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Lara Solanki / Netflix The Secret Lives of Teenage Sidekicks
Mindy Kaling’s Never Have I Ever joins a handful of new coming-of-age films that break with history to put young women of color at the center of the story.
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Netflix / Amazon / Hulu / FX / … 25 Half-Hour Shows to Watch Now
If your attention span is frazzled, explore the compact joys of the 30-minute format.
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Ollie Upton / Hulu What The Great Reveals About Trump’s Pandemic Denial
Hulu’s new satire may be set in 18th-century Russia, but it understands the theatrical and nearsighted politics of the current moment.
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Starz / The Atlantic An Old-School Crime Drama That’s Thoroughly Modern
Hightown deepens the procedural genre by expanding its focus beyond a singular murder to the opioid epidemic at the edges of its story.
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Everett Collection The Sitcom Dad Who Made Grouchiness Into an Art Form
The actor Jerry Stiller, who died yesterday at age 92, was unforgettable as the irascible Frank Costanza on Seinfeld.
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NBC The SNL Season Finale Doesn’t Sugarcoat Pandemic Anxiety
Unlike its previous at-home episodes, last night’s show embraced the existential crisis of the moment.
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Saeed Adyani / Netflix Hollywood Fails to Sell Its Own Fairy Tale
Ryan Murphy’s Netflix show presents a fantasy in which marginalized people get to make the film they want. But the fun thought exercise curdles into earnest nonsense.
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Amazon / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Upload Satirizes a Capitalist Heaven
The Amazon show is one of several recent works in which the afterlife darkly mimics earthly existence.
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Netflix The Times Have Changed. Seinfeld Hasn’t.
There’s something soothing about watching a comedian who has been telling the same jokes for decades.
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HBO Westworld Never Fixed Its Villain Problem
The dark side of big data is a fascinating subject for TV to tackle. It just doesn’t make for a great antagonist.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Foodie Culture as We Know It Is Over
A wave of culinary experts is responding to the pandemic with an accessible and empathetic approach to home cooking—and audiences can’t get enough.
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Hulu / The Atlantic The Irresistible Intimacy of Normal People
The Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s hit novel ushers an addictive, messily human portrayal of young love to the small screen.
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Andrew D. Bernstein The Mythos of Michael Jordan Continues
With its deep archival footage of the Bulls legend, The Last Dance was always going to be epic. Now it needs to fill the void of sports writ large.
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Netflix What Kenya Barris Doesn’t Understand About #BlackAF
The Netflix show tries to expound on his personal narrative in a satirical context, but it just repeats all of the same notes from Black-ish.
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Netflix / BBC America / The Atlantic 20 Undersung Crime Shows to Binge-Watch
Propulsive thrillers, slow-burn procedurals, and more for your every quarantine mood
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Hulu We’re Living in Phyllis Schlafly’s America
A striking new miniseries reveals the conservative author’s deep impact on contemporary politics.
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Getty / Nick Wall / The Atlantic The Woman Who Is Remaking AMC
“The least safe thing to do is something safe,” says Sarah Barnett, the unconventional TV executive behind Killing Eve, which is back for a third season.
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NBC The Surreal Comforts of the SNL Quarantine Episode
Hosted by COVID-19 survivor Tom Hanks and filmed remotely, the show’s latest broadcast is a cultural document of the times.
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Quibi / The Atlantic Quibi Is a Vast Wasteland
Hollywood’s short-form entertainment app slices and dices the traditional mediocrity that the internet has allowed viewers to escape from.
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Syfy The Magicians Is Your Next Great Escape
If you’re looking for something to binge-watch, you won’t regret diving into Syfy’s darkly subversive fantasy series.
