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HBO Game of Thrones: Sansa Stark Will Be Heard
Her forcing Littlefinger to hear of the violence that she endured was a moment of catharsis—not just for the character, but for the show.
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Chris Pizzello / AP The Noble Futility of Madonna’s Prince Tribute
Her patchy Billboard Awards performance is drawing the inevitable flak, but fortunately other artists will get their chances to pay homage.
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HBO Game of Thrones: All Men Must Serve
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “The Door,” the fifth episode of the sixth season.
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Fox A New Age of Animation
Many animated series in the U.S. are hand-drawn in South Korea, but the country’s recent transition to digital tools could spur a transformation in American television.
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Fox Bully for Who?
Megyn Kelly’s interview of Donald Trump made it clear once again: The definition of “bullying” has expanded almost to the point of meaninglessness.
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AMC The Night Manager: From the BBC With Love
The imported British miniseries is both a dazzling six-part spy story and a James Bond audition tape for its star, Tom Hiddleston.
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HBO Game of Thrones: Burning Down the Hut
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Book of the Stranger,” the fourth episode of the sixth season.
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Logo RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Art of Self-Love
The reality show’s emphasis on the survival stories of its contestants reveals how performance can be empowering.
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CBS The Women and the Wine
Whether red or white, whether drunk by Alicia Florrick or Olivia Pope, the beverage has become a metaphor for anxieties that are uniquely feminine in their form.
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WGN America Underground: A Thrilling Quest Story About Slavery
A harrowing new period drama takes its cues from both history and the apocalyptic narratives that populate today’s TV and film.
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HBO Game of Thrones: And All the Nights to Come
Three Atlantic staffers discuss ‘Oathbreaker,’ the third episode of the sixth season.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Don’t Blame TV for Trump
Critics claim the ratings-hungry media is responsible for the rise of his brash, telegenic campaign. History suggests that’s not true.
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Paramount CBS’s Star Trek Could Change the TV Broadcast Model
By handcuffing a new series to its online-only service, the network is trying to catch the next wave of the television industry.
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HBO Game of Thrones and Television’s Long History of Cheating Death
The “surprise” return of a major character in the HBO show’s sixth season won’t hurt the future of small-screen storytelling.
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HBO Game of Thrones’s Epidemic of Kid-Killing
The violent death of a cooing infant suggests the extremes to which the show will go to question the nature of childhood.
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HBO Game of Thrones: What Is Dead May Never Die
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Home,” the second episode of the sixth season.
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HBO Game of Thrones and the Paradox of Female Beauty
The HBO show’s sixth-season premiere taps into a longstanding (and sexist) trope: anxieties about women being something other than they seem.
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HBO A Fairy-Tale Ending for the Game of Thrones Premiere
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “The Red Woman,” the first episode of the sixth season.
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Nickelodeon How Rugrats Made Me Feel Comfortable in America
The long-running cartoon’s representation of Judaism was one of the first on television.
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Courtesy HBO Game of Thrones Ventures Into the Unknown
Now that the HBO blockbuster series has caught up with the George R. R. Martin books on which it’s based, all bets are off.
