Daniel D'Addario

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Best TV Shows of 2018 So Far

From 'Atlanta' to 'Wild Wild Country'

By Daniel D'Addario

Jim Parsons Is So Much More Than Sheldon

Jim Parsons can’t catch a break. He’s made it to New York City, where he’s speaking in Gramercy Park, a small urban oasis near his apartment, and there’s not a cloud in the sky. (He...

By Daniel D'Addario

HBO’s The Tale Grapples With Shifting Perspectives on Abuse and Trauma

A true story of trauma, brought to life in fiction

By Daniel D'Addario

Why Harry and Meghan's Wedding Was a Meaningful Step Forward for the Monarchy

The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — or, if you prefer, of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex — was a collision between the United Kingdom and the United States, a geopolitical tango...

By Daniel D'Addario

HBO’s Fahrenheit 451 Extinguishes What Made the Book Great

“This is all you need to know. Anything else will make you sick. Crazy.” So says Michael Shannon, playing a captain of a brigade of “firemen” in HBO’s new film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451. He...

By Daniel D'Addario

Benedict Cumberbatch Soulfully Portrays a Fallen Aristocrat in Patrick Melrose

The Patrick Melrose novels, by the British writer Edward St. Aubyn, depict the life of a dissolute man as he goes from squandering his promise to having squandered it. Patrick is born into high social...

By Daniel D'Addario

Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon Says She's a 'Candidate of This Time.' How the Actor Is Carving Her Role in Politics

Sitting in the open kitchen of her New York City apartment, the first-time political candidate snacks on pistachios and talks campaign-finance reform. “In New York, you can’t call out Wall Street, right?” says Cynthia Nixon,...

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Bill Cosby's Conviction Is an Unexpected Win for #MeToo. But There's a Long Way to Go

Thursday brought news that many observers thought they’d never see: real legal repercussions for Bill Cosby.The comedian and Cosby Show actor was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault against Andrea Constand in 2004....

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Scandal Helped Define the Obama Era. And Maybe Predicted Trump's

The D.C. soap opera Scandal, which ends its seven-season run on ABC’s air on Thursday, outlived its own era; the series effectively ended with the election of Donald Trump. That’s because the show was so...

By Daniel D'Addario

How Sean Hannity’s Relationship With Michael Cohen Reveals Fox News’ Vulnerability

Near the start of his Monday evening broadcast, Fox News opinion host Sean Hannity asked why “fake news CNN, conspiracy-TV MSNBC today” weren’t covering the U.S. strike on Syria that had taken place three nights...

By Daniel D'Addario

TIME TV Critic: Comey Met Trump on His Own Terms – and Came Away Looking Smaller

Comey, a giant of a man, has seemed odd before, but he'd never before seemed quite so small

By Daniel D'Addario

'Not Everyone's Going to Love You.' Lester Holt on Scoops, Debates and Viewers’ Trust

The NBC Nightly News anchor on a difficult presidential debate, the Comey firing scoop and finding a home in broadcast historyYou went to Memphis to cover the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination....

By Daniel D'Addario

Westworld Is Finally Back. And Its Women Are Ready to Take Over

Thandie Newton likes to take the lead. When I meet her, co-star Evan Rachel Wood and Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy–three of the HBO show’s fierce women–in a Los Angeles hotel suite, I dither about whether...

By Daniel D'Addario

Laura Ingraham Is Fox News's Problem, and Its Way Forward

Ingraham blazed a path of ire with stemwinding lectures that invited the audience to join her in resentment against the "other"

By Daniel D'Addario

What Donald Trump Doesn't Understand About Roseanne

The Roseanne revival, which premiered on ABC this week, didn’t just bring back a familiar set of characters. It also brought back a particular social climate from the 1990s — one in which the show’s...

By Daniel D'Addario

The Americans Becomes a Modern Russian Tragedy in Its Final Season

—On Wednesday, the bickering married spies of FX’s The Americans return to TV—and find a different world. That applies to the action of the show’s sixth and final season, which has jumped ahead three years...

By Daniel D'Addario

What Exactly Is Katy Perry Doing on American Idol?

So far on ABC’s revived American Idol, Katy Perry has held a golden ticket to Hollywood between her toes and asked a male contestant to grab it. Then, she kissed another male contestant on the...

By Daniel D'Addario

The Reality Show President Has Met His Match in Stormy Daniels

When it comes to defining public opinion through the power of television, the reality-show presidency may just have met its match.Interviewed on “60 Minutes” about her alleged sexual relationship with President Donald Trump, Stormy Daniels...

By Daniel D'Addario

In the Roseanne Revival, the Political Becomes the Personal

Roseanne Conner is a Trump voter, and it makes sense. The sitcom mom played by Roseanne Barr lives in one of the Rust Belt towns that broke heavily against Hillary Clinton–though, in Illinois, she’s technically...

By Daniel D'Addario

Shep Smith Has the Hardest Job on Fox News

In a Manhattan Fox News studio on a recent Tuesday in February, Shepard Smith sits ready to begin taping his 3 p.m. newscast. He’s spent the preceding hour typing out edits to his script with...

By Daniel D'Addario
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