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Showtime America Has Caught Up to Sacha Baron Cohen
The comedian’s new Showtime series should be shocking, but its wildest stunts only confirm how trollish U.S. politics has become.
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Courtesy of The Fred Rogers Company The Daniel Tiger Doctrine
The creator of the beloved kids’ show Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood talks about what makes great children’s TV—and reveals a significant plot development in the upcoming season.
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Matt Sayles / AP Images Emmy Nominations 2018: Netflix Takes Over
For the first time, the streaming service received more total nods than HBO, ending the premium-cable channel’s 17-year domination.
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Hulu A Maddening Season Finale for The Handmaid’s Tale
In its sophomore stretch, the Hulu show abandoned narrative logic and character development to keep its story constrained.
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Netflix The Real Love Affair on GLOW
The Netflix series is about a relationship, but not in the traditional sense.
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AP / Eric Risberg AT&T’s Troubling Plan to Change HBO
The telecom giant, which just acquired Time Warner, is seeking to drastically change the premium-cable channel in order to compete with the likes of Netflix.
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HBO The Twisted, Enthralling Rot of Sharp Objects
The HBO miniseries, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and adapted from Gillian Flynn’s thriller, probes the dark heart of small-town America.
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Amazon A Very English Scandal Revisits an Affair That’s Stranger Than Fiction
The Amazon miniseries starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw is based on a real-life moment in British politics that gripped the tabloids in the late 1970s.
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Netflix The Working Women of GLOW
The Netflix comedy is, above everything, about the fulfillment and joy of jobs.
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Richard Drew / AP Terry Crews and the Discomfort of Masculine Anxiety
The responses to the Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor’s personal testimony in D.C. in support of a sexual-assault bill reveal the persistence of narrow definitions of manhood.
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Netflix Nanette Is a Radical, Transformative Work of Comedy
Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix special, filmed at the Sydney Opera House, dismantles and subverts everything about how humor is supposed to work.
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HBO Westworld’s Virtual Afterlife Might Not Be Fiction
HBO’s drama added a layer of complication—and real-world relevance—by introducing digitally simulated locations in its second season.
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ABC What Does ABC Want From The Conners?
The network canceled Roseanne and ordered a rebooted version of the show without its star, but what kinds of stories is the spinoff hoping to tell?
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NBC Jimmy Fallon Can’t Ignore Donald Trump
The late-night host recently expressed his regret over his notoriously flimsy 2016 interview with the then-presidential candidate, while admitting he only wants to make America laugh.
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Netflix What Is The Staircase Trying to Do?
The pioneering documentary is more passive than its successors, but the portrait it crafts is a damning one.
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HBO Westworld: Is This Now?
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “The Passenger,” the final episode of Season 2.
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Hulu Gilead in America
In The Handmaid’s Tale, a callous, theocratic regime uses scripture to justify forcibly removing children from their parents.
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HBO Westworld: Who Cares About the Man in Black?
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Vanishing Point,” the ninth episode of Season 2.
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Netflix How Queer Is Queer Eye?
In Season 2 of Netflix’s reboot, gay lifestyle advice has less to do with sexuality than with self-definition.
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Freeform The Bold Type Delivers on Its Leads
Season 2 of the Freeform dramedy, which follows three women working in journalism, tackles its protagonists’ backstories with a refreshing complexity.
