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Dark Winds retools and modernizes Hillerman's conception. Set amidst the fiercely beautiful New Mexico landscape of the early 1970s, this entertaining series stars, is written by, and is largely directed by Native Americans.

While the specific program is new, this isn’t the first time artificial intelligence has created a version of a television program, and it likely won’t be the last.

While it’s always refreshing to see the lives of working people centered in our media, the docuseries Working: What We Do All Day is hampered by the limitations of its host and narrator, former president Barack Obama.

The dystopian drama spins class warfare into gold.

Warrior’s greatest strengths have always lied in its ability to combine deft social commentary, such as the parallels between the racist and xenophobic attitudes of 19th-century San Francisco and the alarming spike in anti-Asian attacks during Covid

You’re okay, Computer — it’s the corporations that aren’t.

Barack Obama abandoned his commitments to unions, and many top staffers went to work for the gig economy. In his Netflix series Working, the former president bears witness to workers’ suffering as if it were immutable.

The conformity of 1950s film and television was the result of the successful McCarthyist purge of leftists — and their genres — from the entertainment industry. The life of socialist screenwriter Very Caspary shows how it was done and what was lost.

The HBO film adapts the FBI transcript from Reality Winner’s interrogation into a stunning thriller.

Succession is heading toward its series finale, having settled into a portrait of how the ultrarich’s quest for limitless accumulation crowds out any semblance of humanity. The show is the most potent piece of class critique on TV in recent memory.