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  1. close read
    Poker Face Toes the Thin Blue LineIs it possible to make a show about crime and punishment that isn’t copaganda? That’s a mystery season one couldn’t quite solve.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  2. exit interview
    Rian Johnson Wants Poker Face to Break Expectations Without Breaking FormThe creator of Peacock’s howdunit discusses the virtues of episodic structure and the challenges of keeping it satisfying week after week.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  3. anniversaries
    The Chicken and the BabyForty years ago this week, M*A*S*H signed off with an emotional jab at network TV’s commitment to sanitizing the ugly stuff.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  4. chat room
    1923’s Brandon Sklenar Doesn’t See How Things Could Get Worse for Spencer Dutton“I’m thinking, Well, how can it be more difficult than this? It just got the most difficult. He’s lost everything at this point — everything.”
    By Amanda Whiting
  5. chat room
    All Creatures’s Samuel West Is Still Finding New Depths to Siegfried“These things had always been unspoken, then as I said the words, I realized that they were true.”
    By Sophie Brookover
  6. year in culture 2022
    This Year’s TV Female Friendships Were KillerIn their final seasons, Dead to Me and Kevin Can F*** Himself made misandry look a lot like love.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  7. whodunnit
    The White Lotus Kill or Be Killed Report: Guilt TripVacation is over, and it’s time to determine who is most culpable for the misery, mayhem, and murder(s) that went down in Sicily.
    By Jessica M. Goldstein
  8. finales
    The White Lotus’s Watery EndThe season finale plunges into the unknowable depths of Mike White’s favorite symbol.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  9. close read
    Luthen Rael Embodies Andor’s Gray SideIn his similarities to Star Wars’ biggest villain, Stellan Skarsgård’s character challenges what we expect and accept from the franchise’s good guys.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  10. finales
    Andor Radicalized the Hero’s JourneyTony Gilroy’s prequel series took the world of Star Wars seriously, and in the process found new life within an old text.
    By Nicholas Quah
  11. finales
    The Good Fight Carries OnAfter six seasons spent toying with escapism, the frequently surreal legal drama ends with its feet on the ground.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  12. close read
    Serena’s Journey Has Become the Heart of The Handmaid’s TaleSeason five raises a loaded question: Is it possible for oppressors to see the error of their ways?
    By Jen Chaney
  13. emergency discussion
    Where Does For All Mankind Go From Here?We have some humble suggestions/demands for season four.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk and Roxana Hadadi
  14. chat room
    The Patient’s Linda Emond on Coming to Terms With Mothering a Killer“There’s a certain martyrdom for what she went through. That’s how she made sense of it: She saved her son and stood by him.”
    By Ben Rosenstock
  15. exit interview
    ‘There Are a Fairly Limited Number of Ways This Could End’The Patient’s creators, Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, unpack that brutal series finale.
    By Jen Chaney
  16. finales
    A Few Questions for That House of the Dragon FinaleExposition, dragons, and more excruciating childbirth leaves us with the promise of bigger and bloodier things to come.
    By Jen Chaney, Roxana Hadadi, and Kathryn VanArendonk
  17. easter eggs
    Breaking Down the She-Hulk Finale’s Most Meta Easter EggsThe season ends by smashing the fourth wall and winking hard at its MCU overlords.
    By Savannah Salazar
  18. close read
    The Sax Man’s Tribute to Reservation Dogs’ Lost BoyThe season-two finale’s closing Tim Cappello performance is both a sly wink and a poignant eulogy.
    By Jen Chaney
  19. finales
    Reservation Dogs Grew Up With the Help of Its Grown-upsIn learning from their elders this season, the Rez Dogs found themselves and refound each other.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  20. close read
    Harley Quinn Grows UpThe animated series’s third season excavated some deep emotional terrain, at the expense of its gonzo humor.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  21. endings
    C’mon, Industry, Whisper Sweet Nothings to MeThe HBO series wields financial jargon like a magic spell. In its second-season finale, Harper’s sorcery runs out.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  22. spoilers
    Industry’s Ken Leung on Eric’s Moment of Decision“Even though you don’t see me make that choice, you see how I feel about it. From that you can intuit the making of the choice.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  23. lingering questions
    All Our Lingering Questions After the Industry Season 2 FinaleStarting with: Why did Eric do … that?
    By Jason P. Frank
  24. close read
    Only Murders in the Building Is Caught Between Its Big Heart and Bigger IdeasWhen faced with a genuine critique of true-crime culture in season two, the Hulu series took the easy way out.
    By Nicholas Quah
  25. lingering questions
    Hey, What Happened to These Only Murders in the Building Plotlines?A certain number of red herrings is understandable, but these dangling threads could have used more attention.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  26. chat room
    PLL: Original Sin’s Bailee Madison Knew Who ‘A’ Was“I had a gut instinct.”
    By Wolfgang Ruth
  27. alternate endings
    Better Call Saul Could Have Ended Very DifferentlyJesse in prison, Gene in color, and the other possibilities considered, sincerely and in jest, for the end of this decade-and-a-half-spanning saga.
    By Ben Rosenstock
  28. spoilers
    Let’s Talk About the End of Better Call SaulAs it turns out, the Breaking Bad prequel turned sequel is also TV’s best time-travel show.
    By Jen Chaney
  29. lingering questions
    Who Actually Died in That Westworld Finale?Are we being tricked? Possibly.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  30. finales
    Some Pointed Questions for The BoysAn attempt to untangle what season three was trying to say about our political system and what it could mean for future seasons.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  31. finales
    Stranger Things Just Wouldn’t Stop Running Up That Damn Hill The fourth season of the Netflix series got stuck on repeat.
    By Jen Chaney
  32. reset point
    7 Big Questions About That Umbrella Academy EndingThe Hargreeves siblings may be cool with simply accepting this new reality, but the rest of us have some follow-ups.
    By Maggie Fremont
  33. finales
    Barry Doesn’t Let Us Turn AwayA trio of carefully crafted scenes in the season finale compels us to confront the consequences of killing.
    By Jen Chaney
  34. finales
    Under the Banner of Heaven Was No MysteryIt was the patriarchy all along.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  35. finales
    We Own This City Ends in an Echo ChamberAn unnerving revisitation of the miniseries’ opening speech drives home its guiding thesis with jarring clarity.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  36. overnights
    Grey’s Anatomy Season-Finale Recap: Hail to the ChiefGrey’s makes the most of its 400-episode history with a finale that resets the game while paying homage to the past in some moving ways.
    By Maggie Fremont
  37. timelines
    Everything That Happened on This Is Us in Chronological OrderSix seasons of twisty family drama, untwisted.
    By Maggie Fremont
  38. close read
    The Winds Have Shifted for Jimmy and Kim on Better Call SaulVisual cues and callbacks illuminate the dark implications of that shocking ending.
    By Jen Chaney
  39. spoilers
    Ozark’s Finale Gave Us Shock Without SubstanceThe Netflix thriller’s final moments are emblematic of what often made the show more frustrating than fulfilling.
    By Jen Chaney
  40. finales
    Pamela Adlon Looks on the Bright Side of Better Things’ EndThe creator-star on why she ended her show with a direct-to-camera Monty Python song and how it feels to end such a deeply autobiographical series.
    By Jen Chaney
  41. exit review
    Black-ish Was No Televised RevolutionThe show always aimed for the third rail, but it played it safe more often than not.
    By Craig Jenkins
  42. spoilers
    Anatomy of a Scandal’s Final Line Achieves GreatnessGreatness in the category of ‘Most Absurd Ending.’
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  43. delayed gratification
    Severance Earned Its Cliffhanger EndingIt’s understandable to feel resentful of the abrupt denial of closure. It’s also the point.
    By Jen Chaney
  44. chat room
    Severance’s Britt Lower on Helly’s ‘Worst Nightmare’“I have seen the enemy, and it is me.”
    By Roxana Hadadi
  45. thrilling content
    Brace Yourself for The Gilded Age Finale’s Most Intense MomentsZut alors! Le French chef is a fraud!
    By Jackson McHenry
  46. raised by wolves
    We Simply Must Discuss GrandmotherAll veil — er, all hail Raised By Wolves’ even more ominous version of Mother.
    By Jackson McHenry
  47. lingering questions
    All the Things We’re Still Waiting for Euphoria to AddressAn unevenly paced season full of dangerous and dramatic moments ended by letting several subplots disappear into the ether.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  48. let’s talk about it
    In the Euphoria Finale, Real Life and Our Life CollideLexi’s play is key to everything.
    By Jen Chaney
  49. exit interview
    Danny McBride Wants to Give You ClosureThe man behind The Righteous Gemstones talks season two, cliffhangers, and what led the Gemstone family astray.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  50. finales
    Hey! Arthur’s Final Episode Airs Tonight on PBSThis headline won’t stop the show from ending because I can’t read.
    By Alejandra Gularte
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