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Jim Carrey debuted as Joe Biden, Alec Baldwin is (still) over-playing Trump, Chris Rock nailed it, and we hope everyone stays healthy.
The show’s empty Donald Trump caricature misses what makes the real one so dangerous.
The gripping new documentary is a harrowing portrait of a family prior to its own annihilation.
Crunchyroll or Funimation? Acorn TV or BritBox? The Criterion Channel or Mubi? Go beyond Netflix and Hulu with our guide to niche streaming platforms.
Winners: Schitt’s Creek and HBO! Losers: Netflix and The Good Place!
Schitt’s Creek was the most decorated winner of the night, sweeping the comedy categories. Succession and Watchmen also won big.
Watchmen, Ozark, Succession, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel lead the nominees, and fan favorite Schitt’s Creek has a shot at winning Best Comedy for its final season.
The 72nd annual awards are coming to you live ... from the stars’ homes.
The Hulu comedy achingly captures the trials and tribulations of puberty and teenage best friendship.
A new anthology of Hanawalt’s early work shows how she uses talking animals to present the world with visceral honesty.
Depression is exhausting. Thanks to reruns of the Canadian teen drama, I know I can make it through.
Borgen is like an Aaron Sorkin show that acknowledges the problems with centrism.
A casting director for Queer Eye explains the process.
Keeping Up With the Kardashians was the Kardashian family ad. They no longer need it.
The Showtime series is both fascinating and genuinely empowering. Its directors hope it will have an impact.
Only Colbert can work through a “Your internet connection is unstable” warning popping up during a Zoom interview.
Director Stephen Williams on the many real-world resonances of the HBO miniseries, from police violence to masks.
The producers of FX’s What We Do in the Shadows talk vampires, Covid-19, and Zoom writers’ rooms.
The aesthetics of the 2020 RNC are a disaster.
The new HBO horror series is teeming with references to its namesake H.P. Lovecraft, weird fiction, popular midcentury Americana, and more.
The credibility bookcase has become a fundamental part of image-making. Here’s how it worked at the DNC.
On the strange, semi-fictional quality of everything that happens in 2020.
Tanner ’88 perfectly satirized the faux authenticity that candidates adopt to get elected.
This convention is making the same push for Joe Biden that the 2016 DNC made for Hillary Clinton. Honestly, it might work this time.
TV is an intimate medium. In her DNC speech, Michelle Obama showed she knows how to play to it.
H.P. Lovecraft was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He was also one of its most racist.
Many sports leagues have come back to TV in the past month. Only one has gotten it mostly right.
The new horror series takes a bevy of fun pop culture tropes on a ride through Jim Crow America.
The Avatar: The Last Airbender sequel brings its complex female hero, divided fandom, and fraught history to Netflix.
Watch the show, now on HBO Max, for its snarky jokes. Stay for its overtly queer romance.
The beloved fantasy franchise has enjoyed a banner year on Netflix — until now.
Ellen DeGeneres built her career on being nice. Now that’s in jeopardy.
The British import brings searing emotion and dry wit to a story about sexual assault.
Wait, what happened at end of Umbrella Academy’s second season?
The show finds the right mix of feelings and zippy superpowers in its stellar season two.
Emmy nominations winners: Netflix! HBO! Quibi! (Yes, Quibi.) Losers: So many old Emmy favorites!
Deciding which streaming services to subscribe to is daunting. Here’s what you need to know.
Twitch is an unlikely forum for diverse storytelling. But Dante Basco is having a blast there.
Fear City takes everything at face value, and the results are tedious and vapid.
How a nation engulfed by economic precarity turned a TV show about workplace drudgery into an aspirational fantasy.