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''Pistol,'' about the Sex Pistols, and ''Angelyne,'' about a sex icon, find the reality in pop-culture fakery. For a movement dedicated to shocking the masses and jabbing a safety pin [...]

A new documentary explains the undersung Canadian troupe's brilliance, and a new season of its sketch show confirms it. The Kids in the Hall were very nearly not the Kids [...]

Byline: James Poniewozik Netflix introduces a post-truth game show, for an era when seeming right sometimes trumps being right. There are plenty of things on Netflix's new quiz show that [...]

Netflix introduces a post-truth game show, for an era when seeming right sometimes trumps being right. There are plenty of things on Netflix's new quiz show that you've seen on [...]

David Simon returns to a familiar beat for HBO, updating if not improving on an old critique. Let us stipulate that it is unfair to compare any series to ''The [...]

Television is hooked on scripted dramas based on real life. But they rarely measure up either to actual life or to actual drama. As seen on the news, real life [...]

When it comes to the dynamics of public school in 2022, the season's best new network comedy has done its homework. If you follow local news or morning shows or [...]

THE CANDY HOUSE,by Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan’s 2010 “https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/books/review/Blythe-t.html” was, depending whom you asked, a novel, or a collection, or a story cycle. But you could also call it a [...]

The show strained to offer something for everyone. But it could still create shocking moments. The theme of the 2022 Oscars was ''Movie Lovers Unite.'' For Chris Rock and Will [...]

After four long years, the Season 3 premiere goes to strange places with a familiar confidence. The last we left ''Atlanta,'' it was nearly four years ago, and also a [...]

This strange but transfixing HBO Max sci-fi series takes an act of faith to enjoy. If you have not yet seen ''Raised by Wolves,'' you will probably not understand it [...]

In his TV sitcom and now at war, Ukraine's actor-president has modeled an idea of leadership that is very different from Vladimir Putin's. Shortly after his surprise election as the [...]

In his TV sitcom and now at war, Ukraine’s actor-president has modeled an idea of leadership that is very different from Vladimir Putin’s. Shortly after his surprise election as the [...]

Pamela Adlon's comedy of family and chaos takes a cosmic perspective in its final season. Many TV creators will tell you that they love their characters, and I'm sure they [...]

As the invasion unfolded, images straight out of Cold War nightmare dramas butted up against 21st-century politics. If you are more than a few decades old, the invasion of Ukraine [...]

Byline: James Poniewozik Adam Scott returns to the office in an engrossing thriller about separating work and home life, surgically. Two years into a pandemic, you would be forgiven for [...]

Adam Scott returns to the office in an engrossing thriller about separating work and home life, surgically. Two years into a pandemic, you would be forgiven for believing that the [...]

When the present is divisive and the future is scary, pop culture's biggest event plays ''remember when.'' ''This is the millennium of Aftermath.'' When Dr. Dre rapped that line on [...]

Byline: James Poniewozik W. Kamau Bell's documentary series is a model of how to engage honestly with disgraced artists and their art. To hear more audio stories from publications like [...]

W. Kamau Bell's documentary series is a model of how to engage honestly with disgraced artists and their art. There is a simple, amazing thing that W. Kamau Bell does [...]

A Tinge of Loneliness There is so much cognitive dissonance here. Usually there is a buoyancy, a giddiness among the athletes during an opening ceremony as they draw energy from [...]

The raucous story of a stolen sex tape invites its audience to laugh, then asks what's so funny. Episode 4 of Hulu's ''Pam & Tommy'' begins as the website pamsextape.com [...]

This dramedy from Jason Katims brings three young adults on the autism spectrum to vivid life, with empathy and a light touch. By the standards of TV's apocalypse stories and [...]

The cabaret singer and Kansas native Bridget Everett is subtle and stunning in an HBO comedy about finding your voice in midlife. In a certain famous story about Kansas, the [...]

Remember the coronavirus pandemic? Some shows, faced with an unpredictable reality, prefer to put it safely in the past. ''Sex and the City'' always existed in a fantasy version of [...]

Byline: James Poniewozik Don't let the pandemic premise chase you off. This is the most uplifting post-apocalyptic show you're likely to see. Things could always be worse, and in 'Station [...]

Among the thousands of hours of television that came out this year, episodes of ''Call My Agent,'' ''For All Mankind,'' ''Mythic Quest,'' ''Pose'' and ''WandaVision,'' among others, stood out. Television [...]

Don't let the pandemic premise chase you off. This is the most uplifting post-apocalyptic show you're likely to see. Things could always be worse, and in ''Station Eleven,'' they are. [...]

The beloved children's show has been a recurrent culture-war target, but a documentary on HBO shows how social purpose was built into it. There's a rule in politics, or at [...]

The beloved children’s show has been a recurrent culture-war target, but a documentary on HBO shows how social purpose was built into it. There’s a rule in politics, or at [...]

From Bo Burnham to ''We Are Lady Parts,'' the best in television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope. Best Shows of 2021 | Best International | Best Shows [...]

The ''Sex and the City'' revival is part dramedy about heartbreak, part awkward bid at relevance. This review discusses plot points from the HBO Max limited series ''And Just Like [...]

Amazon's ambitious fantasy adaptation is bursting with magic and monsters, but it's no heir to the ''Thrones.'' There is a great wheel that turns and turns, and history turns with [...]

Showtime's pulpy, promising survival thriller tells a coming-of-age and middle-age story, with a bloody twist. Ever since Oceanic Flight 815 crashed in 2004, creating ''another 'Lost''' has been TV's great [...]

The revival of the serial-killer drama is TV's latest refusal to let a supposedly finished franchise rest in peace. The first thing to die in ''Dexter: New Blood'' is irony. [...]

This inventive Netflix docudrama, created by Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay, is a coming-of-age story in the rearview mirror of an activist adulthood. Even if you don't watch football, you [...]

Byline: James Poniewozik In the new season of the dynastic HBO drama, the very rich are even less like you and me than they used to be. Deep into Season [...]

The host's biweekly issues-comedy show has good intentions, and sometimes good jokes. Calling your new public-affairs-comedy show ''The Problem With Jon Stewart'' is a provocation and a pre-emption. It sounds [...]

The streaming part of the ceremony actually did a better job conveying the electricity of being in a theater than the CBS special billed as ''Broadway's Back!'' It's no surprise [...]

ABC's reboot is conscious of how remembering the old days is more complicated for its Black characters. Only white people, the pop-culture conceit goes, can get excited about traveling backward [...]

An ambitious reimagining of the Isaac Asimov epic suffers from by-the-numbers sci-fi plotting. The science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke once decreed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. [...]

After ''Game of Thrones,'' many said the blockbuster series was dead. Maybe not -- but the future of TV epics may look more like the movies' recent past. In spring [...]

Hagai Levi's adaptation echoes the passion of Bergman's original, but it doesn't make the case for a new version. If the near future of TV is endless reinterpretations and remakes [...]

The mini-series sees the Clinton saga through the eyes of the women involved, but struggles to add to a much-told story. One thing that jumps out at you in the [...]

After 20 years, it's time for TV to treat Sept. 11 as serious, even divisive history, not just dutiful remembrance. The TV specials for the Sept. 11 anniversary offer any [...]

In a mixed but audacious first season, AMC's feminist deconstruction of marriage stories made two sets of TV clichés into something bigger. In Disney+'s ''WandaVision,'' sitcoms were a prison and [...]

Two decades ago, TV's most distinctive stories were defined by a tone of ironic detachment. Today, they're more often sincere and direct. How did we get here? Could David Brent [...]

Byline: James Poniewozik Two decades ago, TV's most distinctive stories were defined by a tone of ironic detachment. Today, they're more often sincere and direct. How did we get here? [...]

The pandemic-era Tokyo Olympics began on NBC, with an uneasy balance of news and sports, along with reminders that this is big business. Follow our live coverage of the Tokyo [...]

This year's Emmy announcement brought a bit of justice for Michaela Coel's powerful series as well as the usual array of predictable and odd choices. The 2021 Primetime Emmy nominations [...]