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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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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In its later seasons, the show started relying on heavy-handed historical references to do the difficult work of character-building.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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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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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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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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NBC The SNL Finale Was a Mishmash of Everything the Show Needs to Fix
The send-off to Season 44 might end up functioning as a send-off to a particularly toothless era for Saturday Night Live.
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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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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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Walter McBride / Corbis / Getty Viceland’s Dark Side of the Ring Shows the Sleaze and Humanity of Wrestling
The series explores the disaster and reality of the shadowy sport.
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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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HBO Why Did Dany Destroy King’s Landing? Some Theories From History
A scholar of classical warfare sees real-world parallels to the Dragon Queen’s rain of fire in the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Game of Thrones Failed Cersei
How the show’s characterization of the Lannister lioness flattened into spiritless villainy
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HBO Game of Thrones Delivers Its Most Cataclysmic Episode
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “The Bells,” the bloody and fiery penultimate entry of the series.
