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Television censors them, politicians try to avoid them, and comedians appropriate them, but swear words all depends on context

Television censors them, politicians try to avoid them, and comedians appropriate them, but swear words all depends on context

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

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

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
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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We choose a selection of this month’s shows on Netflix, Apple TV+, and other platforms

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 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

Cult sci-fi series expands its universe with a sequel that delves into human identity

The low-profile but hilarious TV series featuring Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi provides a modern-day lesson on exploited workers everywhere

The 30-year-old comic’s comedy quiz show just premiered on the CBS network

‘Succession’ won best drama series, ‘The Bear’ won best comedy, and both dominated the acting awards at this year’s Emmys

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

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will honor the most outstanding TV shows that were released from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2023

‘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

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

The alternate past of the Apple TV+ series covers several decades in which everything we thought that shouldn’t have happened, did