Season Two

Anya Chalotra on Season Two of ‘The Witcher’ and the Joy of Punching Things

In 'The Witcher' on Netflix, the classically trained actress Anya Chalotra brings South Asian representation to a world full of elves, demons and magicians as Yennefer—and gets to let loose in some fight scenes.

By Max Gao

‘Transparent’ Recap 2×01: Something Old, Something Jew

When its first season debuted, Transparent provoked millions of thought pieces and critical essays, examining not just the gender issues addressed in the Pfefferman clan, but the religious ones as well. It was lauded as being the "Jewiest" show on TV by both The Forward and Tablet, and resonated in a deeply personal way for anyone who spent their middle-school years wishing, like Ali (Gaby Hoffman), that they'd be given the option of bowing out of their bat or bar-mitzvah.

By Drew Grant

‘The Leftovers’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Do You Believe in Miracles?

Last year it seemed weird that so many people found The Leftovers to be a joyless, miserable slog while also celebrating joyless, unbelievably popular miserable slogs like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. Maybe meditations on loss, the fragility of the social contract, and PTSD are only palatable when served up with a side order of people getting hacked apart? Or maybe it’s that spending an hour everySunday night watching sad sacks wallow is more fun when you know there’s a massacre right around the corner, maybe it’s safer to meditate on loss et al when that meditation is a MacGuffin for freaky special effects and not the point of the show.

By Thomas Batten

‘Scandal’ Season 5 Premiere: On the Good ‘Ship Olitzia

By Bex Schwartz

‘Empire’ Season 2 Premiere: A Fan Fiction Recap

By Drew Grant

No Alarms and No Surprises, Please: ‘True Detective’ Season 2 Better Than Original

By Drew Grant

‘Orange is the New Black’ 2nd Season Review: ‘It’s A Metaphor, You Potato With Eyes’

By Drew Grant

Season Two of ‘True Detective’ Will Have Three Lead Characters

By Vinnie Mancuso

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