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Netflix Black Mirror: 'Black Museum' Is a Throwback to Episodes Past
The final installment of the fourth season is stashed with Easter eggs that bring the show’s universe together.
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Netflix Black Mirror: 'Metalhead' Is a Short, Stylish Survival Thriller
The fifth episode of the Netflix show’s fourth season is a post-apocalyptic battle between woman and machine.
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Netflix Black Mirror: 'Hang the DJ' Explores Dystopian Dating
The fourth episode of the fourth season is about a system that pairs compatible people together, with a twist.
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Netflix Black Mirror: 'Crocodile' Is a Nihilistic Nordic Noir
The third episode of Season 4 tells a muddled, grim tale of surveillance and memory-mining.
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Netflix Black Mirror: 'Arkangel' Mines the Horror of Helicopter Parenting
Directed by Jodie Foster, the second episode of Season 4 taps into the anxieties of raising children.
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Netflix Black Mirror's 'USS Callister' Is Much More Than a Star Trek Parody
The first episode of the Netflix show’s fourth season finds a new angle on tech horror through sci-fi satire.
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Netflix Black Mirror's Universe Coalesces
In the sci-fi anthology series’s fourth season, a unifying theme pulls the show together in unprecedented fashion.
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Marc Brenner / Almeida Theatre Reimagining The Twilight Zone for the 21st Century
With a theatrical adaptation opening in London, and a planned CBS revival helmed by Jordan Peele, what can the Rod Serling anthology series say about modern life?
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Netflix Wormwood: Obsession, Lies, and a CIA Coverup
Errol Morris’s latest documentary is a rambling investigation into the death of a government scientist.
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Katie Martin / Emily Jane / The Atlantic The 24 Best Television Episodes of 2017
Staff selections from a year of great TV
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Netflix Where BoJack Horseman Season 4 Shone Brightest
The animated Netflix show’s two best episodes this year experimented with narrative to bring the private pain of its female characters to light.
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Netflix How Television Anticipated the Weinstein Moment in 2017
From The Keepers to National Treasure, The Deuce to The Handmaid’s Tale, new shows probed the institutionalized nature of sexual assault.
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Fox Searchlight Pictures Breaking Down the
2018 Golden Globe NominationsThe Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s selections, including The Shape of Water, The Post, and Lady Bird, set off an Oscar race with no clear frontrunner.
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The 20 Best TV Shows of 2017
The new and returning series that stood out the most
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Netflix The Crown: Netflix's Best Superhero Show
The second season of the Peter Morgan drama digs into its protagonist's dual identities: as woman and as monarch.
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© J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, … Frank Lloyd Wright's Striking Pop-Cultural Legacy
150 years after the architect was born, the Ennis House is a testament to his continued influence—particularly onscreen.
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David Lee / Netflix Does She's Gotta Have It Live Up to Its Promise?
Four Atlantic writers discuss the Netflix adaptation of Spike Lee’s 1986 film, and the ways the series exceeds and falls short of its potential.
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Netflix Voyeur’s Queasy, Fascinating Exposure
The Netflix documentary explores the writer Gay Talese’s odd relationship with his subject Gerald Foos, a peeping tom.
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AP / Richard Drew About That Secret Button in Matt Lauer's Office
The anchor's door-locking mechanism acts as a particularly vivid metaphor for the amount of power and protection many influential men enjoy.
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Amazon The Insistent Cheeriness of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The Amazon show from the creator of Gilmore Girls is an exuberant story about a 1950s housewife who discovers an unlikely talent.
