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With a focus on TV features, I cover national and breaking news, from entertainment to crime, politics to education. I've covered elections, the MLB postseason, award shows and more TV junkets than I care to count.
There is, it turns out, such a thing as being too broken. "Veronica Mars" was trying to tell us that all along. The Kristen Bell-starring cult favorite, which aired for three seasons in the mid-2000s, then returned a decade later as a Kickstarter-funded movie, then as a pair of books, is back again in an eight-episode Hulu miniseries that may or may not be the end of our favorite blond private investigator.
"Lovecraft Country" is the story of monsters and men and monstrous men. The HBO series, which premieres Sunday, tells a fantastical tale of a Black Korean War veteran, Atticus Williams (Jonathan Majors), who with his uncle and a friend, Letitia (Jurnee Smollett), treks through 1950s Jim Crow America to find his father.
There is genuinely nothing I want to watch less than Carrie Bradshaw match a face mask to her Manolo Blahniks. And yet Sarah Jessica Parker promised that HBO Max's "Sex and the City" revival, the 10-episode "And Just Like That..."
The HBO Max series, premiering Thursday and based on Alissa Nutting's 2017 novel of the same name, focuses on Hazel (Cristin Milioti) and Byron (Billy Magnussen) in a non-chronological timeline as they go from blissful to toxic and everything in between.
How can you make a show about strippers that's not exploitative of women? There's one simple way. Let women call the shots. And women literally called every shot on "P-Valley," which premieres Sunday on Starz. All eight episodes have female directors, on a show that was created and is run by a woman, Katori Hall.
If you somehow weren't aware of all the buzz around "Ted Lasso" already, you will be when the Emmys air Sunday night. The sweet, simple Apple TV+ sitcom about a college football coach who moves to England to lead a soccer team broke through the mainstream like few TV shows have done since streaming services flooded the marketplace, holding its place in the pop culture conversation like "The Sopranos" and "Mad Men" did in their day.
It's not, of course, but "The Good Place" wants you to believe that it could be. That's the appeal of Michael Schur's hit comedy - the hope that people can change.
Midge Maisel says "f--k" a lot now. It's a word you can get away with in the seedy clubs where she spends her nights, surrounded by the seedy drunks and the seedy comedians who would send her mother to her fainting couch. It's a word that belongs underground.
Gilead is built on rape. It’s the governing policy, the structure, the code. It’s systematic. Every month, the handmaid is raped. Every month, she lies back between a wife’s opened legs, spreads her own and dissociates while her commander thrusts and groans to completion.
"Big Little Lies," the David E. Kelley HBO hit, wrapped up the series Monday night as an arguably perfect seven-episode run. Five women - Madeline (Reese Witherspoon), Celeste (Nicole Kidman), Jane (Shailene Woodley), Renata (Laura Dern) and Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz) - carried the crime drama as viewers attempted to figure out who was murdered and who did the killing.