Erin Schwartz
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FilmNovember 18, 2020
The Horrors of Charlie Kaufman
His latest existential love story, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, reveals the limits of his work.
Erin Schwartz
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TelevisionJuly 28, 2020
The Tangle of Desire and Class in ‘Normal People’
The television adaptation of the Sally Rooney novel depicts how people can fall in love in a world structured by power.
Erin Schwartz
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CultureMay 14, 2020
‘God Friended Me’ Was the Strangest Show on TV
Each episode of the CBS comedy-drama functions as a morality play for a peculiar worldview.
Erin Schwartz
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TelevisionMarch 23, 2020
The Beautiful, Baffling Mysteries of Paolo Sorrentino’s Vatican
His television series, The Young Pope and The New Pope, tell us a story bigger than one focused on just church or state.
Erin Schwartz
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TelevisionMarch 2, 2020
Why ‘You’ Is So Terrifying
The Netflix show turns Internet obsession and the need for attention when we’re online all the time into a horror story.
Erin Schwartz
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FilmDecember 18, 2019
Every Generation Gets Its Own ‘Little Women’
Greta Gerwig’s adaptation faces two challenges: to be a good film and to mark how we can imagine women—as sisters, as antagonists, as wives, as workers—in our own time.
Erin Schwartz
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TelevisionOctober 17, 2019
In ‘Succession,’ Who Is the Joke Really On?
The show is heralded as a nuanced and cutting critique of the 1 percent. But whose side is it really on?
Erin Schwartz
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FictionOctober 2, 2019
How Can the Novel Represent Sexual Abuse Honestly?
Looking at a string of scandals at a performing-arts high school, Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise grapples with trauma like few novels this year.
Erin Schwartz
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CultureAugust 5, 2019
The Dirtbag Magnetism of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s ‘Fleabag’
Across its two seasons, the show and its creator’s antic imagination tore apart TV storytelling conventions.
Erin Schwartz
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TelevisionJuly 16, 2019
Is ‘Veep’ Still Funny?
The show’s vicious political satire defined a decade of comedy, but its last season lacked the same punch.
Erin Schwartz