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Culture Desk
The 2020 Emmys: A Big Night for “Schitt’s Creek,” “Watchmen,” and Tuxedo-Print Hazmat Suits
How television’s awards show responded to the unique constraints of the pandemic.
News Desk
Watching “Watchmen” as a Descendant of the Tulsa Race Massacre
A family was surprised to find their great-grandparents’ businesses at the center of the HBO show’s depiction of the Greenwood race riots. Now they want to tell their own story.
Culture Desk
“Watchmen,” “The Boys,” and the False Hope That Superheroes Can Save Us
The central achievement of both the comics and their TV adaptations is how they spit on the fantasy of caped crusaders saving the world.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women,” and Damon Lindelof’s “Watchmen”
The writer-director discusses her much-anticipated adaptation of the classic novel. And the creator of HBO’s big show of this season talks with the critic Emily Nussbaum.
2019 in Review
I Love Top Ten Lists
Here are more than ten shows that I happened to like and remember on the day that I wrote this list.
On Television
The Time-Bomb Tension and Thrilling Surreality of HBO’s “Watchmen”
Regina King gives a performance so subtle and muscular as to exhaust all superlatives.
The Current Cinema