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In its finale, The Good Lord Bird indicts the broader “polite” society, those who will only be driven to care about injustice when it involves someone who looks like them. → Read More
The penultimate episode of Good Lord Bird covers the actual Harpers Ferry raid, but after a season spent building to the thing everyone knows about John Brown, it’s a bit of a letdown. → Read More
Daveed Diggs returns as Frederick Douglass in "Hiving The Bees," a fun, energetic episode of The Good Lord Bird. → Read More
Harriet Tubman comes to The Good Lord Bird in a languid midseason episode. But at least Ethan Hawke is still firing on all cylinders as John Brown. → Read More
Daveed Diggs brings his talent for playing self-important historical tomcats to The Good Lord Bird. → Read More
Ethan Hawke's John Brown is mostly absent from this episode of The Good Lord Bird, which is maybe important to establish Onion as the protagonist of the show but also feels a bit premature. → Read More
The Good Lord Bird, based on James McBride’s 2013 novel, is largely a character study of Brown, a man willing to use any and all tools at his disposal in order to achieve his goal: the abolition of slavery in America. → Read More
Inside the long and expensive business of American mythmaking. → Read More
The final episode of The New Pope is great, and not just because it contains something like a third of the season’s plot. → Read More
From its mid-season stretch of conniving, plotting, and despair, The New Pope has risen from the dead. For most of the episode, we follow a reawakened Lenny Belardo as he emerges from his year-long coma, readjusts to the world, and has some chill hang sessions with the doctor who had been treating him. It is absolutely delightful, and one of the best episodes of either Pope series. Where much of… → Read More
The papacy is, generally speaking, seen as a leadership role. The pope gives guidance to the world’s Catholics, directing their moral and spiritual energies, and using their God-given wisdom to speak to the faithful—and to the rest of the Church. But in The Young Pope, and especially now in The New Pope, the papacy appears to be a rough equivalent to a Catholic’s bar mitzvah: a time for a young… → Read More
In HBO's 'The Young Pope' followup, holiness is just another form of influence. How can you not stan? → Read More
Marvel's Runaways has been at its best, and remains at its best, when it’s able to slow down and fully explore the intersection of teen drama and superhero show. → Read More
Playing on the Pandemic app more closely resembles an experiment conducted with the rules of the game — it can act as a useful way to learn about the game → Read More
Games like this one attempt to have players reckon with social inequalities. But there’s a fine line between teaching and pandering. → Read More
Check out the new title sequence for Steven Universe's sixth season, Steven Universe: Future. → Read More
A woman came up with the idea for 'Monopoly,' but a man took credit and profited from it. → Read More
In a world where many movies and TV shows are available on demand, studios and streaming services still go to great lengths to accommodate government censorship—and citizens will go further to sneak past them. → Read More
First, get earnest. Second, get expressionist. Finally, get corny. → Read More
As long as we've had screens, magicians have used them to share their work, and audiences have questioned what they're seeing. → Read More