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.
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A dynamic and damaged power couple face off in ‘Fosse/Verdon’
These two overachievers needed each other, even or especially when they were not together.
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Jordan Peele’s ‘The Twilight Zone’ is ready to make Americans think again.
Jordan Peele’s incarnation of the show will certainly get people thinking—and talking.
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In CNN’s ‘The Bush Years,’ decency and duty mask our national sins
As we come to grips with a national history of violence, greed and racialized privilege, this fable of noblesse oblige rings hollow.
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‘Catastrophe’ looks at humanity in all its messiness
The hit Amazon show asks: Can we really just be unapologetically ourselves?
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‘Jesus: His Life’: a fresh take on the world’s most studied character
A new series on History approaches Jesus and his followers as humans rather than as stained-glass icons.
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Why HBO’s “Leaving Neverland” is difficult—and necessary—to watch
Anyone watching “Leaving Neverland” should come away with one fundamental question, and for Catholics, it is a familiar one: How did we not see this coming?