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Netflix’s The Innocents puts a horror twist on teenage romance

by Catherine Pearson

It may look like your aver­age YA fod­der, but there’s some­thing sin­is­ter lurk­ing beneath the sur­face of this super­nat­ur­al drama.
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20 of the best new TV shows you should watch

by Emma Fraser

From peak Amy Adams to the return of Matt Groen­ing, these are the series you can’t afford to miss this summer.
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The power of painful stories in Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette

by Hannah Strong

In her new Net­flix spe­cial, the Aus­tralian com­ic refus­es to play by the rules of stand-up comedy.
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With Netflix’s The Staircase, true crime has come full circle

by Nasri Atallah

The pop­u­lar­i­ty of this and oth­er recent series reveals some­thing inter­est­ing about the genre’s limitations.
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GLOW ‘Viking Funeral’ review – These girls are out to do more than have fun

by Roxanne Sancto

Sea­son two sets us up for a deep­er under­stand­ing of the show’s char­ac­ters and their group dynamic.
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Sense8’s ‘Amor Vincit Omnia’ shows the power of positivity in adversity

by Roxanne Sancto

The fea­ture-length finale gave fans, the char­ac­ters and the Wachowskis the clo­sure they all deserved.
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How The Americans uses pop culture to bridge Cold War politics

by Emma Fraser

Ref­er­ences to Russ­ian and US cin­e­ma help to make sense of the oppos­ing ide­olo­gies of the time.
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How Phoebe Waller-Bridge is popularising the female gaze

by Roxanne Sancto

The Fleabag and Killing Eve series cre­ator is putting com­plex, dan­ger­ous, relat­able women on screen.
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The Handmaid’s Tale Season Two gets off to a harrowing start

by Roxanne Sancto

The sit­u­a­tion hasn’t improved for Elis­a­beth Moss’ Offred in this grip­ping sea­son opener.
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What would you like to see from the Sopranos prequel?

by Joe Boden

David Chase’s quin­tes­sen­tial mob series looks set to grace the big screen in 2019.