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Annie Sullivan / Smithsonian John Leguizamo’s Required Reading for America
Inspired by his one-man show, Latin History for Morons, the comedian recommends three books that challenge one-sided narratives of the past.
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Clay Enos / Warner Bros. Breaking Down the 2019 Golden Globe Nominations
Films such as A Star Is Born, Green Book, and Vice nabbed the most movie nods, while The Americans, Homecoming, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ruled the TV slate.
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Amazon Studios The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Gauzy, Gorgeous Fantasy
The second season of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s 1950s comedy about an indomitable performer is as delightfully escapist as ever.
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Ray Rochlin / Getty Jameela Jamil and the Trouble With #NoFilter Feminism
The outspoken British actor recently wrote that airbrushing should be illegal. But there are far more compelling ways to consider the tyranny of gendered beauty standards.
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Larry Downing / Sygma via Getty Images Dana Carvey’s George H. W. Bush Was an All-Time Great SNL Impression
The comedian’s take on the late president might seem tame by today’s standards, but it seized on the little details to deliver incisive satire.
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Cara Howe / Netflix / Arsh Raziuddin / … Hasan Minhaj Invites You to Take Off Your Shoes
The host of the new Netflix series Patriot Act turns a tested sphere—the topical talk show—into an immigrant home.
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Showtime What Is Escape at Dannemora, Really?
The Showtime series about a real-life prison break is just the latest work in the Peak TV era to suffer from existential confusion.
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Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images The Inimitable Creativity of Stephen Hillenburg
The animator behind SpongeBob SquarePants, who died this week at the age of 57, invented a cult oddity that also managed to become a global brand.
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Virginia Sherwood / NBC New Amsterdam Is a Medical Drama That Fails Doctors—And Viewers
A resident physician at the hospital that helped inspire the NBC show explains the dark side of the feel-good series.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Enemies Explores an Ongoing Constitutional Crisis
The Showtime series by Jed Rothstein and Alex Gibney looks at the recent history of American presidents trying to supersede the rule of law.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters The End of The Clinton Affair
The scandal that led to an impeachment helped shape the America of 2018. Twenty years later, however, it also serves as a reminder of the stubbornness of the status quo.
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AMC The Ravishing Way Park Chan-wook Uses Color in The Little Drummer Girl
The director explains the symbolism behind the AMC miniseries’ vivid palette.
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Steve Molina Contreras / NBC SNL’s New Rap Parodies Tell the Same Old Joke
The show’s been linking trending topics in the news with trending songs in hip-hop. Why do the results feel staler than Weird Al?
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NBC Saturday Night Live’s Confusing Celebration of Jeff Bezos
Steve Carell played the Amazon CEO as an anti-Trump crusader in one of the show’s more baffling sketches.
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HBO The Gorgeous Savagery of My Brilliant Friend
The HBO adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s first Neapolitan novel is a strikingly faithful achievement.
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Netflix The Kominsky Method Is a Strange, Slapdash Show
Chuck Lorre’s new Netflix series about an aging acting coach and his bereaved best friend is a curiously confused affair.
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Netflix The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Doesn’t Quite Add Up
Though its “chapters” are individually compelling, the Coen brothers’ Western anthology film is an ungainly whole.
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NBC A Veterans Day Apology From Saturday Night Live and Pete Davidson
The comedian walked back an insulting joke about incoming Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw, who lost an eye fighting in Afghanistan.
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HBO The Grotesque Brilliance of Sally4Ever
The HBO series from the British writer Julia Davis is depraved cringe comedy at its most inexplicably compelling.
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Amazon The Romanoffs Defends the Men of #MeToo
“Bearing false witness is the worst crime that you can commit,” says a character in the most recent episode of the Amazon series.
