Television

When Wired’s Jason Parham published “A People’s History of Black Twitter” in July 2021, it felt monumental. Here was an attempt to comprehensively recount one of the largest, most impactful...

Flanderization is the practice of taking a minor personality trait of a character and exaggerating it to the point they’re entirely one-note. Whether it’s Joey from Friends speaking gibberish and...

Just hours after Eurovision 2024 kicked out one of its most promising competitors, the song contest crowned a new winner: Swiss singer Nemo, with a narrative work on their embrace...

Not now children, mother is mothering. Because God loves women, and so apparently does Lorne Michaels, the great Maya Rudolph returned to host Saturday Night Live’s Mother’s Day episode. The...

Under Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies—who has returned to the show for the first time since 2010, in order to helm its new Disney+ reboot—the British sci-fi classic is...

There’s a certain irony to the Eurovision grand prize going to the country famous for staying neutral, given the many tiffs, clashes, and protests that roiled the famed European song...

The Eurovision Song Contest is no stranger to controversy and mid-competition surprises. The nearly 70-year annual singing event, which spawned a 2020 movie starring Will Farrell and Rachel McAdams, has...

England may have narrowly avoided a war with Spain in last week’s episode of Mary & George. But in Episode 6—the penultimate installment of the deliciously deviant limited series—the country,...

There are fleeting pop culture references throughout the new season of Hacks that seem tailored specifically to make me scream “Ahh!” in delight. They’re sprinkled across the new episodes like...

The latest season of Doctor Who—the BBC show’s debut on Disney+, with its first-ever simultaneous worldwide release—comes with a lofty goal. Can it generate a new audience for this decades-old...