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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Marie Kondo’s road to a tidy (and examined) life
The queen of ‘tidying’ is captivating audiences with this question: What do you truly value?
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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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Simon Rich on “Miracle Workers,” writing and God
In “Miracle Workers” Simon Rich balances the surreal with the mundane and anchors fantasy with practicality, providing the perfect stakes for dramatic and comedic tension.
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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.