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Roger Ailes Had 'The Loudest Voice' — Beth Ailes Had 'A Real Fierce Loyalty'

6:04am June 27, 2019

by Rachel Martin

The Showtime series The Loudest Voice tells the story of media titan Roger Ailes and the meteoric rise of Fox News. Sienna Miller plays his wife, Beth, who lives in the shadow of her husband.

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'It's Been A Minute With Sam Sanders': The History Of Drag Queens

6:56am June 26, 2019

by Sam Sanders

June is LGBTQ pride month, and some of the loudest and proudest people in those communities are drag queens. The TV show RuPaul's Drag Race has pushed drag culture into the mainstream.

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Emily Nussbaum is the TV critic for The New Yorker.

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From 'Buffy' Superfan To Pulitzer Prize, A Critic Celebrates TV On Her Own Terms

5:12pm June 25, 2019

by Audie Cornish

Emily Nussbaum's new book, I Like To Watch, is a collection of essays that span her career and the age of prestige TV. She wants to "explode and expand" the types of shows we take seriously, she says.

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Ramy Youssef is the co-creator and star of the semi-autobiographical Hulu series Ramy. "From the onset ... we really wanted to challenge our main character," he says.

Arts

Comic Ramy Youssef On Being An 'Allah Carte' Muslim: 'You Sit In Contradictions'

2:43pm June 25, 2019

by Terry Gross

In the semi-autobiographical show, Ramy, Youssef plays a practicing Muslim who's torn between his faith and his desire to fit in. "Everyone has a code," he says of the compromises his character makes.

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I Like To Watch is Emily Nussbaum's new book.

'I Like To Watch' Is A Passionate, Brilliant Defense Of TV

11:51am June 25, 2019

by Annalisa Quinn

The collection of 32 mostly previously published essays by New Yorker TV Critic Emily Nussbaum includes a new consideration of the question "What should we do with the art of terrible men?"

Emma Thompson plays Vivienne Rook, a plain-speaking businesswoman turned populist politician, in the HBO series Years and Years.

Arts

Imagining A Dismal Future, 'Years And Years' Says Plenty About The Present

12:45pm June 24, 2019

by John Powers

The six-part BBC series airing on HBO follows one British family over the course of 15 years of upheaval, beginning in 2019. The unsettling show imagines the dismal future that liberals fear.

"I'm a boring human being that just happens to have amazing writers to make me look really interesting on television," says Arturo Castro, creator and star of Alternatino.

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'Alternatino' Star Arturo Castro Wants You To Know You're 'Invited To The Party'

8:17am June 23, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

"I really want people to know: You don't have to be Latin in order to enjoy the show," says Castro. His sketch comedy series on Comedy Central pokes fun at supposedly woke white people.

In the Legion's third (and final) season, it's not clear if the show's central character, David Haller (Dan Stevens), is a hero or a villain.

Arts

'Legion' And 'Jessica Jones' Played The Long Game — And It Paid Off

12:30pm June 21, 2019

by David Bianculli

After three seasons, both Marvel TV shows are ending their runs with first-rate acting and storytelling that's strong, ambitious and surprisingly satisfying.

Babbling Baby Relates To Dad's Conversation About TV's 'Empire'

6:10am June 21, 2019

The connection between a parent and child can run so deep that it transcends language. The proof is a viral video in which a dad and a 19-month-old talk about the TV show Empire.

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On HBO's 'Barry,' Bill Hader Asks, 'Can You Change Your Nature?'

1:27pm June 20, 2019

by Terry Gross

Hader co-created and stars as a hitman who enrolls in acting classes in the dark comedy series. In the second season, Barry struggled to express himself as an actor — while keeping his past a secret.

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