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February 23, 2026
Max Minghella on Playing the Big Bad of ‘Industry’ Season 4: “I Would Almost Black Out Shooting the Show”
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from “Points of Emphasis,” Season 4, Episode 7 of “Industry,” now streaming on HBO Max. Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella) is in the wind. ...
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February 20, 2026
Netflix Animated Comedy ‘Strip Law’ Is a Joke-Dense Love Letter to Las Vegas Lunacy: TV Review
Animation suits Las Vegas. From “CSI” to “Hacks,” Sin City has no shortage of representations on television. But the Netflix comedy “Strip Law” — created by Cullen Crawford, an alum of the satirica...
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February 13, 2026
HBO’s Josh Safdie-Produced Docuseries ‘Neighbors’ Is Nextdoor Brought to Life by Way of ‘Uncut Gems’: TV Review
Every episode of the HBO docuseries “Neighbors” begins with the camera zooming in from outer space. But before the action alights in the location of the latest dispute between adjacent property own...
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February 12, 2026
‘Derry Girls’ Follow-Up ‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’ Is Another Delightful Northern Irish Romp — This Time With a Dead Body: TV Review
Even before Saoirse-Monica Jackson turns up around the halfway point, it’s clear “How to Get to Heaven from Belfast” comes from the same sensibility as “Derry Girls,” in which Jackson played anxiou...
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February 7, 2026
‘Industry’ Star Miriam Petche on Taking the London Finance Drama to Africa and Sweetpea’s Big Moment: ‘I’m Worried for Her!’
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from “Eyes Without a Face,” Season 4, Episode 5 of “Industry,” now streaming on HBO Max. On “Industry,” heroes are hard to come by. But in t...
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February 6, 2026
The Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Was a Playful Celebration of Italian Culture: TV Review
The winter Olympic games are often seen as more of an appendix to their larger summertime counterparts than a tentpole in themselves. But in 2026, the parallels between Milan — which co-hosts the 2...
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February 5, 2026
Savannah Guthrie’s Mom’s Disappearance Has Rocked ‘Today’ — and Strained Morning TV’s Image of a Joyful Family
Many workplaces sell themselves as a family, but broadcast morning shows are somewhat unique in doing so on live TV for hours each day, beamed into people’s living rooms. Long before podcasts popul...
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January 25, 2026
Patrick Dempsey Plays a Hitman with Dementia in Fox’s Muddled, Bland ‘Memory of a Killer’: TV Review
Fiction is filled with criminals who lead bifurcated double lives, but Angelo Doyle (Patrick Dempsey) takes this to an extreme. By day, Angelo is a suburban salesman mourning his late wife and help...
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January 21, 2026
Apple TV Wine Drama ‘Drops of God’ Matures and Gets More Complex With Age: TV Review
The superb, globe-trotting wine drama “Drops of God” debuted in the spring of 2023, almost concurrently with the final season of “Succession.” On the one hand, the two series rhymed with fitting sy...
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January 15, 2026
Emilia Clarke Leaves Daenerys Behind With Peacock’s Endearing Spy Caper ‘Ponies’: TV Review
The espionage term “Ponies,” explains the title card to the Peacock spy drama of the same name, derives from the acronym for “persons of no interest.” In the winter of 1977, that’s exactly who Bea ...
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January 13, 2026
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Is Minor ‘Game of Thrones’ — and That’s a Good Thing: TV Review
The first two television series adapted from fantasy author George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” saga are about epic struggles for the fate of Westeros — civil wars in which an entire fict...
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January 12, 2026
Golden Globes’ Strong Winners and Charming Host Were Nearly Derailed by Polymarket Predictions, Podcast Awards and Other Distracting Stunts: TV Review
Over the last few years, the Golden Globes has made a concerted effort to improve its reputation. Once somewhat infamous for a small voting body easily influenced by star power, a setup that culmin...
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January 11, 2026
‘The Night Manager’ Season 2 Isn’t Worth the Decade-Long Wait: TV Review
To the extent that “The Night Manager” has survived in the cultural memory since the limited series — adapted from the John Le Carré novel on the same time — aired a full decade ago, it was as a sh...
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January 6, 2026
‘Industry’ Season 4 Is a Wildly Ambitious Reinvention That Cranks the HBO Finance Drama Up to 11: TV Review
There’s a lot of talk about narrative and messaging in Season 4 of HBO’s “Industry.” “In America, your story begins when you start telling it,” proclaims one aspiring titan of finance. “Listeners t...
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January 5, 2026
‘The Pitt’ Makes Its Triumphant Return in Season 2 With an Even Bigger Cast and the Same Social Conscience: TV Review
When “The Pitt” premiered on HBO Max almost exactly a year ago, it was an unflashy medical drama without the boost of preexisting IP (though the Michael Crichton estate, which claims the project is...
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January 4, 2026
Josh Charles Charms as a Cantankerous Small Town Doctor in Fox’s Cutesy ‘Best Medicine’: TV Review
The protagonist of the lighthearted new Fox series “Best Medicine” may be a doctor, but the hourlong show isn’t really a medical procedural. Instead, the series borrows a time-honored setup from “S...
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December 24, 2025
‘Pluribus’ May Be Slow, but It Was Never Boring
SPOILER ALERT: The following piece contains plot details from “La Chica o El Mundo,” the Season 1 finale of “Pluribus,” now streaming on Apple TV. I have a confession to make: I love Carol Sturka. ...
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December 21, 2025
‘SNL’ Was Already Hurting. Bowen Yang’s Exit Puts It in an Even Tougher Spot
Saturday marked comedian Bowen Yang’s final appearance as a regular cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” a move Yang had already confirmed and cemented by tearing up on live TV alongside Ariana Gr...
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December 11, 2025
Paramount+ Thriller ‘Little Disasters’ Hooks Us With Diane Kruger’s Antivaxxer Mom, but Abandons Its Most Interesting Themes: TV Review
It can be disorienting to watch the Paramount+ limited series “Little Disasters” so soon after the surprise breakout success of Peacock’s “All Her Fault,” because the two shows share so many story...
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December 4, 2025
Netflix’s ‘The Abandons’ Stars Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey in a Half-Hearted, Oddly Thin Revisionist Western: TV Review
It’s so common these days for TV shows to bloat themselves beyond all reason — more than three years later, I think I’m still watching the Season 4 finale of “Stranger Things” — that it feels ungra...
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December 3, 2025
Olivia Nuzzi’s Disastrous Memoir Rollout Is a Doomed Attempt to Have It Both Ways
“Reporter” and “subject” are antonyms for a reason: They’re different roles that require different skill sets to excel within. The former Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi is learning this the ...
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November 27, 2025
‘Stranger Things’ Shows Its Age in a Final Season That’s Outgrown Its Core Appeal: TV Review
It’s been three and a half years since the most recent season of “Stranger Things” kicked off in May 2022. The first episode of the hit series’ fifth and final installment — delayed by dual Hollywo...
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