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Why Can’t We Quit “The Morning Show”?

Apple’s glossy experiment in prestige melodrama is utterly baffling—and must-watch TV.
The Front Row

Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl Quartet Abounds in Audacious Artifice and Stinging Political Critique

Four new short films make clear how crucial the author’s work has been in the development of Anderson’s art.
Notes on Hollywood

Joy in Los Angeles as the Writers Reach a Tentative Deal

A strike captain reflects on the emotional highs and lows of five months on the picket lines.
The Front Row

What We Lose When Streaming Companies Choose What We Watch

Maybe don’t throw away all your DVDs just yet.
Annals of Communications

David Zaslav, Hollywood Antihero

The C.E.O. of a conglomerate that includes Warner Bros. studios, CNN, and HBO takes on an entertainment business in turmoil.
The Front Row

What to Stream: The Radical Insolence of Charlie Chaplin

Even in seemingly apolitical movies, the great comedian takes aim at the law’s cruel prejudice against the poor.
Notes on Hollywood

“Orange Is the New Black” Signalled the Rot Inside the Streaming Economy

The innovative and daring show was a worldwide hit for Netflix, but some of the actors say that they were never fairly compensated.
The New Yorker Radio Hour

W.G.A. Strike: Why Your Favorite Shows Could Go Dark

Michael Schulman talks with Laura Jacqmin, a veteran TV writer and a Writers Guild strike captain. Plus, the comedian and essayist Samantha Irby in conversation with Doreen St. Félix.
Notes on Hollywood

Why Are TV Writers So Miserable?

On the cusp of a potential strike, writers explain why no one is having much fun making television anymore.
On Television

Rachel Weisz Gives “Dead Ringers” a Rebirth

The Prime Video series proves that the realities of women’s bodies can be scarier than Cronenbergian body horror.
On Television

Victoriana Drenched in Red Bull, in FX’s “Great Expectations”

A new television adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel, streaming on Hulu, avows, too brashly at times, that it’s no staid PBS affair.
On Television

Donald Glover’s “Swarm” Is a Portrait of the Serial Killer as a Young Stan

The horror-thriller series, which Glover created with Janine Nabers, about a mega-fan’s violent devotion to a Beyoncé-like pop star, succeeds neither as satire nor as psychological study.
2022 in Review

The Best TV Shows of 2022

These series kept the medium kicking and fresh, and kept me watching.
The Front Row

What to Stream: “Third Avenue” Captures the Castaways of a Bygone New York City

Jon Alpert’s 1980 film is a classic work of direct, reportorial cinema.
The Front Row

What to Stream: Jean-Luc Godard, Beyond the Usual Recommendations

A look at the late French New Wave filmmaker’s greatest and most affecting works.
Shouts & Murmurs

Live-Stream Your Authentic Self!

An intimate look at the thrills of the content-creator life.
The Front Row

What to Stream: “Posse,” a Wild Western of High Purpose

The director Mario Van Peebles dramatizes the centrality of Black people as cowboys and townspeople in the history of the American West.
The Front Row

What to Stream: “The Sorrow and the Pity,” a Historical Documentary That Transformed France’s National Identity

Marcel Ophuls’s 1969 film about France’s collaboration with German occupiers during the Second World War broke a quarter century of media silence.
Cultural Comment

The Numbing Rise of I.P. TV

Whereas golden-age television aspired to bring viewers something unexpected, a new glut of ripped-from-the-headlines content gives them exactly what they’ve had before.
The Front Row

“Hustle,” Reviewed: Adam Sandler’s Love Letter to Basketball

The Netflix comedy-drama mines the star’s obsession with the game, as well as his experiences in the entertainment industry.