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The Americans begins its long plunge toward the end in a riveting episode

By Todd VanDerWerff

Comic Louie Anderson waited for the role of a lifetime. He found it playing his own mom.

By Todd VanDerWerff

How the Catholic Church censored the Golden Age of Hollywood

By Dean Peterson

“It’s pretty much the Wild West”: why we can’t trust Facebook to police itself

By Sean Illing

New Girl’s delightful final season explores life after a rom-com ending

By Caroline Framke

Eden Tirl says Bill Cosby harassed her. She wonders why Hollywood didn’t care before #MeToo.

By Karen Turner

The Cambridge Analytica scandal puts Facebook under scrutiny

By Genevieve Koski

Janelle Monáe doubles down on feminist self-love with her new music video for “Pynk”

By Caroline Framke

Westworld’s creators offered to spoil season 2 in exchange for 1,000 Reddit upvotes

By Alex Abad-Santos

Starz’s sci-fi drama Counterpart is one of TV’s most thoughtful, most existential shows

By Todd VanDerWerff

An Iraq War vet makes the case against shallow patriotism

By Sean Illing

The American Chopper meme, explained

By Matthew Yglesias

Bill Cosby paid accuser Andrea Constand nearly $3.4 million in a 2006 settlement

By Jen Kirby

The Simpsons responds to Apu controversy with a shrug about political correctness

By Caroline Framke

Two-thirds of links on Twitter come from bots. The good news? They’re mostly bland.

By Aja Romano

The Kennedy family built up a public mythology. TV and movies are taking it apart.

By Alissa Wilkinson

BBC America’s Killing Eve is a deliciously twisted take on the spy vs. spy thriller

By Caroline Framke

FX’s Legion, Syfy’s The Magicians, and the reign of BIG MOMENT TV

By Todd VanDerWerff

2 of the world’s best directors have new movies out this weekend. See them both.

By Todd VanDerWerff

Apparently there is a longstanding and vicious feud between architects and librarians

By Constance Grady

The charismatic hustle of Cardi B

By Constance Grady

Roseanne isn’t the only sitcom tackling politics and the working class. Here are 11 more.

By Caroline Framke and Todd VanDerWerff

How search engines are making us more racist

By Sean Illing

Black Panther will be the first film shown in a Saudi movie theater in decades

By Alex Ward

Blockers is a solid raunch comedy that dares to let its teen girl characters be great

By Alissa Wilkinson

Great movies about faith are hard to come by. Enter Blue Velvet.

By Tara Isabella Burton

How Russia pioneered “fake news”

By Sean Illing

The Female Persuasion is a brutally intimate novel about intergenerational feminism

By Constance Grady

In “Tchaikovsky,” The Americans turns a gap between spies into a chasm

By Todd VanDerWerff, Libby Nelson, and 2 others

How Cynthia Nixon’s star image complicates her political image

By Constance Grady

Writer-director Kay Cannon on the biggest lesson Tina Fey taught her

By Todd VanDerWerff

Why this economist thinks public education is mostly pointless

By Sean Illing

A Quiet Place is a terrific horror film — and a tender movie about parenting

By Alissa Wilkinson

How the Christian movie series God’s Not Dead fails to be Christian

By Alissa Wilkinson

Roxane Gay on Unruly Bodies, the difficulty of being transgressive, and #WhoBitBey

By Constance Grady

A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes

By Sean Illing

George Lucas doesn’t appear in Ready Player One. Or does he?

By Todd VanDerWerff

Mark Zuckerberg lays out Facebook’s 3-pronged approach to fake news

By Aja Romano

LeBron James, the most important athlete in America, explained

By Dylan Scott

Why Jesus Christ Superstar Live succeeded where other live TV musicals have failed

By Constance Grady

Bill Cosby rape allegations: what you need to know

By Vox Staff

Iconic producer Steven Bochco has died at 74. These 5 shows explain how he changed TV.

By Todd VanDerWerff
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