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Vox’s coverage of television shows, from runaway hits to streaming content to obscure titles.
Yanxi Palace was one of the most popular dramas on the planet. Watch it and you’ll immediately see why.
On Homeboy, Rajiv Surendra wants me to make my own candles. You know what? Sure.
Despite its many weaknesses, Bridgerton might be wobbling its way toward becoming a good show.
Amazon isn’t competing with Netflix, but it is spending billions trying to figure out Hollywood. Maybe 007 can help.
Bad Vegan, Inventing Anna, The Dropout, and the real point of the flourishing genre.
The Ukrainian president has a past as an actor and comedian. He’s using it to wage a public relations war.
The second season of Netflix’s hit reality show was rancid and perfect. The show is probably doomed.
The Netflix series grifts us out of a better story.
TV’s will-they, won’t-they relationships stem from Cheers.
An anime romance between a heroine and a himbo was my original OTP.
Goldberg’s comments reflect a growing national ignorance about the Holocaust. Here’s how to move forward.
Sometimes we get what we want, if there’s space to share.
The lasting appeal of the Star Wars bounty hunter, explained.
It sure seems like bigotry is a feature, not a bug, in the network’s Real Housewives machine.
Cheer’s second season is a good story about cheerleading and a better story about the price of fame.
The crimes on Criminal Minds are wild, as are the ways the FBI solves them.
The terrific new comedy remixes The Office to great, funny effect.
Succession, Yellowjackets, and other critically acclaimed shows are leaving the mystery box behind. That’s a good thing.
When we mourn Bob Saget and Betty White, we’re also mourning a younger version of ourselves.
The HBO Max series created a colorful post-apocalypse at every stage of production.
Why do so many TV shows and movies look like they were filmed in a gray wasteland?
Showtime’s new drama vivisects teen girl friendships. It got its toolkit from teen soap operas.
A brief history of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s bad year.
The Sex and the City reboot isn’t just about being fabulous. It’s about reckoning with your obsolescence.
And 12 other terrific shows, from You to Reservation Dogs.
Issa Rae’s HBO show might be ending, but the work she started has just begun.
On the classic HBO series, love has a market value.
Eccentricity in artists used to be normal. Has the internet changed that?
Emily St. John Mandel’s beloved novel should be difficult to adapt for TV. The HBO Max version reinvents it.
How Impeachment, Spencer, and Katie Couric are rethinking the diet culture of the ’90s.
The one scene that sums up a messily perfect season.
The heroine of Sex and the City and its new reboot embodies the self-centered trope that’s all over social media.
The final shot of the latest Succession episode, explained and also not explained.
Now streaming on Netflix, the spy-themed competition show lets viewers play along with the contestants.
It’s unlikely that Kim Cattrall’s Samantha Jones will ever return to Sex and the City.
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.
Everything you need to know about the legendary anime — and why there’s so much riding on Netflix’s remake.
Succession is telling stories about abuse even when it doesn’t seem like it is.