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Netflix Disenchantment Subverts the Cartoon Fairy Tale
Matt Groening’s new Netflix series pushes the envelope, but not far enough.
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Josh Westrich / Getty What Does It Mean to ‘Sound’ Black?
In recent works including Insecure, Sorry to Bother You, and BlacKkKlansman, sounding “real” is a tricky equation.
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Anne Marie Fox / HBO ‘The Music Is All About Surviving’: Inside the Sonic World of Sharp Objects
Susan Jacobs, the music supervisor of the HBO series, explains why Led Zeppelin became the protagonist’s voice of escape.
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Amazon Ordeal by Innocence Is the Darkest Agatha Christie Drama Yet
The Amazon three-parter is a star-studded but ponderous tale about toxic family dysfunction.
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Netflix Can Television Destroy Diet Culture?
Netflix’s Insatiable and AMC’s Dietland both feature fat heroines who are bullied for their body type. But they’re very different shows.
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AMC Tragedy Has Reinvigorated Better Call Saul
The show’s soulful fourth season uses death to springboard to Breaking Bad levels of emotion.
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HBO Succession’s Masterful Finale Tips the HBO Show’s Hand
Never has the Roy legacy seemed more tragic, or more toxic.
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Netflix The Middling, Melancholy Charm of Like Father
Netflix’s new feature comedy starring Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer is unremarkable in every way except one: It’s barely funny.
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Netflix How Will Orange Is the New Black End?
As the Netflix series heads toward a possible final season, its conclusion could be hopeful or honest, but not both.
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NBC The Existential Comfort of Making It
The NBC crafting competition is a balm for troubled times.
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HBO Can HBO Give Deadwood a Proper Ending?
The network has green-lit a feature-length finale for the show it canceled 12 years earlier.
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Netflix Orange Is the New Black Is Still Worth Watching
Despite the Netflix show’s reliable inconsistency, few series are as willing to take this many risks.
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Julie Jacobson / AP Roseanne, Hannity, and the One Joke That Reveals So Much
Appearing on Fox News on Thursday, Barr offered a non-apology to Valerie Jarrett. And then she mocked Jarrett’s haircut.
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Netflix The Disaster Zone of Netflix’s Dark Tourist
The new eight-part series supposedly travels to the most mad, macabre, and morbid places in the world.
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FX Snowfall’s Compelling Second Season Is All About Power
The FX drama about the crack epidemic—which has added the crime writer Walter Mosley to its creative team—finds its groove.
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HBO Sharp Objects’ Music Contains a Chilling Message
Like with Big Little Lies, almost all of the HBO drama’s songs are diegetic—and connected to the larger mystery.
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Ryan Melgar Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man: Mel Brooks in His 90s
The comic has stormed through 75 years of show business; he remains prodigal in expression, memory, and imagination.
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Showtime Who Is Sacha Baron Cohen Satirizing?
In his new Showtime series Who Is America?, the British comedian shows the best and worst of his comedy.
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FX When Are Trans Actors Allowed to Act?
The FX drama Pose is the rare example of a show that actually gives trans actors top billing—an effort made all the more urgent by a recent controversy that saw Scarlett Johansson cast as a transgender man.
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HBO The Unknowable Robin Williams
Come Inside My Mind, airing on HBO Monday night, is a thoughtful and wistful portrait of an elusive subject.
