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Will Heath / NBC Billie Eilish’s Music Revealed What Her SNL Sketches Couldn’t
As host, the pop star embraced mainstream celebrity. As a singer, she revealed the journey that got her there.
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Macall B. Polay / HBO Market-Speak Is the Love Language on Succession
One of the bleakest elements of the show’s satire is that its characters aren’t sure how to distinguish between earning capital and earning affection.
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Craig Blankenhorn / HBO Max And Just Like That Is a Far Cry From Sex and the City
HBO Max’s spin-off revisits the original show’s memorable characters, but they’re fish out of water in 2021.
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Macall B. Polay / HBO Lessons From Succession for Non-billionaire Families
For one business professor, the show is a cautionary tale.
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Maria Chimishkyan The 16 Best TV Shows of 2021
The year’s most distinct and worthwhile series
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Graeme Hunter / HBO Has Succession Done the Unthinkable?
An episode chock-full of emotional violence may have ended with real tragedy.
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Shutterstock; Alamy; Paul Spella / The Atlantic How Leisure Time Became Work
The rise of the attention economy has accelerated our habit of engaging with our hobbies in a data-driven way.
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Macall B. Polay / HBO When Hell Is a Wealthy Man’s Birthday Party
In Succession, the Roys have a lot to celebrate—but very little to feel happy about.
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Jim McAuley The Loss at the Heart of Guy Fieri’s Entertainment Empire
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives is a mainstay of basic cable—and a rallying cry for a country that is losing touch with itself.
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Mary Cybulski / Marvel Studios / Disney+ The Least Exciting Avenger
Hawkeye’s normalcy is what makes him interesting.
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Macall Polay / HBO The Tragedy of Tom and Shiv
The only real relationship on Succession is a marriage entirely corrupted by the family business.
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Apple / Charlie Le Maignan / The Atlantic The Anachronistic Joy of Dickinson
Why is television using old settings to tell modern stories lately?
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Geoffrey Short / Netflix What’s Lost When a Classic Anime Is Adapted by Netflix
The charm of the original Cowboy Bebop—and many other Japanese animated series—is not just in its style but in its storytelling.
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Macall Polay / HBO The Gerontocracy Is the Villain of Succession
Logan Roy has a UTI. But as the show’s old men decline in health, they grow only more ruthless.
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Will Heath / NBCU / Getty On SNL, Taylor Swift Stopped Time
The singer’s 10-minute performance of “All Too Well” was a dazzling reminder of how far she has come as an artist.
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Macall B. Polay / HBO The Soul in Cousin Greg’s Linguistic Blunders
In the world of Succession, eloquence is a sign of complicity. Greg, a malapropism incarnate, is the exception that proves the rule.
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Will Heath / NBCU / Getty Saturday Night Live Turns the Big Lie Into a Big Farce
On the show, at least, Donald Trump is back.
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Netflix; The Atlantic Where Sex Positivity Falls Short
Television wants to help us get better at talking about sex, but some of its recent offerings miss a crucial point.
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Macall B. Polay / HBO How Succession Is Remaking Kendall Roy
In the HBO show, wealth traps. Its sad, desperate protagonist is the only one with the possibility of escape.
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Fox Media; The Atlantic Reality TV’s Absurd New Extreme
How a genre premised on artifice got obsessed with disguise
