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AMC Humans Might Be the Ultimate A.I. Thought Experiment
AMC’s new show goes beyond the obvious questions about what happens when robots can think like people.
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USA Mr. Robot: A Dark, Compelling Drama for the Paranoid Internet Age
The new USA Network show features a hacker who hopes to upend capitalism while prying into the online lives of those around him.
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HBO True Detective Season 2: Welcome to Vinci
The pitch-black HBO crime drama returns with a new location, and a host of new emotionally tortured characters.
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HBO Colin Farrell’s Evolution: From Movie Star to Actor
The True Detective player got his start in Hollywood as a bland marquee idol, but it took a career crash and a series of flops for him to truly come into his own.
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Paul Townsend / Flickr The Briefcase: A Reality TV Show Straight From the Victorian Era
The CBS show is selling 19th-century entertainment that exploits poverty to 21st-century American viewers.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Why Does Game of Thrones Feature So Much Sexual Violence?
To some extent, the HBO show is adapting the themes of the novels, but it’s also deliberately added instances of rape and torture on a number of occasions.
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Apple / IBM / The Atlantic How Apple and IBM Marketed the First Personal Computers
In 1977, companies building PCs had to try to convince the American public that this confusing new technology was missing from their lives.
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HBO The Game of Thrones Season 5 Finale: A Bleakness Binge
Our roundtable discusses ‘Mother’s Mercy,’ the 10th episode of the fifth season.
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John P. Johnson / HBO Silicon Valley’s Brutally Funny Indictment of the Tech Industry
Throughout season two, the HBO comedy has wrung laughs from misplaced idealism in the startup world.
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Netflix Orange Is the New Black Has Never Felt Freer
With Piper demoted to a supporting role for Season 3, the show can go anywhere.
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Pascal / Flickr The New True Crime
The genre dates back to Edgar Allan Poe, but social media and a lack of public faith in criminal justice have changed the stakes for modern stories like The Jinx and Serial.
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HBO The Most Horrifying Game of Thrones Death Yet
Our roundtable discusses “The Dance of Dragons,” the ninth episode of the fifth season.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Fun Home's Success Defines the 2015 Tony Awards
The musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s memoir won big while women took trophies in every major category.
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Netflix Sense8: The Premise Is Not Enough
The new Netflix show from The Matrix’s creators chronicles eight interconnected lives, tediously.
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April L. Brown / AP Can the Duggars Be Role Models for 'Public Shame'?
In an interview with Fox News, the 19 Kids and Counting stars defended their son—and insisted that their experience is a common one.
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KFC The Art of Impersonation
Darrell Hammond, the longtime Saturday Night Live cast member and interpreter of everyone from Bill Clinton to Colonel Sanders, explains how it’s done.
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Vanity Fair 'Call Me Caitlyn': The Radical Simplicity of Vanity Fair's Cover
The woman once known as Bruce Jenner is embracing her role as a public figure. But it’s impossible to forget that hers is a personal struggle, too.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Game of Thrones: The Only War That Matters
Our roundtable discusses “Hardhome,” the eighth episode of the fifth season.
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Warner Bros. Destroying L.A. and Female Rock Critics: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
Highlights from seven days of reading about entertainment
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HBO Game of Thrones: What's Going to Happen Next
Some spoiler-y speculation on the final three episodes
