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Netflix Black Mirror’s Miley Cyrus Episode Isn’t That Far-Fetched
“Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too” simplifies thorny questions about fandom and taste with a familiar story of rebellion.
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Netflix / Pedro Saad Black Mirror: The Weird, Intriguing Intimacy of ‘Striking Vipers’
The Season 5 episode about a pair of gamers who fall in love considers how digital worlds can warp people’s self-image.
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Hulu The Growing Paradox of The Handmaid’s Tale
The third season of Hulu’s speculative series continues to assert its feminist credentials while keeping its central character in subjugation.
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Netflix Black Mirror: ‘Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too’ Is a Fascinating Jumble
The Netflix show’s fifth season shines brightest with a bizarre and intermittently compelling bit of pop-music melodrama.
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Stuart Hendry / Netflix ‘Smithereens’ Is the Only Flop of the New Black Mirror Season
The Netflix show’s latest run stumbles with a plodding tale about the indifference of social-media companies.
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Courtesy of Jeopardy / Seth Wenig / Evan … James Holzhauer Prompted a Fundamental Question About Jeopardy
Is the goal to make more money or stay on the show?
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Jeopardy Productions / The Atlantic How James Holzhauer Finally Lost
“I made peace with my fate before the clue for Final [Jeopardy] was even revealed.”
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Atsushi Nishijima / Netflix When They See Us and the Persistent Logic of ‘No Humans Involved’
Ava DuVernay’s miniseries about the so-called Central Park Five illustrates, with excruciating clarity, the consequences of dehumanizing language.
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Atsushi Nishijima / Netflix How the ‘Central Park Five’ Changed the History of American Law
Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why the hysteria surrounding the 1989 case caused more children to stand trial as adults than at any other time in U.S. history.
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HBO Deadwood: The Movie Is David Milch’s Finest Work
The feature-length coda to HBO’s acclaimed frontier show ties off the last season’s plot threads while telling a story that stands on its own.
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Amazon The Heaven and Hell of Good Omens
Neil Gaiman’s six-part Amazon miniseries about an odd couple at the end of the world is an acquired taste.
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David Lee / Netflix The Messy Politics of Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It
The second season of the Do the Right Thing director’s Netflix adaptation dials back the romantic drama, but leans into tonally confused social commentary.
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Netflix Ava DuVernay Does True Crime Differently in When They See Us
The director’s Netflix series asserts the individual stories of the so-called Central Park Five.
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BBC America Killing Eve Betrayed Its Central Character
In the second season of the BBC America series, the MI6 agent played by Sandra Oh has languished in Villanelle’s shadow.
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Starz Vida Mines the Highs and Lows of Coming Home
The Starz series by Tanya Saracho is a lovely, complex portrait of sisters confronting their past.
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HBO How Game of Thrones Lost Its Way as a Political Drama
In its later seasons, the show started relying on heavy-handed historical references to do the difficult work of character-building.
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Steve Schofield / Amazon Fleabag Has a Poignant Insight About Sisterhood
In its second and last season, the Amazon series deepens its portrayal of estranged siblings who both frustrate and protect each other.
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Chris Haston / NBC Why Good Girls Is Such a Rewarding Show
The series, which wraps its second season on Sunday, has blossomed into a uniquely flavored, daring drama of the sort found more frequently on cable.
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Netflix The Remarkable Badness of What/If
Renée Zellweger acts rings around everyone else in this oddity of an anthology series.
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Matt Sayles / Invision / AP Game of Thrones Is Over. Now What About the Books?
George R. R. Martin insists that the final entries in his fantasy series are still coming—even though HBO has finished telling his story first.
