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Highlights

    1. Critic’s Notebook

      Opening Ceremony Misses the Boat

      The Paris Games began with a new look and sparkled with Celine Dion. But the show suffered from bloat similar to TV’s other spectacles.

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      Team U.S.A. was ferried along the Seine.
      Team U.S.A. was ferried along the Seine.
      CreditGabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times
  1. ‘The Decameron’ Review: They Take a Holiday. Death Doesn’t.

    A loose Netflix adaptation turns Boccaccio’s story cycle into a gleeful satire of class war in plague times.

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    Zosia Mamet, left, and Saoirse-Monica Jackson are among the nobles and servants hiding from a plague in “The Decameron.”
    CreditGiulia Parmigiani/Netflix
  2. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap: Soothing the Savage Beasts

    Not everyone gets to have a dragon. But maybe more people get to have dragons than everyone thought?

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    Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) wasn’t so sure at first that Addam’s having a dragon was a good thing.
    CreditTheo Whiteman/HBO
    House of the Dragon
  3. Lisa Kudrow Brings Her Daffy Charm to ‘Time Bandits’

    The actress dialed up the zaniness in the TV reboot of a Terry Gilliam fantasy classic, created by the team behind “What We Do in the Shadows.”

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    “No one’s putting me in a Hobbit movie,” Lisa Kudrow said. But scoring a role in “Time Bandits,” which whisked her off to New Zealand for six months, wasn’t so completely different.
    CreditAmy Harrity for The New York Times
  4. Saying Goodbye to the Messy, Murderous World of ‘Elite’

    A diverse cast of characters and a murder to solve each school year have helped make this teen drama one of Netflix’s longest-running original shows.

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    From left, Chloe (Mirela Balic), Eric (Gleb Abrosimov) and Nico (Ander Puig) are among the high schoolers in “Elite.”
    CreditMatías Uris/Netflix
  5. ‘Time Bandits’ Review: A Flatter Adventure

    An adaptation of the 1981 film on Apple TV+ gives us time-traveling bandits of greater height and lesser amusement.

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    “Time Bandits” updates the 1981 movie. With, from left, Lisa Kudrow, Rune Temte, Kal-El Tuck, Tadhg Murphy, Charlyne Yi and Roger Jean Nsengiyumva.
    CreditApple TV+

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  12. Best of Late Night

    Late Night Breaks Down ‘Kamala Is Brat’

    The Harris campaign’s embrace of the Gen Z term puzzled cable news analysts of a certain age, but Stephen Colbert was glad to clear things up.

    By Trish Bendix

     
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  14. ‘Veep’ Is Re-elected

    After news broke that President Biden would endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee, the internet was rife with clips and memes from the show.

    By Alexis Soloski

     
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  19. Critic’s Notebook

    One Night of TV Canceled a President

    President Biden’s decision to bow out after a disastrous debate confirms that in a TikTok era, TV is still the biggest political arena.

    By James Poniewozik

     
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  25. Are You Ready, Kids?

    Test your knowledge of the beloved Nickelodeon animated series “SpongeBob SquarePants,” which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

    By Maya Phillips and Sean Catangui

     
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  28. The Best of Late Night This Week

    Late night was subdued on Monday, after a gunman tried to kill former President Trump. Later in the week, the hosts discussed the R.N.C., JD Vance and Matt Gaetz.

    By Trish Bendix

     
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  32. An Appraisal

    Bob Newhart Holds Up

    He basically invented the stand-up special in 1960 and continued to be a source of comic brilliance until his final years.

    By Jason Zinoman

     
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