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“Monorail!” How Conan O’Brien Came Up With an Iconic ‘Simpsons’ Episode

by Peter Rubin January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

“Thirty years later, Conan O’Brien reflects on the making and legacy of ‘Marge vs. the Monorail,’ one of the best ‘Simpsons’—and sitcom—episodes of all time.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

‘Atlanta’ Was Donald Glover’s Masterwork

by Peter Rubin November 10, 2022November 10, 2022

“Six years after it first aired, ‘Atlanta’ goes down as an all-time great.”

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The Powerful, Unlikely Force Shaping Modern TV

by Peter Rubin August 11, 2022October 19, 2022

Eighteen years after Lost premiered, we’re living in a golden age of fan-theory TV. But where once that dynamic rankled showrunners and writers, Shirley Li writes, it’s now more of a symbiotic détente. That understanding, he said, seems to have led the relationship between writers and fans to “a more mutually beneficial place,” in which […]

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Inside Amazon’s Huge Gamble on the Next Game of Thrones

by Peter Rubin October 19, 2021October 19, 2022

“And so these books, with their gauzily painted or starkly heraldic covers, their comical abundance of pages published for the delight of furtive young boys and girls curled up reading by themselves in bookstore corners, waiting eagerly for their authors to publish the next installment (picture me here one more time, a child again, sleepy-eyed […]

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

The World’s Tallest Dwarf

by Sara Fredman November 8, 2019January 13, 2023

Late capitalism gets an antihero show.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

How Do You Move Past a Dad?

by Sara Fredman July 26, 2019October 19, 2022

Pamela Adlon’s Better Things is not a riff on the antihero show so much as it is an antidote to it.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘TV Has This Really Fraught Relationship with the Audience.’

by Jonny Auping June 25, 2019October 19, 2022

Emily Nussbaum talks about why TV’s relationship with its audience has become more intimate, whether we can blame Trump on True Detective, and how a TV critic’s biggest challenge is just figuring out what to watch.

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And What of My Wrath?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 30, 2019October 19, 2022

Cersei Lannister could have been a great antihero, but she was on the wrong show.

Posted inCulture

And What of My Wrath?

by Sara Fredman May 30, 2019October 19, 2022

Cersei Lannister could have been a great antihero, but she was on the wrong show.

Posted inCulture, Story

And What of My Wrath?

by Sara Fredman May 30, 2019October 19, 2022

Cersei Lannister could have been a great antihero, but she was on the wrong show.

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