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Erin Schwartz is a contributing writer for The Nation and the managing editor of Study Hall . She writes frequently on television, popular culture, and books.
Each episode of the CBS comedy-drama functions as a morality play for a peculiar worldview.
His television series, The Young Pope and The New Pope , tell us a story bigger than one focused on just church or state.
The Netflix show turns Internet obsession and the need for attention when we’re online all the time into a horror story.
Greta Gerwig’s adaptation faces two challenges: to be a good film and to mark how we can imagine women—as sisters, as antagonists, as wives, as workers—in our own time.
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The show is heralded as a nuanced and cutting critique of the 1 percent. But whose side is it really on?
Looking at a string of scandals at a performing-arts high school, Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise grapples with trauma like few novels this year.
Across its two seasons, the show and its creator’s antic imagination tore apart TV storytelling conventions.
The show’s vicious political satire defined a decade of comedy, but its last season lacked the same punch.
How the Garden State’s surreal political culture made its most famous television show.
The Beach Bum , starring Matthew McConaughey, is all about excess, anarchy, and baby boomers.
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