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The many layers of May December

May December isn’t camp. So what is it?

By Aja Romano

George Santos treated politics like reality TV. And he won.

By Alex Abad-Santos December 7

Blue Eye Samurai is one of the smartest Netflix shows in years

By Aja Romano December 6

Netflix’s Squid Game reality show is kinda great. Oh no.

By Alex Abad-Santos December 1

What Matt Rife’s baffling Netflix special tells us about comedy

By Aja Romano November 29

When is a nose just a nose? A brief history of non-Jews playing Jews onscreen.

By Marjorie Ingall November 20

The Crown increasingly becomes a fantastical apologetic for the royal family

By Aja Romano November 17

Explaining “Twin Flames,” the subject of Netflix’s disturbing new documentary

By Aja Romano November 14

What the Hasan Minhaj controversy says about the trouble with storytelling

By Aja Romano November 10

The long, long Hollywood strikes have ended

By Alissa Wilkinson November 9

Hollywood is missing the big picture on the opioid crisis

By Alissa Wilkinson November 8

The Curse is a fully bizarre and brilliant maze of a show

By Alissa Wilkinson November 7

The surprising science that explains why we love thrillers

By Alissa Wilkinson October 30

The third season of Starstruck isn’t a rom-com anymore

By Constance Grady October 17

Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher lacks the passionate weirdness of Poe

By Aja Romano October 13

The actors strike negotiations have broken down

By Alissa Wilkinson October 12

The Golden Bachelor is kinder, gentler, grayer reality TV

By Scott Nover October 12

Jenna Lyons is the last great Real Housewife

By Alex Abad-Santos October 5

The Hollywood writers’ strike is over — and they won big

By Alissa Wilkinson and Emily Stewart September 28

Two young missionaries made headlines. Two new docs look at why.

By Alissa Wilkinson September 26

Love Is Blind season 5 is all about red flags

By Alex Abad-Santos September 22

What’s the state of the Hollywood strikes?

By Alissa Wilkinson September 18

On Hulu’s The Other Black Girl, the hair is the point

By Constance Grady September 13

Bethenny Frankel’s reality TV union is easier said than done

By Alex Abad-Santos September 11

Suits is an unlikely time capsule for a troubled decade

By Aja Romano September 9

Even Elon Musk can’t fully wreck Twitter’s one great superpower

By Peter Kafka August 24

It’s not just famous actors and big-name writers the Hollywood strikes are hurting

By Emily Stewart August 22

King the Land is a Netflix hit about love and labor rights

By Aja Romano August 18

The creator of Black Mirror is okay with tech. People, on the other hand ...

By Peter Kafka August 4

Why this show about queer teens appeals to all ages — even if it stings

By Lauren Katz August 3

The Chosen, the Christian megahit about Jesus, explained

By Aja Romano August 2

The enduring allure of a good love triangle

By Nylah Burton July 31

How To With John Wilson is still unlike anything else on TV

By Alissa Wilkinson July 29

2023’s big summer movie season, explained

The nuclear bomb’s enduring, evolving place in pop culture

By Alissa Wilkinson July 27

Why are fictional presidents so young?

By Philip Walford July 23

And Just Like That finally remembers Steve doesn’t deserve this

By Alex Abad-Santos July 20

TV and movie sets used to be messy. What happened?

By Constance Grady July 14

Hollywood’s writers are on strike. Here’s why that matters.

By Alissa Wilkinson July 13

Hollywood’s historic double strike, explained

By Alissa Wilkinson July 13

Hollywood is staring down the barrel of a double strike

By Alissa Wilkinson June 30

The Bear’s second season is about the people it takes to make you great

By Alex Abad-Santos June 30