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‘It never made any sense’ … a rally against the layoffs at Xbox outside the Activism building in Austin, Texas, this month. Photograph: Emilio González/Communications Workers of America‘It never made any sense’ … a rally against the layoffs at Xbox outside the Activism building in Austin, Texas, this month. Photograph: Emilio González/Communications Workers of America

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In the two decades since “Avatar: The Last Airbender” emerged as one of the greatest fantasy shows ever made, fans have hardly lost interest in the fictional world of the Four Nations. Opportunities to revisit it have been few and far between — and, at least with regard to the live-action adaptations, disappointing.

Chappell Roan’s love of cosplay continued at the Daisy Chain Fields this past weekend, where the singer took the stage in a look straight from The Fifth Element.Roan dressed up as one of the 1997 sci-fi film’s Fhloston Paradise space shuttle flight attendants, complete with their signature bob. “Really lived out my Fifth Element fantasy,”…

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Joe Weisberg’s “The Americans” always did things right. Two KGB agents posing as regular American citizens in a nice Washington D.C. suburb while hatching various wicked Soviet espionage plans was a whopper of a premise, and it was a masterstroke to painstakingly humanize the Soviet spies — a character archetype that’s often relegated to stereotypical antagonism…

For Siddharth, portraying a real-life hero like Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja meant resisting the temptation to turn him into a larger-than-life figure. In Operation Safed Sagar, which revisits the Indian Air Force role in the Kargil War, he sought to bring out the humanity behind Ahuja’s heroism. In this conversation, he talks about the responsibility…

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The idea of a teenager or young adult finding themselves in a scenic setting has been the premise of many popular television dramas. With that in mind, we’re highlighting the shows that share similar sensibilities with “My Life with the Walter Boys.” Mostly set in picturesque locales, these shows also feature protagonists growing up, finding…

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A high-stakes mix of action, love, and deep betrayal, Prime Video’s “Ride or Die” follows Debbie Claybourne (Octavia Spencer), a woman whose personal ambitions took a back seat while she poured everything into fueling her husband’s political rise. Her life changes instantly after discovering her best friend, Judith Burton (Hannah Waddingham), is an assassin for a…