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Netflix GLOW Goes Post-plot
In its third season, the Netflix comedy about women wrestlers takes an odd approach to storytelling.
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Dolly Faibyshev The Comic With the Amazing Technicolor Wardrobe
Julio Torres, the star of the HBO special My Favorite Shapes, brings life to clothing and objects alike: “It feels like my thesis statement is, ‘Everything matters.’”
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters CNN Was Ill-Equipped for This
During the debate it hosted on Tuesday night, the news network made its best effort to convert discussions of policy into the thing it knows best: punditry.
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Netflix The Ballad of Taystee Jefferson
In its final season, Orange Is the New Black faced a conundrum over its most pivotal character.
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HBO The Intimate Horror of Share
The HBO feature about a 16-year-old who discovers her assault has gone viral is a stunningly immersive work.
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Netflix / Chad Griffith / Paul Spella / … What Orange Is the New Black Saw Coming
“I didn’t have a specific vision, because I was mostly terrified,” Jenji Kohan said of ending the Netflix series.
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Christopher Smith / Netflix What Happens When Queer Eye’s Experts Get Personal
The Netflix show all along portrayed the Fab Five as superhuman helpers, but in Season 4 it deepens their images.
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Hulu The Veronica Mars Twist That Undoes a Strong Season
Hulu’s revival of the detective drama ends with a curveball that cheapens the arc of one of the show’s most fascinating figures.
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HBO In Defense of Big Little Lies’ Second Season
Could any show meet the expectations that the HBO series set?
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Jennifer Clasen / HBO What Big Little Lies Got Wrong About Bonnie
Season 2 failed to give Zoë Kravitz’s character the depth of interrogation and analysis granted to its other stars.
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Netflix Why That 13 Reasons Why Scene Took Two Years to Cut
Inside the decision to edit the controversial series
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Netflix’s U.S. Subscriber Numbers Are Slipping
The company is seeing a dip in its American growth for the first time since 2011. What does that mean for the streaming service?
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NBC / Everett Collection HBO Max’s Golden Ticket
The details of the newly announced mega-service are murky, but it has one huge advantage over Netflix: the streaming rights to Friends.
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Netflix The Deeper Significance of the Mall on Stranger Things
The Netflix series reimagines the role that a shopping center can play in the lives of American teens—especially for its young female characters.
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Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP Emmy Nominations 2019: HBO Ascendant
Game of Thrones dominated a surprisingly open-minded slate of nods that recognized critical favorites.
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Jennifer Clasen / HBO The Problem With That Big Little Lies Courtroom Scene
The show once known for its subtle depictions of trauma is now taking refuge in melodrama.
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Michael Desmond / Hulu Veronica Mars Has a Bitter New Edge
Hulu's Season 4 is moodier than the original series and less nostalgic than the film revival. But its darker sensibility yields a strangely cynical story.
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Hulu The Cruelty of Aunt Lydia
In a flashback episode, The Handmaid’s Tale tried to explain how one of its characters became a monster. But it missed the most crucial element of her personality.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters / The Atlantic Aziz Ansari and the Physics of Moving Forward
In his new stand-up special, the comedian celebrates progress—but denigrates the work that progress requires.
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HBO The Cultural Fault Lines of I Love You, Now Die
Erin Lee Carr’s two-part HBO documentary thoughtfully complicates the narrative of a boy’s suicide, and of the girlfriend who encouraged the act.
