This year’s Met Gala theme was notoriously difficult. But it also showed why it’s the most interesting red carpet of the year. Even if you don’t care about fashion, you should still care about the Met Gala. Unlike how, say, the Grammy Awards loves to refer to itself as “music’s Continue Reading
Over-the-top clothes take over New York’s most venerable museum. In 2018, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened what would go on to become the most popular exhibit in its 149-year history: a show all about Catholicism’s heavy influence on fashion, featuring haute couture confections as well as church vestments on Continue Reading
The show is finally back. Here’s what you need to know. At last, we’ve reached the beginning of the end. It’s been almost two years since Game of Thrones aired a new episode. When the credits rolled on the season seven finale in August 2017, Avengers: Infinity War hadn’t come Continue Reading
As other shows slow down their storytelling, Showtime’s corporate thriller just keeps speeding up. Every week, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here. The episode of the week for April Continue Reading
Winter is here. Winter is coming here: After nearly two years on hiatus, Game of Thrones has finally returned to air its six-episode eighth and final season. When the credits rolled on the season seven finale in August 2017, Avengers: Infinity War hadn’t come out. The Mueller report was still Continue Reading
Winners: Jon Snow! Cersei Lannister! Circular narratives! Losers: Daenerys Targaryen! Narrative urgency! Game of Thrones returned with “Winterfell,” a season eight premiere that gave fans everything they could have wanted and more, a terrific start to the series’ final run of six episodes. [Opening a secret door in the wall, Continue Reading
A key scene in the season premiere may be calling back to a prophecy featuring Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen. Spoilers follow for “Winterfell,” the season eight premiere of Game of Thrones. For the last two years, both the readers of George R.R. Martin’s books and fans of HBO’s Game Continue Reading
The series’ introductory sequence has rarely received as big of an update as it did in the season eight premiere, “Winterfell.” Game of Thrones changes its opening credits with each and every episode, both to signify which actors appear in the coming installment and to display the various locations Continue Reading
How the FXX romcom found a happy ending that nevertheless honored its cynical spirit. Every week, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here. The episode of the week for March Continue Reading
Get trapped inside the terrible and true case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Every week, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here. The episodes of the week for March 17 through Continue Reading
The Dexter star tackles another inscrutable character — this time, in a comedic take on a bowling documentary. Michael C. Hall has built a career playing characters who spend their lives trying to tamp down their darkest secrets, from the repressed undertaker David Fisher in HBO’s Six Feet Under to Continue Reading
Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing makes the case for keeping your Facebook account, staying on Twitter, checking your email, but doing it all differently, and “not as asked.” (And not as self-help.) What can you do? To hear most people tell it, you can either succumb to using Facebook Continue Reading
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