The Men Who Saw Bin Laden Coming
Hulu adapts The Looming Tower into a 10-hour miniseries.
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Netflix Loves the '90s in New Teen Comedy Everything Sucks!
Generational coming-of-age storytelling conventions endure.
When an Echo Chamber Gets Worked Up About Echo Chambers
Researchers cast more doubt on the "filter bubble" narrative.
CNN's Patty Hearst Docuseries Shows Surprising Depth
Jeffrey Toobin's book on the kidnapped heiress was a mess. This telling is much better.
That Time the LaRouchies Won Two Primaries in Illinois
Friday A/V Club: Before there was Arthur Jones, there was Mark Fairchild.
Showtime Documentary Highlights Drug War's Futility
The Trade offers access to cartels, addicts, and cops alike.
Farewell to Nicholas von Hoffman, the Newsman Who Got Fired for Comparing Nixon to a Dead Mouse
Friday A/V Club: Columnist, broadcaster, and critic of concentrated power
This Boring British Cops Clone May Show the Future of American Mass Surveillance
Mass surveillance is up and running on Britain's roads. Will ours be next?
The XFL Was a Flop, But It Made the NFL Better
Failures can be fodder for improving other products. Creative destruction needs bad ideas as much as good ones.
Wormwood's Bad Trip Peddles CIA Conspiracies
The facts don't add up in re-enactment of famous LSD death of Frank Olson.
Soderbergh's Messy Mosaic Jumps from App to HBO
Sharon Stone stars in a sometimes-confounding noir thriller.
Why This Is TV's Golden Age!: Podcast
How streaming video has blown apart, and improved, television as we know it.
Electric Dreams Is a Sci Fi Anthology Series That Warns Against Safe Spaces
The show, based on the work of Philip K. Dick, is like Black Mirror but if people were sometimes good.
The Handmaid's Tale Author Margaret Atwood Accused of Crimes Against Feminism for Defending Due Process
Atwood: "In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion."
The Chi Inverts The Wire to Excellent Effect
New Showtime drama portrays drug and gang wars through the eyes of bystanders' lives.
Black-ish Spinoff Grown-ish Really More of a Rip-off
Cliché-addled college sitcom lacks any sort of originality.
Glenn Garvin's Best Television Shows of 2017*
*Not that they all actually aired on television.
Vapid Cuban Documentarian Unwittingly Stumbles into Country's Despairs
Jon Alpert spent decades asking incredibly dumb questions of Fidel Castro.
The Original Rock 'n' Roll Guitar God Was Actually a Goddess
Friday A/V Club: All hail Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Ron Swanson Slams Fan Ajit Pai Over 'Duplicitous Handling of the Net Neutrality Issue'
But would TV's favorite libertarian really favor federal regulation of the Internet?
Final Vision Fails to Shed New Light on a Famous Family Murder Case
Joe McGinniss provides (posthumously) one last look at the Jeffrey MacDonald case.
The Winners in the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Will Be Consumers
The DOJ fundamentally misunderstands the market for access and content.
Online Video Is Better Than Television: Podcast
Nick Gillespie chats with Reason TV's Meredith Bragg and Jim Epstein about the past and future of our video journalism platform.
You Won't Be Afraid of This Dark, But You Might Be Bored
Netflix sci-fi series draws comparisons to Stranger Things that do it no favors.
Godless Is a Classic Western for the New Millennium
The new Netflix miniseries feels both traditional and new, with the big-screen qualities of a film and the story and character nuance of the best television.
Future Man Is Gleefully Sophomoric, and That's Part of the Charm
Prepare yourself for the gamer jokes and deliberately gross body humor.
BBC Dark Comedy Ill Behaviour Finds Home on Showtime
Gross-out humor and cancer-do they blend?
Showtime Comedy SMILF Offers Questionable Authenticity
A window into the life of a struggling actor or canny Hollywood calculation?
Another Margaret Atwood Adaptation Shines on Netflix
Alias Grace is preferable to a new, terrible S.W.A.T. reboot.
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Early LSD Guru
Friday A/V Club: Celebrate Halloween with Gerald Heard, Boris Karloff, and some killer bees.
Nova Offers an Unusual Environmental Whodunnit Starring Volcanoes
In this documentary murder mystery, the suspects all belch smoke and lava.
White Famous Hilariously Tackles the Racial Tensions of Comedy
Jay Pharoah gets space to shine on Showtime.
Nathan for You Tackles Uber, Finds the Free Market Always Wins
A taxi driver upset by Uber's effect on his business realized it was actually a good alternative for him.
Dynasty Reboot Is Trashy Good Fun
Add thriller Valor, and The CW offers the best new fall premieres.
Rick & Morty Takes on the American Presidency
The hit cartoon depicts how out of control presidential power has gotten.
Is There Any Hope Left for a Good Sitcom?
The latest new network offerings suggest not. Also: a look at The Gifted.
TV Crime Procedural Discovers Social Media Crowdsourcing—Awfulness Is the Result
Wisdom of the Crowd the latest tech-gimmicky police show to launch.
The Prisoner Turns 50
Friday A/V Club: Celebrating half a century of an individualist TV show
Dick Wolf Takes on the Menendez Murders in New Crime Anthology
Also, another cookie-cutter military forces show premieres.
Fall's First Television Premieres May Make You Go 'Meh'
Four new shows launch Monday, including Young Sheldon.
The Vietnam War Punctures Any Remaining Myths About the Conflict
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick hold politicians (both D and R) accountable.
The Vietnam War Is the Key to Understanding Today's America: Q&A with Filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Their 18-hour miniseries looks at one of the most divisive, painful, and poorly understood episodes in American history.
Disjointed Coughs Out Some Tired Dope Humor
Cheech and Chong were decades ago, but Netflix show leans on the same old pot jokes.
Stossel: Star Trek's William Shatner Debates Safety and Space Travel
Captain Kirk vs. John Stossel on space travel in a libertarian world.
HBO, David Simon Chart the Rise of the Modern Sex Economy in The Deuce
Prostitution and porn during the 1970s focus of new series.
