Features
Feature articles from some of the best and brightest minds writing about television today.
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POSTED April 16, 2024
Fallout Blows Up the Commodification of Doomsday
The show's biggest change reveals how close it actually sticks to the games' vision.
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POSTED April 15, 2024
Forget Buying Toys, the Original Transformers Cartoon Just Wanted You to Be a Good Person
For 40 years, Optimus Prime has brought non-toxic masculinity to children's programming.
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POSTED April 12, 2024
A Lifetime Movie Paved the Way for Nicholas Galitzine's Heartthrob Status
The Watcher in the Woods remake was a flop, but it set the Mary & George star up for future success.
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POSTED April 12, 2024
Taking Down Joffrey Was the Beginning of the End for Game of Thrones
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss thought they were "balancing the scales" by killing off their cruel king, but they just tipped them into chaos.
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POSTED April 10, 2024
All American Can Capture the College Experience More Realistically Than Past Teen Dramas
Season 6 is off to a promising start, but the CW series shouldn't catapult its characters into full-blown adulthood.
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POSTED April 9, 2024
Historical Dramas Are Horny Again — Huzzah!
Starz's Mary & George follows in a proud TV tradition of period dramas that combine sex and facts.
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POSTED April 8, 2024
Andrew Scott Was Born to Play Tom Ripley
Shades of his past roles like Moriarty and Hot Priest color this black-and-white rendering of Patricia Highsmith's infamous grifter.
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POSTED April 7, 2024
Kate Winslet's Always Been 'One and Done' on HBO. Here's Why The Regime Should Be Different.
Unlike Mare of Easttown, Will Tracy's series concludes in a very open-ended fashion.
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POSTED April 5, 2024
Even For Twisted Mother-Son Duo Mary & George, Incest Is Off the Table
On this one front, Starz's historical romp shows greater restraint than other prestige fare.
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POSTED April 5, 2024
10 Years On, Silicon Valley's Vision of Tech Has Lost Its Valuation
The show's six-season run tracks the dawning realization that the tech industry wasn't just a harmless cult of dorks.
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POSTED April 4, 2024
Ranking the Completely Explainable Cases in Netflix's Files of the Unexplained
These stories of alien abductions, haunted houses, and severed feet are hardly perplexing.
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POSTED April 4, 2024
All Hail Camila Mendes, the Streaming Age's Rom-Com Queen
From Do Revenge to Upgraded and Música, the Riverdale alum is carving out a career path that showcases her strengths.
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POSTED April 2, 2024
Your Guide to Viki, the Go-to Streaming Destination for K-Dramas and More
We dive into Viki's robust library of old, new, and popular titles.
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POSTED April 1, 2024
Vanderpump Villa Beats Below Deck at Its Own Game
With Lisa Vanderpump at the helm, the Hulu series serves up an intoxicating cocktail of hospitality-industry drama and interpersonal conflict.
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POSTED March 29, 2024
Cougar Town Remains a Delightful Vacation From the World
The series embodied the kind of tacky Floridian comfort you'd find in a Jimmy Buffett song.