Celebrity Life
Inside HBO’s Nuclear Family—and a Lesbian Family’s Fight To Exist
Filmmaker Ry Russo-Young turns the camera on her own life, documenting how her two lesbian mothers were sued by her sperm donor in 1991
Netflix’s Catholic Horror Story Midnight Mass Is One Hell of a Halloween Binge
After a slow first two episodes, the show’s alchemy of spectacle, suspense and storytelling starts working. A binge becomes not just inevitable, but also unexpectedly satisfying.
Pour One Out For the Network Comedy
The broadcast sitcom is more than just a casualty of the streaming wars. Its death is a sign of a fragmented society
How Reservation Dogs Is Opening Up a Crucial Conversation About Suicide in Indigenous Communities
Actor Devery Jacobs writes about how the comedy series takes on the issue in a way rarely seen in pop culture
American Rust Sounds a Lot Like Mare of Easttown. Sadly, It Isn’t
Jeff Daniels stars in a Rust Belt crime drama too mired in small-town misery to say anything new
FX’s Epic Y: The Last Man Adaptation Gets Off to a Shaky But Intriguing Start
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. So goes the old feminist slogan. But that doesn’t mean life on Earth would continue as normal if every mammal with a Y chromosome suddenly dropped dead.
HBO’s Scenes From a Marriage Remake Is Trying to Break Your Heart, All Over Again
HBO casts Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac in a loosely gender-flipped remake of Ingmar Bergman's classic miniseries.
Impeachment: American Crime Story Frames the Clinton Scandal as a Case of Women Sabotaging Women. Is That Really So Revolutionary?
If there’s a point to this exercise, it gets lost amid so many scenery-chomping reenactments of scenes we’ve seen replayed on the news and parodied in late-night comedy for more than two decades
The 5 Best New TV Shows Our Critic Watched in August 2021
From Spike Lee's controversial love letter to New York to Sandra Oh's satire of life in academia.
Steve Martin’s Only Murders in the Building Is a Droll, Cozy Mystery for Modern Manhattan
Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez team up on murder podcast in this charming trifle from Hulu
The 33 Most Anticipated TV Shows of Fall 2021
From Impeachment: American Crime Story to Midnight Mass, here are the buzziest fall TV releases
The Chair Is a Pretty Accurate Portrayal of What It’s Like to Be a Woman Professor of Color. That’s Why It Can Be Painful to Watch
I’ve been an English professor for nearly 20 years, but people still tell me I don’t look like one. Not because I’m young (I’m not), but because I’m Asian American. Whenever professors are depicted in shows or movies, they’re usually stereotypes—elitist, intimidating, eccentric, out of touch, occasionally inspiring—and they’re almost always white and male and,…