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June 13, 2016
How Comedy Usurped Drama As the TV Genre of Our Time As “serious” TV has become plot-obsessed, it’s comedy that’s now plumbing the depths of human character — and owning the era.
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June 10, 2016
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June 9, 2016
The Americans Showrunners on the Tense S4 Finale“I don’t think we ever considered killing [Pastor Tim] off.”
Cinemax’s Outcast Approaches Horror in the Most Visceral Sense You know something is horribly wrong but you aren’t exactly sure what.
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May 31, 2016
Did We Need a Roots Remake? Debating the merits of remaking the classic mini-series.
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May 27, 2016
Why Limited Series Make for Such Good TV Sometimes it’s better to know where you’re going.
Why Roots Was So Important The nearly 40 years haven’t dimmed its ability to illuminate one of the grimmest aspects of U.S. history.
The New Roots Is More Scathing and Pulls Fewer Punches The updated mini-series is more passionate, more sweeping, considerably angrier, and more disgusted by the physical and moral atrocities it depicts.
The Vulture TV Podcast: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Edition Find out why Vincent Rodriguez III ate a ton of garlic before his big kiss scene with Bloom.
HBO’s All the Way Has Scale, But Not Insight Where’s the feeling? Where’s the poetry? What happened?
AMC’s Preacher Is a Peculiar Show That Both Hits and Misses I wish it had thought harder and found the courage to be even wilder and weirder.
The Good Wife Wasn’t Perfect, But What a Great Show It WasThe slap and its aftermath distilled the entire series into 60 seconds.
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May 9, 2016
Presenting the Results of Vulture’s Spoiler Poll The ground appears have shifted in favor of instant reaction, with the definition of discretion being set by people who’ve seen the thing being discussed rather than people who haven’t.
The Americans Is the Best It’s Ever Been in Season 4The last two episodes are among the best hours the show has produced.
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May 4, 2016
Spoiler Alert: This Is a Post About Spoiler Etiquette Let’s all acknowledge what Twitter is: a platform designed to react immediately to things that happened right this second.
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May 3, 2016
What Makes for a Good TV Dream Sequence? Frasier, Battlestar Galatica , and more of our favorites.
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May 2, 2016
Last Night’s Game of Thrones Twist Couldn’t Have Been More Disappointing The scene was conceived and executed in the most pedestrian manner, underplaying to a fault.
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Apr. 26, 2016
Game of Thrones Feels Warmer in Its Sixth SeasonIt’s also still messing with us, just as we always knew it would.
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Apr. 21, 2016
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Apr. 19, 2016
Jenni Konner on How Hannah Got Her Groove Back “It’s impossible for me to know what people will respond to as horrible. To me, Hannah’s made like 14 other horrible choices this season.”
HBO’s Confirmation Is a Competent, But Unremarkable Docudrama Its proximity to the broadcast of FX’s The People vs. O.J. Simpson makes its undistinguished competence more irritating.
Kimmy Schmidt Is Weirder, Better in Season TwoFor long stretches it barely remembers what it’s about and enters that trancelike comedy zone of one-damn-thing-after-another inventiveness.
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Apr. 13, 2016
How Do You Keep Comedy Honest? It helps to have people who disagree with you around.
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Apr. 11, 2016
Billions Was a More Fascinating Show in Its Second HalfI bailed on Billions after the fourth episode, and I’m (mostly) glad I revisited it.
Catastrophe Season Two’s Biggest Challenge: How to Top Season One?It’s not as blazingly fresh this time around, but the same wit and energy are still there.
What Made That Americans Plot Twist Such Great Television It was shocking not just because it was brutal and sad, but because it was inevitable.
Behind The Americans ’ Devastating Plot Twist Everything was historically accurate, down to the burlap.
People v. O.J. : A Vivid Portrait of AmericaThe sprawling civic lament that the movie version of The Bonfire of the Vanities should have been, but wasn’t.
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Apr. 5, 2016
On American Crime Story ’s Huge First Season And why Chris Darden is like Jeb Bush in the 2016 election.
Horace and Pete Embraces the SilenceIts style demands that you experience drama in a way that’s anathema to the values of contemporary television.
Hulu’s The Path Is a Good-Enough Show That probably would have benefited from the binge-watch model.
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Mar. 29, 2016
Has Broad City Lost ‘It’? When TV comedies stop making us laugh so hard.
Garry Shandling Was One of American Television’s Greatest Artists He made the kind of comedy you could barely stand to look at, and couldn’t look away from.
The Thomas Crown –Style Catch Who could have imagined that the original film starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway would birth an entire style?
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Mar. 22, 2016
The State of Comic-Book Adaptations on TV Plus, Neve Campbell on her Party of Five days.
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Mar. 16, 2016
Why Better Call Saul Is the Anti–Breaking Bad Where Vince Gilligan’s original AMC crime drama was plot-driven to a fault, the follow-up is more relaxed.
In Season 4, The Americans ’ Brilliance Sneaks Up on You It can build to a tragic twist so subtly that you simultaneously wipe away a tear and laugh at yourself for not seeing it coming from a continent away.
Why The Americans Will Be Better Than Ever in Season 4 Showrunners Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields on the evolution of Elizabeth and Philip, what they’d do over if they could, and making the Best Show on Television™.
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Mar. 11, 2016
The Carmichael Show ’s Provocative Cosby EpisodeIf you want sitcoms that are directly connected to life, it’s a good time to be watching TV.
Viola Davis on the Importance of Being Annalise “People say there’s a lot going on [on HTGAWM ]. But what it does right cannot be ignored: me being cast as Annalise alone, stop, exclamation point.”
Why The Americans Will Be Better Than Ever in Season 4 Showrunners Weisberg and Fields on the evolution of Elizabeth and Philip, what they’d do over if they could, and making the Best Show on Television™.
Hap and Leonard Is an Entrancing, Unusual ShowHap and Leonard is a smart show that doesn’t preen about how smart it is.
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