Opinion

After Hours is filled with a familiar, sometimes crushing, sense of yearning for something more

The AI host of Netflix’s latest reality dating show is the love child of Big Tech and Saint Augustine

The fifth season of Billions is a queasy portrait of inequality in the US, but it can be hard to look away

In FX’s new series, the women on both sides of the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment know that the totems of power are often just good grooming

Next year will be crushingly difficult for all aspects of cinema. Some theatres have a plan

As COVID-19 intensified, video games about disease spread

A new Netflix documentary and an online exhibition at Fierman Gallery, New York, celebrate the legacy of a shuttered gay bookstore, and the world disappearing along with it 

When we feel caged at home, online animal videos offer a way to connect

Six minutes of the glossy new streaming app’s TV-for-smartphone ‘quick bites’ can feel like an eternity

In the Hulu adaptation of Nick Hornby’s classic novel, Da’Vine Joy Randolph shows you don’t always need the limelight to shine

From his parodies of celebrity culture to his depiction of gender identities, there is still a lot to unpack on the centenary of the film director’s birth

From @jerrygogosian to @bradtroemel, memes have become a primary method of institutional critique

On the video-sharing app, laughter lubricates the wheels of the desperation train

The New York-based comedians give sexually repressed characters, from sci-fi heroes to famous academics, the chance to fight and fall in love

Why be part of the art world when you can just crash the party? 

The critic’s folksy guide, How to Be an Artist, includes some valuable insight on the creative process 

Can her new single, ‘Back to Me’, resurrect the career of Hollywood’s favourite fallen idol?

Has Covid-19 made the internet good? It’s important to maintain our scepticism in this moment of unicorn-wifi-in-the-sky ‘niceness’

Through sub-par speakers in bedrooms and living rooms, across cities and continents – queer joy persists

Finding comfort in digital maximalism after a decade of decluttering