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HBO Westworld Is a Grand Saga of Gunslingers and Robots
The new HBO series plays with Western tropes while subverting them.
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Netflix Luke Cage Is Truly a Hero for His Time
Originally inspired by ’70s blaxploitation movies, the star of the new Netflix series was reimagined as a modern black champion.
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ABC Modern Family Tip-Toes Around Its First Transgender Character
The episode “A Stereotypical Day” featured 8-year-old Jackson Millarker in an attempt to get the characters to inspect their own attitudes.
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Fox Pitch Is a Baseball Drama With Only One Real Twist
Fox’s new show has all the sports-story cliches except for one: It imagines the first female player to take the mound in the major leagues.
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Jennifer Clasen / Amazon Prime Video Transparent’s Third Season Is a Powerful Plea for Compassion
The Pfefferman family has exactly the wrong idea about spirituality.
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Fox The Exorcist and the Lost Art of Catholic Storytelling
A TV reboot of the 1971 novel and its film adaptation debuts this week, but the deeper religious themes of the original story might be lost on contemporary American viewers.
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ABC Designated Survivor Realizes America's Worst Nightmare
The new White House thriller on ABC gets Kiefer Sutherland into the Oval Office by bleak, violent means.
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Scott Kowalchyk / CBS Michelle Obama Gave an SNL-Worthy Performance on The Late Show
On Tuesday, the First Lady flexed her acting muscles with Stephen Colbert.
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ABC Speechless Is Breaking New Ground on Television
The new ABC comedy about the family of a teenager with cerebral palsy is one of the rare shows to put a character with disabilities at the center of its narrative.
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NBC Seth Meyers Proves He's the Anti-Fallon
The Late Night host ripped into Donald Trump’s history with the birther movement, just days after his NBC colleague’s softball interview with the candidate.
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NBC The Good Place Finds Laughs in the Afterlife
A new comedy from the Parks & Recreation creator Michael Schur goes to deeply philosophical places with its stars Kristen Bell and Ted Danson.
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Charles Sykes / AP Did the Emmys Offer Redemption to Marcia Clark?
At Sunday's ceremony, Sarah Paulson apologized to the woman she played on TV—on behalf of herself and “the rest of the world.”
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Amazon Studios Fleabag Is the Filthy Antiheroine TV Deserves
The six-part Amazon series about a dysfunctional, lovable British heroine is painfully funny and painful all at once.
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HBO High Maintenance Is TV’s Most Compassionate Cult Comedy
The webseries makes a seamless jump to HBO, and it’s as clever and insightful as ever.
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Love Productions The Great British Break-Up
Why is the most popular U.K. television show in decades falling apart?
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David Plunkert Sympathy for the Robot
Westworld, HBO’s new series, reframes the classic monsters-run-amok plotline: The audience watches androids become more human—as the humans become less so.
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FOX Son of Zorn Mocks the Cartoonish Alpha Male
Fox’s new sitcom takes the fish-out-of-water concept to its logical extreme.
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Amazon The Quiet Tragicomedy of One Mississippi
Tig Notaro’s new Amazon series plumbs the depths of her real-life struggles, and mines subtle, empathetic humor from them.
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FX The Corner of Hollywood and Motherhood
FX’s new comedy Better Things, created by and starring Louie’s Pamela Adlon, is an acerbic look at the life of a working actress raising three children.
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Netflix What to Watch This Fall
The onslaught of scripted television shows continues with the usual reboots, revivals, and adaptations—but also some original stories.
