Latest articles by Lili Loofbourow
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The Good Place is the new Arrested Development
The Explainer One of the greatest, funniest pieces of TV meta-criticism ever might finally have a worthy successor
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How Curb Your Enthusiasm became comfort food
The Explainer It's still funny. But it's almost aggressively unhip.
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Why The Deuce never climaxes
The Explainer Formally as well as cinematically, the HBO series is unporn
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Did Donald Trump defeat Megyn Kelly?
The Explainer On her new NBC show, Kelly delivers exactly what Trump wants: total, unconditional surrender
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Gay then vs. gay now: Will and Grace clashes with a world it helped change
The Explainer Where the revival gets vital and interesting is when it deals — with honesty and humor — with the passage of time and the show's own place in it
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Transparent went to the Middle East and all I got was a heart-breaking show about selfishness
The Explainer Not even a trip to Israel will change the Pfeffermans
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How Better Things got too mean
The Explainer In season two, the FX show gets carried away with unlikability
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The second season of Tig Notaro's One Mississippi is surprisingly hopeful
The Explainer The show comes out of the darkness and into the light
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Why Frasier is the best show to sleep to
feature That inky swamp of panic you live in? Banished by Kelsey Grammer's soothing voice and plush neuroses.
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23 questions for the final season of Game of Thrones
The Explainer Here's hoping the show can recover some of its previous glory for its last and most exciting act
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Why Game of Thrones has become so incoherent
The Explainer This show is over-relying on offscreen conversations to explain onscreen behavior — to devastating effects
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The Game of Thrones Book of the Dead
The Explainer Here's (nearly) every single Game of Thrones death. You probably forgot about most of them.
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Game of Thrones has become a terrible show
opinion The people making this show literally don't care about the details anymore
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The end of the Friends era of gossip, fame, and meta-spinoffs
The Explainer What the final season of Matt LeBlanc's Episodes means to the world that Friends created
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The sins of Sansa Stark
The Explainer Finally, we begin to understand what Sansa wants — and how she plans to get it
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The Game of Thrones characters need to hang out more
feature This show is at its best when its characters get to just shoot the breeze
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Game of Thrones is performing some serious plot acrobatics
feature A lot happened in "Eastwatch" — but almost none of it made much sense
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Orphan Black's beautiful, cathartic finale
feature Finally these characters get a little room to process and mourn and find some happiness
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What's with all the staring on Game of Thrones?
The Explainer Blink twice, Sansa, if you're mad at your sister
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'The Spoils of War' was one of the best Game of Thrones episodes ever
feature It was full of masterful fake-outs, and it was amazing
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HBO's Confederate and the creative bankruptcy of prestige TV
opinion Casting a modern-day slave-holding South as an antihero? This is the best they could come up with?
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Game of Thrones has a Starks problem
The Explainer Has this family learned nothing over six seasons?
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The buried tragedy of Tyrion Lannister
feature One of Game of Thrones' most beloved characters appears to be in trouble
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The most incredible thing about The Incredible Jessica James
The Explainer This is not your typical rom-com
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