Latest articles by Lili Loofbourow
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Why Lady Dynamite only feels like a simulacrum of a Maria Bamford show
The Explainer If you're a fan of Maria Bamford, there's something just slightly off about her Netflix show. And the reason is clear: It's not really her show.
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How Murder on the Orient Express murders Agatha Christie
The Explainer At least it's pretty?
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Ignore the name. SMILF is a masterpiece.
The Explainer Frankie Shaw — who writes, directs, produces, stars in, and serves as showrunner — is a quadruple threat
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The sexual assault backlash is coming. Here's how to respond.
The Explainer The tide will soon turn against the victims, like it always does
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In defense of Suburbicon
The Explainer George Clooney's new movie is better than you've heard. Here's why.
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The smartest sex scene on television
The Explainer Outlander nailed the big reunion between Jaime and Claire
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The nourishing radicalism of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin
opinion If you're looking for something healthy in a media landscape that sometimes feels poisonous, watch them
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Weinstein and the women who 'benefited'
opinion Sexual assault is never a mutually beneficial business transaction
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Tom Hanks wrote a book. It is not great.
The Explainer In his new compilation of short stories, America's Everyman tries to cosplay as the normal guy he'll never be
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Marshall is not the film you think it is
The Explainer Despite all appearances to the contrary, it is not a biopic of Thurgood Marshall
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The self-aware legacy of Friends
feature How the end of Matt LeBlanc's Episodes closes the door on the Friends era of gossip, fame, and meta-spinoffs
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Meryl Streep 'truthers' are a distraction from America's Harvey Weinstein problem
opinion It's very possible some people didn't know about Harvey Weinstein's decades of harassment allegations. Here's why.
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Blade Runner 2049 is so nostalgic it hurts
The Explainer This is a stunning film that somehow makes you homesick for the original
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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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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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