26 Episodes
What really came to an end in The Americans' finale
Was "START" where the so-called "golden age of TV" finally closed up shop?
Latest
If I liked Digger, am I even myself anymore?
Plus: Silksong revisited, the 2024 Salem's Lot movie, and New York's abandoned honeymoon hotel.
books
On Exit Party and being a time traveler
Emily St. John Mandel's new novel asks us how we can hold onto our pasts without falling into poisonous nostalgia.
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week 10
We come to the end and grapple with Infinite Jest as a whole and what to make of the book's legacy
26 Episodes
On Twin Peaks, the world ended long ago. Now, we live in the ashes.
This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full and descend.
The New York Times
The New York Times top 100 TV shows and the always slippery TV canon
In: Exit Party, Forgotten Island. Out: the idea that it should be easy to build a TV canon!!
Resident Evil
Resident Evil's world doesn't care about you
The best cosmic horror in years? In a video game movie directed by Zach Cregger? It's more likely than you think
Infinite Jest
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Nine
Lily and Emily consider the impossible: might Infinite Jest be... self-involved?
Inventory
Beyond Bedford Falls: 15 other fictional small towns we'd love to live in
Including towns full of cartoon ducks, free health care, and monstrous vampires who provide low, low housing costs