A recent spate of “eat-the-rich” shows and films—including the Oscar-nominated ‘Triangle of Sadness’—fail to offer any alternative to the ethos of the ultra-wealthy.
Watching Doc Martin again has reminded me that village life is full of petty jealousies and irrational resentments, but also strong communitarian ties.
Anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly sought the perfection of the traditional family, at the expense of reality itself, by fighting against the Equal Rights Amendment.
In the second season of ‘Fleabag,’ the titular character begins a sexual relationship with a priest. What follows is a heady tale of guilt, loneliness, and pain.
We make choices and decisions every day. Stories about living and reliving your life over and over allow us to see which of them are really consequential
At a time when democracy is experiencing setbacks around the world, ‘The Romanoffs,’ from the creator of ‘Mad Men,’ introduces us to decendants of the tsars
Cinematic in style, leisurely in pace, and preposterously farfetched in narrative premise, "The Young Pope" is by its creator's description also about solitude.
Everything about "Horace and Pete"—its seriocomic ambivalence, performance aesthetic, production values—seems calculated to knock viewers out of their comfort zone.
"Downton Abbey" has been vivid, suspenseful, and often funny, but it has always remained a soap opera with pretentions, a show obsessed with the passage of time.
To judge by the pilot, the TV version of "The Magicians" will be a fast-paced and workmanlike distillation of Lev Grossman’s enthralling and often moving trilogy.
Pope Francis kicked off the Jubilee Year of Mercy with the opening of the Holy Door at St. Peter’s. I started my observance with a brilliant black comedy from HBO.
By focusing on cultural and institutional microcosms, a documentary paints a picture of an entire society whose various activities are all embedded with chaplains.
The series presents a view of medieval Catholicism as the realm of cranks and fanatics, while Thomas Cromwell is shown as distinctly rational and reasonable.
As Francis plans to overhaul the Holy See's media management, a bishop-psychotherapist is assigned to help remove "playboy priests" from an infamous Italian diocese.
