Judy Berman

Early in Sunday’s third episode of The White Lotus’ Thailand-set third season, the dysfunctional North Carolinian Ratliff family is discussing matriarch Victoria’s (Parker Posey) ominous dream of being engulfed by a tsunami. According to her earnest, spiritual daughter, Piper (Sarah […]

“Gordons don’t lose.” This is the motto of the dysfunctional family at the center of the new Netflix comedy Running Point. The Gordons own an iconic Los Angeles NBA team—fictionalized as the Waves but inspired by the Lakers and their

Alec Baldwin has lived many lives in the public eye, each stranger than the last. He had a typical rise to fame, graduating from soaps to prime-time to movies over the course of the 1980s. Soon he was an A-list

In an early scene of the Netflix thriller Zero Day, a former U.S. President is visiting the site of a deadly Manhattan subway crash when an onlooker starts shouting about crisis actors. A fight breaks out. Barricades fall. The chaos

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the first episode of The White Lotus Season 3. Who would’ve thought that the character who’d make the biggest splash in the Season 3 premiere of HBO’s The White Lotus would appear on screen

In an early episode of Squid Game 2, the series’ working-class hero Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) is summoned to a dance club on Halloween night. Weaving among revelers dressed as sexy nurses, cops, and skeletons, he eventually spots the masked

The morning after a nice date that ended in bad sex, the heroine of Peacock’s new comedy Laid takes stock of her love life. “Here I am, after 20 years of dating,” Ruby (Stephanie Hsu) laments to her best friend

With the Netflix hit Dead to Me, creator Liz Feldman developed a potent formula for addictive television. Equal parts black comedy, madcap crime drama, and the bubbliest of soap operas, the show cast Linda Cardellini as an agent of chaos

One of the greatest pleasures of the Peak TV era was that an excellent series could come from almost anywhere. Lifetime could greenlight the smart, satirical thriller You (which would become a hit for Netflix after failing to attract an

‘Unfilmable’ books come in more than one variety. The classic examples are modernist masterpieces like Ulysses, in which James Joyce dilates a day to 732 pages and switches stylistic conceits with each chapter, and Mrs. Dalloway, rooted in the interiority