The Goddess in the Mist
Why the TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend is better than the book.
Shadow Play
Ancestry.Comics
The uninspiring side of Marvel Studio’s Afro-futurist utopia.
The Most Dangerous Enemy They Can Find
Netflix’s clever Black Mirror.
The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
Ken Burns’s The Vietnam War does not take sides.
Dream Factory, or Propaganda Machine?
Hollywood’s romance with China may be breaking up.
Angle of Descent
Detroit rips open old wounds.
Elizabethan Virtues
Dignity, not celebrity.
A Long-Form Miracle
The Young Pope is a dazzling work of art.
Le Carré’s People
The Cold War novelist on the big and small screen.
Horror Show
What does The Walking Dead say about American anxieties?
The Americans – A Fan’s Notes
Truth, lies, and TV spies.
Enemy of the People
Donald Trump's bad reality show.