James Martin S.J.’s 1994 review of ‘Friends,’ published when it first aired.
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Amazon’s ‘Underground Railroad’ teaches the Black history we do not know well enough
The series executes a breathtaking high-wire act, threading speculative fiction a history most of us still do not know well enough.
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Too many Americans are forgotten or misunderstood. ‘Our Towns’ tries to change that.
“People’s lives are complicated every place you look, and just as complicated as your own life is,” says author and director James Fallows.
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‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ and what it means to be a Black superhero
The show attempts to juggle a number of different issues and themes, but chief among them is a commitment to being a meditation on modern racial animus in the United States, and it does not shy away from controversial topics and ideas.
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As a 90s kid, I loved Disney’s ‘So Weird’ for its use of faith, sacrifice and the paranormal. As an adult, I still do.
As a kid, my favorite show was about death. Strangest of all, I watched it on the Disney Channel.
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Ernest Hemingway was a brilliant writer and a terrible person. Discuss.
A new PBS documentary makes us ask: Is it possible to admire the art produced by a writer whom the reader dislikes, disdains, perhaps even despises?
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We’re all desperate for hope. Ted Lasso is here to deliver it.
It is the perfect time to sink into the couch and run through the most hopeful show on television: “Ted Lasso.”
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Review: ‘City So Real’ explores Chicago, a great American city in need of redemption
For true Chicagoans, theirs is the greatest American city, and also the one most in need of change.
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From slavery to civil rights, ‘The Black Church’ on PBS tells an essential American story
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a thought-provoking journey through American history using the Black church as an entry point and a lens for critical examination.
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HBO’s Tiger Woods documentary explores the fine line between victim and villain
HBO’s ‘Tiger’ shows that Tiger Woods’s development as a human being came second to his golf.