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Netflix The Most-Watched Show in America Is a Moral Failure
Netflix’s Tiger King is the apotheosis of extreme storytelling: The more unfathomable and ethically dubious, the better.
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Steve Granitz / Gregg DeGuire / Getty / … We’re All Larry Davids Now
Who isn’t suspicious of other people, overtly worried about hygiene, and trigger-happy with a bottle of hand sanitizer?
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Erin Simkin / Hulu When a TV Adaptation Does What the Book Could Not
Hulu’s take on the novel Little Fires Everywhere doesn’t just translate the story to the screen. It goes where the author felt she couldn’t go on her own.
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HBO The Show That Illustrates the Numbness of Staying Alive
The British HBO series Years and Years imagines a near-future defined by two phenomena: catastrophe and resilience.
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Rose Wong Why You Can’t Stop Streaming Seinfeld. Or Frasier. Or Bones.
On the psychology of comfort TV
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Netflix Marc Maron’s End-of-the-World Anxiety
In his new Netflix special, End Times Fun, the comedian turns his attention to angst during ongoing crisis, with uncanny timeliness.
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FX Why TV Is So Worried About Free Will
Alex Garland’s new show Devs and Season 3 of Westworld find dystopia in determinism.
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Jeffrey Markowitz / Getty / Katie Martin / … Hulu’s Hillary Is a Warning
The four-part documentary does more than simply retell the story of the former presidential candidate’s life and career.
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Ike Edeani / The New York Times / … Lena Waithe and When Black Artists Make Mediocre Art
The writer’s new series, Twenties, makes fun of entertainment that is diverse but middling—a criticism her own work has faced.
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Netflix The Teen Dramas That Reject Modernity
More and more TV shows about adolescence are defined by their idealized depictions of the past—even when they exist in the present.
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Will Heath / NBC The ‘Airport Sushi’ Musical Is an Instant SNL Classic
The absurd sketch featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, David Byrne, and a giant goose was pure gold from the host John Mulaney.
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Amazon The Problem With Amazon’s Nazi-Hunters Show
The Al Pacino–fronted series is a sweaty smorgasbord of cartoonish simplicity and wanton violence.
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Lara Solanki / Netflix Reality Shows Don’t Have to Be Cruel
Netflix’s Next in Fashion demonstrates that niceness among contestants can be really fun to watch.
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Kevin Estrada / Netflix Gentefied: The Netflix Show That Makes Gentrification Personal
A grounded story about urban displacement zooms in on the lives of one fictional Los Angeles family and those in their orbit.
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Phillip Caruso The Show That Actually Understands Modern Romance
Unlike other rom-com reboots that prioritize feel-good nostalgia, Hulu’s High Fidelity takes the time to examine the messiness of dating today.
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Netflix The Story The Pharmacist Can’t Tell
The new Netflix series attempts to contain the sprawling opioid epidemic within the conventions of true crime.
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David Russell/HBO How High Maintenance Creates Ethical Tension
The fourth season of the HBO show questions its own charming vision of urban coincidence.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters No One Knew Why Eminem Was at the Oscars
“Lose Yourself” was not celebrating any anniversary, nor gaining new relevance. But it did pass the time okay.
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NBC RuPaul’s Remedial Queer Comedy on Saturday Night Live
America’s top drag queen hosted a series of surprisingly un-fabulous sketches.
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NBC The Good Place Felt Bad in the End
The show tackled the toughest questions of existence, but its enlightenment resembled something darker.
