The Broken Promise of Streaming
They offered us the world, and instead commercials are back
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TELEVISION
Watch ‘Wrestlers’ and You Will Love Your Life Forever
Netflix documentary series is TV in all its decadent glory
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Publish and Perish
A successful Hulu adaptation of Zakiya Dailia Harris’s publishing-industry satire/thriller ‘The Other Black Girl’
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Why ‘Winning Time’ Lost
From personal experience, it’s hard to make a TV show about basketball
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The Secret Formula of ‘One Piece’
Live-action manga adaptation has a chance to be Netflix’s tentpole franchise for a decade
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Drew Barrymore Backs Off
Her talk show will not resume as originally intended, as the host decides to honor the Hollywood strikes
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What They Are Watching
The ultimate guide to the hottest streaming series in countries far from yours
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The Not-So Wonderful World of Dizi
Hugely popular Turkish soap operas feature not much sex, but plenty of violence against women
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Drew Barrymore Betrays the Unions
Talk-show host crosses the pickets in the first volley of what looks to be a long, contentious, content-free fall TV season
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Amazon Doesn’t Reinvent the ‘Wheel’
The Wheel of Time is back for a disappointedly but predictably middling Season 2
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Was ‘Special Ops: Lioness’ Worth Losing ‘Yellowstone’s’ John Dutton?
This summer’s off-set drama indicates that maybe ‘Yellowstone’ was always less than the sum of its parts
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‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Still Has Plenty of Bite
Season 5 furthers its reputation as TV’s best sitcom
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Everything That’s Streaming in September 2023
A seasonal lull, plus Hollywood strikes, but there are still plenty of new choices
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Norse By Norsemen
The complete ‘Ragnarok,’ a non-Marvel mythology show that’s actually from Norway
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The Strange Failure of ‘Strange Planet’
What could go wrong with a Dan Harmon-made TV adaptation of a popular webcomic? Everything, apparently.
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