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La serie de siete episodios de Alfonso Cuarón, sobre la traición de las narrativas, es más fácil de admirar que de disfrutar. https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaYKhdv5q08fphYVt40M “Cuidado con la narrativa y la forma. [...]

As Aaron Sorkin’s political fantasy turns 25, its romance has aged better than its politics. “‘I am the Lord your God. Thou shalt worship no other god before me.’ Boy, [...]

A new FX sitcom handles the educational culture wars with a light touch. The culture war often doesn’t have a physical frontline; it’s fought in op-ed columns, through social-media memes [...]

Remember “Severance”? Remember “Stranger Things”? Today’s leisurely TV schedules are taxing memories and changing the experience. Time moves slowly in Middle-earth. Ages last for millenniums. Elves are immortal. Villains menace [...]

Accepting the nomination, the vice president completed a whirlwind ascent — and sought to finally supplant Donald Trump at the center of America’s political drama. There were a lot of [...]

The vice-presidential nominee’s prime-time debut offered football analogies and an alternative to Trumpian masculinity. The United Center arena in Chicago is the home of basketball’s Bulls and hockey’s Blackhawks. But [...]

The first night of the convention introduced the party’s new protagonist, and gave the old one a curtain call. Notice anything different? The organizers of the Democratic National Convention hope [...]

A loose Netflix adaptation turns Boccaccio’s story cycle into a gleeful satire of class war in plague times. TV audiences have an appetite for a good class-conscious satire of rich [...]

President Biden’s decision to bow out after a disastrous debate confirms that in a TikTok era, TV is still the biggest political arena. As soon as TV sets landed in [...]

In his prime-time debut, the senator and “Hillbilly Elegy” author showed what he has to offer his running mate. Speaking Wednesday at the Republican National Convention, Senator J.D. Vance of [...]

The categories are more confusing than ever and worthy shows were left out, but this year’s nominations also included some thrilling picks. JAMES PONIEWOZIK Happy Emmy day, Margaret! It seems [...]

For once, a presidential Q. and A. was must-see TV. But it didn’t put an end to the summer’s biggest drama. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/12/us/biden-trump-election There were many questions at https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/us/politics/biden-news-conference-takeaways.html on Thursday [...]

It’s still TV’s best and most beautiful series about work and creation. But the new season is a tease. No one loves a mixed review. The final moments of “The [...]

In the comic fabulist’s dazzling new HBO series, sketch comedy meets sketch fantasy. The title of Julio Torres’s new HBO series, “Fantasmas,” is a way of giving a name to [...]

The comedy about a Muslim punk band returns for a raucous encore. For the early punks, many of them white British blokes, their music was about declaring themselves outside the [...]

Hulu’s docuseries on a social-media subculture doubles as a serious snapshot of recent history. Who created Twitter? On one level, the business level, the Wikipedia level, the answer is simple: [...]

La serie de HBO no es solo una buena historia, sino una aguda pieza de crítica cinematográfica en un rubro que hasta ahora no había tenido refutación. HBO lleva mucho [...]

HBO’s series is not just a good story. It’s a sharp piece of film criticism. HBO has long defined itself in contrast to mainstream television — “It’s not TV,” as [...]

A few years ago, “Atlanta” and “PEN15” were teaching TV new tricks. In https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/arts/television/atlanta-fx-donald-glover.html Donald Glover sketched a funhouse-mirror image of Black experience in America (and outside it), telling stories [...]

In O.J. Simpson’s life and trials, television was a spotlight, a microscope and a mirror. One of the strangest quotes I can remember associated with O.J. Simpson came from the [...]

As “Curb Your Enthusiasm” gets ready to exit, it’s time to let go of the idea that a story’s ending determines its final score. Larry David is just fine with [...]

Have you heard the one about the comedian who tried to live truthfully? Midway through “https://www.max.com/coming-soon/jerrod-carmichael-reality-show” the comedian tries to convince Jamar Neighbors, his longtime friend and fellow standup, to [...]

The deal with a former R.N.C. chair who enabled election deniers risked the credibility of NBC News — and ended up pleasing no one. For the past week the best [...]

The Netflix sci-fi adaptation has done its physics homework, even if it sometimes falls short on the humanities. The aliens who menace humankind in Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” believe in [...]

Fifty years ago, the TV landmark showed Gen X kids that no one else has the right to tell you who you are. “Free to Be … You and Me,” [...]

Kate Winslet is commanding (and funny) in HBO’s screwball sendup of rising authoritarianism. Of all the recent reboots of 20th-century franchises, among the hottest and most terrifying is populist authoritarianism. [...]

The former president’s trials aren’t being aired. That isn’t stopping him from turning them into a political reality show. The civil-fraud case against Donald J. Trump’s businesses in New York, [...]

Netflix adds to the rap-comedy canon with five episodes that showcase the star’s absurdist, deadpan sensibility. There have been enough offbeat comedies about rappers and hip-hop lately to make up [...]

The live arguments gave audiences a rare chance to experience a Trump court case as it happened. If you were to list the ingredients of riveting live television, you would [...]

The news network that wants Taylor Swift to stick to singing has had no problem handing conservative celebrities the microphone. Taylor Swift, you may have noticed, is everywhere: packing arenas [...]

At the end of his 1999 HBO special, “Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm,” David wraps up a stand-up comedy set by telling his audience he has no more material for [...]

Mention “Happy Days” to TV viewers of a certain age (raises hand) and the first thing they remember might be not an episode or a scene or a catchphrase but [...]

The season finale of Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s horror-comedy arrived on Friday. Three New York Times critics discuss the show’s curses, blessings and confounding conclusion. JAMES PONIEWOZIK Greetings, “Curse”-heads! [...]

“Bob’s Burgers,” “Frontline,” “Killing It” and “A Spy Among Friends” were among the series that gave us some of the best episodes of television this year. Great TV series can [...]

The Peanuts special is the most overtly Christian TV holiday classic. So why does it speak to me so deeply? “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was a one-of-a-kind wonder when it [...]

The “All in the Family” producer made sitcoms into a form of patriotic dissent. In 1942, Norman Lear signed up to fight the fascists. He served as a radio operator [...]

Ron DeSantis, Gavin Newsom and a not-exactly-neutral Sean Hannity staged a campaign debate from an alternative timeline. Thursday’s made-for-TV exhibition match between Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Gov. Gavin [...]

Series like “The Bear,” “Beef,” “Happy Valley,” “Reservation Dogs” and “Succession” dazzled in a year when much of the TV business was in disarray. Best Shows of 2023 | Best [...]

The story of death at a mogul’s retreat (no, not “Glass Onion”) has a few interesting ideas about tech within a familiar mystery scenario. An eccentric tech billionaire invites a [...]

Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s breathtaking, uncomfortable series takes home-renovation TV into the heart of darkness. “It’s a mishegas,” Whitney Siegel (Emma Stone), a convert to Judaism, says to her [...]

What do we mourn when we mourn a TV companion? If you’re fortunate to live long enough, eventually you get The Call. Sometimes it’s an actual call, sometimes a social [...]

Max’s animated sci-fi saga imagines a bizarre ecosystem in which humans are the invasive species. “Weird” hardly begins to describe the extraterrestrial life-forms the viewer encounters on the planet Vesta [...]

One of TV’s longest-lived characters gets revived, in an anticlimactic museum reproduction of the original. “Frasier” always saw itself as something more than a mere plebeian sitcom. It delighted in [...]

In the ending of the FX comedy-drama, preserving the bonds among generations is a radical, magical act. Where do you find enlightenment? In a meditation room? On a solitary mountaintop? [...]

The retiring Fox leader built a noise-and-propaganda machine by giving his people what they wanted — and sometimes by teaching them what to want. The polite way to describe the [...]

Two new series about young culture-industry workers, “The Other Black Girl” and “Dreaming Whilst Black,” explore how representation can be a challenge — or even a horror story. Early in [...]

Despite high-profile cuts, streaming isn’t as brutal on new shows as network TV was. (But it’s not the paradise we hoped for, either.) It is time that we have a [...]

Saved from cancellation, the porn-mag comedy is still a chaotic ride, but its ideas are more than skin-deep. “This feels like the beginning of something,” Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond) says [...]

Why should you care about the strikes in Hollywood? Because they are much more than a revolt of the privileged. In Hollywood, the cool kids have joined the picket line. [...]

The difference between comedy and drama is hazier than ever, as is the future of the Emmy Awards ceremony itself. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/07/12/arts/emmy-nominations JAMES PONIEWOZIKWeirder than usual Emmys season this year, Margaret! [...]