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It’s not just about casting two women in the leads. It’s about keeping their characters nuanced and complicated in a genre dominated by men.

BBC gang drama series draws on the extraordinary life of a passionate Communist trade union activist who made history in the 1920s

On Thursday night, the FX show aired a weird, wonderful ode to working motherhood.

So who’s the real villain: Rick, Morty, or the society that would drive them (and the socioeconomic classes of America) apart?

Part of what made the episode so bracing was this combination of serious material — the way holidays announce whose history is important — and biting jokes that would have no place in your ordinary Let's Learn A Leson episode of TV.

The new Star Trek spin-off passes the Bechdel test under a minute into the series premiere.

'Malcolm in the Middle' showed that the promises of neoliberalism had always been false.

David Simon has created a gritty, urban drama about the moment pornography became "street legal" in New York City, and the commodification of flesh became an industry.

Where HBO's Game of Thrones once showed a one-dimensional view of female strength, it now makes clear that there are many ways to be strong.

By folding a discussion of mental illness and its stigmas into the series, The Tick has proven a powerful source of representation.