Hannah Giorgis
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Disney Disney’s New Lion King Remake Is Predictably Weird
Jon Favreau’s CGI-heavy version of 1994’s animated classic uses a stellar cast—including Beyoncé, Donald Glover, and Seth Rogen—to uneven effect.
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MTV The Slow, Messy Evolution of LGBTQ Dating Shows
With a new season featuring a “sexually fluid” cast, the MTV competition series Are You the One? bucks persistent trends in reality television.
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Jennifer Clasen / HBO Big Little Lies Exhumes the Secrets of Marriage
In the fourth episode of its new season, the HBO series explores the rifts in its characters’ unions—and the feasibility of forgiveness.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters What Gets Lost When Polls Become the Story
As the 2020 presidential-election season gets under way, many journalists are reflecting on how not to make the same mistakes from the last cycle.
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David McNew / Reuters The Biggest Deterrent to Reporting Child Sexual Abuse
Children’s-rights advocates have been working to fix statute-of-limitation laws that stop victims from coming forward later in life.
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Demetrius Freeman How American Women Are Amplifying Their Political Power
“I am not interested in building the capacity of people who are in office that want to take away my health care.”
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Eric McCandless / ABC Ayesha Curry’s Comfort Television
The author’s new ABC competition series refreshingly emphasizes the importance of cooking as a relationship-building mechanism.
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Kristine Eudey / Leslie-Lohman Museum The Photographer Who Captured 20th-Century Queer Life
Joan E. Biren’s images from the ’70s and ’80s—which appear in the new exhibit “Art After Stonewall”—reflect an effort to document and encourage lesbian love.
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Monica Schipper/Getty Images When They See Us Indicts the System
The new Central Park Five miniseries is about more than five falsely convicted boys.
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Hilary Bronwyn Gayle / HBO Big Little Lies Ponders What Makes a Man
The second season of the acclaimed HBO series, about a group of California women who share an unlikely bond, explores the inheritances of masculinity.
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Matt Marton / AP R. Kelly Wants Power, Not ‘Help’
Soulless, a new book from the journalist Jim DeRogatis about the singer’s alleged sex crimes, further challenges the facade of Kelly’s despondence.
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Atsushi Nishijima / Netflix When They See Us and the Persistent Logic of ‘No Humans Involved’
Ava DuVernay’s miniseries about the so-called Central Park Five illustrates, with excruciating clarity, the consequences of dehumanizing language.
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David Lee / Netflix The Messy Politics of Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It
The second season of the Do the Right Thing director’s Netflix adaptation dials back the romantic drama, but leans into tonally confused social commentary.
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Steve Schofield / Amazon Fleabag Has a Poignant Insight About Sisterhood
In its second and last season, the Amazon series deepens its portrayal of estranged siblings who both frustrate and protect each other.
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Makeba Rainey / Stephanie Ifendu Elizabeth Acevedo’s Work Is a Welcome Rarity in Young-Adult Fiction
The National Book Award–winning author writes complex teenage protagonists whose real-life counterparts have long faced literary erasure.
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Aïda Muluneh The Photographer Fighting Visual Clichés of Africa
Aïda Muluneh’s vibrant images explore Ethiopian identity, and her photo festival aspires to shape a new vision of the continent.
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Brian Stukes / Getty The Houston Rapper Taking the Industry by Storm
Megan Thee Stallion’s much-anticipated debut album, Fever, is a remarkable mix of braggadocio, lyrical acuity, and self-awareness.
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Julie Lake / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Raphael Bob-Waksberg on BoJack Horseman and Writing Surreal Love Stories
The writer talks about his debut short-fiction collection, which channels much of the same caustic humor and heartrending dialogue as his Netflix series.
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Netflix The Raunchiest Women on TV Are Technically Birds
The new Netflix series Tuca & Bertie is a delightfully frenzied addition to the range of shows depicting female desire.
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Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP John Singleton Changed How Hollywood Sees Black America
The Boyz n the Hood director, who died Monday at 51, ushered in a renaissance of black film in the 1990s.
