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Groucho, Dick Cavett, and a thousand points of delight

“Groucho and Cavett,” an upcoming episode of PBS's “American Masters,” is the highly agreeable product of the mutual adoration between Groucho Marx and the talk-show host.

Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are with Her, and Her, and Her, in ‘Gutsy’

The series, on Apple TV+, follows the former secretary of state and her daughter around the country to meet with women who inspire them.

In HBO’s ‘The Princess,’ the Diana spectacle

The documentary's perspective is outside in: Instead of retrospective talking-head interviews with participants and experts, we get a constant stream of archival photos, headlines, news footage, audio.

When Newman met Woodward

The careers and marriage of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward are the subject of the HBO Max series "The Last Movie Stars."

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‘How to Change Your Mind’: The tripping point
Michael Pollan’s bestseller gets the Netflix treatment in this docuseries that investigates the benefits of psychedelics.

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‘Jurassic World Dominion’: An extinction-level event
Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum from ‘Jurassic Park’ join Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and a whole lot of dinosaurs.

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In the sci-fi thriller ‘Severance,’ to halve or halve not

The unsettling Apple TV+ series centers on a mysterious corporation where workers can choose to split their identities in two.

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Stick around for ‘The Afterparty,’ an inventive whodunit played for laughs

The new Apple TV+ show, with a strong ensemble cast led by Tiffany Haddish, is a treat.

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In HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age,’ old money vs. new money makes for a richly rewarding drama

The series from Julian Fellowes is an elegantly told, gorgeously designed, and finely acted tale that, like “Downton Abbey,” gives us a front-row seat to the slow collision between musty old manners and messier human instincts.

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‘Somebody Somewhere’ is really something

Bridget Everett’s new HBO series takes its place next to shows like "Better Things" and "One Mississippi," low-concept but luminous character portraits.

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The face of addiction: Kaitlyn Dever excels in opioid drama ‘Dopesick’

The series unsparingly depicts the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin.

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There’s more fraud than Freud in ‘The Shrink Next Door’

Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell star as an exploitive therapist and his dupe of a client, respectively, and together they create a fascinatingly intricate psychological system of adulation and abuse.

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Life is messy in Netflix’s ‘Maid’

Margaret Qualley is the face of a single mom’s struggle to "do better."