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How Bluey Became the Best Kids’ Show of Our Time No other series gets the strange, hilarious magic of play.
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The Bluey Method of Reducing Grown-ups to Tears In its most disarming episodes, child and adult experience blend into something beautiful — and sob-inducing — in under seven minutes.
Grad School Was Never This Fun Park Chan-wook’s HBO adaptation of The Sympathizer is a captivating senior seminar on postcolonial theory.
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The Best TV Shows of 2024 (So Far) Women seeking justice, reality stars forging new alliances, and aliens who do not come in peace.
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Jerrod Carmichael Makes the Camera His God In his HBO series, the comedian needles at whether the spectacle of his own personality and pain eclipses his ability to care about others.
3 Body Problem Is Not Afraid to Be TVAn unadaptable novel invites a perfect attempt at adaptation — if not a perfect TV show.
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The Royals Are So Bad at This First rule of the internet: Why believe a boring, simple explanation when there’s so much more pleasure in rampant speculation?
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The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2024 Oscars Is this a show for everyone or just the diehards? Is Hollywood back and better than ever, or has it lost its sense of identity?
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Clay’s Parents Are Love Is Blind at Its Best The season six finale gives us something much rarer than shock or emotion: legitimate insight.
If Only Someone Had Overthrown The Regime HBO’s latest limited series is desperate to say things about fascism but can only get as far as noticing them.
Just to Clarify, Sam Waterston Is Not Retiring As he says good-bye to Law & Order (again), the former Jack McCoy has a message for casting directors: Call him!
What Is a Bottle Episode? The people on the internet are wrong. Or are they?
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14 Moments That Made Love Is Blind Season six is here, so we’re looking back at the most jaw-dropping scenes from our favorite social experiment.
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Feb. 9, 2024
True Crime’s ACAB Playbook Is Falling Into Place A new crop of docuseries turns the typical explanation for law-enforcement failure on its head.
An Architectural Digest Home Tour Turned Spy Show In Prime series Mr. & Mrs. Smith , Donald Glover and Maya Erskine achieve their dreams through some truly terrible work-life balance.
Sarah J. Maas Is the Mortal Queen of Faerie Smut Her massively popular series, including “A Court of Thorns and Roses,” mix fantasy lore with soft-core romance — and a whole lot of trauma.
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12 Romantasy Authors to Know Here are some of the most popular creators of sexy fantasy worlds.
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Sex and the City Is Coming to Netflix. So What?A hallmark of HBO prestige headed to the Starbucks of streaming doesn’t herald the end-times — yet.
Which January Detective Is Right for You? Grizzled sad-sack detectives, committed-to-the-greater-good detectives, animated parody detectives … The gang’s all here!
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The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2023 Emmys Held in 2024 The ceremony kept things tight: FX, speech times, Anthony Anderson’s latex.
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A Slam Dunk From Gary Gulman Born on 3rd Base shows the vast possibilities of observational comedy — and how an “important” topic can also be delightfully petty.
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The Crown Says the Quiet Parts Out LoudPeter Morgan’s final word on Elizabeth’s reign hits with all the subtlety of a two-by-four to the face.
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The Buccaneers Couldn’t Leave Well Enough AloneThe last 30 seconds of the season finale chose (narrative) violence.
Maria Bamford: The Artist Is a Comedian Bear Local Act explores what the stand-up values most in her work: being onstage and making fun of what’s important to her.
Norman Lear’s Truth He depicted the American experiment, one family at a time.
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The Best Comedy Specials of 2023 The best hours reached for transcendence — through gravity and sheer goofiness, often at the same time.
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All About the Algorithm TV in 2023 explicitly and subliminally cast doubt on the sparkling future of streaming television.
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The Best TV Shows of 2023 Shows may come and shows may go, but great TV will never leave us.
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Reality TV Finally Crashed Into Reality There is life before Scandoval, and there’s everything that followed.
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Mike Birbiglia’s Existential Exercises In his Broadway show The Old Man and the Pool , the comedian dives into the anxieties of aging.
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The Crown Made a Haunting ChoiceWe need to talk about Ghost Diana and Ghost Dodi.
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Matt Rife Works a Crowd of His Own Making He’s 28, it’s his first Netflix special, and he’s already on the defensive.
The Curse Damns ItselfNathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s Showtime series will plunge you into doom-filled unease. Then it gets stuck there.
Wheel of Time Found Its GrooveIn its second season, Amazon’s other epic fantasy series figured out what kind of show it wants to be.
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The Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2023 25 comics who industry insiders predict will be tomorrow’s superstars.
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The Love Is Blind Experiment Finally Broke A season defined by external drama reminds us why we’re really watching.
Reservation Dogs Closes the Circle of Peak TVThe end of Sterlin Harjo’s singular half-hour dramedy might also be the end of a small but astounding moment in post-prestige television.
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Foundation Has Immortality IssuesSeason two pushes up against the edge of how long characters can hang around without breaking the stakes.
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Michelle Wolf Dodges Specialness Taping a stand-up set doesn’t have to look like a big important hour.
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The Backlash Came for Drew Barrymore The View did it. The Talk did it. But after Barrymore crossed the picket line, the daytime TV host faced a unique wave of scrutiny. Why?
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‘This Is Not a Blip’ Dallas Goldtooth considers the post–Reservation Dogs future, for himself and for an industry that’s finally making space for Native creators.
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Justified Giveth and City Primeval Taketh AwayImagine if this ending had been the whole show.
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Fall TV Can’t Stop Looking Backward This season, streaming embraces a model that makes it safer to tell stories about the past.
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And Just Like That … Can’t Let Go and Neither Can WeNo matter how hard this season tried to push us away with unhinged coat choices and olive-slurping, we kept smashing that play button.
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What Fresh Hell Is This? Chris Fleming’s new special is the kind of comedy that dares to ask, “Would you buy a Driscoll’s or a gerbil?”
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