Girls Can Play

For me, contributing to Slant Magazine's list of the year's best TV shows is as much about the process as the result: It...

In the first episode of his Afrofuturist-ish HBO sketch show, creator, director, and star Terence Nance says Random Acts of Fl...

Based on the true story of a failed British expedition to find the Northwest Passage in the mid-19th century, The Terror exp...

Unlike Homeland , which is based on another Israeli TV series, Fauda makes no attempt to cover the political debates or socia...

This soulful soap operatic drama pays tribute to New York City’s ball culture of the 1980s. Painting in broad, dramatic strokes...

Here's Slant's list of the best films of 2017 , which I contributed to. And here are my top 10 picks and honorable me...

Here's Slant Magazine's list of the year's top 25 TV shows , which I contributed to. And here's my 10 top list, ...

Get Out' s central conceit, about a Stepford Wives -ish plot by blithely entitled suburban whites to colonize black people...

Except for some questions he's asked by interviewers and a few puny would-be rebuttals by smug debaters, whom he swats aw...

Daily Show alum John Oliver has surpassed his former boss as the nation’s premier journalist/advocate disguised as a comedian....

The Good Place is to a lot of its fans what its resident philosopher, Chidi (William Jackson Harper), is to bad-girl-trying-...

The first season of Master of None focused mainly on food-obsessed metrosexual Dev’s (Aziz Ansari) prototypically millennial a...

Tig Notaro’s traumedy is a dryly comic, deeply moving reimagining of the time in her life when she moved back home to Biloxi wh...

An extravagant beauty who delights in playing the fool, Michaela Coel plays Chewing Gum ’s main character, Tracey, with a near-i...

Here's my top 10 list for the year... Fire at Sea The Handmaiden O.J. Made in America Moonlight Happy Hour Manchester by the Sea ...

Ah, Bojack. Will you ever learn how to get out of your own way? To tell you the truth, I kind of hope not, much as I want that for you, sinc...

We got to know the Pfeffermans a little better this season as they learned more about themselves, making two-steps-forward-one-step-back pro...

Twenty-one years after the O.J. Simpson trial surfaced a racial divide that came as news to many white people, America is once again grappli...

  The penultimate season of Girls was one of the show’s strongest, as the creators behind this often comic, always insightful exploration o...

Like its title character, sweet-natured, straight-shooting romance novelist wannabe Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez), Jane the Virgin has a...