Recap: Babylon Berlin Season 1, Episode 2
Double lives are de rigeur on a propulsive Babylon Berlin.
Best TV of the 2010s: Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal Seduces with Aesthetics
Hannibal is often gruesome, sometimes filled with grief, and always alive with its title character’s irrepressible joie de vivre.
Music Therapy: The Cramps, Songs the Lord Taught Us
This album is the aural equivalent of a reckless endangerment arrest—a rollicking, teeth-rattling good time.
Review: Sex Education Season 1 Offers an Empathetic Look at Teenage Sexuality
Laurie Nunn’s painfully honest, funny look at teen travails is here to shine a light on this brutal stage of life.
2018 Album of the Year: IDLES, Joy as an Act of Resistance
The best post punk album in years seizes Joy as an Act of Resistance.
Five-Year Mission: “The Naked Time” and “The Enemy Within” Review
Our heroes get real, with a little help from a deadly space pathogen.
Recap: Babylon Berlin Season 1, Episode 1
Babylon Berlin is a show about underworlds and the masks those who live in them must wear to move in daylight.
Music Therapy: David Bowie, Diamond Dogs
As the deepest anxieties of four decades ago become today’s headlines, we give one of David Bowie’s darkest masterpieces a spin and glean what tumbles out.
9 Songs That Prove Rock Saxophone Is Actually Great
Come along on a journey through time, space, and spit valves to discover those songs the rock saxophone lends its uniquely guileless magic.
The 12 Best TV Shows of the 2010s
Peruse our HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE picks for the 12 best American TV shows that have debuted since 2009.
Review: True Detective‘s Season 3 Premiere Succeeds by Returning to Its Southern Gothic Roots
It remains to be seen whether the echoes of the past will resonate as strongly as they did in the first season as True Detective explores the treachery of memory. But, as the show keeps reminding us, time is…well, you know.
Music Review: Orville Peck, Pony
Masked cowboy Orville Peck’s vibrant debut explores country music’s new frontiers.
Who Is Armand, anyway? A guide for AMC Interview with the Vampire Fans Who Haven’t Read the Books
Who is this fucked-up, intense little guy??? Let’s find out!
The Uninitiated: A Guide to Glam Rock
What is glam rock? It’s loud. It’s simple. It’s playful and campy in a way that rock stars of the late ’60s and early ‘70s didn’t often let themselves be.
Recap: Babylon Berlin Season 1, Episode 5
Pieces move into place as Babylon Berlin explores the city’s grim days and opulent nights.
The OA Season 1 Episode 1, “Homecoming” Recap
The OA’s arresting pilot explores the darkness and wonder hiding behind suburban facades.
Babylon Berlin Season 1 Episode 4 Recap
Violence comes for the innocent on a captivating Babylon Berlin.
Daria Season 1 Episode 1 “Esteemsters” Recap
The suburbs are depressing, the wit is dry, and the family dynamics are mercenary. You know what that means: it’s time to revisit Lawndale and the cultural impact of its most famous teen misanthrope.
Babylon Berlin Season 1 Episode 3 Recap
A complex web of plots and mysteries makes everyone in Bablylon Berlin a “fool in the dark.”
Review: Lupin Season 1 Pulls Off a Charming Heist
Effervescent and timely, Lupin’s first installment steals hearts.