As a setting for a TV show, fashion is a little like the restaurant industry: a rich, untapped source of detail and conflict, hindered by the logistical complexity of bringing its insular world to the screen. And just as “The Bear” was preceded by a legion of competitive reality shows, plus a misbegotten adaptation of […]

The Marvel Cinematic Universe built an empire on minor characters, proving that strong execution and an overarching brand could elevate once-fringe figures like Black Widow or the Guardians of the Galaxy into franchise mainstays. (With A-list IP like Spider-Man and the X-Men leased out to other studios at the time, this was partly out of […]

The limited series “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez” is the first of six series from executive producer Ryan Murphy to air this month, and the third Murphy project to center on elite athletes mired in tabloid scandal. “American Sports Story” — don’t you dare make it an acronym! — joins “American Horror Stories” as well as […]

It’s hard to make a yearly awards show feel special when it’s staged twice in one year. Such was the challenge facing the 76th annual Emmy Awards, which aired just eight months after its warmly nostalgic predecessor due to the prior show’s strike-related delay. (Both shows were helmed by the same producing team.) Factor in […]

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains plot details for “Nikki Beach, or: So Many Ways to Lose,” Season 3, Episode 6 of HBO’s “Industry,” now streaming on Max. Last week, “Industry” ended on a rare cliffhanger: with Yasmin (Marisa Abela), the publishing heiress turned finance associate turned tabloid target, seemingly confessing to the murder of her […]

When journalist Gia Lombardi (Shailene Woodley) announces her intention to pen a magnum opus on “sex in America,” the brief sounds overbroad — more about the author’s ambitions than any particular findings or interest in the subject. That was this reader’s issue with “Three Women,” the 2019 bestseller by writer Lisa Taddeo, which drew sweeping conclusions […]