Latest articles by Lili Loofbourow
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Game of Thrones just got very, very dark
The Explainer The show's underexposed shots are making viewers squint. But there's probably a strategic reason for that.
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Insecure is one of the most interesting shows on television
The Explainer On the fabulous faux-normalcy of Issa Rae’s HBO series
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How Dunkirk brings new horrors to the war movie
The Explainer You are never safe in Christopher Nolan's extraordinary new film
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Finally, death matters again on Game of Thrones
The Explainer In the last few seasons, death has become a little too cheap. "Dragonstone" lets us mourn.
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Game of Thrones season 7 premiere: What Sansa learned from Cersei
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11 questions for the new season of Game of Thrones
The Explainer As the show departed from G.R.R. Martin's books, it solved its plot issues by getting increasingly coy. That has created all sorts of problems for season seven.
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Spider-Man: Homecoming is a whooping love letter to adolescence
feature Why I'm so glad Spider-Man: Homecoming made Peter Parker young again
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Why Frasier is the best show to sleep to
The Explainer That inky swamp of panic you live in? Banished by Kelsey Grammer's soothing voice and plush neuroses.
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How Sophia Coppola's The Beguiled castrates the original
The Explainer In turning a cheesy sexscapade into a gory Jane Austen novel, Coppola surgically removes the most provocative material
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Let's talk about the crazy score of the new Twin Peaks
The Explainer The revival sounds very different from the original. Here's why.
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Can Silicon Valley survive without Erhlich Bachman?
The Explainer I already miss Bachmanity
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Can Orphan Black escape its tangled morality?
The Explainer If the series has lost its moral center, it's a stroke of genius to use Alison — the show's resident soccer mom — to find it
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Netflix's GLOW is grimy and great
The Explainer Out on Friday, the half-hour comedy about the founding of TV's Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling is a campy delight
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Why Bill Cosby walked free
opinion The crux of this case was credibility. And we're awash in templates that hold women to absurd standards of behavior — and dismiss them as dishonest when they fail.
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We should care more about the Bill Cosby trial. Why don't we?
The Explainer How the bombshell story of the fall of America's Dad became an afterthought
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46 TV shows to watch in 2017
The Explainer Looking for something to watch? Let The Week be your guide.
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Why is TV awash in afterlives, hells, and purgatories?
The Explainer The supernatural is taking over television
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How Orange is the New Black pulls off its riskiest season yet
The Explainer What is a prison when the inmates are in charge?
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The Comey testimony was riveting reality TV
The Explainer This tabloidy government hearing was a sneaky crash course in how things are and how they're supposed to be
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Why Wonder Woman is the new Indiana Jones
feature More than a superhero movie, this is an adventure film, and a really, really good one
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Why The Leftovers' gently suicidal mood is perfect for this age of American decline
opinion What The Leftovers knows about our secret desire to abdicate power
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The extraordinary ordinariness of The Americans finale
The Explainer Tick tick ... tick tick ... tick tick ... tick tick ... tick tick ... Tune in next season for the boom! (Maybe.)
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Bless your heart, House of Cards
The Explainer Remember when House of Cards was a stylish dystopian warning? Trump has made it a naively sunny period piece.
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The Baywatch movie isn't sexy
The Explainer These bodies are almost too perfect to be real
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