IIf you want to understand how prestige television (an imperfect term, but stick with it) has changed over the past 25 years, it makes sense to start with the series that invented the category as we know it: The Sopranos. An HBO gangster drama whose antihero Tony Soprano is a brutal but troubled middle-class mafioso […]
IIn the wake of the enormous popularity of DahmerRyan Murphy and Ian Brennan are back with a new season of their Monster Anthology series exploring the lives and crimes of the infamous Menendez brothers. Monster: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendezstreaming on Netflix from September 19, starring Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch as Lyle […]
IIt has been over three years since WandaVision debuted as the first Marvel Cinematic Universe show on Disney+. And while you probably haven’t forgotten the song “Agatha All Along” that went viral during the pandemic, you may not remember the exact details of who Agatha is, what her powers were, and how witchcraft worked in […]
Dand Eugene Levy have come a long way from the fictional town in the middle of nowhere Schitt’s Creek. The father-son duo’s hit show won nine prime-time Emmys during its run, and on Sunday night the couple hosted the 76th Emmy Awards. The ceremony made history before it even began. Shogunthe FX drama set in […]
TThirty-six years after giving birth to a baby girl and giving her up for adoption, a woman learned that the child had been missing for 21 years. This is not the plot of a crime novel or a fictional film. This is the documentary series Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter begins. The two-part series, […]
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Emily in Paris Season 4, Part 2. An important central idea of Emily in ParisDarren Starr Sex and the City-lite Netflix series starring Lily Collins as a stranded American social media manager living and working in the French capital is that she just can’t get things together. In the […]
TSo it is with the death of an actor who starred in a hugely popular franchise: Since almost everyone on the planet knows who Darth Vader is, almost any mainstream coverage of James Earl Jones’ death must associate him primarily with that role. But Jones, who was born in Mississippi in 1931 and died on […]
BWas Abraham Lincoln both America’s greatest president and a gay man? A new documentary argues: yes. Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln, “The 40 Fingers,” which hits theaters Sept. 6, is said to be the definitive documentary on Lincoln’s sexuality. It includes excerpts from charged letters and, to put them in context, […]
Warning: Spoilers for The perfect couple One of the greatest minds of our time once said: “In a place like this, heartbreak is good.” The place in question is the lush and wealthy Nantucket in The Dream coupleNicole Kidman’s latest glossy miniseries, “Rich Lady on a Beach,” which just came out on Netflix. But as […]
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Fight Night: The Million Dollar Robbery. On October 26, 1970, Muhammad Ali made a historic comeback to the boxing ring after a three-and-a-half-year hiatus for refusing to serve in the military during the Vietnam War on religious grounds. Ali’s defiance led to his indictment and conviction for conscientious objection […]
