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Netflix The Complex Humanity of Black Mirror
In its third season, the series achieves an imaginative moral and narrative depth that counteracts its often-dark scenarios.
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Amazon Studios Good Girls Revolt Shows How Far We Haven’t Come
The new Amazon series about a landmark 1970 workplace-equality lawsuit puts a sharp focus on the stunted progress of the last five decades.
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FX American Horror Story's Mind-Bending Experiment
The FX series’ sixth season is staging mockumentaries within mockumentaries in its exploration of reality, perception, and gore.
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CBS Why Is The Great Indoors So Mad at Millennials?
CBS’s new sitcom is packed with aggressive jokes about youngsters that lack effort, or any real insight.
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Syfy Channel Zero Unleashes the Horrors of Childhood
The anthology series’ first season, subtitled Candle Cove, terrorizes its adult characters with the very things that scared them as kids.
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Amy Sussman / Invision / AP The Old-Fashioned, Modern Marriage of Ina and Jeffrey
The Barefoot Contessa’s latest cookbook doubles as an insight into the workings of “the most cherished celebrity couple in the world.”
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NBC SNL’s Surprisingly Affectionate Portrayal of a Trump Supporter
Tom Hanks’s Doug has a lot in common with “Black Jeopardy” contestants—except, of course, for politics.
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Netflix Black Mirror’s ‘Hated in the Nation’ Considers Online Outrage
The final chapter of this season takes the social-media mob to its deadly extreme.
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Netflix Black Mirror’s ‘Men Against Fire’ Tackles High-Tech Warfare
The fifth episode of the new season features American soldiers fighting mysterious mutants.
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Netflix Black Mirror’s ‘San Junipero’ is the Standout of the Season
The more emotional and hopeful tale stars Mackenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
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Netflix Black Mirror’s ‘Shut Up and Dance’ Is a Horrifying Thriller
The third episode of the new season is one of the most disturbing of the series.
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Netflix Black Mirror’s ‘Playtest’ Brings Fear to Life
The second episode of the new season is a twisty, tense horror story about an immersive video game that can detect your darkest fears.
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Netflix Black Mirror’s ‘Nosedive’ Skewers Social Media
Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, the episode is set in a world where everyone is ranked out of five.
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NBC Sympathy for the Melania
SNL and pop culture pay loving disrespect to Donald Trump’s wife.
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Logo TV The Battle for the Soul of RuPaul's Drag Race
All Stars 2 crowned the show’s ultimate fan as its winner—but plenty of fans aren’t thrilled about it.
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USA Network Falling Water Is the Dull Endpoint of Conspiracy-Theory TV
USA’s new supernatural drama has overlearned the lessons of an era where internet clue-hunting can prop up a show.
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ABC Fresh Off the Boat and the Elusiveness of Home
The sitcom’s season-three premiere, along with NBC’s The Good Place, shows how geography raises questions of belonging.
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Netflix The Biggest Problem With Netflix's Comic-Book Shows
The network’s newest superhero series, Luke Cage, has the same issue as its predecessors: It takes way too long to get its story in motion.
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NBC Friday Night Lights Democratized TV Drama
The NBC show, which premiered 10 years ago today, operated under the assumption that every person in the series had a story worth telling.
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NBC Alec Baldwin’s Scarier, Nastier Donald Trump
Saturday Night Live returned for another season with a new impression of the GOP’s presidential candidate—and it was just the jolt the show needed.
