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How love triangles capture our hearts and our attention.
The wonderfully weird HBO series returns for its final season.
The bomb has haunted pop culture since the Cold War. But it’s different now.
Onscreen presidents tend to be youthful and dashing. Real presidents, less so.
A vindication of the rights of Steve Brady.
From Jerry’s apartment to Lucifer’s penthouse, TV sets keep getting neater and neater.
It’s been 15 years since the last WGA strike, and the stakes are far greater.
SAG-AFTRA now joins the WGA on the picket line. What does that mean for viewers?
What happens if everybody walks off the job?
The Bear is a show about opening a restaurant. It’s also a fantasy about nourishing talent.
Dude, where’s my show?
HBO knows you don’t like The Idol. But it didn’t shorten the season because of it.
Joan Is Awful — but AI is magic?
In season two, the Max series learns to laugh at itself, and at Charlotte.
A sharp, canny dark comedy is hiding in this new show from Euphoria’s Sam Levinson and Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye.
The Duggars, Bill Gothard, and me.
The Scandoval affair is a blight and a blessing for the Vanderpump Rules cast.
How Succession’s finale referenced Shakespeare to bring out Kendall’s crumpled ambitions.
The HBO drama was at its best when its episodes acted like plays.
The HBO film adapts the FBI transcript from Reality Winner’s interrogation into a stunning thriller.
Everything you need to know about that stunner of a finale.
Real headlines and “wealth consultants” helped weave an unseemly portrait of wealth in America.
Trauma, chaos, and a nation in peril.
And Chrishell helpfully enters her villain era.
On the Vanderpump Rules finale, the cameras finally capture Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix at the most dramatic moment of their lives.
The Roys win and democracy loses.
The unconventional, revolutionary hotness of Elaine.
The other half of “Scandoval” did something messed up, but deserves at least a little compassion from viewers who love the drama.
A schmoozy, boozy, backstabby good time.
Shonda Rhimes’s new show imagines an interracial romance that remakes Regency England. That sure didn’t happen.
The series will now end with season five, but a spin-off is slated for the end of 2023.
Artificial intelligence could be the most important part of a writers strike, for reasons bigger than show business.
Please please please let Kendall get what he wants this time.
Netflix’s The Diplomat asks what high-powered political games look like when they’re played by a woman with impostor syndrome.
Blood is drawn.
In 2014, David Choe said he raped a woman. Then he claimed it was fiction.
The Mandalorian was the answer to all of Star Wars’ problems — until it embodied them.
Let the succeeding begin.