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Jennifer Clasen / HBO How Big Little Lies Captures Children's Quiet Stress
In the fifth episode of its new season, the HBO series homes in on the burdens kids bear in times of familial distress.
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Netflix The American Paranoia of Stranger Things 3
The rollicking third season of Netflix’s nostalgic hit mines the conspiracy theories woven into pop culture.
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MTV The Slow, Messy Evolution of LGBTQ Dating Shows
With a new season featuring a “sexually fluid” cast, the MTV competition series Are You the One? bucks persistent trends in reality television.
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Starz A Supernatural Spy Story Goes Dark in The Rook
The Starz series about a British agent with extraordinary abilities forgets to have fun.
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Jennifer Clasen / HBO Big Little Lies Exhumes the Secrets of Marriage
In the fourth episode of its new season, the HBO series explores the rifts in its characters’ unions—and the feasibility of forgiveness.
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Associated Press Why Rita Moreno Almost Quit Show Business
“They didn’t know what to do with a Latina girl.”
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Showtime The Loudest Voice Stops Short of Revealing Roger Ailes
Showtime’s biopic about the former Fox News executive can’t find the core of its characters.
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HBO The Near-Future Shock of Years and Years
The HBO series stars Emma Thompson as a populist leader with dark plans.
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Eric McCandless / ABC Ayesha Curry’s Comfort Television
The author’s new ABC competition series refreshingly emphasizes the importance of cooking as a relationship-building mechanism.
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Bennett Raglin / Craig Barritt / Stringer / … The Strangely Charming World of Los Espookys
The absurdist Spanish-language series may seem like an unconventional choice for HBO, but it proves the value of comic alchemy.
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Dori Media Unpacking the Immense Popularity of Shtisel
The Israeli television show’s deft combination of particularity and universality lies at the core of its appeal.
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HBO The Dark Teen Show That Pushes the Edge of Provocation
HBO’s Euphoria joins a long list of works that have appalled and thrilled in equal measure. But does it have more to say?
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Jennifer Clasen / HBO Big Little Lies and the Painful Truths of a Parent-Child Talk
In the second episode of the show’s new season, Jane does the thing she has been desperately reluctant to do.
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Netflix / The Atlantic The Marvel-Netflix Universe’s Final Hero
The third and last season of Jessica Jones says farewell to Krysten Ritter’s superpowered P.I.—and marks the end of a small-screen experiment that helped pave the way for streaming’s big swings.
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FX Pose Lets In the Light
Ryan Murphy’s show about ball culture in 1990s New York City is joyfully, insistently, chaotically optimistic.
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Jennifer Clasen / HBO Why Meryl Streep’s Sly Matriarch Works So Well on Big Little Lies
The actor deploys fine-tuned passive aggression as Mary Louise Wright, bringing a wicked energy to a season wrapped in guilt and melancholy.
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WarnerMedia The Wild-West Era of Streaming TV Is Ending
Cord cutters will soon need several subscriptions to watch all their favorite movies and shows—and the cost could look like the dreaded cable bill.
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Hilary Bronwyn Gayle / HBO Big Little Lies Ponders What Makes a Man
The second season of the acclaimed HBO series, about a group of California women who share an unlikely bond, explores the inheritances of masculinity.
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HBO The TV Is Too Damn Long
The scourge of the streaming era is 13 hours of stretched-out drama.
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HBO The Secret of Big Little Lies
In its second season, the HBO drama is as entertaining as it is thoughtful about human damage and desire.
