Sophie Gilbert
Is Television Ready for Angry Women?
Producer Marti Noxon has two shows about women’s pain and rage debuting this summer—and the timing couldn’t be better.
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HBO The Unknowable Robin Williams
Come Inside My Mind, airing on HBO Monday night, is a thoughtful and wistful portrait of an elusive subject.
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Simon Dawson / Reuters A Very British Protest
As President Donald Trump spent the second day of his U.K. visit with Prime Minister Theresa May, thousands of people gathered in London to march in characteristically creative style.
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Matt Sayles / AP Images Emmy Nominations 2018: Netflix Takes Over
For the first time, the streaming service received more total nods than HBO, ending the premium-cable channel’s 17-year domination.
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Hulu A Maddening Season Finale for The Handmaid’s Tale
In its sophomore stretch, the Hulu show abandoned narrative logic and character development to keep its story constrained.
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Matt Dunham / AP England’s Unfamiliar Emotion: Hope
In the wake of results at the 2018 World Cup that no one was expecting, a nation adjusts awkwardly to success.
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Netflix The Real Love Affair on GLOW
The Netflix series is about a relationship, but not in the traditional sense.
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HBO The Twisted, Enthralling Rot of Sharp Objects
The HBO miniseries, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and adapted from Gillian Flynn’s thriller, probes the dark heart of small-town America.
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Amazon A Very English Scandal Revisits an Affair That’s Stranger Than Fiction
The Amazon miniseries starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw is based on a real-life moment in British politics that gripped the tabloids in the late 1970s.
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Netflix The Working Women of GLOW
The Netflix comedy is, above everything, about the fulfillment and joy of jobs.
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Netflix Nanette Is a Radical, Transformative Work of Comedy
Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix special, filmed at the Sydney Opera House, dismantles and subverts everything about how humor is supposed to work.
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Netflix What Is The Staircase Trying to Do?
The pioneering documentary is more passive than its successors, but the portrait it crafts is a damning one.
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HBO Westworld: Is This Now?
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “The Passenger,” the final episode of Season 2.
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Hulu Gilead in America
In The Handmaid’s Tale, a callous, theocratic regime uses scripture to justify forcibly removing children from their parents.
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AP The Glorious, Bizarre History of Soccer and Fashion
Simon Doonan’s new book, Soccer Style, summarizes the long and complicated relationship between athletes and outlandish style.
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HBO Westworld: Who Cares About the Man in Black?
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Vanishing Point,” the ninth episode of Season 2.
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Studi8Neosiam / SvetMedvedeva / Shutterstock / Arsh Raziuddin ... Florida, Full of Dread
Lauren Groff’s new collection of short stories is an ecosystem teeming with life, decay, beauty, and fear.
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Michael Zorn / Invision / AP Robert De Niro’s Toothless Protest
At the 2018 Tony Awards the actor and director gave a brief, profane, and pointless outburst about President Trump.
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HBO Westworld: Ghost Nation, Revealed
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Kiksuya,” the eighth episode of Season 2.
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HBO Westworld: Strike the Match
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Les Écorchés,” the seventh episode of Season 2.
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HBO Filthy Rich: The Power Plays of Succession
HBO’s new drama about a media mogul’s feuding family is a darkly comic work in progress.
