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Television
The New Episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale Suggest It Should Have Ended After Its First SeasonBut it’s still as good as ever at making you feel bad.
Television
Killing Eve Makes Murder Dangerously FunPhoebe Waller-Bridge’s BBC America series tracks the hunt for a gleeful contract killer, but underestimate her, and it, at your peril.
The Goods
I Tried to Re-Create That Miraculous Needle-Threading Video From Twitter and Guess What: It’s Not So Miraculous
Television
The New Roseanne Proves It’s Still the Ultimate White, Working-Class SitcomBut what that means, two decades later, is much more complicated.
Television
The Musical Drama Rise Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps BackIt’s not blind, but it can’t quite see.
Brow Beat
The 2018 Academy Awards Made Unexciting HistoryThe most unpredictable Oscars in years somehow ended up the least surprising.
Life
“We Had Four Kids, Then We Went to Alaska, and Darned if We Didn’t Come Back With Another One”Meet Elva P. Higgins, age 96, from eastern Kansas.
Television
UnReal Gets Back in the SaddleAfter a disastrous second season, the Bachelor satire recovers in its third.
Five-ring Circus
Why Does Mike Tirico Exist?NBC’s Olympics anchor has done nothing memorable in his first week on the job. The network must be thrilled.
Television
Queer Eye Returns, Aiming for Acceptance, Not Just ToleranceThe new Fab Five visit Trump country in Netflix’s reboot.
Television
The Long Shadow of ScandalOver seven seasons, the show sometimes lost the (insanely complicated) plot, but it changed TV for good.
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “Neo-Maxi-Zoom-Dweebie” EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on Roseanne, Kacey Musgraves, and The Breakfast Club.
Television
Back to the ShoreJersey Shore Family Vacation finds reality stars trying to mature without changing their bankable personas.
Television
Roseanne Is More Than Just Its PoliticsLike most good art, it cannot be reduced to a single message.
Television
Well-Funded FearWealth makes people fascinating targets in a miniseries about the John Paul Getty III kidnapping.
Brow Beat
The Bachelor Finale Achieved New Heights in the Art of Commodifying SufferingThe show brought a cruel and unusual new innovation to the field of amazingly awful television.
Television
Atlanta Isn’t Afraid to Be ArtThe second season of Donald Glover’s FX series settles on you like an uneasy dream.
Five-ring Circus
The Essence of a Sport That’s Not Just a SportThe frustrating, transfixing gold-medal battle between Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva.
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “Redneck Margarita” EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on Black Panther, Queer Eye, and the New York Times op-ed page.
Five-ring Circus
Catty Olympics Fans RejoiceThe figure skating showdown between Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova is upon us.
Five-ring Circus
Winnie the Pooh and a Red TutuEverything you need to know about the figure skaters at the Pyeongchang Olympics.
Television
Our Bodies, Their SelvesIn Netflix’s Altered Carbon, the 1 percent can live like gods, as long as they have new bodies to live in.