Television

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‘Past is prologue’ in two shows at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, following the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive

BY Ian Bourland |

In its final season, ‘Veep’ satirizes the heartless ambition driving US politics

BY Andrew Durbin |

Twenty years since the original series, there is still much to be done in confronting regressive prejudices against the LGBTQ+ community

BY Sean Burns |

Twenty years on from the devastating shooting, can its cultural legacy in film and television reframe our present moment?

BY Ian Bourland |

The television show – the director’s first – is a sequel to his 1997 film of California queer disillusion, Nowhere

BY Andrew Durbin |

Once labelled a ‘TV terrorist’, the video artist returns with her first posthumous retrospective at Red Bull Arts New York

BY Masha Tupitsyn |

A 1979 televisual essay by the cultural theorist offers insight into black politics and representational struggle in the British media

BY Rianna Jade Parker |

‘It embodies the qualities of enthusiasm, enquiry and toe-curling earnestness that art can’t exist without’

BY Dan Fox |

For all the camp and capering, Eddie and Patsy’s antics also have a plaintive, even existential tinge

BY Matthew McLean |

A recent spate of TV shows set in Missouri show the state as a cultural imaginary on the fault line of US political debate

BY Ian Bourland |

Landing only months before the US midterm elections, it’s impossible not to understand the show foremost in the context of the Trumps and Kushners of the world

BY Ian Bourland |

Author George Pendle on his biography of Jack Parsons, the scientist, mysticist and follower of Aleister Crowley, now dramatized on CBS

BY Dan Fox |

Jörg Heiser on memes, memory and Errol Morris's Wormwood

BY Jörg Heiser |

This new docu-series on a cult established in Oregon in the 1980s is a timely exercise in tolerance and a fascinating insight into extremism

BY Ross Simonini |

From Better Things to Motherhood and SMILF: Michelle Orange charts the turn towards nuanced representations of women in film and TV

BY Michelle Orange |

US true crime series Unsolved takes two formative pop cultural events to explore their concealed human stories and systemic narratives

BY Ian Bourland |

The new television series invokes violence and fear as defining forces of civilization, just like the Kenneth Clark original

BY Nathaniel Budzinski |

From The X-Files to The Orville to Black Mirror: what role does sci-fi play in our age of fake news?

BY Ian Bourland |

Transcending the sentimental falsehood that makes nostalgia problematic, on David Simon’s 1970s New York drama

BY Saul Anton |

On the Marxist-inspired children's films of Hartmut Bitomsky and Harun Farocki, screened for the first time in more than 40 years 

BY Arne Schmitt |