Latest articles by Lili Loofbourow
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Westworld's greatest trick
The Explainer No, it's not a plot puzzle — it's the way this terrific drama tugs at our emotions
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Westworld recap: About that big reveal...
The Explainer After weeks of buildup, Westworld finally gave us a gigantic, juicy, horrifying reveal
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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 recap: Is Ford a robot?
The Explainer What if Arnold is Ford's father, who built him as a mechanical robot, not the "real boy" Ford wants to be?
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What happens when Jane the Virgin isn't a virgin?
feature Her deflowering represents a massive upheaval of the show's title
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In Frantumaglia, Elena Ferrante exquisitely chronicles her own self-erasure
feature "Forget about authors, then: Love — if it's worthwhile — what they write."
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Megyn Kelly and the ascendance of conservative women
opinion What's made Kelly shine is her ability to remain an unflappable and even scornful authority when confronted with increasingly hysterical Republican men
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The most meta Westworld episode yet
The Explainer It was only a matter of time before the series turned — however briefly — into the HBO show many suspected it of being
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I have no idea what's going on in the new Dirk Gently TV show — and I like it
feature BBC America's adaptation is vastly different from the books, but that's ok
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Westworld recap: Power bellies and secret robots
The Explainer What's tricky about Westworld the show is what's tricky within the park itself: separating the intended storylines from the "mistakes"
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Welcome to Trumplandia, where feelings trump facts
opinion In Donald's world, the truth is open to interpretation
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How the web series is redefining TV
The Explainer Instead of tight episodes with perfect arcs, web series create peculiar and extremely specific moods. They conjure up constellations of feeling.
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Westworld recap: The robots hack the system
feature What happens when a machine overwrites its human-designed programming?
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HBO's Divorce skillfully captures the painful absurdities of a failed marriage
The Explainer What Divorce gets right about how marriages go wrong
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How HBO's Westworld indicts its own viewers
The Explainer The show seizes on our impulse to glut ourselves on pleasure, and it isn't nice about it. It makes us seem cheap and unimaginative and horrible.
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The Trump Glossary
feature Meflection, Midasing, Cookie-Grubbing, and more of Trump's go-to rhetorical moves
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The outing of Elena Ferrante and the power of naming
opinion She is one of our greatest living writers. And for 25 years, she has been publishing under a name that is not her own. Until some man outed her.
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HBO's Westworld will make you question your own humanity
feature The show takes robots to a disturbing new level
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The Trump Glossary
opinion Gish Galloping, Shkreling, Meefing, Cookie-Grubbing, and more of Trump's go-to rhetorical moves
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Brangelina matters
opinion On the rise and fall of America's premiere celebrity couple
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Prince Georging, Meflection, and Gobbing: A brief guide to Trump's rhetorical tricks
opinion You have to slow down and name what Trump is doing instead of reacting to it. Otherwise it might work on you.
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In Transparent season 3, a fragile family gropes for a new identity
feature The Pfeffermans are stripped of old labels, so they have to create new ones
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Where Mr. Robot went wrong
The Explainer Everything is a paranoid invitation to code-crack — at the expense of character interaction, narrative momentum, and meaningful stakes
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Why you should binge-watch Murder, She Wrote
feature Jessica Fletcher is not just the star of your grandmother's favorite show. She is a phenomenon.
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