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The Crown abdicates without a successor
My viewing experience recapitulated a running theme of the show: the question, Why are we doing this?
I can’t take my eyes off Jean Smart
In Hacks and Mare of Easttown, it’s thrilling to watch an aging woman on screen.
Can a fleabag clean up her act?
The sarcastic and sacrilegious two-season show has a moral center.
In Russian Doll, Nadia and Alan are dying to learn how to live
Nadia denies that her journey is about morality, but it is.
Writing about faith in the golden age of television
“If you want to make a room full of liberal, compassionate people turn on you, talk about God in an unironic way.”
Amy Frykholm interviews Joy Gregory
What The Americans teaches about deception and relationships
By the end of the final season, the series has shown the best and worst of our homeland—and spies with souls.
Slow Burn and Babylon Berlin offer historical lenses on our troubling present
A podcast about Watergate and a TV drama about Weimar Germany remind us that we don't know how our own story will end.
Black Mirror shows us ourselves, being terrible and constantly getting better at it
The tech-focused series provides abundant fuel for ethical and theological debate.
A Bad Moms Christmas and Daddy's Home 2 are bad movies
Films about struggling moms and toxic masculinity should challenge traditional gender roles, not applaud them.
The Good Place, a prime-time sitcom full of ethical theory
The comedy series doesn’t feel didactic—despite the fact that it features actual moral philosophy lessons.
The Leftovers and the end of meaning
In three seasons, the show offered many different perspectives on how faith is made, formed, and lost.
One Day at a Time and the many ways to be Latina
The sitcom offers a complex and funny look at ethnicity, gender, and faith.
Rectify is unlike any series I've watched. Its slow burn reveals the viewer as well as the characters in the story.
Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street uses a combination of magic and realism that depicts real life far better than any other family television show I've seen.