For six years, “Better Call Saul” has given the story equivalent of a graduate-level seminar on morality, and the series finale is both satisfying and surprising.
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Review: Netflix’s ‘The Sandman’ invites us into gratitude, wonder and the depths of our dreams
Until recently, “The Sandman”—Neil Gaiman’s magnum opus about the eternal being who oversees the universe of dreaming—has remained an impossible quest.
Reading the news is torture enough. Watching TV shouldn’t be.
Watching the same character fall short of redemption, or meaningful contrition, over and over again, dozens of times, is torture.
‘Ms. Marvel’ isn’t just a superhero story. It’s an exploration of Pakistani-American religion and culture.
When it came to bringing Kamala Khan to the screen, Marvel has made all the right choices.
Time travel and trauma: Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’ is an exercise in therapy
“Russian Doll” is kind of a Jewish “Fleabag” meets time travel, a mind-bending exploration of trauma that reads like an exercise in self-therapy.
‘Stranger Things’ brings Kate Bush’s Catholic hope to a new generation
Kate Bush’s 1985 hit “Running Up that Hill” has exploded across pop culture. But it’s more than just the song in “Stranger Things.” It’s also deeply religious.
‘Star Wars’ has a race problem — and casting more people of color won’t fix it.
The introduction of more people of color and women to the ‘Star Wars’ series is a correction of an error, not an error in itself.
Apple TV+’s ‘For All Mankind’ is a space race show that will restore your faith in government
“For All Mankind” invents a Soviet victory in the space race and imagines a tempting counterfactual: What if Americans’ faith in government was never shattered?
‘Ted Lasso’ and ‘Fleabag’ and all the shows that are too awesome to watch (so I won’t)
My heart is not large enough, my consciousness is not spacious enough for all the spot-on characters, the hectic energies, the ripping stories. I am not skillful, I think, at TV.
The new ‘Star Trek’ has moments better than my best homilies
While “Star Trek” has presented itself as a show about exploring strange new worlds, at its heart it has always been about elevating those whom society has ignored.
