Latest articles by Lili Loofbourow
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The end of the Friends era of gossip, fame, and meta-spinoffsThe Explainer What the final season of Matt LeBlanc's Episodes means to the world that Friends created
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The sins of Sansa StarkThe Explainer Finally, we begin to understand what Sansa wants — and how she plans to get it
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The Game of Thrones characters need to hang out morefeature This show is at its best when its characters get to just shoot the breeze
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Game of Thrones is performing some serious plot acrobaticsfeature A lot happened in "Eastwatch" — but almost none of it made much sense
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Orphan Black's beautiful, cathartic finalefeature Finally these characters get a little room to process and mourn and find some happiness
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What's with all the staring on Game of Thrones?The Explainer Blink twice, Sansa, if you're mad at your sister
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'The Spoils of War' was one of the best Game of Thrones episodes everfeature It was full of masterful fake-outs, and it was amazing
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HBO's Confederate and the creative bankruptcy of prestige TVopinion Casting a modern-day slave-holding South as an antihero? This is the best they could come up with?
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Game of Thrones has a Starks problemThe Explainer Has this family learned nothing over six seasons?
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The buried tragedy of Tyrion Lannisterfeature One of Game of Thrones' most beloved characters appears to be in trouble
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The most incredible thing about The Incredible Jessica JamesThe Explainer This is not your typical rom-com
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Game of Thrones is finally taking its powerful female characters seriouslyThe Explainer This round of female dominance is understated and matter-of-fact rather than empty and triumphalist
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Game of Thrones just got very, very darkThe 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 televisionThe Explainer On the fabulous faux-normalcy of Issa Rae’s HBO series
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How Dunkirk brings new horrors to the war movieThe Explainer You are never safe in Christopher Nolan's extraordinary new film
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Finally, death matters again on Game of ThronesThe 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 CerseiThe Explainer Finally, the eldest Stark daughter embraces her cunning side
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11 questions for the new season of Game of ThronesThe 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 adolescencefeature 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 toThe 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 originalThe 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 PeaksThe 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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