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Will Heath / NBC The Eerie Intensity of Adam Driver on Saturday Night Live
The actor offered an idiosyncratic antidote to bland winter cheer.
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Bob Riha Jr / Getty Norman Lear’s Many American Families
The legendary TV producer transformed the medium by listening to creators whose lives differed greatly from his own.
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Will Heath / NBC The George Santos Number That Brought SNL to Life
The now-former Republican representative was a perfect fit for the show’s satire.
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Apple TV+ Let’s Never Do This to Edith Wharton Again
The writer’s deeply emotional architecture is made dully explicit in a new adaptation of The Buccaneers.
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Pete Dadds / Netflix What Happens When Real People Play Squid Game?
Spoiler alert: They don’t die.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Brian Bowen Smith … The Unexpected Power of Second-Chance Romance
Pop culture of late, such as The Golden Bachelor, has been curious—and insightful—about love after 50 in a way that feels new and honest.
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Rosalind O'Connor / NBC What Is Saturday Night Live Without the Shameless Self-Promotion?
Timothée Chalamet’s post-strike hosting gig was a celebration that doubled as a return to business as usual for the show.
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Showtime What on Earth Is Nathan Fielder Up to Now?
The comedian's newest show, The Curse, is weird and off-putting, yet intensely compelling.
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Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Albert Brooks Everlasting
A conversation with the legendary comedian and filmmaker about what annoys him, how you know when something is funny, and his theory about John Lennon
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Apple TV+ The Show That Transforms Our Understanding of History
Season by season, For All Mankind has become less a tale of an alternate future than a meditation on historical memory.
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James Van Evers / Hulu A Show About the Secrets Parents Keep From Their Children
Hulu’s Black Cake explores how marriage, migration, and motherhood can shift one’s sense of self.
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Chris Pizzello / AP Hollywood’s Dual Strike Is Over, and the Studios Lost
The writers and actors didn’t get everything they wanted, but they forced their bosses to blink.
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Netflix Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher Really Understands Poe
This modern adaptation of the author’s work is a dramatic reimagining that’s faithful in the way that matters most.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Michael Schwartz / … What Matthew Perry Knew About Comedy
The actor gave his signature character on Friends a quality that is all too rare in sitcoms: vulnerability.
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Will Heath / NBC / Getty The Simple Truths of Nate Bargatze on SNL
The show leaned into the comic’s understated humor, to refreshing effect.
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Will Heath / NBC SNL Didn’t Need Subtitles
With Bad Bunny as host, the show was defiantly bilingual—and all the better for it.
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NBC Universal Pete Davidson Might Be the Comedic Hero We Need Now. No, Really.
The SNL alum returned to host the show’s much-anticipated return—and was somehow the perfect choice for it.
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Netflix Only Wes Anderson Could Have Adapted Roald Dahl This Way
The director’s renditions of the famed author’s short stories ask us to think actively—even skeptically—about what we’re seeing.
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Apple TV+ The Bittersweet Lessons of the Most Beautiful Women in the World
A new four-part documentary on Apple TV+ celebrates the era of the supermodel without interrogating what it meant for the rest of us.
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Wilford Harwood / Hulu The Horror Stories of Black Hair
The Hulu series The Other Black Girl dramatizes the pains of managing Afro-textured hair—and other people’s perceptions of it.
