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Macall B. Polay / HBO The Complicated Cliché of ‘Bran the Broken’
Game of Thrones, which always commented on the social effects of disability, ended by selling its final twist as inspirational.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Game of Thrones’ Final Rebuke of Anger
Dany. Sansa. Bran. Why did the show that used to be so interested in emotion come, in the end, to mistrust it?
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PBS The Rare Home-Improvement Show That Spotlights Skilled Workers
In 40 years on air, PBS’s This Old House inspired a more flashy genre of TV while giving tradespeople the attention they deserve.
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HBO Did Viewers Win or Lose in Game of Thrones?
Three Atlantic writers discuss the HBO epic’s divisive series finale, which tries to break the wheel one last time.
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NBC The SNL Finale Was a Mishmash of Everything the Show Needs to Fix
The send-off to Season 44 might end up functioning as a send-off to a particularly toothless era for Saturday Night Live.
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HBO I’ve Never Watched Game of Thrones. But Here’s What I Know
Goodbye, dragon show.
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Jordin Althaus / E! Entertainment Busy Tonight Ended Just as Its Host Was Finding Her Voice
Busy Philipps exited the late-night lineup right when it felt like she’d finally arrived.
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Hulu Catch-22 Finds Madness and Magic In a Classic
George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s six-part Hulu adaptation of Joseph Heller’s novel is a surprising success.
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Walter McBride / Corbis / Getty Viceland’s Dark Side of the Ring Shows the Sleaze and Humanity of Wrestling
The series explores the disaster and reality of the shadowy sport.
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Amazon The Agony and the Ecstasy of Fleabag
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s magisterial Amazon series about a conflicted café owner returns for a striking final season.
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HBO My Dad Wrote a Porno Is an Ode to Bad Sex
HBO’s latest comedy special illuminates the art of terrible erotica.
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HBO Why Did Dany Destroy King’s Landing? Some Theories From History
A scholar of classical warfare sees real-world parallels to the Dragon Queen’s rain of fire in the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Game of Thrones Failed Cersei
How the show’s characterization of the Lannister lioness flattened into spiritless villainy
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HBO Game of Thrones Delivers Its Most Cataclysmic Episode
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “The Bells,” the bloody and fiery penultimate entry of the series.
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Parisatag Hizadeh / Confession Films / SundanceTV A Married Couple Walk Into a Bar. We Watch.
Nick Hornby’s State of the Union captures—in bite-size episodes—the complex chemistry of a relationship in humdrum crisis.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Game of Thrones Is Considering ‘Electability.’ It Isn’t Going Well.
Sorry, Dany: Jon Snow, it turns out, is just the kind of guy you’d want to have a beer—or at least a glass of Dornish wine—with.
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Netflix The Raunchiest Women on TV Are Technically Birds
The new Netflix series Tuca & Bertie is a delightfully frenzied addition to the range of shows depicting female desire.
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HBO Chernobyl Is a Gruesome, Riveting Fable
The new five-part HBO miniseries is part historical drama, part grim disquisition on the toll of devaluing the truth.
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NBC Adam Sandler Finally Returned to SNL—And He Delivered
One of the show’s most famous alumni hosted for the first time since departing in 1995, lending a pleasantly nostalgic air to an otherwise stagnant episode.
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HBO A New Film Reveals How Larry Nassar Benefited From a Culture of Silence
The sports doctor was able to assault so many athletes for so long. Erin Lee Carr’s HBO documentary, At the Heart of Gold, explores the environment that protected him.
