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How to track which media company owns your favorite show — and why that may no longer be a media company.


Are the tech layoffs an anomaly or a warning sign?


Purple Hearts tries to romanticize the ideological middle. It actually glorifies something much uglier.


HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel rolls out as the streaming industry reconsiders ... everything.


Netflix answers some questions. There are plenty left.


Facebook knows it has a TikTok problem. TV and streamers do, too.


Netflix’s The Parisian Agency is a luxury real estate show featuring a family that actually gets along.


Netflix is losing subscribers. Does that mean Netflix has a problem or that streaming has a problem?


Does Netflix even care that Ricky Gervais’s SuperNature is rife with transphobic TERF ideology?


Ads were supposed to be on their way out, replaced by subscription money. Now Netflix, Disney, and everyone else is learning to live with them.


Reed Hastings used to have streaming to himself. That’s over now.


Cheer’s second season is a good story about cheerleading and a better story about the price of fame.


Now streaming on Netflix, the spy-themed competition show lets viewers play along with the contestants.


Known as “Casa de Papel” in Spanish, the show has inspired real-life protests.


This kids’ show about hidden urban histories and child paranormal investigators is a delight.


The Rock, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds, and Cleopatra’s eggs?


Everything you need to know about the legendary anime — and why there’s so much riding on Netflix’s remake.


An alternative media history, brought to us by a new oral history of HBO.


The streaming giant is launching a ratings system, of sorts.


Imagine the Real Housewives, if the housewives were driving at 300 kilometers an hour.
The hacker drama Mr. Robot was so much more than Rami Malek’s incredible star performance.


Netflix’s Someone Great is a forgotten film that just works, all tropes aside.


The drama about a high school football team might be the best teen show of all time.


It thinks you’ll watch Stranger Things and then play Stranger Things, the game.


Two critics (and YA fantasy fans) discuss Netflix’s messy, dour Shadow and Bone.


This Is a Robbery is more like a podcast with pictures, but not a very good one.


The Netflix drama also stars Stranger Things’ Caleb McLaughlin in a tale of city horsewrangling.


They’re teens. They’re bounty hunters. They’re Teenage Bounty Hunters!




Netflix has an overwhelming number of true crime shows. Here are the best series on the list.


How to watch them and why you should.


The best nonfiction movies from Sundance 2021.


The best fiction films we saw at Sundance, from the bizarre to the sublime.


The new Netflix drama is all talk, but it has very little to say.


To be a true crime fan is to have a troubled dependence on the police.


Based on the bestselling novel, it’s a wry, blistering critique of inequality in India — and elsewhere.


The problem with Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit isn’t that Beth is too pretty. It’s how the show handles her prettiness.


Your year-end viewing sorted, from Wonder Woman 1984 to Pixar’s latest to Small Axe.


The Netflix drama, adapted from August Wilson’s play, is a brilliantly damning tale of the blues and Black power.


Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation of the Broadway show is a patchy form of resistance. At least Meryl is charming!