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In a year that saw many of us relegated to our homes for much of its duration, TV was an ever more powerful medium…

It doesn’t feel like much happens in “Last Words,” even though it’s the end of The Good Lord Bird. Instead, the…

Finally, the big show. “Jesus Is Walkin’” covers the actual Harpers Ferry raid—and, after five episodes building to…

“Hiving The Bees” is the first episode of The Good Lord Bird that really feels like an episode of TV show, which I…

We’re halfway through The Good Lord Bird, and “Smells Like Bear” is a bit of a holding pattern episode. Mostly, it…

This week, The Good Lord Bird focuses on a debate around tactics—specifically, whether John Brown’s violence is the…

Folks, it’s not every day you see Steve Zahn get blown in half with a cannon. The gratuitously gory death of Zahn’s…

The first time you realize John Brown might be insane, he’s literally spitting mad. The famed abolitionist has…

The opening titles of this episode give us the showdown we’d been expecting since the announcement that Jude Law…

It took a while, but the protagonist of The New Pope has finally become clear. It’s not Lenny Belardo, even though…

From its mid-season stretch of conniving, plotting, and despair, The New Pope has risen from the dead. For most of…

John Paul III is a bad pope.

John Brannox is a weak man—or, at least, a soft one. Though he hides behind an air of seriousness (and John…

He was only elected one episode ago, but it feels like John Brannox has been pope for ages. Much of this fourth…

The papacy is, generally speaking, seen as a leadership role. The pope gives guidance to the world’s Catholics,…

If we thought the church was in a state of disarray before, it’s teetering on the edge now. The death of Francis II…

There’s a hole in the middle of The New Pope.

Putting aside the jokes about how the title characters in Marvel’s Runaways didn’t actually run away from home until…

After the last season of Steven Universe ended, it seemed like there wasn’t much more for the show to do—Steven…

Where has this show been all season?