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  1. overnights
    The Penguin Series-Premiere Recap: Wrong Guy, Wrong NightOswald Cobb sees his opening to take control of Gotham. The only thing standing in his way? A hellbent Sofia Falcone, fresh from Arkham Asylum.
  2. tv review
    Who Needs the Batman?As The Penguin’s representatives of Gotham’s underworld, Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti can do bad all by themselves.
  3. now streaming
    Daisy Jones and The Six - First Look
    The 30 Best TV Shows to Watch Across Every Streaming ServiceDon’t waste your valuable couch time.
  4. now streaming
    The 30 Best TV Shows on MaxOur Flag Means Death, Warrior, The Sopranos, and more.
  5. overnights
    My Brilliant Friend Recap: Have Your Cake and Eat It, TooLenù finally snaps back to reality and tries to put her life together.
  6. emmys 2024
    How The Bear Lost the Best Comedy Emmy to HacksTo start, it wasn’t a comedy.
  7. nikki beach or bust
    Everything on Industry Was Building Toward ThisMarisa Abela, Myha’la, and the showrunners break down Yasmin and Harper’s biggest fight: “We were like, ‘How do we make this as hurtful as possible?’”
  8. overnights
    Industry Recap: You Got Daddy’s Attention NowWill Yasmin and Harper be able to work it out on the remix?
  9. battle of the bats
    Is The Penguin Better Than Joker: Folie à Deux?Critics seem to think so.
  10. docu-ethics
    American Freak ShowChimp Crazy and Tiger King director Eric Goode doesn’t seem to care that his nonfiction work doubles as exploitation. Should we?
  11. overnights
    My Brilliant Friend Season-Premiere Recap: SacrificesLenù can’t stop ignoring all of Nino’s sleazy posturing and Lila’s old warnings any longer.
  12. endings
    The Double Dishonesty of Chimp CrazyThe docuseries focuses on the lengths one woman will go to keep her pet chimp but fails to acknowledge the ethical mire behind the camera.
  13. overnights
    Industry Recap: Love and WarIndustry is no stranger to putting Robert through hell, but this time, with all the vomit and piss, we’re getting dragged along for the ride.
  14. gold rush
    Should HBO Worry About Its Worst Emmy Showing Since the ’90s?Maybe it’s simply an off year for the prestige favorite — or a portent of things to come in the post-Peak TV world.
  15. by the book
    George R.R. Martin’s Blog Was Briefly a House of the DraggingHe has removed a post that was critical of differences between House of the Dragon and his book Fire & Blood.
  16. close read
    Rishi UncutAn episode devoted entirely to its most loathsome rogue exposes a core Industry truth.
  17. now streaming
    New on HBO and Max: September 2024The Penguin, Civil War, I Saw The TV Glow, and more.
  18. gold rush
    So … What Will the 2025 Emmys Look Like?Will Rings of Power stage a formidable campaign? How about Squid Game? And should we watch out for Wednesday?
  19. fond farewells
    Somebody Somewhere Will Nurse Your HBO Hangover for the Last TimeThe show returns for its third and, it turns out, final season this October.
  20. profile
    Eric Goode’s Monkey BusinessHow a former nightclub impresario and reptile enthusiast became one of the most successful documentary filmmakers of our time.
  21. overnights
    Industry Recap: Most Companies FailIt’s no surprise that getting everyone in the same location would lead to the most combustible episode of the season.
  22. gold rush
    The Case Against RDJThe race for Supporting Actor in a Limited Series is closer than it appears.
  23. remember that time
    ‘How About the President Decides He’s Not Going to Run?’Armando Iannucci’s Veep twist was oddly prescient. Here’s how he wrote the campaign that followed.
  24. existing in the context
    Veep Team Reflects on Current Events, for No Particular Reason“On Veep, I played a narcissistic, megalomaniac sociopath,” Julia Louis-Dreyfus said. “And that is not Kamala Harris.”
  25. blabbermouths
    HBO's "Succession" Season 3 Premiere
    Is Brian Cox Allowed to Be Saying All This?“I think cinema is in a very bad way. I think it’s lost its place because of, partly, the grandiose element between Marvel, DC, and all of that.”
  26. overnights
    Industry Recap: Rational SelfishnessThe chaos of the Lumi IPO is the perfect stress test for our characters. (Spoiler: They don’t do well!)
  27. overnights
    Industry Season-Premiere Recap: Wrecking BallThe stakes are high, the mood is heavy, and Kit Harington is playing an unstable CEO. Industry is back, baby!
  28. trade secrets
    Industry Goes for BrokeWith a new Sunday-night time slot and Kit Harington co-starring, can this buzzy Gen-Z finance drama reach new heights?
  29. chat room
    Abubakar Salim Is Trying to Keep House of the Dragon Fresh for Book Readers“I’m very aware of where the character goes and who he evolves into. You’ve got to plant these things, I think.”
  30. close read
    House of the Dragon Deployed Its Strongest WeaponSorry, Vhagar, the queens are talking.
  31. trailer mix
    My Brilliant Friend Moves Back to NaplesThe new trailer gently guides us into fraught-friendship fall.
  32. fire & blood & prophecy
    House of the Dragon Showrunner Promises War “Comes to a Head” in Season ThreeBut more important, we’ll finally meet Daeron Targaryen.
  33. backstories
    The Dragons Should Sound ‘Like You Can Pop Them on the Nose’House of the Dragon’s Paula Fairfield imagines dragon anatomy, embeds secret phrases in Caraxes’s growl, and is terrified for season three.
  34. endings
    House of the Dragon Has a Prophecy ProblemRaising questions that really should be answered by now, like: What is this show even about?
  35. vulture travel
    Start Making Your Reservations for The White Lotus Season 3One ticket to Thailand for 2025, please. And book that spa manager we love.
  36. overnights
    House of the Dragon Season-Finale Recap: Family MattersThis was a very good episode of TV and a terrible season finale.
  37. ruh roh
    House of the Dragon Fans Should Avoid Social Media, Reading Fire & BloodHBO is “aggressively” removing leaked clips of season two’s finale.
  38. chat room
    House of the Dragon’s Tom Bennett Predicts an Ulf Corruption Arc“He’s been trodden on and spat on his whole life, and now he is in control of a nuclear warhead.”
  39. overnights
    House of the Dragon Recap: An Army of BastardsDid the bastard massacre in the dragon pit remind anyone else of Jurassic Park?
  40. fire and blood
    What About Laenor?Seasmoke has some explaining to do on House of the Dragon.
  41. trailer mix
    Industry Makes Its PitchOr, in this case, its Kit-ch.
  42. fire and blood and points
    House of the Dragon Scorecard: Whispers and SandwichesThis war’s most successful battle yet is won without a single dragon.
  43. overnights
    House of the Dragon Recap: How to Train Your DragonVelaryons are in the ascendancy this week.
  44. chat room
    House of the Dragon’s Mysaria/Rhaenyra Moment Was Not in the Script“It was unknown where the scene was going to go,” says Sonoya Mizuno, “but it just felt right.”
  45. trailer mix
    The Bene Gesserit Are Girlbossing to PowerDune: Prophecy, HBO’s prequel series, has a trailer.
  46. pilot season
    2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones - Arrivals
    Save Me, Rachel Sennott Coming-of-Age Pilot, Save MeThe HBO show just cast… LEIGHTON MEESTER! (Pew pew! Multi-generational It Girl-hood is here!)
  47. tv review
    True Detective Crawls Back From the VoidAlmost ten years after a tracking-shot episode set an impossible standard, the HBO show is reinventing itself for the better.
  48. tv review
    On Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry Is Forever Going to LarryHBO’s longest-running scripted series is going out exactly as it started: with more examples of petty behavior than you ever dreamed possible.
  49. notes on camp
    11 Brief Meditations on Why I Love The Gilded AgeEven though it’s inarguably bad.
  50. encounter
    Night Country’s Kali Reis Claims Another VictoryShe fought in HBO’s first women’s boxing match in 2018. Now she’s sparring opposite Jodie Foster in True Detective’s fourth outing.
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