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Our Dream Oscar Nominees
Four choices for movies and performances that should, in a better world, be nominated for Academy Awards.
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Our 2025 Pop Culture Predictions
From Taylor to Peak TV, we guarantee these all will maybe possibly come true.
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Our Top Reads of 2024
TV writers script the 2024 election, how fictional NYC captured 9/11, what "Schitt's Creek" taught us about love, how to write like Taylor Swift, and…
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Why Is Nicole Kidman Always on My TV Now?
How embracing the menopausal years is giving some of our greatest actresses the best roles of their lives on the small screen. And how we can still do…
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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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Pop Culture Secret Santa
Our handpicked book pairings go together as well as milk and cookies.
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How to Write Fake Pop Culture (and Make it Seem Real)
The secrets to crafting fictional pop songs, TV shows and more.
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Kirthana Ramisetti
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The New Pop Star Goddesses
Female pop stars are funnier, angrier, queerer, weirder, smarter—and more powerful—than ever.
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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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Is Agatha a Tragic Heroine?
What "Agatha All Along" has in common with "Promising Young Woman," 'Thelma and Louise," and "Game of Thrones," and what this can teach us about all…
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stacey simmons
The TV Series That Predicted a Second Trump Term
What "Years and Years" gets right, what it gets wrong, and why we need it anyway.
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Saul Austerlitz
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The Big Crunch Theory
"Young Sheldon" and the incredible shrinking comedy.
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Saul Austerlitz
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Conan and the Barbarian
As the 2024 election looms, here's why Conan O'Brien's Emmy-winning travel series is must-see TV.
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Saul Austerlitz
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How Fictional New York City Captured September 11th
The "Friends" episode that wasn't, the "Sex and the City" episode that was and a moving tribute over on "Sesame Street."
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Thea Glassman
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