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Eliza Morse / Netflix What The Chair Gets Unexpectedly Right About the Ivory Tower
Despite the public attention paid to big egos, colleges and universities run on the generosity of the common professor.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Surprising Politics of Antiques Roadshow
The show is about finding out how much your possessions are worth. But it has stayed popular because it values knowledge over money.
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Netflix The Chair Is Netflix’s Best Drama in Years
The near-perfect show elegantly skewers the subject of free speech on campus.
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Getty; The Atlantic Jeopardy, a Place Where Facts Used to Matter
The mistakes the show made in its attempts to replace Alex Trebek have doubled, for fans, as betrayals.
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Vince Valitutti / Hulu The Terrible Cost of Wellness
Hulu’s starry new series Nine Perfect Strangers reminds us how easily human ache can fall prey to the language of transformation.
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Mario Perez / HBO The Leisure Class Always Wins
The wealthy vacationers in the HBO series The White Lotus assume that the world revolves around them. The show ultimately proves them right.
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Shane Brown / FX Networks / Hulu Reservation Dogs Is as Fresh as It Gets
FX’s comedy, about four Native teens coming of age in Oklahoma, draws on familiar storytelling beats but feels completely new.
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Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive ; Cedric von … Why Millennial Leftists Have Made a BBC Filmmaker a Cult Hero
Flowing dreamlike between pop culture, politics, and psychology, Adam Curtis’s documentaries both complicate and articulate a senseless world.
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Amazon Studios When Pursuing Love Is the Only Option
A new Amazon adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s beloved 1945 novel resists the conventions of costume drama to make a more pointed argument.
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Catherine Lash / HBO HBO’s Woodstock ’99 Documentary Is a Dark Warning
Just as concerts return, a new film reveals the cynicism and cultural rot that led to one of the most notorious shows ever.
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Apple TV+ / The Atlantic When a Show About Kindness Gets Darker
The hit sitcom Ted Lasso is a witty ode to empathy. Its second season remains warmhearted—and turns the show’s original thesis on its head.
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Netflix What Cat People Can Teach Us
A new Netflix series asks viewers to take an empathetic look at the humans who love felines.
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HBO Max; The Atlantic The Marriage Plot for the Age of Workism
The HBO show Hacks, like several other recent works, explores the particular intimacies of professional relationships—and expands what it means to be a couple.
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HBO; The Atlantic The Awful Secret of Wealth Privilege
Mike White’s caustic six-part HBO series, The White Lotus, tackles the stickiest American addiction of all.
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Glenn Harvey Tucker Carlson’s Manufactured America
The Fox host has a new daytime show, and he’s using it to poison the meaning of patriotism.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty; Josh … The Arms Race for Weather Lovers Has Begun
New streaming services from Fox and the Weather Channel are betting big on the idea that an armchair meteorologist lives inside each of us.
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Karolina Wojtasik / HBO Max How Gossip Girl Got Creepy
HBO Max’s reboot of the soapy teen drama is a reminder that overexposure isn’t just the realm of teens anymore.
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Vidangel Studios Christian America’s Must-See TV Show
Take it from a Christian and a critic: The Chosen is as well made and entertaining as many network dramas. But its relative invisibility to secular audiences is no surprise.
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CNN Films The Soft Radicalism of Erotic Fiction
Jackie Collins sold half a billion books, taught women to demand power, and told the truth about Hollywood, yet she’s never gotten her due.
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Apple+; AMC; Disney; The Atlantic TV Can’t Stop Thinking About the Female Gaze
On the heels of WandaVision, two new series—Kevin Can F**k Himself and Physical—explore how pop culture can limit the roles that women play in real life.
