several recent Black shows have leaned into glitzy melodrama and decadent escapism. They also feel completely out of step with their core audience.
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Will Heath / NBC SNL Really Wants to Say Something About TikTok
The show’s repeated parodies of the video-sharing app might be viewed as attempts at currency. Instead, they come off a bit like jealousy.
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HBO When a Comic’s Silence Says Everything
Jerrod Carmichael’s HBO special exposes the way that humor can relieve incredible tension while obscuring the truth.
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Paul Spella Have We Lost Patience for Prestige TV?
Better Call Saul is dazzling, and frustrating.
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Henny Garfunkel / Redux Gilbert Gottfried Was More Than Just a Funny Voice
The late comedian helped move stand-up beyond the realm of the merely observational and create space for the absurd.
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Aaron Epstein / HBO Max The Shadow That Queerbaiting Casts on Gay Romance
Our Flag Means Death features a queer love story, but many viewers still found themselves wondering if they were just imagining it.
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Seacia Pavao / HBO Max The Radicalism of an Untamed Appetite
A new HBO show about Julia Child explores the virtues of ambition—whatever the age.
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Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty The Uncanny Prescience of Servant of the People
Revisiting Volodymyr Zelensky’s comedy through the eyes of America—and the world—today
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Getty for the Recording Academy The Reason for Zelensky’s Surprise Grammys Appearance
Why a pretaped message from the Ukrainian president aired during a night of escapist entertainment
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Will Heath / NBC SNL Couldn’t Help Itself
The Oscars Slap was low-hanging comedic fruit, and the show lunged at it. But there was nothing left to say.
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Beth Dubber / Hulu; Charlie Le Maignan / … Why The Dropout Succeeds Where Other Scammer Shows Fall Short
It’s all too easy to forget the victims and glamorize the grifter.
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Getty ; The Atlantic The Unreality of Will Smith’s Oscars Slap
What followed an unprecedented moment of violence was almost as surreal as the incident itself.
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Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Will Smith Hit Chris Rock. Then He Won an Oscar.
On the most shocking moment in Academy Awards history
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Coco Olakunle / FX Atlanta Confronts the Spectacle of White Ignorance
The show’s long-awaited third season revisits the idea that race is a performance, one as horrifying as it is hilarious.
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Scott Everett White / ABC The Comedies That Understand What Peak Scammer TV Does Not
Abbott Elementary and Minx both follow ambitious women leaders who don’t subscribe to the girlboss myth.
