Television

The fantasy series’ nihilistic refusal of meaning is the bravest TV finale since ‘The Sopranos’

‘Past is prologue’ in two shows at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, following the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive

In its final season, ‘Veep’ satirizes the heartless ambition driving US politics

Twenty years since the original series, there is still much to be done in confronting regressive prejudices against the LGBTQ+ community

Twenty years on from the devastating shooting, can its cultural legacy in film and television reframe our present moment?

The television show – the director’s first – is a sequel to his 1997 film of California queer disillusion, Nowhere

Once labelled a ‘TV terrorist’, the video artist returns with her first posthumous retrospective at Red Bull Arts New York

A 1979 televisual essay by the cultural theorist offers insight into black politics and representational struggle in the British media

‘It embodies the qualities of enthusiasm, enquiry and toe-curling earnestness that art can’t exist without’

For all the camp and capering, Eddie and Patsy’s antics also have a plaintive, even existential tinge

A recent spate of TV shows set in Missouri show the state as a cultural imaginary on the fault line of US political debate

Landing only months before the US midterm elections, it’s impossible not to understand the show foremost in the context of the Trumps and Kushners of the world

Author George Pendle on his biography of Jack Parsons, the scientist, mysticist and follower of Aleister Crowley, now dramatized on CBS

Jörg Heiser on memes, memory and Errol Morris's Wormwood

This new docu-series on a cult established in Oregon in the 1980s is a timely exercise in tolerance and a fascinating insight into extremism

From Better Things to Motherhood and SMILF: Michelle Orange charts the turn towards nuanced representations of women in film and TV

US true crime series Unsolved takes two formative pop cultural events to explore their concealed human stories and systemic narratives

The new television series invokes violence and fear as defining forces of civilization, just like the Kenneth Clark original

From The X-Files to The Orville to Black Mirror: what role does sci-fi play in our age of fake news?

Transcending the sentimental falsehood that makes nostalgia problematic, on David Simon’s 1970s New York drama