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Disney How The Mandalorian Can Work for Disney+
The Star Wars series, now two episodes in, is a good example of how the streaming service can mine smaller, solid stories out of massive franchises.
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NBC SNL Gives the Impeachment Hearings the Soap-Opera Treatment
Last night’s episode delivered a critique of Americans’ short attention spans with an overstuffed, melodramatic cold open.
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Netflix How The Crown, and Its Clothes, Transform Power
The new season of the Netflix show explores the unorthodox ways Queen Elizabeth II uses her wardrobe to underscore her authority.
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Sundance / AMC The Preppy Murder Unpacks a Tabloid Frenzy
A new Sundance/AMC series about a 1986 homicide in Central Park explores the pervasive unwillingness to believe that a handsome white Manhattan teen could be culpable.
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Francois Duhamel / Lucasfilm Ltd. The Mandalorian Is a Flashy but Flimsy Star Wars Story
Disney is making its streaming debut with an expensive-looking TV show based on a beloved property. But the series is off to a slow start.
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Showtime The Joyful Redemption of Back to Life
Daisy Haggard’s new Showtime series is a poignant, optimistic show about a woman’s return home after an 18-year prison sentence.
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Tony Rivetti Jr. / Apple How The Morning Show Interrogates the #MeToo Debate
The first batch of episodes from Apple TV+’s flagship series included some uncomfortable conversations about the movement. Here’s why.
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HBO Daniel Sloss Shows How Comedians Should Talk About Assault
The Scottish performer’s new HBO special is a stunning experiment in controlled transgression.
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Zach Dilgard / HBO The Slow Death of the Binge Release
As streaming services such as HBO Max tilt back toward older conventions, the all-at-once strategy pioneered by Netflix may find itself out of fashion.
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Mark Hill / HBO Watchmen Questions Its Heroes’ Legacies
In last night’s standout episode, the HBO drama closely examined themes and characters from the original graphic novel.
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Apple+ A #MeToo Scandal Erupts. The Morning Show Captures What Happens Next.
Apple’s new series about misconduct at a television network is inert, until it turns fascinating.
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Presley Ann / Getty / Nasa / The ... Joel Kinnaman’s Leading-Man Evolution
The star of the new Apple+ series For All Mankind has long specialized in offbeat characters. Now he’s shifting to more heroic material.
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Netflix BoJack Horseman and Women Who Try to ‘Have It All’
In its final season, the Netflix series inventively captures the fatigue—and guilt—that many working mothers experience.
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HBO Porn Infiltrates Suburbia in Mrs. Fletcher
HBO’s new adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s 2017 novel stars Kathryn Hahn as an empty-nester whose online discoveries make her question her entire identity.
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Ali Paige Goldstein / HBO Silicon Valley Questions the Morality of Success
The HBO satire’s final season began by examining whether the tech industry can ever really live up to its ideals.
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NBC Chance the Rapper Hosted SNL Again. Chaos Ensued.
The musician was an endearingly goofy performer who shone in a fever dream of an episode filled with gallows humor and character breaking.
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ABC / Byron Cohen A Simplistic View of a Mixed-ish America
ABC’s Black-ish spin-off joins a new memoir by Thomas Chatterton Williams in presenting a seemingly enlightened but ahistorical view of race.
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Christopher Saunders / Amazon Studios Modern Love Has Nothing New to Say About Modern Love
Amazon’s anthology series based on the popular New York Times column flattens the collection of stories with trite idealism.
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Mark Hill / HBO The Brave New World of HBO’s Watchmen
Damon Lindelof’s new show advances the clock on Alan Moore’s original series but retains the comic’s skepticism of heroes in masks.
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HBO Watchmen Is a Blistering Modern Allegory
The new HBO series is a stunning, timely departure from its graphic-novel origins.
