This Will Shakespeare is an insecure if well intentioned striver.
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How a ‘Gilmore Girls’ road trip brought me closer to my parents
What started as a “Gilmore Girls”-themed trip through New England gave me and my parents far more than we had expected.
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‘Good Omens’ review: Angel and demon, best friends forever
The Amazon series is based on the much-beloved fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
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Review: Is HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ a call to action on climate change?
The show raises questions about the trust we put in the institutions that claim to protect us. I could not watch this series without thinking of the world’s denial and inadequate response regarding climate change.
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‘Gentleman Jack’ tells the story of a 19th century pioneer
The British period genre has been quietly retrofitted to accommodate a gay love story more familiar from our own time.
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‘Pose’ revisits controversial AIDS protest inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral
On the Season Two premiere of “Pose,” the FX drama about a group of L.G.B.T. people of color living on the margins of New York City in the 1980s and ’90s, activists are shown protesting inside New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
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‘Fleabag,’ or, in praise of cool priests who swear
The priest in “Fleabag” is of a type that has become, surprisingly, quite common in film and on television
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The final challenge of ‘Game of Thrones’: ‘We need to find a better way’
If almost a decade of watching “Game of Thrones” has taught me anything, it’s that fairy tale endings are for children.
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HBO’s ‘Veep’ bows out in character, after years of watching reality catch up to it
A political satire with Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a constant presidential candidate, “Veep” gleefully exposed the hollowness of unbridled ambition, and it was fun (if also dread-inducing) through Sunday’s finale.
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On ‘Game of Thrones,’ Jesus Christ is a girl on a dragon
Daenerys Targaryen embodies the element that makes the show so deeply compelling, namely, the quest to throw off the debilitating chains of social convention.