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Dying for Sex: Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate, and the Limited Series as Vessel

Liz Meriwether's eight-episode FX series handed Michelle Williams the role of the decade and Jenny Slate the best supporting performance on television last year.

Priya Nair·18 Nov·7 min

A manicured suburban street at dusk, seen from above, under a featureless painted sky.

Paradise: The Bunker Twist That Reframes the Show

Dan Fogelman's Paradise uses a first-episode reveal as a structural argument. The reveal works; what the show does with it is the interesting part.

Priya Nair·2 Oct·7 min

A rain-soaked Belfast street in 1970s half-light, reflections of streetlamps pooling on wet cobbles.

Say Nothing and the Problem of Adapting a Book That Cannot Be Filmed

Joshua Zetumer's FX adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe's Troubles-era book is a better television show than many people expected. It is also a book that perhaps should not have been adapted at all.

Lena Ashworth·25 Aug·8 min

A linoleum hallway in a Texas high school with an open locker door catching afternoon light.

English Teacher: Brian Jordan Alvarez's Quiet Workplace Argument

Brian Jordan Alvarez's FX comedy arrived on Hulu in September 2024 and renewed quickly. The show is doing more than its loose register suggests, and the workplace logic is the reason.

Priya Nair·22 Apr·7 min

A taped prizefighter's fist held low against a gas-lit London street at night, shadows long on wet cobblestones.

A Thousand Blows Finds Steven Knight a Frame Large Enough for His Obsessions

Steven Knight's Victorian boxing drama dropped on Disney+ and Hulu in February 2025. Six episodes in, the show's interest in three parallel hustles is what makes the frame hold.

Priya Nair·14 Apr·7 min

A cream-coloured pre-war apartment building sits beside a line of palm trees against a pink sky.

Only Murders in the Building Season Four: The Los Angeles Problem

Hulu's Arconia comedy moved its fourth season to Los Angeles and brought a Hollywood satire with it. The season is the show's most uneven and reveals a specific structural tension the format was built to avoid.

Priya Nair·18 Dec·7 min