Sophie Gilbert
The Challenge of Margaret Atwood
With her new book—the much-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale—the Canadian author is leading a resistance. But it’s not the one you might think.
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HBO Max The Radical Exposure of Amy Schumer
The miniseries Expecting Amy captures the comedian’s complicated pregnancy with extreme honesty.
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Dominic Valente / Hulu Padma Lakshmi’s New Food Show Is a Trojan Horse
Taste the Nation is breezy in tone, but it exposes the betrayals at the heart of “American” cuisine.
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HBO The Conundrum of a New Perry Mason
A fresh HBO adaptation imbues the classic character with unnecessary darkness and biographical trauma, when what’s most relevant about him has been there all along.
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Sonia Moskowitz / Getty HBO’s Roy Cohn Documentary Is a Lesson for Trump
The new film explores the path of the president’s mentor from relentless aggressor to unwilling victim.
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The Atlantic The Unreality of Cops
For 32 seasons, the longest-running reality show in history sold a valorizing view of police that’s never seemed more out of touch.
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HBO I May Destroy You Explodes the Idea of Consent
The British writer Michaela Coel’s HBO series is a brilliant drama about an evening that’s more complicated than it seems.
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Wolfgang Volz Christo Found Beauty in Realizing the Impossible
The conceptual artist, who died yesterday at 84, made constructing quixotic, monumental projects his life’s work.
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Netflix Space Force Tells a Terrible Joke About America
And the timing couldn’t be worse.
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Netflix How Is Jeffrey Epstein Still So Elusive?
A new four-part Netflix documentary strains to handle a subject who’s always out of reach.
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Netflix / Amazon / Hulu / FX / ... 25 Half-Hour Shows to Watch Now
If your attention span is frazzled, explore the compact joys of the 30-minute format.
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Starz / The Atlantic An Old-School Crime Drama That’s Thoroughly Modern
Hightown deepens the procedural genre by expanding its focus beyond a singular murder to the opioid epidemic at the edges of its story.
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Getty / The Atlantic A Pandemic Novel That’s Oddly Soothing
Lawrence Wright’s The End of October has been heavily touted for its prescience, but the one thing it didn’t anticipate is heartening.
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Amazon / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Upload Satirizes a Capitalist Heaven
The Amazon show is one of several recent works in which the afterlife darkly mimics earthly existence.
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Illustration: Paul Spella; Apple TV+ Trying Is a Sadcom in the Fleabag Mold
A new generation of TV comedies probes life’s bleak truths more pointedly than many dramas do.
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Hulu / The Atlantic The Irresistible Intimacy of Normal People
The Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s hit novel ushers an addictive, messily human portrayal of young love to the small screen.
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Netflix / BBC America / The Atlantic 20 Undersung Crime Shows to Binge-Watch
Propulsive thrillers, slow-burn procedurals, and more for your every quarantine mood
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Hulu We’re Living in Phyllis Schlafly’s America
A striking new miniseries reveals the conservative author’s deep impact on contemporary politics.
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Getty / Nick Wall / The Atlantic The Woman Who Is Remaking AMC
“The least safe thing to do is something safe,” says Sarah Barnett, the unconventional TV executive behind Killing Eve, which is back for a third season.
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Netflix The Most-Watched Show in America Is a Moral Failure
Netflix’s Tiger King is the apotheosis of extreme storytelling: The more unfathomable and ethically dubious, the better.
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Quentin Bacon / The Atlantic Ina Garten’s Quarantine Playbook
In an inordinately stressful moment, the Barefoot Contessa’s Instagram page has become one of the most soothing and wholesome places on the internet.
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