Television

Chess isn’t just a game, it’s also a handy metaphor—for braininess, for power, for geopolitical strategy.

Trebek guided us through what remains of an older, genteel culture that prized intellectual achievement.

‘The Good Lord Bird’ runs straight to the heart of America’s most toxic contradictions.

“Selling Sunset” paints an unapologetic portrait of our brutal capitalist culture.

‘The Boys’ gleefully satirizes every aspect of superhero movies by showing how corrupt all-powerful beings would be if they existed in the real world.

Every episode of “Schitt’s Creek” comes with guaranteed fits of laughter as the Roses learn what it means to embrace their own brand of “normal” in a strangely normal town.