Swan Song questions the ethics of deception to spare our loved ones pain

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Reviews

Swan Song questions the ethics of deception to spare our loved ones pain

Mahershala Ali reaffirms his status as America’s best working actor in Benjamin Cleary’s quietly moving sci-fi drama about a dying man considering replacement by a clone.

Awards

“Ramy” goes to messy places in its strong second season

Muslim-American actor and comedian Ramy Youssef returns for a bracingly funny, probing season about faith and purpose and failure.

Features

The Top 25 TV Shows of 2019

From HBO (Chernobyl, Watchmen, Succession) to Netflix (Russian Doll, The Crown, Stranger Things) and beyond, we break down the best TV of the year.

Unraveling pop-culture one thread at a time

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