City on a Hill Is Boston's Answer to The Wire
Crime, dysfunction, and corruption in Beantown
Crime, dysfunction, and corruption in Beantown
Meryl Streep adds more comic menace to the over-the-top HBO drama.
The HBO series is a powerful portrait of the political and social rot that occurs in authoritarian regimes.
Movie treads the familiar grounds of the beloved, abruptly canceled HBO show.
"The Iron Throne" is exciting for 40 minutes, and then a huge letdown.
Joseph Heller's opus is drained of power in this tepid adaptation.
A pre-finale podcast about the HBO series that taught America to love death and dragons.
Breaker of chains, mother of dragons, and queen of the ashes
Pack of abandoned teens don’t seem to care what happened, and neither will you.
Surprise: A viral study is junk science.
"The Last of the Starks" suggests that "the best ruler might be someone who doesn't want to rule."
A miniseries about the deadly nuclear disaster that marked the doom of the Soviet Union
Friday A/V Club: Back in the '80s, Bernie Sanders had a public-access TV show. The archives are now online.
This is a show about politics, and the big bad isn't the Night King. It's Cersei Lannister.
Netflix show gives an old horror trope new life. Also, there’s Uma Thurman.
PBS documentary illustrates two sides pushing even further apart.
The imminent start of the final season of Game of Thrones is a good time to consider the series' political message, and reprise some of my work on that subject. Plus, a discussion of the political economy portrayed in George R.R. Martin's recently published prequel to the series.
Sam Rockwell, Michelle Williams star in FX miniseries about troubled life of famous choreographer.
While partisans freak out over Bernie Sanders doing Fox and Marianne Williamson getting air time, CNN is trying to catch some more Kamala Harris-type ratings magic
Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson lead a brutal chase across Texas.
Set in 1990s Northern Ireland, the comedy series is frequently laugh-out-loud funny but also backdropped by historical intrigue and heightened stakes.
Jordan Peele puts his nerdcore imprimatur on a classy reboot.
An anthology series about sad salesmen, space marines, super-intelligent yogurt, and the national debt
The "equal time" rule does not mean what the president thinks it means.
Thinly veiled ABC drama blames the jury for flaws in the case.
Is it already time to feel nostalgia over growing up less than 20 years ago? Maybe.
Mind the dildos in Gregg Araki's latest.
A&E's Trump Dynasty explores the president's family and business history but doesn't do justice to the corrupt New York culture surrounding it.
Throw another "Will they or won't they?" spy thriller show onto the schedule.
Plus: Will Wilkinson on "abolishing billionaires," and what's really going on with YouTube?
NBC will save you from a drought in spy thrillers.
Rather than investigating claims against a pediatrician, he was shuffled around. Sound familiar?
Town hall pilloried because Schultz is undeclared, uninformed, unelectable...and because he might become the next-or help the current-Donald Trump.
If only it weren't so dreadfully slow to dive in.
Blame misguided federal policies, not the network.
Cocaine! Lamborghinis! Don Cheadle!
Friday A/V Club: A little chat about Stalin
"Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica" goes intergalactic?
Two book series adaptations and a sci-fi melodrama reboot launch next week.
Plus: Israel boycott bill divides Democrats, Cyntoia Brown gets clemency, and the "skills gap" was a lie.
How much longer will we even have a concept of "prime time" broadcasts?
It's a parable about black markets, the nanny state, and the morality of resisting silly, arbitrary laws.
Documentaries explore film industry's history, Marilyn Monroe's past.