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If childbirth is a battle, then Targaryen mothers are war veterans.
Instead, its messy execution gets in the way.
Lord of the Rings and The Little Mermaid are just the latest targets of racist fans.
The HBO show finally addresses its sticky sexual subtext.
White harts, Aegon Targaryen, family squabbles, and why it matters that Viserys can’t kill a deer.
Women have always been crucial in The Lord of the Rings. Now they’re the main characters.
A (mostly) post-pandemic update.
Why shows like Never Have I Ever and Sex Ed keep throwing the Bisexual Safety Switch.
House of the Dragon’s second episode makes it clear you ignore women at your own peril.
Don’t toss a dragon egg, even if you’re Daemon Targaryen.
One of the world’s most powerful news outlets has a new mandate.
Nathan Fielder, Leslie Jamison, Martin Buber, I, it, Thou, empathy, and, of course, television.
The Game of Thrones prequel shows patriarchy at its most dehumanizing — but in a post-Roe world, it was effective.
The Amazon Prime version cut out the protagonist of the 1992 original movie. It’s the best choice it could have made.
The former Nickelodeon star burns her bridges in her new memoir.
HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel rolls out as the streaming industry reconsiders ... everything.
A Hollywood hairstylist on why onscreen wigs don’t look anything like they should.
This researcher interviewed dozens of writers, creators, and showrunners about onscreen abortion. Here’s what she learned.
Nathan Fielder’s wild HBO show is reality TV at its most bizarre. Or is it a documentary? Or memoir? Or something else?
Netflix answers some questions. There are plenty left.
Testimony that Trump hurled a plate at a wall and stained it with ketchup stuck with viewers of the hearings for good reason.
The latest season of Borgen is a political thriller for the Great Resignation.
The queer canon should point us toward the future. We made a list of new, vibrant queer stories helping us get there.
Facebook knows it has a TikTok problem. TV and streamers do, too.
He built a business on talk. Next up: Figuring out video.
Netflix’s The Parisian Agency is a luxury real estate show featuring a family that actually gets along.
Does Netflix even care that Ricky Gervais’s SuperNature is rife with transphobic TERF ideology?
An expert tells us how professional wrestling endlessly evolves to reflect changing masculine gender norms.
From John Cena to Jason Momoa, our most muscular movie stars are increasingly our most vulnerable too.
After losing my ability to read for nearly five years, I needed a way to ease back into books.
Maybe Deborah Vance is built different.
The Paramount+ show is less about the making of The Godfather than the miracle that movies ever get made.
Bluey opened up my imagination and made the most boring part of parenting fun.
Selling Sunset and the irresistible allure of Barbie-on-Barbie pettiness.
Natasha Lyonne’s Nadia travels back in time in a futile attempt to undo intergenerational trauma.
The FX hit leans into the surreality of being Black.
Reed Hastings used to have streaming to himself. That’s over now.
The Apple TV+ show is a road map of worker organizing.
Is it all just part of a capitalist plot? Well?? Is it???
Grammy or no Grammy.