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Netflix The Defenders Proves Heroes Aren't Enough
The four Marvel superheroes are finally united on Netflix. But against what?
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Richard Shotwell / AP What Netflix Can Offer Shonda Rhimes
Television’s biggest producer is leaving ABC to join the streaming service, the most seismic shift in the Peak TV era yet.
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AMC It's Not Too Late for Halt and Catch Fire
There’s still time to catch AMC’s dazzling drama about the dawn of the internet as the show enters its final season.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Deus Ex Westeros
Absurd plot twists. Unanswered questions. Could Game of Thrones go the way of Lost?
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Helen Sloan / courtesy of HBO Is Game of Thrones on Thin Ice?
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Beyond the Wall,” the sixth episode of the seventh season.
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Will Heath / NBC 'Let Us Eat Cake': The Tina Fey Effect in 2017
The aftermath of Charlottesville has brought up important questions about who should be speaking, and who should be listening.
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Netflix The Defenders: Marvel's TV Universe Clicks Into Place
The gang's all here in a Netflix limited series—and, together, they're a riot.
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HBO Would You Believe Jon Snow?
In its current season, Game of Thrones is exploring the life of another kind of monster: the alternative fact.
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CBS Joking After Charlottesville
On Monday, Anthony Scaramucci appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. He was ready to laugh. The host—and the host’s audience—were not.
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NBC / YouTube ‘He Is Not a President’
In the wake of Charlottesville, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon delivered damning critiques of Donald Trump.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Game of Thrones: No Choice at All
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Eastwatch,” the fifth episode of the seventh season.
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Netflix Atypical Is So Close to Great
The new Netflix series about a high-school senior with autism is warmhearted, funny, and totally inconsistent.
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ABC Settling vs. Settling Down: 2 Ways of Looking at the Bachelorette Finale
Some fans saw Rachel Lindsay’s final choice as a compromise of her desires. In another way, though, her selection is getting her exactly what she wanted.
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Netflix The Joke Has Died With Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
The latest Netflix spin-off of the 2001 cult-comedy classic brings back the old gang but has nothing new to do with them.
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HBO Game of Thrones: Dragons Are the Nuclear Option
The creatures are the most powerful weapon in Westeros, but “The Spoils of War” showed the horrific cost of using them.
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HBO Game of Thrones: Queen of the Ashes
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “The Spoils of War,” the fourth episode of the seventh season.
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Netflix Icarus: A Doping House of Cards Tumbles Down
In the new Netflix documentary, a filmmaker accidentally captures how one of the biggest scandals in sporting history came to light.
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Getty Images The Lost Cause Rides Again
HBO’s Confederate takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?
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Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP / Zak … Ava DuVernay on Queen Sugar and Her Hollywood Journey
The director discusses the show’s midseason finale, the importance of telling black stories, and her secret to navigating the film and TV industry.
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ABC The Bachelorette and the Empty Redemptions of Reality TV
The show’s The Men Tell All special confronted Lee Garrett for his racist tweets. Producers treated it as a productive conversation; it was anything but.
