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April 8, 2024
Magazine
Phillip Maciak
Shōgun
Is Reinventing the TV Epic
The new FX series is not an attempt to make a “new” Game of Thrones or a “new” Mad Men or even a “new” Shōgun.
March 6, 2024
Philippa Snow
The Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
Perfectly Celebrates Older Actresses
Naomi Watts, Chloë Sevigny, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart, and Demi Moore are the six best reasons to watch Ryan Murphy’s new show.
September 27, 2023
Phillip Maciak
Reservation Dogs
Was a Miracle
The FX show could have been a near-perfect hangout sitcom. It did something much more interesting.
July 28, 2023
Magazine
Phillip Maciak
Behind the Rage of Raylan Givens
“Justified: City Primeval” questions a lawman’s anger.
March 28, 2023
Phillip Maciak
The New
Great Expectations
Is Very Rude
In the new FX adaptation, Dickens’s England is crass, vulgar—and thoroughly tainted by Empire.
September 9, 2021
David Klion
Impeachment: American Crime Story
Has an Unlikely Main Character
Rather than focus on Bill Clinton or Monica Lewinsky, the show makes Linda Tripp the key to understanding the tangled and toxic politics of the late 1990s.
May 22, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Two Lives of Norma McCorvey
The documentary “AKA Jane Roe” is a lesson in how the law dehumanizes those it claims to protect.
April 8, 2019
Magazine
Rachel Syme
Top Billing
For too long, Gwen Verdon missed out on her share of the spotlight.
June 25, 2014
Esther Breger
How Not to Write A TV Drama About Arab Dictators
To start, cast an Arab actor in the lead
April 23, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
The Second Episode of 'Fargo' Is Even Stranger Than the First (And Not In A Good Way)
April 16, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
'Fargo''s First Episode is Like a Coen Brothers 'Greatest Hits'
February 27, 2014
Esther Breger
The Most Humane Drama on Cable Is About a Bunch of Murderous Spies
January 30, 2013
Laura Bennett
The Spies Next Door
"The Americans" is a Cold War Thriller for Our More Ambiguous Age
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