Latest articles by Lili Loofbourow
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Why the Women's March on Washington was the perfect way to needle Donald Trump
opinion For all that Trump fancies himself a master of spectacle, he lost this round, and he knows it
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Zach Galifiniakis' spectacularly drab America
The Explainer Baskets' portrait of the country is fit for a sad clown
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Why A Series of Unfortunate Events is extreme Netflix
The Explainer This isn't really a TV series. It's a Netflix series. There's a difference.
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The Young Pope has a God problem
The Explainer Despite being a show about the Vatican, HBO's new series can't make up its mind about the divine
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Taboo is so ridiculous
The Explainer So why does it take itself so seriously?
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Sherlock's bizarrely self-aware problem with women
opinion How the series keeps dutifully confessing it has a woman problem — without ever quite fixing it
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Why Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds couldn't stay apart
The Explainer HBO's new documentary Bright Lights highlights the intimacy between the famous mother and daughter
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Why One Day at a Time is TV's most refreshing reboot
The Explainer I didn't know how much I missed '70s comedy until I saw Netflix's new show
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Why Man Seeking Woman's third season is its best so far
feature The show risked becoming boring. Then Lucy showed up.
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Victory for Megyn Kelly
opinion She's leaving Fox News for NBC News. Whether this is good or bad seems quaintly and spectacularly beside the point.
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Why Sarah Paulson stole the show in 2016
The Explainer In The People Vs. OJ Simpson, Paulson's Clark nailed a facet of American power that is often overlooked
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All hail the angry women of 2016
The Explainer Our tolerance for having unpleasant women on our screens has expanded to real pleasure at watching them
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20th Century Women, and the movie as mixtape
The Explainer How Mike Mills' new coming-of-age story challenges narrative convention
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The OA and what's going on with bad philosophical tv
The Explainer Why did so many shows this year try so hard and fail so badly?
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La La Land's clunky dancing
The Explainer We are not the dancers we once were in America, and maybe that's okay
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How Rogue One made me care about the Star Wars story again
feature This movie has heart, which is exactly what the series needed
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In Rogue One, there is no dark or light side
The Explainer Despite being boycotted viciously by Nazis, the movie reportedly takes a complicated view of, well, Nazis
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's dark turn
The Explainer The show's second season turns an already grim love story into total dystopia
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America's parallel universes
opinion How Donald Trump's feelings triumphed over the media's facts
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Westworld finale recap: The two Robert Fords
feature The season finale provides frustratingly few answers to a very long list of questions
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How Lauren Graham rehabilitated the TV mom
The Explainer The Gilmore Girls star has elevated the single mother to a protagonist worth investing in
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The decline and fall of the Gilmore girls
The Explainer The new Gilmore Girls isn't a fairytale. Good.
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Westworld recap: The omnipotent Robert Ford
The Explainer What if the system never breaks down at all?
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How Julian Assange hijacked the American media
The Explainer Assange's understanding of the American media landscape has become very sophisticated. And he used it to great (actually, awful) effect in the 2016 election.
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