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June 12, 2018
Magazine
Rachel Syme
Getting Even
On AMC, ‘Dietland’ serves up a revenge fantasy for the era of MeToo.
June 11, 2018
Rachel Syme
How
The Staircase
Defined True Crime Series
With new episodes on Netflix, the show has followed the drawn-out workings of justice over several years.
May 31, 2018
Rachel Syme
In
The Tale,
A Painful Reckoning With Abuse
Jennifer Fox’s film, starring Laura Dern, shows a woman’s struggle to make sense of what she suffered as a child.
May 29, 2018
Sasha Senderovich
An Ending for the Conflicted Cold Warriors of
The Americans
Why Elizabeth Jennings won’t betray her ideals in the series finale.
May 23, 2018
Alex Shephard
What Netflix’s Obama Deal Says About the Future of Streaming
In the 1990s, HBO disrupted entertainment by proclaiming, "It's not TV, it's HBO." In 2018, Netflix is taking the opposite approach.
May 22, 2018
Magazine
Rachel Syme
Lost Girls
Can a new adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock capture its mystery?
May 17, 2018
Rachel Syme
Is
Patrick Melrose
Too Glamorous?
The miniseries starring Benedict Cumberbatch struggles to show the complexities of trauma and recovery on screen.
May 11, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Something Is Damp in the State of Denmark
Netflix's new horror series "The Rain" makes a mess of a genuinely scary premise.
April 24, 2018
Magazine
Rachel Syme
Super Antiheroes
"Billions" reckons with the inflated egos and muddled ethics of Wall Street.
April 14, 2018
Jeet Heer
My Epiphany About the Problem With Apu
I was born in India and raised in Canada. I didn't think Apu was a problem until now.
April 9, 2018
Alex Shephard
Will Hollywood Ever Make Another
Children of Men
?
An interview with Ben Fritz, whose “The Big Picture” explores the way the franchise model and streaming services have disrupted the film industry.
April 6, 2018
Rachel Syme
In
Killing Eve
, Two Women Are Fed Up and Dangerous
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s spy thriller captures a subtle, crackling energy between an assassin and an intelligence officer.
April 3, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Systems Overload
"Collateral," a new police procedural on Netflix, broods over the refugee crisis.
March 30, 2018
Rachel Syme
Silicon Valley
Strikes Out Into New Territory
Can the show’s fifth season take on the tech industry’s biggest problems?
March 27, 2018
Win McCormack
Outside the Limits of the Human Imagination
What the new documentary “Wild, Wild Country” doesn’t capture about the magnetism and evil of the Rajneesh cult
March 23, 2018
Magazine
Rachel Syme
The Bad Actor
HBO’s "Barry" refreshes elements of noir, as a hitman dreams of Hollywood.
March 2, 2018
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump is right about Alec Baldwin.
February 28, 2018
Rachel Syme
In
Good Girls
, Ordinary Women Turn to Crime
Christina Hendricks plays a mother of four with money worries as she faces a moral dilemma.
February 14, 2018
Adrian Daub
What
Babylon Berlin
Sees in the Weimar Republic
A new police procedural set in interwar Germany holds a warning for today’s audiences.
February 12, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Queer Eye
Is Back
A reboot season of the makeover show is now on Netflix. But has it changed enough to say anything new?
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