Latest articles by Lili Loofbourow
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Atlanta is the awkward rapper show you never knew you wanted
The Explainer Donald Glover's new series is going to be huge
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How The Night Of lost perspective
The Explainer What began as a memorable character drama ended up a muddle of empty symbols
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6 heartbreaking moments from Amy Schumer's new book
The Explainer The book isn't all jokes. In fact, it contains a surprising amount of difficult material, thoughtfully rendered.
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How to explain the Leslie Jones hack to a 7-year-old
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How dead letters became the love poems of our time
feature On letters and love, creatives and creeps
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Why Eve Babitz played naked chess with Marcel Duchamp
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What I'll miss about Gawker
feature A tribute to the website everyone read and loved to hate
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This movie about black female mathematicians looks glorious
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Amy Schumer's new book is under assault from a brigade of trolls
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This is the summer of Craig Robinson
feature The man most people know as Darryl Philbin from The Office suddenly seems to be everywhere, and he deserves to be
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What killed The Nightly Show?
feature A post-mortem on what the Comedy Central show got right, and where it went very wrong
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Mr. Robot isn't a TV show anymore. It's a video game.
The Explainer And if you look closely, you'll find it is packed full of fascinating Easter eggs for fans to discover
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HBO's The Night Of has lost its way
opinion The show seemed so promising. But with just three episodes left, it's having an identity crisis.
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Someone wrote a Seinfeld script for 9/11 — and it's weirdly perfect
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The new film Little Men is a painfully accurate portrait of childhood friendship
feature Being a kid is weird, and Ira Sachs' new movie captures this weirdness impeccably
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The staggering toxicity of Vice Principals
The Explainer Whether it intends to or not, HBO's new comedy whitewashes racism
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The Get Down is quintessential Baz Luhrmann, and it's brilliant
feature The familiar hallmarks of Luhrmann's cinematic brand are all there: dance, music, and a poet-hero in love
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Yes, Stranger Things is nostalgic. But it's also just a really good show.
feature There's no doubt Netflix's new thriller is an homage to '80s sci-fi cinema, but that's just one small part of what makes it so great
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How first-time novelist Lindsay Hatton expertly trolled John Steinbeck
The Explainer The Monterey Bay author just fought one of America's most acclaimed authors — and won
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The lunatic brilliance of Bojack Horseman
The Explainer How a tragicomic cartoon about a talking horse became one of the most fascinating shows on TV
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How The Night Of upends everything you think you know about police and prison
The Explainer The effect is interestingly eerie
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Ghostbusters' nostalgia problem
feature The original Ghostbusters shaped many a childhood in ways the new film simply cannot. And that's ok.
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Why you should binge-watch Murder, She Wrote
The Explainer Jessica Fletcher is not just the star of your grandmother's favorite show. She is a phenomenon.
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Is Mr. Robot channeling Psycho?
feature In its second season, the show seems to be borrowing portentously from Hitchcock's 1960s horror thriller
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