Latest articles by Lili Loofbourow
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This year's awful Super Bowl ads show America's corporations are freaking out
The Explainer The nation is divided, and advertisers don't know who they're targeting anymore
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High Maintenance gets paranoid
The Explainer We all need The Guy right now
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The Good Place crashes back to Earth
The Explainer The second season finale is the weirdest turn the show has taken yet
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The female price of male pleasure
opinion Let's talk about bad sex
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The award for Fastest Pivot goes to ... the Oscars
The Explainer The biggest and stodgiest awards show in Hollywood just responded rather nimbly to the Golden Globes' missteps
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What in the hell is going on with The Good Place?
The Explainer We need to talk about this dizzying, wonderful show
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The Assassination of Gianni Versace has main character confusion
The Explainer This show's focus quickly turns from Versace to his killer, and the whole thing doesn't quite work
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The sterilization of Condorito
The Explainer How Chile's scrappy comic book lothario got neutered for a global audience
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Alone Together brings millennial isolation to a surprising network
The Explainer Pat Robertson would probably disapprove
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26 TV shows to watch in 2018
The Explainer Looking for something to watch?
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Women staged a shocking revolt at the Golden Globes
The Explainer The sea of black turned out to be a more interesting experiment than anyone suspected
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The Chi is The Wire of 2018
The Explainer Showtime's new series is a jewel. Watch it.
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I hate I Love Lucy
opinion This isn't a comedy. It's a horror show.
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The Rock is the worst thing about the Jumanji remake
opinion This is a film about body-swapping, but Dwayne Johnson can only ever play himself
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Why The Last Jedi has divided Star Wars fans
The Explainer The mixed reaction to the franchise's latest film reminds us there's no such thing as a "true" Star Wars fan
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From Titanic to Downsizing: How American fantasies have shrunk
The Explainer Oh, how we've changed in the last two decades
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The Last Jedi is full of wonderful surprises
The Explainer How the latest Star Wars film expertly injects an old franchise with fresh story
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The best Star Wars movie is The Ewok Adventure
opinion Forget The Last Jedi. Disdain The Empire Strikes Back. It's all about the Ewoks.
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The Disaster Artist is a hilarious tribute to a terrible movie
The Explainer This is James Franco at his best
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Matt Lauer and Garrison Keillor were fired before we knew why. Good.
opinion The "trial by media" has been essential in getting corporations to take sexual harassment as seriously as they claim to
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How The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel re-imagines the stand-up show
The Explainer Amy Sherman-Palladino's new show brilliantly trumps comedy's favorite clichés
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Search Party takes delicious pleasure in millennial guilt
The Explainer What happens when a group of characters whose lifestyle is almost pathologically confessional have to cover something up?
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Justice League: So much potential, so little payoff
The Explainer Despite a stellar cast, this ungainly juggernaut misses the mark
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Back is Peep Show for the age of Brexit
feature British comedy duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb return in a new series that's both serious and unexpectedly funny
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