TD Interview
The new series "Four Died Trying" seeks to expose what—and who—was really behind the sizzling ’60s’ politics of assassination. We sat down with the filmmakers, John Kirby & Libby Handros.
TV Review
Instead of his usual shtick of making a mockery of unsuspecting rubes, Nathan Fielder finds himself in the crosshairs in this scripted Showtime original show.
TV Review
A BBC documentary revisits the life and legacy of Mexico’s iconic artist.
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TV Review
A new Showtime docuseries investigates homicides and disappearances in Indian Country.
Race
There’s more than a little tragic irony in how HBO’s version of the classic comic fumbled so spectacularly on racial politics.
"American Factory" highlights the mismatched workforces to shattering effect at a Chinese auto glass factory in Dayton, Ohio.
"The Loudest Voice," Showtime's in-depth portrait of the creator of Fox News, explains one reason America is in the mess it’s in.
An acclaimed series about the occupation of France is a relentless epic with little use for the familiar images of craven collaborators and selfless resisters.
Ladies, hold onto your bonnets—Margaret Atwood's dystopian horror classic is done justice in Hulu's brutally vivid and uncomfortably relevant 10-part series.
He's filling the seat long commanded by David Letterman, which is a gigantic deal in and of itself, but whether Colbert's version of "The Late Show" gets off the ground ultimately has to do with whether he can fly solo—on his own terms.
In a new documentary by journalist and activist Jose Antonio Vargas, white millennials come face to face with their own tendency to blame minorities for their problems before engaging in critical research to find out the truth.
HBO is known for premium content, and its all-gay show "Looking" was successful enough that it has been renewed for a second season. I'm still not sure what, if anything, happened in the first one.