The show raises questions about the trust we put in the institutions that claim to protect us. I could not watch this series without thinking of the world’s denial and inadequate response regarding climate change.

The British period genre has been quietly retrofitted to accommodate a gay love story more familiar from our own time.

On the Season Two premiere of “Pose,” the FX drama about a group of L.G.B.T. people of color living on the margins of New York City in the 1980s and ’90s, activists are shown protesting inside New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

The priest in “Fleabag” is of a type that has become, surprisingly, quite common in film and on television

If almost a decade of watching “Game of Thrones” has taught me anything, it’s that fairy tale endings are for children.

A political satire with Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a constant presidential candidate, “Veep” gleefully exposed the hollowness of unbridled ambition, and it was fun (if also dread-inducing) through Sunday’s finale.