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Nov 25, 2025
Civilization outlasts humanity in the new sci-fi drama “Pluribus.” On the night that the world as we know it is destroyed, a novelist named Carol Sturka (played by Rhea...
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Oct 27, 2025
Until recently, the most reliable source of clever thought experiments about ascendant technologies on television was the Netflix series “Black Mirror.” The anthology...
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Sep 23, 2025
Some actors you can watch doing the same thing over and over again. Cary Grant built a career on smirking suavity; Cate Blanchett has made an art form of falling apart with tragic...
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Sep 5, 2025
The Toledo Truth-Teller, the fictional broadsheet at the center of the new comedy “The Paper,” lives in the shadow of its past. A half century ago, the publication had...
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Aug 12, 2025
“King of the Hill,” the animated sitcom that first ran for thirteen Americana-powered seasons between 1997 and 2010, had a deceptively simple premise. The family at its...
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Jul 16, 2025
Starting over in New York is a cliché for a reason; so is starting over by leaving it behind. Lena Dunham, who became the poster child for a certain kind of Brooklyn...
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Jun 26, 2025
In the HBO drama “The Gilded Age,” the characters are keenly aware that they live in interesting times. Early in the series, which is set in the eighteen-eighties, an...
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Feb 10, 2025
On paper, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room—the setting of the new Max drama “The Pitt”—is the kind of place you wouldn’t wish on...
Nov 25, 2025Civilization outlasts humanity in the new sci-fi drama “Pluribus.” On the night that the world as we know it is destroyed, a novelist named Carol Sturka (played by Rhea...
Oct 27, 2025Until recently, the most reliable source of clever thought experiments about ascendant technologies on television was the Netflix series “Black Mirror.” The anthology...
Sep 23, 2025Some actors you can watch doing the same thing over and over again. Cary Grant built a career on smirking suavity; Cate Blanchett has made an art form of falling apart with tragic...
Sep 5, 2025The Toledo Truth-Teller, the fictional broadsheet at the center of the new comedy “The Paper,” lives in the shadow of its past. A half century ago, the publication had...
Aug 12, 2025“King of the Hill,” the animated sitcom that first ran for thirteen Americana-powered seasons between 1997 and 2010, had a deceptively simple premise. The family at its...
Jul 16, 2025Starting over in New York is a cliché for a reason; so is starting over by leaving it behind. Lena Dunham, who became the poster child for a certain kind of Brooklyn...
Jun 26, 2025In the HBO drama “The Gilded Age,” the characters are keenly aware that they live in interesting times. Early in the series, which is set in the eighteen-eighties, an...
Feb 10, 2025On paper, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room—the setting of the new Max drama “The Pitt”—is the kind of place you wouldn’t wish on...