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What Is TV’s Problem With Professors?

I have never cared that Grey’s Anatomy or Suits is unrealistic. Yes, I believe that writers should do painstaking research, and that the realistic...

26.03.2026 5

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Love Story Captures the Strangeness of Being a Kennedy

I grew up in a house full of magazines. We always had lots of subscriptions—to Time, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone—and we loved to buy...

05.03.2026 7

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The Revolutionary Crappiness of Darren Aronofsky’s On This Day … 1776

I’m a big fan of Tom Hooper’s 2008 HBO miniseries John Adams. Perhaps it’s because I’m a dad. Its genre is very much that of Dad Cinema...

20.02.2026 90

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The New Night Manager Is Missing That Le Carré Magic

29.01.2026 10

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The Narrative Genius of Heated Rivalry

26.01.2026 10

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TV’s Antidote to the Year of Men in Crisis

23.12.2025 20

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In Pluribus, Groupthink Spells the End of Art

19.12.2025 10

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The Beast in Me Epitomizes “Trough TV”

17.11.2025 8

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The Chair Company Is a Horror Show About The Workplace

10.11.2025 6

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The Lost Boys of Task

23.10.2025 10

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Ethan Hawke’s Brilliantly Exasperating Quest for Truth

01.10.2025 7

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How Late-Night Became a Free Speech Battleground

29.09.2025 10

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Netflix’s Long Story Short Reinvents the Family Sitcom

27.08.2025 10

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Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth​ Is Not Such a Tight Ship

18.08.2025 6

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Lena Dunham’s Too Much Is Exactly Enough

24.07.2025 6

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The Bear Offers Apologies—and an Uncertain Path Forward

06.07.2025 10

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The WNBA Is a Perfectly Choreographed TV Drama

24.06.2025 10

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Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Takes Flight

26.05.2025 10

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Seth Rogan’s The Studio Isn’t Just a Celebration of Hollywood’s Past

07.05.2025 10

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Netflix’s Adolescence Speaks Directly to Parents’ Fears

25.04.2025 8

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Michelle Williams Blooms Late in Dying for Sex

04.04.2025 9

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Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney Is an Ambitious Mess

28.03.2025 6

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The Perverse Reason We Can’t Resist The White Lotus

02.03.2025 6

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The World According to Mo

21.02.2025 10

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The Frustrations of Severance

31.01.2025 10

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The Pitt Is a Defiantly Different Hospital Drama

28.01.2025 10

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