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![]() Phillip MaciakNew Republic |
It’s the end of the year, and disappointment is in the air. It has been for a while now. Given the current state of liberal politics in the United...
One of the most common comedic arcs in twenty-first-century TV is the journey from cynicism to hope. Mockumentaries like The Office, Parks and...
Dune: Prophecy , the new HBO prequel series to the blockbuster film franchise, begins with one of the most hilariously hasty exposition dump...
What does ambition look like on TV today? Is it big, expensive, epic fantasies like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power or House of the...
I’m a sucker for a singer. On TV, there’s nothing I love more than when a character bursts into song. I don’t necessarily want a big, produced...
We are in the midst of a Shyamalanaissance. While responses to M. Night Shyamalan’s filmography have waxed and waned since he was first designated...
“Woke mind virus” is a pretty funny phrase. It wasn’t meant as a joke when Elon Musk first started using it in 2021. If anything, the utterly dire...
Apple reinvented personal computing in the 1980s, and then again in the 2000s. It created a vast array of hot little rectangles that we carry...
On the third night of the DNC, in his speech accepting the nomination for vice-president, Tim Walz was Mr. Walz, the teacher who’d paid for a...
On the third night of the DNC, in his speech accepting the nomination for vice-president, Tim Walz was Mr. Walz, the teacher who’d paid for a...
There was a giant, man-size crucifix outside of my first-grade classroom. This object—bloody and graphic—stood probably eight feet tall and was...