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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.
By Inkoo Kang
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.
By Richard Brody
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.
By Michael Schulman
The Front Row
What We Lose When Streaming Companies Choose What We Watch
Maybe don’t throw away all your DVDs just yet.
By Richard Brody
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.
By Clare Malone
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.
By Richard Brody
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.
By Michael Schulman
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.
By Michael Schulman
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.
By Inkoo Kang
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.
By Inkoo Kang
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.
By Inkoo Kang
2022 in Review
The Best TV Shows of 2022
These series kept the medium kicking and fresh, and kept me watching.
By Inkoo Kang
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.
By Richard Brody
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.
By Richard Brody
Shouts & Murmurs
Live-Stream Your Authentic Self!
An intimate look at the thrills of the content-creator life.
By Kaitlin Chan and Brian Park
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.
By Richard Brody
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.
By Richard Brody
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.
By Molly Fischer
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.
By Richard Brody