Latest articles by Lili Loofbourow
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The camera is getting sneakier on The Americans
The Explainer We've seen too much
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Louis CK's new special is called 2017. So why does it feel so old?
The Explainer Why the schlubby comedy innovator's first stand-up act in the age of Trump falls flat
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The Americans is failing its sons
The Explainer A recap of "Lotus," the fifth episode of The Americans' fifth season
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How S-Town is upending the art of podcasting
feature The show is more than a podcast. It's a brilliant piece of creative nonfiction.
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What other shows can learn from Big Little Lies' spectacular finale
feature What a mind-shattering ending
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Big Little Lies turns satire on the viewer — and the results are terrific
feature These characters are more than just "Real Housewives"
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I have questions for Legion. Lots and lots of questions.
The Explainer Does anyone know what's actually happening on this show?
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Regarding Henry — and The Americans' other lost threads
The Explainer A recap of season 5, episode 4: "What's the matter with Kansas?"
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The inexplicable horrors of Life
The Explainer This horror movie makes no sense. It's still really scary.
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Grace and Frankie needs a crisis
The Explainer Now that the heroines seem to be done recovering from their respective divorces, the Netflix series has a problem
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Can The Americans tie up its loose ends?
The Explainer Last's night "The Midges" offers good reason to think the show can and will
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The ballad of Hannah and Adam
The Explainer Girls has thrived in the gray areas. Will it finish in black and white?
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Let's talk about the weird psychosexual energy in Beauty and the Beast
The Explainer This movie is weird. Really, really weird.
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The Americans has spent years whispering. Now it's starting to shout. That's a good thing.
The Explainer One of the quietest shows on television is really starting to make noise
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What The Idiot teaches us about the failures of language
The Explainer Reflections on Elif Batuman's brilliant mess of a novel
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How The Sense of an Ending intelligently veers from the book
The Explainer How's this for a Hollywood twist? The movie ditches the big reveal and gives depth to the supporting characters.
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The Americans recap: You are what you eat
The Explainer The season five premiere of the FX series isn't about obligations, self-fulfillment, or even lies. It's about hunger.
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The tangled tale of two Italian literary giants
The Explainer This is the story of two Italian authors writing back-and-forth novels about a broken family
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How Feud captures the delicious, malicious world of Hollywood gossip
feature FX's new anthology series is an exquisite ode to the tabloids
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The upside of the Academy Awards' embarrassing Best Picture blunder
The Explainer By helping each other through a public relations disaster, Moonlight and La La Land vanquished the rivalry into which they'd been forced
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The Oscars used to be about art. Now they're about gratuitous luxury, and it's gross.
opinion The red carpet has killed the Oscars
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Why Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds couldn't stay apart
feature HBO's documentary Bright Lights highlights the intimacy between the famous mother and daughter
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It's time to retire the Oscars' 'Best Picture'
opinion This vaunted category is absurdly blunt and meaninglessly broad
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The empty military pornography of The Great Wall
The Explainer If you want pageantry and spectacle, The Great Wall delivers. Just don't expect it to mean much.
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