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Striking Actors and Hollywood Studios Agree to a Deal

Brooks Barnes, John Koblin and Nicole Sperling New York Times
The agreements with actors and writers represent a capitulation by Hollywood’s biggest companies, which started the bargaining process with an expectation that the unions, especially SAG-AFTRA, would be relatively compliant.

Returning to Laurel

Jonathan Odell The Progressive
A feel-good HGTV show sweeps a Southern town’s racist past, and gentrified present, under the rug.

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Dark Winds | TV Trailer

Tribal policeman Joe Leaphorn wrestles with a series of apparently unrelated crimes on the Navajo Nation reservation in this new series based on the Tony Hillerman novel. Now streaming on AMC. #DarkWinds #AMC #AMCPlus

How TV Lied About Abortion

Tanya Melendez Vox
For decades, dramatized plot lines about unwanted and unexpected pregnancies helped create our real-world abortion discourse.

Movie | Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Morgan Neville's new movie Won't You Be My Neighbor? documents the unlikely stardom of Fred Rogers and his long-running children's show. In theaters now.

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The Wire and the World

Helena Sheehan, Sheamus Sweeney Jacobin
A decade ago, The Wire series finale aired. The show was a Marxist's idea of what TV drama should be.
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