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The cultural cinematic ascendency of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the late 2000s gave way to an enormously long glut of superhero cinema that only just started to wane sometime in the mid-’20s. But thanks to the blinding financial success of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” the superhero wave might yet continue for a few more…

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With three seasons in the can, a Season 4 premiere date set at Netflix, and a handful of Emmy nominations currently pending, “The Diplomat” has established itself as one of TV’s biggest political dramas in recent years. It’s been a while since a political thriller series has captured the zeitgeist as well as this one,…

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HBO Max is home to a lot of Emmy-nominated television, both from HBO proper (Task, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, DTF St. Louis) and Max originals (The Pitt,Hacks). You won’t find these shows anywhere else. It’s also home to two hit spinoffs of shows that ended in May 2019,House of the Dragon (Game of…

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And so begins the closing out of summer on Netflix. As the world’s biggest streaming service basks in the month’s standouts like Don’t Say Good Luckand The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, there’s still a bit more to squeeze out of it, including Adam Scott’s horror film The Whisper Man and one topping this weekend’s bingeable…

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The amount of treasure hunts on TV is about to take a swan dive: Outer Banks is signing off with its fifth and final season. There are always more Netflix teen dramas waiting in the wings — just look at My Life With the Walter Boys, which returns for Season 3 this August and has…

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Non-supernatural shows about young people mostly fall into two camps: witty, good-looking people hooking up and realizing that adulting is hard, or witty, good-looking people hooking up and running from psychopaths. In August, Hulu’s release schedule has both of those. The FX comedy Adults returns for its second season of trying to figure out how…