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I Will Not Waste Chalk
Tim Riley reviews Alan Siegel’s “Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of ‘The Simpsons’ Changed Television—and America—Forever.”
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen
I Became a Better Magician
Paul Thompson reviews Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal.”
The Put-On
Jordan Brower considers the abjuring of depth undertaken by the Apple TV+ series “Severance.”
Material, Girls
Annie Berke watches Celine Song’s new film “Materialists” and the Netflix show “With Love, Meghan.”
The Radical Cringe of “The Pitt”
Charlotte E. Rosen breaks down the political ramifications of Max’s “The Pitt” for subjects of an anti-expertise, anti-empathy fascist regime.
Sneering at, or with, “The White Lotus”
Kyle Stevens examines the farce at the heart of the third season of HBO’s “The White Lotus.”
Rebel Girls
Elizabeth Alsop considers the third season of “Yellowjackets.”
Down the Manson Rabbit Hole
Abby Aguirre considers Errol Morris’s new documentary “CHAOS: The Manson Murders.”
A Haunting in Jamaica
René Johannes Kooiker explores Marlon James’s series “Get Millie Black,” in which detectives chase ghosts as well as criminals.
The Power of the Moving Image
Peter B. Kaufman argues that video has become our dominant cultural medium, yet we lack reliable archives for the audiovisual record.
That’s Nature for You
Annie Berke reviews Jenny Slate’s new motherhood meditation, “Lifeform.”
A Woman in the Captain’s Chair, Trump in the White House
Thirty years after its premiere, David K. Seitz revisits “Star Trek: Voyager” and its groundbreaking first woman captain.
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