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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Live TV Is All But Dead
Scripted television “really has moved into the consumer actually controlling their experience,” says Hulu CEO Randy Freer.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Mocks Brett Kavanaugh the Frat Bro
In its first cold open of the season, the show cast Matt Damon to play the Supreme Court nominee as a raging and whining teenager. But the sketch rang hollow in some ways.
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Justin Lubin / NBC The Good Place Offers a Heavenly Reprieve
Season 3 keeps the show’s core tenets but quite literally grounds its characters on Earth. Their experiences are all the more immediate and refreshing as a result.
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FX Consider the Hit Man
Mr. Inbetween, a new six-part drama on FX, uses the complex-assassin trope to mine the subject of masculinity.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters / The Atlantic The False Binary of the ‘Choir Boy’ Defense of Brett Kavanaugh
The rhetoric around the Supreme Court nominee pits a “Boy Scout” persona against a “frat guy.” But #MeToo has shown the limits of such labels.
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Netflix Maniac Is a Strange, Hyperkinetic Ode to Connection
The new Netflix series has a clear, touching message beneath its surreal imagery and frenzied layers of storytelling.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Needs to Break Its Stagnant Streak
Alec Baldwin is returning to play President Trump for the show’s 44th season, with only one new cast member coming aboard the stalling sketch revue.
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Netflix BoJack Horseman Charts Complicated Paths to Forgiveness
In its fifth season, Netflix’s darkly comic animated series follows its protagonist on unexpected journeys to absolution after past misbehavior comes to light. This time, the women in his life have their say.
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Facebook Watch What Sorry for Your Loss Understands About Grief
The gorgeous and poignant new drama from Facebook Watch stars Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman whose husband has died.
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Amazon Prime Video Marriage Takes a Drastic Turn in Forever
Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen play a couple pondering their relationship in the tragicomic Amazon series.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Does Anybody at the Emmys Know What the Word Diversity Means?
In simply joking and pontificating about an absent diversity, the awards show missed yet another opportunity to begin reflecting.
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Eric Jamison / Invision for the Television Academy … The Slow Death of the Red-Carpet Show
The pre-show before the 2018 Emmy Awards seemed to be confused about its own point.
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NBC Colin Jost and Michael Che’s Lackluster Emmys Monologue
The dual hosts of the TV Academy’s awards looked less than thrilled to be onstage, and even their Saturday Night Live chemistry was lacking.
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Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP The Emmys Should Be Political
The past year has proved, over and over again, that TV is defined by misbehavior. Awards shows shouldn’t ignore that fact.
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Jordan Strauss / Invision for the Television Academy … Your 2018 Emmys Crash Course
A roundup of all The Atlantic’s best stories to get up to speed in time for TV’s biggest awards show
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Hulu The First Is a Dazzling, Portentous Space Drama
Beau Willimon’s new Hulu series about a groundbreaking Mars mission, starring Sean Penn, is gorgeous and occasionally insightful.
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Netflix How the Hollywood Redemption Machine Works, According to BoJack Horseman
The show’s fifth season shows how protecting abusive, famous men is a tangled and corrupting process that touches everyone.
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Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP John Legend’s EGOT and the Seduction of Symbolic Racial Progress
Are the singer’s Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony wins signposts of meaningful change within the entertainment industry or false flags?
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FX American Horror Story Is at the End of Its Wits
The eighth season, Apocalypse, looks to be a dull feat of recycling.
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FX The Emmys Don’t Get Modern TV
The Television Academy still define shows as comedies or dramas. Creators and networks don’t.
