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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Can Hollywood Kill the Casting Couch?
The country’s biggest actors’ union has struck a deal to eliminate the kind of private auditions that can lead to abuse.
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Fox / Brian C. Weed / Oleksandr Kostiuchenko … The Character Who Made Me Love Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Amy Santiago, played by Melissa Fumero, has exploded many a pop-culture myth about smart, driven women being cold, humorless, and lonely.
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HBO Westworld: Ghost Nation, Revealed
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Kiksuya,” the eighth episode of Season 2.
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Jim Cooper / AP Anthony Bourdain’s Extreme Empathy
The chef understood that history and political survey provide more than just context; they can illuminate the specificity of people’s lives.
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JoJo Whilden / FX Pose and the Uncapturable Brilliance of the Ballroom
Amid a wave of new tributes to the queer art of voguing, Ryan Murphy’s FX show struggles to capture the subculture’s energy.
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HBO / Getty Long Live Samantha Jones
Through six seasons and two movies of Sex and the City, no love story could supersede the one in which Samantha was the object of her own affection.
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Patrick Harbron / AMC Dietland Envisions a World of Female Revenge
The new dark comedy from Marti Noxon explores women’s physical and psychological pain with an intriguing, if heavy-handed, premise.
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HBO Westworld: Strike the Match
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Les Écorchés,” the seventh episode of Season 2.
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HBO Filthy Rich: The Power Plays of Succession
HBO’s new drama about a media mogul’s feuding family is a darkly comic work in progress.
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Netflix The Bleak Truths of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
In its fourth and final season, the Netflix comedy continues to spin its cotton-candy humor around a world that’s rotten inside.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Roseanne Fantasy Is Over
The sitcom star’s racist tweet ended a show that fashioned Trump’s appeal as largely economic and national unity as within reach.
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ABC Why ABC Finally Had to Cancel Roseanne
Following months of defending the show’s star, the network ended the wildly popular revival after its namesake sent a racist tweet.
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Amazon The Mysterious Girls of Picnic at Hanging Rock
A new Amazon miniseries adapts the classic novel by Joan Lindsay about the disappearance of four women in 1900 Australia.
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Amazon / FX / Netflix / NBC / … 18 New Shows to Watch This Summer
Plus 10 returning series worth catching up on
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HBO Westworld: From Cradle to Grave
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Phase Space,” the sixth episode of Season 2.
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BBC America Killing Eve and the Riddle of Why Women Kill
The show’s assassin, Villanelle, insists on being taken at face value. To search for a noble motivation is to trap oneself in her psychological labyrinth.
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Kevin Winter / Getty Actually, Kissing Is Good
A hot(ter) take
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Netflix Jason Bateman’s Tired Defense of Jeffrey Tambor
In excusing his Arrested Development castmate’s verbal abuse of Jessica Walter, the actor showed how Hollywood has justified bad behavior for generations.
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NBC What Didn’t Work in Season 43 of Saturday Night Live
This year, the show ended with a typically mediocre, guest star–laden Donald Trump sketch—but it needs to be bolder in the future.
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HBO Westworld: A Cut Above
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Akane No Mai,” the fifth episode of Season 2.
