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Raleigh News & Observer / Getty; The Atlantic The Reluctant Face of True Crime
Michael Peterson refuses to watch The Staircase.
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Will Heath / NBC The SNL Sketch That Perfectly Mocks Our Upside-Down Reality
The show finally got satire right ... with the help of Hello Kitty.
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Courtesy of HBO The Two Americas: The White Lotus Fans and Reacher Fans
David French’s culture picks include Amazon Prime as well as HBO Max hits, and a profoundly meaningful blockbuster art film.
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HLN; The Atlantic The End of Companion Television
CNN’s Headline News may seem thoroughly old-fashioned now that it’s dead. But its demise is a reminder of the creeping nature of media obsolescence.
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Netflix The Strength of the ‘Soft Daddy’
A modern generation of animated sitcoms shows a rarity in the genre: well-adjusted fathers.
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Zentropa The Kingdom Is the Strangest Medical Drama You’ll Ever See
Lars von Trier’s hospital horror-comedy, back for a third season, is a scathing satire of institutional failure.
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HBO; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The Multiple Stories of NXIVM
The new season of the HBO docuseries The Vow shows how dangerous the human desire for narrative can be.
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Qilai Shen / Panos Pictures / Redux The Streaming Death Spiral Must End
Former Disney CEO Bob Iger is back at a time when the company desperately needs a new direction.
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20th Century Studios The Horror Movie That’s Truly Worth the Hype
Shirley Li’s culture picks include Barbarian, Elena Ferrante, and Pokémon Go
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FX Whose Midlife Crisis Is It, Anyway?
In the new FX/Hulu show Fleishman Is in Trouble, the story of a divorce isn’t as straightforward as it seems.
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Getty; The Atlantic Do You Really Want a New Kitchen Counter?
Everywhere you look, there are reasons to be unhappy with your house.
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Courtesy of Paramount The Best Character on Yellowstone Is Also Its Worst Person
The mercurial Beth Dutton evinces the ruthless clarity of a woman in a man’s world.
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The Atlantic; Heather Sten ‘What Is Jesse Eisenberg Doing Here, Saying These Things I Wrote?’
Taffy Brodesser-Akner on stress dreams, the beauty of long scenes, and translating her novel, Fleishman Is in Trouble, to the small screen.
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Dignity Productions / Amazon Studio The Exquisite Pain of Monogamous Life
In the new Prime Video show Mammals, infidelity is a philosophical conundrum as much as a practical one.
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Keith Bernstein / Netflix The Crown Is Losing Its Shine
A season about the most salacious era in recent royal history shouldn’t feel so sedate.
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Bryan Schutmaat for The Atlantic How Taylor Sheridan Created America’s Most Popular TV Show
Inside Paramount’s Yellowstone juggernaut
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The Atlantic; Getty Jamie Oliver vs. Inflation
In times of hardship, cooking shows can make the case that recipes are sources of not just meals, but also resilience.
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Netflix Why Is No One Acting Their Age on Blockbuster?
The workers on Netflix’s new sitcom are caught, like so many Americans, between a precarious present and an unsteady future.
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Fabio Lovino / HBO The Sex Lives of the One Percent
In the new season of HBO’s The White Lotus, the rich have wandering eyes and intimate desires—and their wallets can satisfy only so much.
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Rosalind O’Connor / NBC The David S. Pumpkins Effect
The return of the cheery Tom Hanks character let SNL lean into the anarchic comedy of a sketch that makes little sense.
