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Ryan Murphy
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 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 1, 2020
Philippa Snow
Hollywood Keeps Trying to Rewrite Its History
Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series is the latest to imagine a better, fairer Golden Age, while never truly reckoning with the past.
September 27, 2019
Philippa Snow
How
The Politician
’s Ruthless Satire Misses
Ryan Murphy’s show about a super-elite high-school election could have made brilliant, cultish television.
February 3, 2016
Esther Breger
Ryan Murphy has pledged to hire more directors who aren’t straight white men.
September 17, 2012
Laura Bennett
Ryan Murphy's New Show Reduces Cultural Bigotry to a Personal Problem
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