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HBO How Game of Thrones Lost Its Way as a Political Drama
In its later seasons, the show started relying on heavy-handed historical references to do the difficult work of character-building.
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Steve Schofield / Amazon Fleabag Has a Poignant Insight About Sisterhood
In its second and last season, the Amazon series deepens its portrayal of estranged siblings who both frustrate and protect each other.
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Leemage / Corbis / Getty Images The Books Briefing: Sympathy for the Devil
Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Chris Haston / NBC Why Good Girls Is Such a Rewarding Show
The series, which wraps its second season on Sunday, has blossomed into a uniquely flavored, daring drama of the sort found more frequently on cable.
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Annapurna Generation Z Gets Its Coming-of-Age Classic
Refreshingly free of stereotype, Olivia Wilde’s wonderful film Booksmart should easily join the teen-movie canon.
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Courtesy of Tina Whatcott Echeverria What Keeps Hollywood’s Oldest Restaurant Running
One hundred years after it first opened, the Musso & Frank Grill is mixing the old and the new with verve.
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Walt Disney Pictures It’s Impossible to Take the New Aladdin Seriously
Disney’s live-action remake of the 1992 animated classic is a special-effects-laden extravaganza that comes off as clumsy and half-hearted.
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Matt Sayles / Invision / AP Game of Thrones Is Over. Now What About the Books?
George R. R. Martin insists that the final entries in his fantasy series are still coming—even though HBO has finished telling his story first.
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Macall B. Polay / HBO The Complicated Cliché of ‘Bran the Broken’
Game of Thrones, which always commented on the social effects of disability, ended by selling its final twist as inspirational.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Game of Thrones’ Final Rebuke of Anger
Dany. Sansa. Bran. Why did the show that used to be so interested in emotion come, in the end, to mistrust it?
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PBS The Rare Home-Improvement Show That Spotlights Skilled Workers
In 40 years on air, PBS’s This Old House inspired a more flashy genre of TV while giving tradespeople the attention they deserve.
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HBO Did Viewers Win or Lose in Game of Thrones?
Three Atlantic writers discuss the HBO epic’s divisive series finale, which tries to break the wheel one last time.
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HBO I’ve Never Watched Game of Thrones. But Here’s What I Know
Goodbye, dragon show.
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Diana Stoyanova I Ran a Backstreet Boys Website for Superfans
Twenty years ago, as the group’s Millennium album topped music charts, one writer found belonging in an online community she unwittingly helped create.
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Jordin Althaus / E! Entertainment Busy Tonight Ended Just as Its Host Was Finding Her Voice
Busy Philipps exited the late-night lineup right when it felt like she’d finally arrived.
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Hulu Catch-22 Mines Madness and Magic From 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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C. B. Falls / Library of Congress The Books Briefing: War, and What Comes After
Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Brian Stukes / Getty The Houston Rapper Taking the Industry by Storm
Megan Thee Stallion’s much-anticipated debut album, Fever, is a remarkable mix of braggadocio, lyrical acuity, and self-awareness.
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Markus&Koala Carly Rae Jepsen Is Getting Weirder—And It’s Brilliant
The singer gets campier and more creative on her fourth album.
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A24 The Souvenir Is a Masterly Coming-of-Age Portrait
One of the year’s best films so far, Joanna Hogg’s semiautobiographical drama charts a young woman’s painful emergence into adulthood.
