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The podcast How to Survive the End of the World offers a unique view of apocalypse
Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown explore the end of the world as we know it.
My pandemic comfort viewing
Three TV shows and movies that have combated loneliness and brought welcome distraction
The world High Maintenance shows us through the Guy’s eyes
The weed dealer character serves as the connective tissue between the lives of New Yorkers who might not meet.
Watching The Circle and Love Is Blind while practicing social distancing
Two reality TV shows remind us why physical connection matters.
Honeyland transcends language and location
A Macedonian beekeeper’s ordinary, mythical life
Sorry for Your Loss’s quiet exploration of race
A white woman, her black husband, and the struggle to be known
How universal is the Force?
The Rise of Skywalker reduces a powerful theological symbol to a family drama.
Queen and Slim challenges assumptions about race, justice, and what matters
Melinda Matsoukas’s film rolls terror and hope into one story.
Who’s the parasite?
Bong Jong-ho’s genre-bending film reveals the fantasies of salvation that feed off of us all.
The Mega podcast draws mega laughs
The evangelical satire also offers insight and empathy.
(De)formed by wealth in Succession and Schitt’s Creek
Is there any redemption for the Roy family or the Rose family?
Quentin Tarantino’s violent movie about violent movies
In Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, the director delights in both cinema and blood.
In the Deadwood revival, the people must live on
At least the ones who survived the original series
Can a fleabag clean up her act?
The sarcastic and sacrilegious two-season show has a moral center.
What set Game of Thrones apart—and how it lost its way
The series was clear-sighted about power and misogyny, but it failed to see that vision through.
The Best of Enemies is a movie centered on one white man’s conversion
Personal conversion is part of social change, but we can’t end our stories there.
The people who haunt us
Jordan Peele’s new horror film reveals the pasts we are all tethered to.
In Russian Doll, Nadia and Alan are dying to learn how to live
Nadia denies that her journey is about morality, but it is.
Why Americans have a spiritual need for KonMari
Marie Kondo works to restore right relationships between humans and objects.
Mary Poppins returns to a world of economic insecurity
Can memories of childhood joy really make up for predatory lending and labor busting?