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Charles Sykes / AP Kevin Hart Is Not a Martyr
During an appearance on Ellen, the abortive Oscars host cited phantom apologies for his homophobic remarks while DeGeneres pleaded with him to ignore the haters: a spectacle of missing the point.
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Denise Crew / Netflix Tidying Up With Marie Kondo Isn’t Really a Makeover Show
The organizational guru’s new Netflix series isn’t about judgment, decor, or the spectacle of mess. It’s about cultivating empathy for the things that surround us.
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Phil McCarten / Invision for the Television Academy … What to Expect From the 2019 Golden Globes
This year’s awards season is kicking off with what is sure to be a lively ceremony, hosted by Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg.
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David Livingston / Getty The Missed Opportunity of Love Is
The OWN drama billed itself as a celebration of a complicated but relatable real-life romance. Abuse allegations against one of its creators made the show’s premise a queasier proposition.
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Zeza Filmes / Courtesy of Cinema Libre Studio The Modern Dignity of an Uncontacted Tribe
The documentary Piripkura explores the resolve of indigenous people who persist in the forests of Brazil despite shifting circumstance.
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Netflix The Branching Horrors of Black Mirror’s ‘Bandersnatch’
A surprise episode of the series takes the form of a choose-your-own-adventure game.
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Reuters / YouTube The Disturbing Truth About Kevin Spacey’s ‘Let Me Be Frank’ Video
The actor, accused of misconduct by more than 30 men, may believe that talent and fame can save him from public disgrace. It’s not a crazy notion.
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Miramax / Everett Collection Why Fans of Elena Ferrante Should Watch The Best of Youth
While the six-hour run time might scare off some, this striking 2003 epic doesn't waste a moment of its story about two brothers living in postwar Italy.
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Amazon / ITV Vanity Fair Is a Misanthropic Holiday Treat
The Amazon adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s social satire comments on the unchanging nature of grift.
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Netflix Netflix Captures the Doom and Dread of Watership Down
The series taps into the timeliness (and timelessness) of stories about oppressive political systems.
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Amazon The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Rejection of ‘Having It All’
At the end of its second season, the Amazon series made a surprising, gratifying decision.
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Lifetime The Cheesy Endurance of the Made-for-TV Holiday Movie
The Hallmark Christmas flick has become a genre in itself—one that insists, against all odds, on the inevitability of the happy ending.
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NBC The Saturday Night Live Sketch That Sums Up All Online Discourse
Matt Damon and Leslie Jones screaming at each other about the relative merits of Weezer was cleverer than it might sound.
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Deborah Lopez / Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Actor Who Takes His Characters Home
Brian Tyree Henry has played indelible roles—in Atlanta, Widows, and now If Beale Street Could Talk—that have stuck with him far past filming: ‘I don’t ever want them to be forgotten.’
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Kevin Mazur / Netflix Bruce Springsteen Explains It All
As his wildly successful one-man Broadway show comes to Netflix, one thing is clear: Under his tutelage, everything makes sense.
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Netflix The Innocent Man Tells Half a Story
The new Netflix true-crime series lasers in on miscarriages of justice, but doesn’t fully question how they came to pass.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The 25 Best Television Episodes of 2018
Standout picks from Atlanta, One Day at a Time, The Terror, Homecoming, The Great British Baking Show, and more
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Netflix What Dumplin’ and Queen America Say About Female Beauty
A new crop of works uses pageants to explore outdated ideals of physical perfection.
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Ben Blackall / BBC America The Radical Helplessness of the New Doctor Who
The latest season did something surprising with the long-running show’s first female lead: It often allowed her to be powerless in the face of injustice.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The 22 Best TV Shows of 2018
The new and returning series that stood out the most
