Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, the Netflix docuseries that follows Kanye West from his early days as a Chicago up-and-comer to one of the most influential artists and divisive public figures of the 21st century, offered two compelling stories. The first was of a successful producer who couldn’t stand being told…

There’s a fear in our current era of TV viewership of getting duped. We all have our low-stakes guilty pleasures and mindless, background noise re-watches, but when we uncork the wine and put our phones down to strap into something, we want it to be worth it. We want to…

It seemed like an obvious choice to avoid Station Eleven; HBO’s mini-series adaptation of the 2014 Emily St. John Mandel novel, which follows a group of unknowingly intertwined characters in the time directly leading up to, during, and as many as 20 years after a devastating flu pandemic which killed…

(The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets Season 1, and also some generally weird stuff). You: “They dismembered and disposed of a body. We’re fresh off a near murder-orgy. A girl froze to death. A bear sacrificed itself. Someone got kidnapped by a cult. Someone else got freed from a kidnapping…

I approached Netflix’s Inventing Anna with the reluctance of a gas station taco. If it wasn’t for Julia Garner starring as the titular “Anna” and a late-Sunday desire to debase myself with the TV equivalent of a jaunt down Bourbon Street, it would have been an obvious pass. But that…

A few Fridays back, Netflix released the first half of the fourth and final season of Ozark, their award-winning crime drama starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney — less than two weeks after the streaming platform gave us the hotly anticipated Season 2 of their hit-docuseries Cheer. Ozark, which follows…

(This article contains spoilers for the final season of Search Party as well as the entire series to date) Who else but Search Party could end their series with a zombie apocalypse and still feel appropriately restrained? Last Friday, HBO Max released the fifth and final season of Search Party…

Maybe it was a dream within a dream, or perhaps a movie within a movie. It could have been the fortune inside the cookie, or even the chicken, inside the duck, inside the turkey. Regardless of what shape or form the Russian doll-like event took for you personally, your first…

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