The final episode of Season 1 left Queen Elizabeth very much alone and feeling the weight of her crown. What can we expect from Season 2?
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Noel the Ornament: The forgotten cartoon might be the Christmas story for our times
You know Dasher and Dancer, Rudolph, Prancer and Vixen…. But do you know Noel?
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The strange racial politics of ‘Stranger Things’
Could Hawkins be a place haunted not just by the Upside Down, but by the ghosts of our country’s racist past?
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How the freaks of “Stranger Things” let the transcendent become real
The everyday and the fantastical continue to live side by side as show enters second season.
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The Walking Dead’s religious question: Can paranoia and Christianity coexist?
In a zombie world, the good Samaritan would be toast.
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“BoJack Horseman” is a comedy about living in a long-broken world
The absurdity of “BoJack Horseman” offers an unrelenting, often devastating look into our own humanity.
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Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam’ revisits a barbaric war and asks, what went wrong?
For nearly 20 years, the United States was severely divided by race, and a generational split not seen since the Civil War.
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Talking heads help humanize the PBS documentary ‘Martin Luther’
The two-hour film portrays the “simple monk” Martin Luther as more of a Catholic than he is generally thought to be.
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Yvonne Orji opens up about her God-sent role on HBO’s ‘Insecure’
Orji’s differences with her character felt like a joke at first, but now? “I get it, Lord; I see what you’re doing!”
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Game of Thrones has a serious point to make about Hurricane Harvey and climate change
Climate change is the real battle before us, a battle quite possibly against extinction. It sounds ridiculously fantastic to put it like that; if only we had dragons and a Night King to help us believe.