Indigenous representations of the real world are key to Kali Reis
Kali Reis hits hard. That's true whether he co-stars alongside Jodie Foster in the fourth season of HBO's “True Detective”…
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Matt Smith corrects interviewer about Emma D'Arcy's pronouns
Matt Smith deftly corrected an interviewer who got the pronouns of his non-binary “House of the Dragon” co-star Emma D'Arcy…
Sara Ramírez divorces Ryan DeBolt 6 years after separating
Sara Ramirez and Ryan DeBolt are ending their marriage, more than six years after going their separate ways. Ramirez, known…
Review of 'Fantasmas': the sweet and strange comedy by Julio Torres
As it seeks to preserve its prestige with the next “Game of Thrones” or “Succession,” HBO will occasionally provide the…
HBO's 'Ren Faire': Rewarding Documentary About the Struggle for Power in a Small Town
I haven't been to a Renaissance fair since… well, not since the Renaissance, but a long time. However, I know…
20 years ago at the Emmys: The Godfather meets the Soprano
Lead Actor Emmy winners tend to be veteran actors, but where they earn those veteran acting stripes varies widely. And…
'The Jinx Part Two' ending: how Robert Durst's family helped him
NEW YORK – Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki has spent much of the last 20 years thinking about Robert Durst, the notorious…
'The Synanon Fix' shows how a rehab group became a cult
In the late 1950s, Charles “Chuck” Dederich started a drug rehabilitation program in a Santa Monica store. Dederich, a recovering…
How the Vietnamese community is reacting to HBO's 'The Sympathizer'
Never before has a television series sparked as much enthusiasm, attention and concern among California's expat Vietnamese community, the largest…
Review of 'The Sympathizer': a moving story about friendship
What is more psychically exhausting, in fiction and I suppose in life, than the story of the double agent, the…