Sophie Gilbert
The Lie of Little Women
Peering into the secrets of Louisa May Alcott’s real life sheds light on her treasured coming-of-age tale.
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Brinkhoff / Mogenburg A Classic Sondheim Musical Gets a Thrilling Twist
Marianne Elliott’s gender-flipped Company mines modern ambivalence about marriage.
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Anne Marie Fox / HBO Camping Is Awful, but Not Awful Enough
The new HBO miniseries, based on a British comedy of the same name, makes you feel for its characters, and ruins the show in the process.
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Amazon The Romanoffs Is a Self-Indulgent, Intriguing Muddle
Matthew Weiner’s new Amazon series is star-studded, ambitious, and frequently bizarre.
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Giovanni Love / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / ... The Men of #MeToo Go Back to Work
A year into an unprecedented outpouring of stories about harassment and assault, much of the entertainment industry still seems like business as usual.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Whiffs the Kavanaugh Confirmation
In the wake of a bruising moment in American history, the NBC sketch show was primed to party.
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Lizzie Gill The Remarkable Rise of the Feminist Dystopia
A spate of women-authored speculative fiction imagines detailed worlds of widespread infertility, criminalized abortion, and flipped power dynamics.
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FX Consider the Hit Man
Mr. Inbetween, a new six-part drama on FX, uses the complex-assassin trope to mine the subject of masculinity.
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Netflix Maniac Is a Strange, Hyperkinetic Ode to Connection
The new Netflix series has a clear, touching message beneath its surreal imagery and frenzied layers of storytelling.
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Naples National Archeological Museum / Wikimedia Commons The Silence of Classical Literature’s Women
Pat Barker’s retelling of The Iliad imagines the Trojan War from the perspective of a female slave fought over by two Greek heroes.
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Facebook Watch What Sorry for Your Loss Understands About Grief
The gorgeous and poignant new drama from Facebook Watch stars Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman whose husband has died.
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Amazon Prime Video Marriage Takes a Drastic Turn in Forever
Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen play a couple pondering their relationship in the tragicomic Amazon series.
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Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP The Emmys Should Be Political
The past year has proved, over and over again, that TV is defined by misbehavior. Awards shows shouldn’t ignore that fact.
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Hulu The First Is a Dazzling, Portentous Space Drama
Beau Willimon’s new Hulu series about a groundbreaking Mars mission, starring Sean Penn, is gorgeous and occasionally insightful.
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FX The Emmys Don’t Get Modern TV
The Television Academy still define shows as comedies or dramas. Creators and networks don’t.
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HBO Life and Art Collide in The Deuce
The second season of HBO’s drama about the 1970s pornography business is timely in good ways and bad.
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Netflix / CBS / HBO / Amazon / ... 31 New Shows to Watch This Fall
Kidding brings Jim Carrey to the small screen, Cary Fukunaga directs Maniac on Netflix, and HBO adapts Elena Ferrante.
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Starz America to Me Tackles Race in New Ways
The 10-part Starz docuseries from Steve James follows students and faculty through an Illinois high school to explore racial inequity from a different angle.
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Peter Kramer / AP What the Shaming of Geoffrey Owens Reveals
The reaction to the former Cosby Show actor working a retail job says a lot about how Americans understand success.
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Amazon Studios Jack Ryan, Reaganite Hero
Tom Clancy’s character—a former Marine, Wall Street millionaire, reluctant CIA agent, and loyal family man—has long been a symbol of a bygone era.
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HBO In Sharp Objects, Love Is Poison
The finale to the HBO series revealed its villains, and how corrupted they’d become.
