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HBO Silicon Valley Looks to Reinvent the Internet
The HBO comedy hits the reboot button in its fourth year, and it’s never been funnier.
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HBO The Leftovers: Meet Me in St. Louis
In the second episode of the final season, Nora went on a road trip.
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Chris Large / FX In Fargo Season 3, a Family Feud Turns Bloody
Noah Hawley's FX anthology series returns with a new story about two estranged brothers at odds over a precious vintage stamp.
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CBS Stephen Colbert’s Alex Jones Parody Is Hardly a Parody
The Late Show host turned his fire on the embattled InfoWars conspiracy theorist, who now claims he’s been “in character” for years.
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HBO What Was Missing From the Girls Finale
The HBO show’s last episode lost sight of a difficult character’s greatest strengths.
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HBO The End Is Nigh for The Leftovers
In its third and final season, the HBO show proves it’s still the most surprising and moving show on television.
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Jordan Strauss / AP Should Acting Prizes Be Gender-Neutral?
The MTV Movie & TV Awards will no longer hand out separate trophies for best male and female performers. Will bigger ceremonies follow suit?
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Will Heath / NBC Saturday Night Live’s Sincere Ode to Sectional Couches
The latest episode’s host Louis C.K. starred in a sketch that initially seemed like a typical fake commercial—and turned out to be anything but.
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Showtime The Trouble With Homeland’s Political Realism
The sixth season revealed a TV show trying desperately to keep up with the news, and sacrificing coherence as a result.
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HBO What Crashing Got Right About Stand-Up
Pete Holmes’s HBO series continually confounded expectations, all the way up to its comedy-free season finale.
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Netflix S-Town, 13 Reasons Why, and Making Art Out of Self-Destruction
The podcast and the Netflix show both tackle the subject of despair, but in remarkably different ways.
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RocketJump / Hulu Dimension 404 Promises Sci-Fi With a Twist
But despite an array of recognizable actors, the Hulu show is less Black Mirror and more Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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Netflix Louis C.K.’s 2017 Is a Startling, Uncomfortable Return to Form
The comedian’s new special for Netflix is his first in years to feel coherent and truly challenging.
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Adult Swim Rick and Morty’s ‘Surprise’ Season-Three Launch
Adult Swim’s cult series debuted a highly anticipated new episode for April Fool’s Day, after months (seemingly) without a release date.
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Comedy Central 'Donald Trump' Gets a Comedy Central Series
The President Show will star the impersonator Anthony Atamanuik, and will allow you to chuckle as you question the nature of reality.
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HBO Girls Crashes Back to Earth
As the HBO show approaches its series finale, it’s deftly exploring the limits of fantasy in storytelling.
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Hilary Bronwyn Gayle / HBO A Satisfying Finale for Big Little Lies
The star-studded HBO limited series came to a compassionate conclusion for (almost) all of its characters.
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Hulu Hulu’s Harlots Takes a Modern View of 18th-Century Sex Work
Starring Samantha Morton and Jessica Brown Findlay, the series has a surprisingly sharp perspective on the dynamics of pleasure and power.
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Tyler Golden / NBC The Voice’s Empty Promise of the American Dream
The NBC reality singing competition has been selling glittering visions of fame for 11 seasons, but has rarely delivered on them.
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Showtime Fake News Is Television's Favorite New Storyline
Shows including Homeland, Quantico, and The Good Fight are featuring topical storylines about attempts to spread misinformation within the U.S.
