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The Sopranos
August 24, 2023
Phillip Maciak
How HGTV Swallowed HBO
Max is stripping back its prestige offerings and going big on shows like “House Hunters”—a shift decades in the making.
January 10, 2019
Jo Livingstone
Television Learned the Wrong Lessons From
The Sopranos
As the groundbreaking show celebrates its 20th anniversary, prestige TV has never been more ubiquitous—or insipid. What happened?
July 10, 2018
Alex Shephard
Is AT&T Going to Ruin HBO?
By following in the footsteps of Netflix, it could undermine what made the network great.
May 1, 2014
Marc Tracy
David Chase Speaks About ‘The Sopranos’ Ending
And offers nothing but more darkness
April 13, 2014
Marc Tracy
Matthew Weiner Is Overrated
The 'Mad Men' auteur's false advertising
September 30, 2013
Laura Bennett
'Masters of Sex' Is The Best New Drama on TV
August 9, 2013
Laura Bennett
The True Anti-Hero of 'Breaking Bad' Isn't Walter White
Sexual politics and the bad wife
July 19, 2013
Laura Bennett
The Hidden Secrets of TV Posters
June 20, 2013
Marc Tracy
James Gandolfini Will Always Be Tony Soprano, and That's Okay
June 13, 2013
Craig Fehrman
The Showrunner Fallacy
TV's auteurs matter much less than you think
September 13, 2010
Matt Zoller Seitz
'Mad Men' Mondays: 'The Summer Man'
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