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Jennifer Clasen / HBO What Big Little Lies Doesn’t Get About Bonnie
Tonight’s Season 2 finale can either grant Zoë Kravitz’s character the depth she deserves or continue to underutilize her.
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Netflix Why That 13 Reasons Why Scene Took Two Years to Cut
Inside the decision to edit the controversial series
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Netflix’s U.S. Subscriber Numbers Are Slipping
The company is seeing a dip in its American growth for the first time since 2011. What does that mean for the streaming service?
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NBC / Everett Collection HBO Max’s Golden Ticket
The details of the newly announced mega-service are murky, but it has one huge advantage over Netflix: the streaming rights to Friends.
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Netflix The Deeper Significance of the Mall on Stranger Things
The Netflix series reimagines the role that a shopping center can play in the lives of American teens—especially for its young female characters.
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Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP Emmy Nominations 2019: HBO Ascendant
Game of Thrones dominated a surprisingly open-minded slate of nods that recognized critical favorites.
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Jennifer Clasen / HBO The Problem With That Big Little Lies Courtroom Scene
The show once known for its subtle depictions of trauma is now taking refuge in melodrama.
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Michael Desmond / Hulu Veronica Mars Has a Bitter New Edge
Hulu's Season 4 is moodier than the original series and less nostalgic than the film revival. But its darker sensibility yields a strangely cynical story.
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Hulu The Cruelty of Aunt Lydia
In a flashback episode, The Handmaid’s Tale tried to explain how one of its characters became a monster. But it missed the most crucial element of her personality.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters / The Atlantic Aziz Ansari and the Physics of Moving Forward
In his new stand-up special, the comedian celebrates progress—but denigrates the work that progress requires.
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HBO The Cultural Fault Lines of I Love You, Now Die
Erin Lee Carr’s two-part HBO documentary thoughtfully complicates the narrative of a boy’s suicide, and of the girlfriend who encouraged the act.
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Jennifer Clasen / HBO How Big Little Lies Captures Children's Quiet Stress
In the fifth episode of its new season, the HBO series homes in on the burdens kids bear in times of familial distress.
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Netflix The American Paranoia of Stranger Things 3
The rollicking third season of Netflix’s nostalgic hit mines the conspiracy theories woven into pop culture.
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MTV The Slow, Messy Evolution of LGBTQ Dating Shows
With a new season featuring a “sexually fluid” cast, the MTV competition series Are You the One? bucks persistent trends in reality television.
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Starz A Supernatural Spy Story Goes Dark in The Rook
The Starz series about a British agent with extraordinary abilities forgets to have fun.
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Jennifer Clasen / HBO Big Little Lies Exhumes the Secrets of Marriage
In the fourth episode of its new season, the HBO series explores the rifts in its characters’ unions—and the feasibility of forgiveness.
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Associated Press Why Rita Moreno Almost Quit Show Business
“They didn’t know what to do with a Latina girl.”
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Showtime The Loudest Voice Stops Short of Revealing Roger Ailes
Showtime’s biopic about the former Fox News executive can’t find the core of its characters.
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HBO The Near-Future Shock of Years and Years
The HBO series stars Emma Thompson as a populist leader with dark plans.
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Eric McCandless / ABC Ayesha Curry’s Comfort Television
The author’s new ABC competition series refreshingly emphasizes the importance of cooking as a relationship-building mechanism.
