BY Sara Stewart
Women in TV: The Best of 2016
This year has been a shit show of unimaginable proportions, and we’re not sure how we would have made it without the help of funny women on TV. In celebration of the end of the longest 365 days...
Gilmore? Gil-less: Was “Gilmore Girls” Always Like This?
I guess it’s true what they say. You can’t go back to Stars Hollow again. I’ll admit, this is one I’ve been looking forward to maybe a little too much. Ever since it was announced that Amy...
“The Killing Season” Warms Up a Cold Case
“The Killing Season”: A&E The new docuseries “The Killing Season,” on A&E, will feel familiar to anyone passingly acquainted with true-crime shows. Its ominous music, abrupt...
“Good Behavior”: Michelle Dockery From “Downton” to Down on Her Luck
Michelle Dockery in “Good Behavior”: TNT Michelle Dockery’s new role is a far cry from “Downton Abbey.” Within the first few minutes of TNT’s “Good Behavior” pilot, the former Lady...
The Fallout From Trauma: ‘The Fall’ Returns
Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan on “The Fall”: BBC On its surface, you could fairly accuse “The Fall” of being yet another drama about a sexy, seductive serial killer (Jamie Dornan). On...
“Good Girls Revolt”: Herstory, Repeating Itself
“Good Girls Revolt,” on Amazon Prime starting Oct. 28, is a perfect storm of things I love: journalism and feminism and 1960s New York City and Nora Ephron (if only briefly). So to claim I’m...
“Divorce” is No “Catastrophe”
Maybe it’s just that Sharon Horgan’s caustic dialogue sounds better in her own Irish accent. Maybe it’s too soon after “The Affair” to watch another well-off couple duking it out in an...
“Amanda Knox”: Making a Monster
“Amanda Knox”: Netflix “Inappropriate.” “Inexplicable.” “A little bit anarchist.” “This is not what grief looks like.” These are observations about a young woman’s...
“Fleabag” is a Feminist Tragi-Comedy with Bite
Phoebe Waller-Bridge in “Fleabag”: Amazon Traditionally, female narration has taken place rather ethereally, as if the character is allowing us a genteel peek into her diary: One of its most...
The Bold Directorial Sisterhood of “Queen Sugar”
“Queen Sugar”: OWN In the television season that concluded last year, show episodes directed by non-white women made up a whopping three percent of the total. White women, meanwhile, were a...
“Better Things” Gives Pamela Adlon a Turn to Shine — and Snark
Pamela Adlon in “Better Things”: FX Pamela Adlon, a writer and actress who ought to be way more famous than she is, finally gets her own show, the dark comedy “Better Things,” debuting...
“AbFab: The Movie” is a Vacation from the Suck
“Welcome to the Republican National Convention!” yelled legendary drag queen Lady Bunny, introducing Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley at the New York premiere of “Absolutely Fabulous: The...
“Orange is the New Black” Smartly Puts the Prison Industry in its Cross Hairs
The fourth season of “Orange is the New Black,” premiering on Netflix June 17, takes on some very topical issues as Litchfield comes to terms with its new corporate owner. It’s an interesting...
“UnREAL” Season 2: Happily Never After
“UnREAL”: Lifetime The new season of Lifetime’s caustic reality-TV satire “UnREAL” (premiering June 6 at 10 p.m.) kicks everything — and everyone — up a notch. Rachel (Shiri...
Maria Bamford Finally Explodes in “Lady Dynamite”
As far as I can tell, the only lyric in the opening theme to Maria Bamford’s gloriously surreal new Netflix show is “I’m a pterodactyl!” Except in the pilot, when it’s “Have you ever...
5 Reasons to Check Out Chelsea Handler’s New Gig on Netflix
On May 11, the deeply snarky Chelsea Handler comes back with a new talk show — the first for Netflix, premiering at 12:01 a.m. This means she’s officially back in the late-night club where,...
“Game of Thrones” Season 6 Has Less Misogyny… For Now?
Did “Game of Thrones” take all the criticism about misogyny to heart? The plot of its season premiere would suggest so. While Season 6 kicked off with about the same level of crushing gloom and...