There’s a downside to our ocean-of-content culture: It can be overwhelming. Scanning all those titles, all those options, you feel at moments like you’re drowning in possibility. Yet there’s a serious upside as well. In cinema, it’s not just that the endless options are enticing in their multiplicity — it’s that a great movie can […]

As networks and streamers adjust to this current moment of belt-tightening and post-election uncertainty, creators and actors are still delivering a dizzying breadth of quality television. Once again, Variety TV critics Alison Herman and Aramide Tinubu have overlapped with a single series in their picks for the year’s best shows, speaking to the deep pool from which […]