Sophie Gilbert
The Radical Sincerity of The OA
More than two years after the surprise release of their Netflix series about an interdimensional traveler, Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij are back with an installment that’s even more ambitious than the first.
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HBO The Near-Future Shock of Years and Years
The HBO series stars Emma Thompson as a populist leader with dark plans.
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HBO The Dark Teen Show That Pushes the Edge of Provocation
HBO’s Euphoria joins a long list of works that have appalled and thrilled in equal measure. But does it have more to say?
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The Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Irrepressible Emotion of Lee Krasner
The 20th-century painter is celebrated in a spectacular London retrospective that exposes the fullness of her career for the first time.
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FX Pose Lets In the Light
Ryan Murphy’s show about ball culture in 1990s New York City is joyfully, insistently, chaotically optimistic.
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HBO The TV Is Too Damn Long
The scourge of the streaming era is 13 hours of stretched-out drama.
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HBO The Secret of Big Little Lies
In its second season, the HBO drama is as entertaining as it is thoughtful about human damage and desire.
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Hulu The Growing Paradox of The Handmaid’s Tale
The third season of Hulu’s speculative series continues to assert its feminist credentials while keeping its central character in subjugation.
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Amazon The Heaven and Hell of Good Omens
Neil Gaiman’s six-part Amazon miniseries about an odd couple at the end of the world is an acquired taste.
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Netflix Ava DuVernay Does True Crime Differently in When They See Us
The director’s Netflix series asserts the individual stories of the so-called Central Park Five.
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BBC America Killing Eve Betrayed Its Central Character
In the second season of the BBC America series, the MI6 agent played by Sandra Oh has languished in Villanelle’s shadow.
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Starz Vida Mines the Highs and Lows of Coming Home
The Starz series by Tanya Saracho is a lovely, complex portrait of sisters confronting their past.
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Netflix The Remarkable Badness of What/If
Renée Zellweger acts rings around everyone else in this oddity of an anthology series.
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Hulu Catch-22 Finds Madness and Magic In a Classic
George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s six-part Hulu adaptation of Joseph Heller’s novel is a surprising success.
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Amazon The Agony and the Ecstasy of Fleabag
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s magisterial Amazon series about a conflicted café owner returns for a striking final season.
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HBO My Dad Wrote a Porno Is an Ode to Bad Sex
HBO’s latest comedy special illuminates the art of terrible erotica.
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Henry Holt and Co. / art_of_sun / shutterstock ... Trust Exercise Is an Elaborate Trick of a Novel
Susan Choi’s taut, drama-school narrative asks: Where does art end and reality begin?
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HBO Chernobyl Is a Gruesome, Riveting Fable
The new five-part HBO miniseries is part historical drama, part grim disquisition on the toll of devaluing the truth.
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HBO A New Film Reveals How Larry Nassar Benefited From a Culture of Silence
The sports doctor was able to assault so many athletes for so long. Erin Lee Carr’s HBO documentary, At the Heart of Gold, explores the environment that protected him.
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Marvel The Inevitability of Black Widow
Why Scarlett Johansson’s superhero can’t escape her origins from the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s early days
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HBO Gentleman Jack Sanitizes an Audacious, Difficult Woman
The new HBO drama depicts a bold, groundbreaking 19th-century lesbian. But its palatable tone falsely suggests that few obstacles were in her way.
