Girls ’ Final Season Is Sublime and Exasperating All at OnceYou
have to accept the totality, including the parts you can’t stand, otherwise you
can’t watch the show at all.
FX’s Legion Is a Decadently Inventive, Aesthetic Dream I found myself laughing out loud at the sheer
audacity of the damned thing.
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Feb. 3, 2017
Santa Clarita Diet Tells the Same Joke, Over and Over AgainYou’ll probably
let Netflix keep cycling through to the next episode rather than switching over
to something else.
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Jan. 27, 2017
The TV Shows and Characters We’ve Changed Our Minds On “I now realize that Emily Gilmore is always right and the real heroine of the show.”
remembrances
Jan. 25, 2017
Mary Tyler Moore Was One of the Most Important Auteurs in TV History She leaves behind a transformed TV landscape, more respectful of the emotional lives of women.
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Jan. 17, 2017
How Funny Does The Young Pope Want to Be? A conversation about this odd duck of a show.
The Young Pope Is Compelling, But StrangeIt’s five or six shows in one, and not necessarily in a good way.
Why Rita Moreno’s ODAAT Character Is Sexual “Once people turn a certain age, [sexuality] gets completely ignored by writers, and it’s a shame.”
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Jan. 10, 2017
Why Was The OA So Divisive? Plus, Rita Moreno on her eight-year affair with Marlon Brando.
FX’s Taboo Is More Fun to Think About Than to Watch This is clearly an obsessive, personal work, and it’s intriguing on that level — more so if you’re a fan of Tom Hardy.
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Jan. 9, 2017
Tom Hardy on Drawing His Characters and Taboo The actor has created another memorable hard-man character — as well as an orange cartoon cat named Marmalade.
Emerald City , NBC’s Wizard of Oz Update, Is a Monotonous DudIt’s obvious that what NBC wants here is its own answer to The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones .
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Jan. 3, 2017
Apprentice Is Part of Our Landscape of WeirdnessThe fact that the almost-president is a continuing financial partner on this show neutralizes any fine-grained criticism I might have to offer here.
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Jan. 2, 2017
The 23 TV Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2017 From The Young Pope to Twin Peaks , it’s the most exciting TV of 2017.
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Dec. 20, 2016
Matt and Jen Discuss Their Picks for the Best TV Shows of 2016 Plus, a Vulture Podcast conversation with Rectify creator Ray McKinnon.
anniversaries
Dec. 16, 2016
How the Grinch Who Stole Christmas Was Made It cost ten times more than similar animated films at the time.
There May Never Be a Show Like Rectify Again It went against nearly every trend that had been established in so-called “quality TV” since the debut of The Sopranos .
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Dec. 5, 2016
The 10 Best TV Episodes of 2016 Narrative innovation was on full display this year, including in a throwback entry from a revived classic.
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Dec. 5, 2016
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2016 Including a pair of O.J. stories and an online-only passion project.
directing 101
Dec. 1, 2016
Michelle MacLaren on How to Direct a Complicated Show Like Westworld “With a cast this good, you don’t want to do anything that detracts from the emotional power of those moments.”
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Nov. 22, 2016
Search Party Is the Perfect Thanksgiving BingeIt feels pretty spiritually tuned in to our turbulent times.
Nov. 22, 2016
Sorry, Todd Solondz, I Was Wrong About Happiness A critic’s awkward in-person mea culpa, and a filmmaker vindicated.
Search Party Is One of the Best Shows of the YearIn many ways, this is the series that I always wanted Girls to be.
Good Behavior Is a Not-Quite-There ShowThe hard-boiled dialogue doesn’t have the corrosive wit and rubber-band snap that hard-boiled dialogue needs.
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Nov. 15, 2016
How Will the 2016 Election Affect Scripted TV? Will political TV shows take on different tones than they used to? And will writers generally lean into more progressive ideas?
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Nov. 9, 2016
Pamela Adlon on Dealing With Assholes in Hollywood This was really said to me in real life by somebody I was working with: “You’re my kind of woman. Slap a pair of tits on you and you’re just my type.”
Martha & Snoop Is Mostly a Fun ShowIt will be a lot more fun once everybody involved calms down a bit.
Netflix’s The Crown Is Tedious, But Anglophiles Will Like It It features a perfect assortment of character actors in historical roles.
The Great Indoors Is a Clichéd Comedy About MillennialsWith Joel McHale as our primordial macho man who can’t make sense of it all.
still the 80s
Oct. 25, 2016
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Oct. 25, 2016
High Main Creators on Their First HBO Season“The Guy gets frustrated a lot more this season.”
close reads
Oct. 24, 2016
The Empty Violence of The Walking Dead Violence is the point — everything else is an intellectual fig leaf.
BBC’s Dirk Gently Will Try Your Patience It’s a big dumpster full of ideas and images, some intriguing, others baffling, most rather meh.
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Oct. 20, 2016
Amazon’s Goliath Doesn’t Challenge Its Brilliant Cast The gap between Billy Bob Thornton’s talent and the quality of Goliath is a show in itself.
tv couple scuffle
Oct. 14, 2016
HBO’s Vice News Tonight Is Doing Something Right The “hangin’ out doin’ journalism” approach is easy to mock, but this new program is engaging and smart.
Divorce Struggles to Find Enough Reasons for Viewers to CareThere’s a sympathy imbalance at the core of the show that makes the relative evenhandedness of the plotting seem more theoretical than felt.
HBO’s Insecure Is an Insightful Reflection of the Lives of Black Women The show confirms that there’s plenty of talent percolating outside of the TV industry’s established channels.
How TV Is Increasingly Breaking the Rules “Television has always been very good about staking out this middle ground between the novel and the short story.”
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