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Erica Parise / SHOWTIME Jim Carrey Masters His Act in Kidding
In a new Showtime series, the actor delivers the same gripping performance that’s been characteristic of his career: moving, thoughtful, and maniacal.
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Aaron Epstein / Netflix What Sierra Burgess Gets Wrong About Consent
The Netflix rom-com, starring Shannon Purser (Stranger Things) and Noah Centineo (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before), disappointingly fails to indict the protagonist’s deceptive behavior.
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Noah K. Murray / AP I’m Still Confused About ‘Miss America 2.0’
Sunday night’s revamped version of the nearly 100-year-old competition was a dizzying and at times spellbinding collision of determined progress and regressive tradition.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Why the Les Moonves Departure Is Not Enough
The powerful CBS chief is exiting the company after a new round of sexual-misconduct allegations. It’s a big deal—but it’s not the full deal.
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Hulton Archive / Getty What The X-Files Understood About the Search for Truth
Twenty-five years ago, the sci-fi drama series began its sophisticated exploration of the messiness of human belief.
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Showtime Kidding Misunderstands the Appeal of Jim Carrey
The bleak new Showtime series has the comedian playing a Mister Rogers–esque children’s entertainer in the middle of an existential crisis.
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HBO Life and Art Collide in The Deuce
The second season of HBO’s drama about the 1970s pornography business is timely in good ways and bad.
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Netflix / CBS / HBO / Amazon / … 31 New Shows to Watch This Fall
Kidding brings Jim Carrey to the small screen, Cary Fukunaga directs Maniac on Netflix, and HBO adapts Elena Ferrante.
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Starz America to Me Tackles Race in New Ways
The 10-part Starz docuseries from Steve James follows students and faculty through an Illinois high school to explore racial inequity from a different angle.
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Peter Kramer / AP What the Shaming of Geoffrey Owens Reveals
The reaction to the former Cosby Show actor working a retail job says a lot about how Americans understand success.
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Amazon Studios Jack Ryan, Reaganite Hero
Tom Clancy’s character—a former Marine, Wall Street millionaire, reluctant CIA agent, and loyal family man—has long been a symbol of a bygone era.
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Eli Ade / OWN The Holy Family of Greenleaf Is a Sinful Mess
The OWN series, which follows the leading family of a Memphis mega-church, cleverly dramatizes the gap between its characters’ sanctified public personas and their private misdeeds.
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Julie Jacobson / Reuters If You Watch Nothing Else of Who Is America?, Watch the Segment With O.J. Simpson
The finale of the Sacha Baron Cohen series mingled slaughter and laughter to horrific—and revealing—effect.
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HBO In Sharp Objects, Love Is Poison
The finale to the HBO series revealed its villains, and how corrupted they’d become.
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Netflix The Innocents Is the Most Netflixy Drama Yet
The new eight-part supernatural series about teenagers on the run feels like a weaker mishmash of other streaming hits.
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Nichole Washington How the ’90s Kinda World of Living Single Lives on Today
Twenty-five years after its premiere, the cast and crew of Yvette Lee Bowser’s iconic ensemble sitcom talk about the show’s classic characters, memorable looks, and impact on how Hollywood tells black stories.
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OWN The Revolutionary Power of Pies in Queen Sugar
Season 3 has offered a compelling portrait of a middle-aged, African American woman chasing her dreams of entrepreneurship. The result is the kind of story that exists nowhere else on TV.
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Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP How Netflix Snagged Black-ish Creator Kenya Barris
The showrunner recently departed ABC for the streaming network, joining the ranks of Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes in the process.
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HBO The Lazy Trope of the Unethical Female Journalist
With Camille Preaker, Zoe Barnes, and Rory Gilmore, Hollywood’s depictions of women reporters have never been further from reality.
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Hulu Minding the Gap Is an Extraordinary Feat of Filmmaking
The Hulu documentary by Bing Liu examines masculinity and trauma through the lens of three Illinois skateboarders.
