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Jemal Countess / Getty for Saks Fifth Avenue Michael Vick’s Redemption Playbook
The second part of ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary on the football star delves into a second act that was as carefully stage-managed as it seemed sincere.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Serious Message in Shakira and J. Lo’s Halftime Show
With an overwhelming spectacle, the two stars acknowledged that Latin identity is bigger than any one performance.
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Netflix The Endings That Princess Carolyn and Diane Nguyen Deserved
BoJack Horseman started out as a portrait of a tortured antihero and ended with a close look at the women who made the show so special.
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Colleen Hayes / NBC The Most Optimistic Show on TV Is Over
The Good Place, NBC’s sitcom about the afterlife, ended with a heartening meditation on the meaning of a finite existence.
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NBC The Good Place Was a Metaphor All Along
Can moral philosophy teach people to be better? Can a television show?
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Netflix Taylor Swift’s Adulthood Blues
The Netflix documentary Miss Americana portrays a pop star facing a daunting challenge: redefining success.
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Raquel Pedrosa / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Retrograde Shame of The Biggest Loser
After a four-year hiatus, the reality show has a new network and the same fundamentally toxic setup.
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Matt Sayles/Invision/AP Demi Lovato Makes a Powerful Confession at the Grammys
The pop star’s first new song since a near-fatal overdose offers no comfort other than the mere fact of its existence.
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Netflix The Sly Subversion of Sex Education
With its second season, the joyfully eccentric, inventively raunchy Netflix series cements itself as a different sort of teen comedy.
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AppleTV+ Finally, Apple Has Made a Great TV Show With Little America
The new anthology series is a refreshing break from the lackluster programming the streaming service has offered thus far.
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Pop TV Schitt’s Creek Has Been Building to This Point About Love
On the feel-good sitcom, now in its final season, romances signal a more surprising attachment: to home.
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Netflix / The Atlantic Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix Show Is Painful to Watch
The streaming service has turned the star’s controversial e-commerce brand into a series. Soft-lit chaos ensues.
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Victoria Will / Invision / AP The Filmmaker Who Says M. Night Shyamalan Stole Her Movie
A lawsuit filed by Francesca Gregorini argues that the Apple TV+ series Servant shares eerie similarities with her 2013 film, The Truth About Emanuel.
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Rafy / USA Network When Female Athletes Take the Spotlight on TV
Two dramas—Dare Me and Spinning Out—follow girls as they juggle their competitive ambitions and interpersonal relationships.
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HBO A Stephen King Adaptation That Doesn’t Believe in Monsters
The Outsider, HBO's new 10-part series about an inexplicable murder in a small Georgia town, misses the uncanny intrigue.
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HBO / Comedy Central / Netflix / Paramount … The Most Unmissable TV Shows of 2020
A new Star Trek series, an Awkwafina-led comedy, star-studded literary adaptations, and more picks to watch, stream, and DVR
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Sarah Lee / eyevine / Redux Rose McGowan’s Hijacked Life
The woman who helped topple Harvey Weinstein talks about what it cost her.
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Reuters A Chaotic Golden Globes for a Chaotic Moment
The kickoff to awards season was an evening that oscillated wildly between jovial bonhomie and current crisis.
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Katalin Vermes / Netflix Why The Witcher Is Better Than Game of Thrones
Netflix’s new fantasy drama—full of elves and magic swords—is cheerfully silly.
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Naomi Elliott A Pop-Culture Time Capsule of the 2010s
The 27 works, moments, and objects that define the best—and worst—of the past decade
