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Netflix Why Claire Underwood Couldn’t Save House of Cards
The Netflix political drama spent so much time on its complicated plot. But in the end, it squandered the opportunity to go deeper and wider.
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HBO The Problem With HBO’s The Deuce
Up until the second-season finale, it was a show on which almost nothing ever happened.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Shows Some Teeth Mocking Fox News
In the lead-up to the midterms, the show parodied cable-news hysteria over the migrant caravan, and contrasted it with liberal panic over the coming election.
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Amazon Homecoming Is a Taut, Paranoid Puzzle Box
The new Amazon drama by Sam Esmail stars Julia Roberts and Bobby Cannavale in a highly stylized mystery.
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Netflix House of Cards Is Chillier Than Ever in Its Final Season
With Kevin Spacey’s #MeToo scandal removing Frank Underwood from the scene, Robin Wright’s Claire faces a team of rivals who act and sound a lot like her.
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Jessica Pons / Getty The Hosts of Pod Save America Are Embracing the ‘Partisan’ Label
“While we’re biased and have an opinion, that’s different from allowing yourself to be a propaganda machine.”
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Netflix How Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Thinks About Female Power
The dark new Netflix series presents a surprisingly complex vision of what women could do with supernatural abilities.
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NBC How to Break Up Ethically, According to The Good Place
In “The Ballad of Donkey Doug,” the NBC sitcom’s philosophizing gets used for one of the most commonplace moral minefields: ending a relationship.
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Netflix Bodyguard Is Tense, Twisty, and Totally Absurd
The new Netflix drama has been a sensation in Britain, but does it translate?
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Netflix / The Atlantic / Paul Spella The Real Horror in The Haunting of Hill House
The Netflix adaptation discards the authentic fear at the heart of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel.
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Paul Sarkis / The CW Immigrant Stereotypes Are Everywhere on TV
A study of dozens of episodes from the 2017–18 season reveals that non-native characters are often linked to crime and low education levels.
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ABC The Conners Frees Itself of Roseanne Barr
The retooled sitcom debuted with an episode that wrestled with the death of its fictional matriarch.
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Peter Nicholls / Reuters Paddington Bear and the Displaced Child
Growing up, one writer saw the beloved character as a mascot for the Latin American immigrant experience. Sixty years after Paddington’s debut book was published, his story still feels relevant.
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NBC Seth Meyers Revives Saturday Night Live (For a Week)
The show’s former head writer returned for an episode with some excellent sketches—but also a dire parody of Kanye West’s meeting with Donald Trump.
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Anne Marie Fox / HBO Camping Is Awful, but Not Awful Enough
The new HBO miniseries, based on a British comedy of the same name, makes you feel for its characters, and ruins the show in the process.
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Amazon The Romanoffs Is a Self-Indulgent, Intriguing Muddle
Matthew Weiner’s new Amazon series is star-studded, ambitious, and frequently bizarre.
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Giovanni Love / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / … The Men of #MeToo Go Back to Work
A year into an unprecedented outpouring of stories about harassment and assault, much of the entertainment industry still seems like business as usual.
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David Giesbrecht / Warner Bros. Entertainment What Happened When Murphy Brown Tried to Tackle Sexual Assault
The rebooted show’s #MeToo episode was careful and cartoonish in equal measure.
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Netflix Big Mouth Grows Up (Kinda)
In Season 2, the teen-centric series tackles adult concerns—notably the importance of nuanced sex education—with both didacticism and humor.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Whiffs the Kavanaugh Confirmation
In the wake of a bruising moment in American history, the NBC sketch show was primed to party.
