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Justina Mintz / HBO Insecure’s Nuanced Take on Singleness
The HBO show’s Season 2 premiere treats a breakup not just as an event, but as a kind of physical space.
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Courtesy of Eighty-Sixed A Curb Your Enthusiasm for Millennials
Eighty-Sixed, a new web series from the HBO comedy creator’s daughter Cazzie David, taps into an uncomfortable brand of humor for a new generation.
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Netflix Ozark: Netflix's Grim Foray Into Flyover Country
The new 10-hour drama follows a Chicago financial adviser forced to move to Missouri to launder money for a cartel.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Game of Thrones: About That Cameo
Wait, is that—?
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Netflix Friends From College Is a Tragedy of Arrested Development
The new Netflix series is a strange, messy dive into what happens when people can’t grow up.
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HBO How Will the Game of Thrones Be Won?
As the show returns for its seventh, penultimate season, what will become of Westeros?
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Netflix To the Bone: The Trouble With Anorexia on Film
The new Netflix movie illustrates how hard it is to responsibly portray a mental-health disorder that has morbidly fascinated culture for centuries.
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Netflix A Shake-Up for the 2017 Emmy Nominations
With old favorites like Downton Abbey and Game of Thrones out of the picture, this year’s TV awards could get interesting.
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Cartoon Network The Hidden Message in the Architecture of Steven Universe
From geodesic domes to cracks in the sidewalk, the show's wildly creative backdrops teach a valuable lesson: that enchantment and imperfection can exist side by side.
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TNT Will Is Flagrantly Silly, Glam-Rock Shakespeare
The new TNT show reinvents 16th-century London as a bacchanal of sex, drugs, and steampunk.
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Megan Lee Miller / Katie Martin / The ... All the Brown Girls on TV
HBO’s latest web-series acquisition eschews Brooklyn for a queer, multiracial, multiethnic arts landscape in Chicago. Welcome to Fatimah Asghar and Sam Bailey’s world.
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HBO Tour de Pharmacy's Insane, Riotous Ride
The HBO special by Andy Samberg and Murray Miller is a bonkers, star-studded pastiche of cycling’s doping problem.
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FX Snowfall Considers the Origins of the Crack Epidemic
John Singleton’s new FX series has all the trappings of a prestige drug drama, but can’t find the core of its characters.
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NRK The Norwegian Teen-Drama Series Loved Around the World
Set for an English-language remake, the recently ended Skam was a wildly popular web show about Oslo high-schoolers that resonated for its realism.
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Logo TV Sasha Velour and Drag's Permanent Revolution
The latest winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race is a politically engaged oddball—which is, in its way, pretty traditional.
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HBO How Will Silicon Valley Work Without T.J. Miller?
The mercurial comedian, who plays the disruptive Erlich Bachman, departed the show under mysterious circumstances in Sunday’s season finale.
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Skip Bolen / OWN Queen Sugar Deepens Its Complex Family Portrait
In its second season, the Ava DuVernay-helmed show confidently tackles the messy bonds of siblings and the trickledown effects of racial profiling.
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Netflix GLOW Is a Total Delight
The Netflix show about a short-lived ’80s wrestling league for women is smart, funny, and subversive.
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Netflix Did Hulk Hogan Neuter the First Amendment?
A new Netflix documentary considers the dangerous ramifications of Bollea v. Gawker for the free press.
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AP / Eric Risberg Apple Is a Step Closer to Making Its Own TV Shows
The tech giant just hired two industry heavy-hitters as it tries to move into a realm occupied by Netflix and Amazon: scripted television.
