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“Early Lumon is clearly part of a broken-down industrial age.…They killed this whole town, and now there’s the new, rebranded Lumon with its bright carpeting and cute cartoons.” Photo: Apple TV+ For more on Severance, sign up for Severance Club, our…

Ask a Manager’s Alison Green breaks down Severance’s twisted approach to employee relations: ‘Many of those elements exist in real life, and we’re all so used to them that we don’t think about them within an explicitly sinister framework.’

“Shrinking,” “Bad Monkey,” and “Ted Lasso” creator Bill Lawrence on the unexpected career renaissance 30 years in the making.

Samantha Morton’s affinity for playing complex, richly layered mothers—an 18th century brothel madam in Harlots, the leader of a group of post-zombie apocalypse survivors in The Walking Dead—is a genre-crossing body of work for the actor’s actor, and…

Bill Lawrence is known for creating heartwarming sitcoms like “Ted Lasso” and “Scrubs.” So how did he pull off this summer’s juicy, prickly noir? He breaks it down for Obsessed. Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Apple TV and Getty…

Everyone knows that Lady Jane Grey — brilliant, Protestant, and a legitimate claimant to the throne as a niece of Henry VIII — was queen of England for nine entire days, deposed to make way for Henry’s eldest surviving child Mary Tudor, and…

“Monty Python” meets “Upstairs Downstairs” meets…”Love Island”? Creator Kathleen Jordan and star Tony Hale break down the surprise influences behind their new show. Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Netflix and Getty Images The…

In its second season, the engrossing cop shop/found family drama Blue Lights has continued to delve deeply and sensitively into daily life among the officers of a Belfast police precinct. This season’s overarching plot directly addresses the…

The spinoff of “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” is a unique breakout—a broadcast TV ratings success that thrives on bright colors, quips, and kindness. Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/CBS CBS has a bona fide hit…

The first season of Palm Royale–the Apple TV+ series set in Palm Beach, 1969—has been nothing if not idiosyncratic, a synthesis of meditations on second and even third acts in American life, examinations of power and gender dynamics among the…

As the Apple TV+ series comes to an end, the actor breaks down the performance within his performance. John Wilkes Booth was the worst. Even if he hadn’t assassinated Abraham Lincoln and ruined some of Reconstruction’s more powerful measures for…

Photo: Courtesy of Elyanna Elyanna's distinctive new album, 'Woledto,' combines the sounds of her Palestinian and Chilean heritage with an appetite for powerful pop songstresses. Elyanna is every bit an artist of our specific moment. The 22-year-old…

You’ve got Kristen Wiig dressed like the Chiquita Banana lady, Ricky Martin doing the rumba, and dozens of dancing extras dressed like showgirls. Here’s how they pulled it off. Every episode of Palm Royale (streaming weekly on Wednesdays on Apple…

Photo: Erika Goldring/Getty Images Former public defender Danielle Ponder is known for her deeply emotive R&B. Her latest release is the theme for AppleTV+ historical thriller "Manhunt." Ponder unpacks music's power to connect and heal — whether…

In the first season of ITV’s Funny Woman, Gemma Arterton as Barbara Parker (stage name: Sophie Straw) is unquestionably the sun around whom everyone else revolves, but Barbara’s besties, Diane and Marge (Clare-Hope Ashitey and Alexa Davies,…

On the wildly popular Netflix racing docuseries, McLaren driver Oscar Piastri has been a cool-under-pressure, wry, no-bull breakout. So we got to know him a little better. “We do our talking on the track,” quips Formula One driver Oscar Piastri to…

(Warning: This conversation includes spoilers and a discussion of a long scene depicting a rape in Sexy Beast’s second episode, “Donny Donny Donny”.) There are scenes in certain TV shows that are so shocking, so traumatizing, and so disturbing that,…

“It’s great to tell a love story that turns into the understanding that love is work.” Photo: Lyndon Katene/Max The first season of Our Flag Means Death came seemingly out of nowhere in 2022, a wry yet deeply earnest, joke-dense fantasia about…

Our Flag Means Death debuted in March 2022 to respectable viewership numbers that grew. And grew. And grew some more. With each week of its 10-episode run, viewership increased, eventually tripling its original audience. The little gay pirate…

Over the eight episodes of Justified: City Primeval, FX’s limited series reviving their classic Peak TV crime drama Justified, a vivid tapestry of relationships and personal history emerges, with the thread of Clement Mansell’s chaotic, brutal crimes…