One Good Thing
Recommendations from the world of culture we think you should check out.
The book series is a triumph of world-building, with sneakily compelling characters.
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.
Fran Fine has remained a style icon for a generation of kids born during (and after) the years that the series aired.
I can’t stop thinking about this silly book about overconsumption and lost history.
What happens when your prosecutor’s goal is keeping people out of prison?
This album embraces life’s contradictions, even when it’s difficult to do so.
A spooky anthology series to listen to over Halloween weekend and on many fall nights to come.
Why be so nasty and so rude when you could read this book about The Real Housewives?
Kay Patterson, the mind behind The Organized Soprano, is a decluttering genius.
The Hulu TV series stars Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, and so much fantastic outerwear.
Hero, available on HBO Max, is an action-packed film that balances drama with emotion.
The Forgotten City, which began life as a Skyrim mod, gives you plenty of room to mess up and do better next time.
FX’s series, now available on Hulu, is the rare TV comedy that knows what it is from its first scene.
Imagine the Real Housewives, if the housewives were driving at 300 kilometers an hour.
Home Video captures the tender beauty of queer teens.
Street Dance of China makes a compelling argument that what the world needs now is a giant global dance-off.
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.
CODA is a big-hearted crowdpleaser about a teen, her dreams, and her family.
The drama about a high school football team might be the best teen show of all time.
We Keep the Dead Close explores a murder at Harvard and the stories we tell about crime.
Hot White Heist tells a story of found family wrapped around a raunchy caper.
Can fiction about police be healing in 2021? Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache books make a very good case.
AppleTV+’s Mythic Quest is one of TV’s sneakiest comedies, funny and tragic all at once.
That’s probably all you need to know to watch this new series.
A surprisingly apt post-pandemic horror film, St. Maud reminds us that hell is other people.
A mysterious, immersive theater show provides a fresh way to connect with far-flung friends.
The Kate Winslet-starring HBO miniseries ponders the double horror of peaking in high school and homicide.
Julien Baker’s brilliant Little Oblivions is about feeling doomed and looking for an escape.
The other seven episodes of this drama about the people who work at a strip club in Mississippi are pretty great too.
The director built his long, storied career atop a series of brilliant collaborations with people who made him better.
They’re teens. They’re bounty hunters. They’re Teenage Bounty Hunters!
Why Peter Jackson’s masterpiece is still the one trilogy to rule them all, 20 years later.
The fantastic AppleTV+ show is my favorite TV drama going right now.
I need everyone to watch Veneno, a stunning HBO Max series about storytelling and survival.
(Though it’s also occasionally just that … )
The five-piece group might make you miss hearing a band you’ve never heard of in concert.
Warrior feels like if Peaky Blinders starred Bruce Lee and was set in 1870s Chinatown. It’s great.