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Despite its relative diversity, HBO's “Industry” is peppered with casual instances of sexism, racism, and classism.

"The Undoing" goes to great lengths to get us to empathize with the travails, the struggles, the sadness, the moral failings and even the sheer tediousness of wealthy white people.

To see one of the few dark-skinned fat queer women on HBO's Lovecraft Country killed off by their white racist lover was just so deeply upsetting.

Author Caleb Carr's The Alienist explores the 19th century psychiatric debate between free will and determinism. TNT's nearly identical adaptation of the novel, however, comes up with a completely different conclusion.

In our current social climate, the antisocial aspects of "Curb's" 10th season often come off as shrewdly protective.

The goal of The Plot Against America isn’t to overwhelm audience members with suffering, or to shock us into action; instead, its aim is to remind us of our shared humanity and how essential it is for us to be vigilant against hatred of all kinds.

HBO's Watchmen's writing presents through-lines from slavery to Reconstruction to the so-called “alt-right”; from, as Rage Against The Machine once put it, those who work forces to those who burn crosses.

HBO's Succession peeled back the layers of the all-powerful Roy family, a Murdoch-like media empire built by despicable, ruthless people, and what it showed us was more putrid and awful than we ever could have imagined.

What in 2019 is the equivalent of the nuclear standoff between the Americans and the Russians? It is race and the police, speculates Damon Lindelof, Executive Producer of HBO's Watchmen.

Years and Years is a broad-strokes diagnosis of a species in existential crisis. It’s meant as a warning about what’s happening in the present moment.