The 30 Best TV Shows of 2022
From streaming to cable to regular broadcast, there’s an overwhelming abundance of quality television this year. But for our money,...
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Television
HBO’s absurdist horror-comedy Los Espookys is the funniest (and weirdest) show you’re not watching
Seeing as it’s Halloween season, there seems to be an abundance of horror-centric shows on television right now. But the...
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A24’s artful, auteur-driven TV shows are starting to be just as interesting as their films
Although frequently overshadowed by the arthouse distributor’s older, more prestigious film division, A24‘s burgeoning television counterpart is quietly on its way to becoming a force in its own right. First launched in 2014, the company’s small-screen division began with a...
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Nathan Fielder helps people practice for real life in his surreal docu-comedy The Rehearsal
Over the past decade, cringe comedian Nathan Fielder has satirized the “reality television” formula to hilarious heights of absurdism. From...
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Only Murders in the Building continues to be a hilariously meta satire of true crime podcasts
The freshman season of Only Murders in the Building unexpectedly turned out to be one of the breakout streaming hits...
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Hacks is a darkly hilarious love letter to the pain and toil of stand-up comedy
Hacks was far and away the best new show of 2021. The HBO dramedy’s freshman season navigated the burgeoning mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), a legendary but washed-up stand-up comedian, and an entitled millennial comedy writer named...
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The Wire creator David Simon revisits Baltimore police corruption in We Own This City
David Simon is the greatest television storyteller of all-time. While his masterful series have historically been underseen and undervalued, his...
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The 40 Best TV Shows of 2021
From streaming to cable to regular broadcast, there’s an overwhelming abundance of quality television this year. But for our money,...
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The Many Saints of Newark briefly recaptures the greatness of The Sopranos
From Firefly’s Serenity to The X-Files, big screen continuations of small screen series are nothing new. Even in recent years, we’ve been treated to notable feature film revivals of revered shows in the form of Downton Abbey, El Camino: A...
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Foundation of Dune: How Frank Herbert was inspired by Isaac Asimov
Over the next two months, two classic masterpieces of science fiction literature – Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Frank Herbert’s Dune...
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