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A low-angle, close-up shot down the aisle of an airplane shows actress Rhea Seehorn as the character Carol from the series Pluribus peeking her head out from behind one of the seats.

Pluribus

By Natasha Ochshorn • February 9th, 2026

It’s important to understand Carol as a person instead of a representative, not only for a better understanding of how fiction works, but for a better understanding of how people work.

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Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett lean in for a kiss in a scene from Black Bag.

Best of 2025

By Natasha Ochshorn • January 14th, 2026

The most sustained joy I got this year was mainlining old seasons of Top Chef while I packed and moved and unpacked apartments.

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A still from Weapons shows main character Justine walking nervously through a school parking lot.

Watching Weapons

By Natasha Ochshorn • December 12th, 2025

Everyone is watching each other but very few are keeping an eye out.

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Wendy runs through the red-lit bowels of a crashed spaceship in this still from Alien: Earth.

Alien: Earth

By Natasha Ochshorn • November 11th, 2025

It’s difficult to be scared of something that you’re maybe rooting for.

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Poster art for High School Musical, featuring a group of teenagers leaping in front of red stage curtains, frozen in mid-air with huge smiles plastered on their faces.

High School Musical and the Gaslighting of America’s Youth

By Natasha Ochshorn • October 10th, 2025

What makes streaming different than past revised mediums is that when changes are made, there may be no older physical model to compare it to.

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Carrie sits across from a giant stuffed toy with a huge tomato for a head at a Japanese restaurant in a scene from And Just Like That.

I’m So Bored, I Could Die

By Natasha Ochshorn • September 16th, 2025

And Just Like That… is a show that often feels in my brain the same way scrolling on the internet does.

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Detail from a drawing of an opulent hotel framed by palm fronds, fruit, and other lush vegetation.

The Listeners Draws a Line at Naziism

By Natasha Ochshorn • August 13th, 2025

You cannot accommodate Nazis without tainting any good you try to accomplish.

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A still from Mountainhead shows the four main characters arm-in-arm in day-glo orange ski coats on the side of a snowy mountain.

Mountainhead

By Natasha Ochshorn • July 8th, 2025

The bros up at Mountainhead are going to leave their bodies behind.

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Diego Luna looks pensively off into the distance in a scene from Andor.

What Are We Talking About When We’re Talking About Star Wars?

By Natasha Ochshorn • June 10th, 2025

The depiction of fascism in Andor, – its annihilating possibilities, its pervasiveness, its seductions towards complicity – feel extrapolated from the present moment, terrifyingly. Its rebellion feels hopefully so.

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The main foursome in Halt and Catch Fire pose in a promo pic for the final season of the show.

Programming Romance

By Natasha Ochshorn • May 8th, 2025

AI will get to know you, or at least predict your shopping habits, but you cannot get to know it back.

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