Do you need to get HBO Max? A TV critic weighs in
And now we have HBO Max, which is HBO, like, to the max. Born of the age of corporate consolidation and intellectual property wars, it is designed, with its deep...
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Commentary: If you’re not paying attention to late-night TV right now, you should
Back in the 10th grade, my biology class was assigned to crossbreed fruit flies. The point was to teach us about genetics, an experiment made possible by their accelerated life...
Appreciation: Fred Willard, beloved American weirdo, was the special sauce in satire comedy
Fred Willard, beloved American weirdo, colossus of eccentric normality, is gone. For an actor rarely cast in a lead role — he is probably best known for the improvisational ensemble...
Review: Hulu’s ‘The Great’ tears up the history books with Elle Fanning. It’s not Shakespeare, but it works
And so we come to our second quality television series about Catherine II of Russia in the space of seven months, "The Great," with a marvelous Elle Fanning as the...
Review: The best way through Netflix’s interactive ‘Kimmy Schmidt’ special? Choose sympathy
Tina Fey and Robert Carlock's "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," which ended a four-season run on Netflix last year, in a trademark flurry of absurdity and good feeling, has fashioned itself a...
Review: ‘Upload’ offers a familiar digital future. But the details make it disturbingly funny
Greg Daniels, who developed the American version of "The Office" and co-created "Parks and Recreation" — which translates as "never has to work again and can rest comfortably on his...
Review: The ‘Parks and Recreation’ reunion is the perfect medicine for uncertain times
The main cast and a nice slice of the supporting one reconvened after five years Thursday night on NBC for "A Parks and Recreation Special." They came to raise money...
Review: ‘Adventure Time’ meets a metaphysical podcast in Netflix’s extraordinary new ‘toon
Pendleton Ward, who created "Adventure Time With Finn and Jake," has a new cartoon, "Midnight Gospel," made in collaboration with the comedian Duncan Trussell, and it is an ambitious, extraordinary,...
The 23 best web videos about life in quarantine (or to get you through it)
One advantage of the web over what we usually think of as television is that it is quickly responsive to current events and changing tastes. When the world turned sideways...
Review: ‘Belgravia’ is the ‘Downton Abbey’ replacement you’ve been waiting for
Julian Fellowes, the man who built "Downton Abbey," "Gosford Park" and other edifices of lesser cultural impact, is back with another place-named winner: "Belgravia," a highly entertaining six-part period soap...