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The Pyrrhic Victories of “House of the Dragon”
Season 3 of the “Game of Thrones” prequel ends with yet more bloodshed—and less of the charm that’s made Westeros worth visiting. Source…
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“Love Story” Is a Forgettable Elegy for Gen X
Schlossberg was not by any means alone in shading the Murphy show while it was in production. C.B.K., as she is called, is the love object…
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In “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Character Development Returns to Westeros
“A new ‘Game of Thrones’ series!” you might be thinking. “Time to unroll my map of Westeros.” Well, unroll away—but “A Knight of the Seven…
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“The Beauty” Is a Hot Mess
In the new Ryan Murphy horror thriller “The Beauty,” a virus turns its hosts into perfect physical specimens overnight. Men wake up with…
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What “The Pitt” Taught Me About Being a Doctor
“The Pitt” easily could have felt like one long sequence of overstuffed, heavy-handed scenes. It’s a testament to the show’s artfulness…
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The Extremely Online Bona Fides of “I Love L.A.”
In Sunday’s season finale of “I Love L.A.,” Los Angeles is blamed for getting between the show’s protagonist, Maia (Rachel Sennott), and…
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“Landman” Goes Down Like a Michelob Ultra
Oil and masculinity: both are oftentimes crude, both are considered toxic in the twenty-first century. So it only makes sense that the two…
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“Death by Lightning” Dramatizes the Assassination America Forgot
History is littered with examples of the havoc wreaked by politicians’ will to power. No wonder, then, that voters cling to the fantasy of…
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Ken Jennings Talks with Tyler Foggatt
On October 25, 2025, the author and game-show host Ken Jennings joined the senior editor Tyler Foggatt onstage at the 26th annual New…
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Why Did We Love “To Catch a Predator”?
In David Osit’s new documentary, “Predators,” the director includes a short clip from a mid-two-thousands episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”…
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Our Age of Zombie Culture
It’s not alive, but it’s not dead, either. It consumes a vast amount of resources. It’s mindless: what presents as its will is really a…
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“South Park” Skewers a Satire-Proof President
There’s a legal strategy known as the small-penis rule, wherein an author who writes a character based on a real person can potentially…
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Do Androids Dream of Anything at All?
Although the literature of automatism has existed in one mold or another since the late Middle Ages—with sixteenth-century folktales about…
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“Overcompensating” Is a New Kind of Coming-Out Comedy
Benny Scanlon, the protagonist of the new comedy “Overcompensating,” is the kind of boy mothers don’t know to warn their daughters about.…
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“The Handmaid’s Tale” Reflects the Exhaustion of Liberal Feminism
You almost forget that Elisabeth Moss can smile. The lead actor on Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” now in its sixth and final season, spent…
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In “Dying for Sex,” Cancer and Kink Are Just the Beginning
The scariest unknown for women with cancer, after the disease itself, can be their husbands—a staggering number of whom abandon their…
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The Flawed Heart of “Adolescence”
Netflix is currently ranking the British miniseries “Adolescence” as its most-watched television show among Americans. The streaming…
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The Parental Panic of “Adolescence”
Minutes into the new Netflix drama “Adolescence,” a thirteen-year-old boy is arrested for murder. Early in the morning, half a dozen…
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How “Severance” Makes a Fetish of the Office
When “Severance” premièred, in 2022, it felt like an absurdist parable about the alienation of labor—a moody, eerie critique of…
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The Cruel Abstraction of “Beast Games”
“Beast Games,” a reality-competition show currently streaming on Amazon Prime, opens with a dramatic camera shot, circling in three-sixty…
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Are We Living in a Dystopia?
In a recent episode of “Silo,” the sci-fi series from Apple TV+, a character who does not have long to live puts on a virtual-reality…
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"Breaking Bad" house on sale for $4 million
An Albuquerque home featured in the acclaimed TV series Breaking Bad is selling for $4 million, a local outlet reported. The popularity of…
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5 reality shows on Netflix to watch right now
Share ✓ Link copied to clipboard! Let's face it, we all love to get lost in a reality show every now and then. They're all-consuming, easy…
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Every anime coming to Crunchyroll this Winter
Share ✓ Link copied to clipboard! Anime is seasonal, which means that every few months, anime studios start releasing new seasons of…