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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Starz A Supernatural Spy Story Goes Dark in The Rook
The Starz series about a British agent with extraordinary abilities forgets to have fun.
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Associated Press What E. Jean Carroll Means for #MeToo
The advice columnist’s account of being sexually assaulted by Donald Trump has more power than it might seem.
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Associated Press Why Rita Moreno Almost Quit Show Business
“They didn’t know what to do with a Latina girl.”
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Showtime The Loudest Voice Stops Short of Revealing Roger Ailes
Showtime’s biopic about the former Fox News executive can’t find the core of its characters.
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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?
