The benefits of a well-timed curse: What science says about swearing
Television censors them, politicians try to avoid them, and comedians appropriate them, but swear words all depends on context
Why is it taking so long for my favorite show to come back?
Series like ‘Squid Game’, ‘Stranger Things’ or ‘Severance’ are forcing fans to wait more than three years for new episodes. What was once an exception is now the norm
War comes to ‘House of the Dragon’: ‘It’s a story about two women and it will continue to be until the end’
The second season of the ‘Game of Thrones’ spinoff delves into the confrontation between two sides of the Targaryen house. ‘We want to reward the audience for sticking with us,’ says showrunner Ryan Condal
How Carrie Preston turned Elsbeth Tascioni into a female Colombo
The peculiar lawyer seen in ‘The Good Wife,’ and ‘The Good Fight’ stars in ‘Elsbeth,’ a series in which she uses her particular style to solve crimes for the New York Police Department
Eric Kripke, creator of ‘The Boys’: ‘The stuff that keeps me up at night isn’t how to make another penis explode’
The fourth season of the superhero series ramps up the political satire. ‘We’re being manipulated to hate each other and I find that very hateful,’ says its showrunner
‘The Sympathizer’ is designed to leave you believing nothing
The HBO series is a fiction within a fiction, the forced account of a double agent and professional liar. It is a satire of the Vietnam War and post-war fallout, exile, prejudice and the so-called melting pot
The pilot episode, an American television tradition in danger of extinction
Free-to-air channels have gone from producing hundreds of test episodes to almost none, a phenomenon that reflects a change in an industry more concerned with cutting costs than originality
Daniel Brühl transforms into a Prussian and Proustian Karl Lagerfeld on Hulu: ‘Underneath all his layers was a great romantic’
The German-Spanish actor plays the man who came before the icon over six episodes, portraying the eternal outsider in the nocturnal excess of early 1970s Paris
When ‘Euphoria’ wanted to turn Zendaya into a private detective: Why it’s so hard for teenage TV shows to grow up
The graduation of a fiction about a school is a key moment for its survival. Options include new generations of students and changes of scenery
Why British detective shows reign supreme
The great mystery of these series is not the crimes being solved, but how each new production of such a hackneyed and exploited genre seems new and bold
Freddie Highmore says goodbye to ‘The Good Doctor’: ‘It has given me stability in years of great uncertainty’
In the show’s seventh and final season, the protagonist, a doctor with autism, has become a father. ‘It’s like a graduation. It’s a bittersweet sensation,’ says the actor
Julianne Moore: ‘I have always, always, always wanted to work with Pedro Almodóvar’
The actress now stars in the miniseries ‘Mary & George,’ a palace intrigue based on the true story of a woman who raised her son to be the lover of King James I of England
‘Shōgun,’ James Clavell’s novel brought to life by a passionate historian and traditional theater actors
The ambitious FX historical series, available on Hulu in the U.S., is set in the time of the samurai and tells the story of courtly intrigue and a throne at stake. Matters are complicated even further by the arrival of the British and Western capitalism in Medieval Japan
The sinister glamorization of narcos
Drug trafficking and use is often glorified and trivialized in pop culture, but even feminists who protest this portrayal ignore how their own drug use fuels human trafficking and the arms trade
‘The Long Shadow’, the story of a serial killer
Far from a morbid retelling of death, the series features notable sets and costuming — and does not shy from showing the machismo that permeated the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,’ ‘Red Queen’ and other recommended series for February 2024
We choose a selection of this month’s shows on Netflix, Apple TV+, and other platforms
Netflix rolls out its new 2024 projects with an eye toward Latin America and Spain: ‘100 Years of Solitude’ and a documentary on LaLiga
In Los Angeles and Madrid, the streaming platform presented its main offerings for the Spanish-speaking market. The Brazilian biopic ‘Senna’ or the Argentine adaptation of the comic ‘The Eternaut’ are among its major investments
The horror of fighting in a Flying Fortress: ‘Masters of the Air’ shows aerial warfare as it has never been seen before
The magnificent series, in the wake of ‘Band of Brothers’ and ‘The Pacific’, reconstructs the daring World War II American B-17 bomber missions with shocking realism
‘Orphan Black: Echoes’ trades in the clones for human organ printing
Cult sci-fi series expands its universe with a sequel that delves into human identity
‘Miracle Workers,’ a roguish tribute to God’s helpers
The low-profile but hilarious TV series featuring Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi provides a modern-day lesson on exploited workers everywhere
Taylor Tomlinson, the religious comedian who has taken over James Corden’s late-night time slot
The 30-year-old comic’s comedy quiz show just premiered on the CBS network
75th Emmy Awards Winners: The complete list
‘Succession’ won best drama series, ‘The Bear’ won best comedy, and both dominated the acting awards at this year’s Emmys
The hidden side of fashion’s Cristóbal Balenciaga: From his despotic nature to his relationships with Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s elites
A new Disney+ series sheds light on the brilliant legacy of Spain’s most celebrated designer of all time, but also hints at the genius’s shadows. Actress Nine d’Urso brings to life the iconic dresses re-created for this biopic
75th Emmy Awards: How to watch live and everything else you need to know
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will honor the most outstanding TV shows that were released from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2023
How to remedy an injustice ignored by politicians: make a good television series
‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ shines a spotlight on a U.K. scandal that ruined dozens of people’s lives and resulted in four suicides. Prime Minister Sunak promises to compensate the victims
Five great series of 2023 that have gone too unnoticed
It has been a good year for television fiction. Proof of this are some productions that have missed out on the lists of the best of the year. We recover five of them
‘For All Mankind’: Things could be different. We could have been on Mars decades ago
The alternate past of the Apple TV+ series covers several decades in which everything we thought that shouldn’t have happened, did