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LIAM DANIEL / NETFLIX The Grapevine Looks a Little Different Today
What do Bridgerton, DeuxMoi, and Dickinson have in common? They capture the new appeal of anonymous gossip.
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Patrick Semansky / Pool via REUTERS The Surprising Thing About Biden’s Inauguration
The colorful and joyful ceremony didn’t feel like a crisis-era bureaucratic procedure.
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Disney+ The Deep Sadness of Marvel’s WandaVision
So far, the Disney+ show is telling a story not about an epic struggle to save humanity, but about one woman’s efforts to save herself from her grief.
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David Strick / Redux The Emotional Miseducation of Tiger Woods
A new HBO documentary zeroes in on the immense psychological toll it took for the legendary golfer to go from prodigy to phenom.
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Courtesy of Focus Features Promising Young Woman Sets a Ravishing Trap
Emerald Fennell’s debut movie is a revenge thriller explicitly designed to subvert assumptions about femininity and serious works of art.
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Soomin Jung 2020 Changed What TV Is For
Viewers didn’t care about “good” or “bad” television this year. Maybe the distinction never mattered.
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HBO / Everett The Year of Ambitious TV Watching
In 2020, tackling 121 episodes of a single show was no longer as daunting as it once seemed.
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KFC / Lifetime I’m Really Sorry, but Let’s Talk About That Chicken Movie
In a time of rampant lies, a KFC-Lifetime rom-com is about as refreshingly blunt as you can get.
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The 15 Best TV Shows of 2020
The year’s most distinct and worthwhile series
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Apple TV+ / Stephanie Branchu / Netflix The New Comedy of American Decline
Even works of escapism are reckoning with waning national myths.
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Des Willie / Netflix Margaret & Diana & Elizabeth & Nancy
Netflix’s The Crown and Showtime’s The Reagans offer four different models of female power colliding with history, and with one another.
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@crayzrah / @trejokes / @_therealnesha_ / TikTok / ... Forget SNL. The Best Election Satire Is on TikTok.
The app’s young creators are outshining mainstream political comedy—and tapping into a longer tradition of Black American humor.
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Des Willie / Netflix The Crown Takes the Shine Off Queen Elizabeth’s Reign
In its fourth season, the Netflix drama is sharper than ever as it paints a portrait of an out-of-touch ruler caught off guard by change.
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Kris Connor / Getty How Alex Trebek Made a Mundane Game Show Brilliant
The late Jeopardy host made the biggest trivia nerds look cool.
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Will Heath / NBC Dave Chappelle Doesn’t Think America Is Saved
After four years, the comedian returned to host Saturday Night Live. In 16 minutes, he explained why a new president alone won’t fix the country.
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Starz / HBO How to Tell the Story of a Cult
Two docuseries about NXIVM present a question: Are the people who have escaped a controlling organization the most reliable sources on what happened to them?
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Beware False Endings
At a time when uncertainty may be the election’s only immediate result, Americans have an opportunity to rethink the way stories are told.
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Chris Haston / NBCU Photo Bank / The ... Dwight Schrute Was a Warning
When The Office originally aired, its resident fool made for easy comedy. Fifteen years later, it’s hard to watch Dwight without seeing tragedy.
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Lacey Terrell / Netflix Sarah Cooper’s Humor Is Not What You Thought
The comedian went viral for “playing Trump,” but in her new Netflix special, Everything’s Fine, she shows how unusual her comedic taste can be.
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Niko Tavernise / HBO On TV, Having Wealth Means You Get to Suffer Beautifully
Like other stories about terrible rich people, HBO’s glitzy murder mystery The Undoing is entranced by a world it finds immoral.
