Latest articles by Lili Loofbourow
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The damned Girls
The Explainer Lena Dunham's series begins its final — and most Sisyphean — season
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Legion's big mystery
The Explainer Just how crazy is the protagonist of FX's new Marvel Universe show?
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Sherlock's bizarrely self-aware problem with women
feature How the series keeps dutifully confessing it has a woman problem — without ever quite fixing it
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Mary Tyler Moore's complicated legacy
The Explainer There's no question that Moore was crucial to the mainstreaming of feminism. But was she herself a feminist?
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The Oscars are finally taking black art seriously
opinion It's about time!
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Zach Galifiniakis' spectacularly drab America
The Explainer Baskets' portrait of the country is fit for a sad clown
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Why A Series of Unfortunate Events is extreme Netflix
The Explainer This isn't really a TV series. It's a Netflix series. There's a difference.
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The Young Pope has a God problem
The Explainer Despite being a show about the Vatican, HBO's new series can't make up its mind about the divine
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Taboo is so ridiculous
The Explainer So why does it take itself so seriously?
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Sherlock's bizarrely self-aware problem with women
opinion How the series keeps dutifully confessing it has a woman problem — without ever quite fixing it
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Why Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds couldn't stay apart
The Explainer HBO's new documentary Bright Lights highlights the intimacy between the famous mother and daughter
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Why One Day at a Time is TV's most refreshing reboot
The Explainer I didn't know how much I missed '70s comedy until I saw Netflix's new show
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Why Man Seeking Woman's third season is its best so far
feature The show risked becoming boring. Then Lucy showed up.
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Victory for Megyn Kelly
opinion She's leaving Fox News for NBC News. Whether this is good or bad seems quaintly and spectacularly beside the point.
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Why Sarah Paulson stole the show in 2016
The Explainer In The People Vs. OJ Simpson, Paulson's Clark nailed a facet of American power that is often overlooked
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All hail the angry women of 2016
The Explainer Our tolerance for having unpleasant women on our screens has expanded to real pleasure at watching them
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20th Century Women, and the movie as mixtape
The Explainer How Mike Mills' new coming-of-age story challenges narrative convention
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The OA and what's going on with bad philosophical tv
The Explainer Why did so many shows this year try so hard and fail so badly?
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La La Land's clunky dancing
The Explainer We are not the dancers we once were in America, and maybe that's okay
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How Rogue One made me care about the Star Wars story again
feature This movie has heart, which is exactly what the series needed
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In Rogue One, there is no dark or light side
The Explainer Despite being boycotted viciously by Nazis, the movie reportedly takes a complicated view of, well, Nazis
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's dark turn
The Explainer The show's second season turns an already grim love story into total dystopia
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Westworld finale recap: The two Robert Fords
feature The season finale provides frustratingly few answers to a very long list of questions
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How Lauren Graham rehabilitated the TV mom
The Explainer The Gilmore Girls star has elevated the single mother to a protagonist worth investing in
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