‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Wants to End With a Message of Hope

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Wants to End With a Message of Hope

Though it was conceived in the Obama era, “The Handmaid’s Tale” arrived on Hulu in the early months of the first Trump presidency. Eight years later, it is concluding at the dawn of the second as an enduring, if initially accidental symbol of feminist resistance. Like the 1985 Margaret Atwood …

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Through Tears, ‘Mid-Century Modern’ Makes Them Laugh

Through Tears, ‘Mid-Century Modern’ Makes Them Laugh

On an evening in mid-January, there were bouquets piled outside of Linda Lavin’s trailer on the Disney lot in Burbank, Calif. Nearby, on a soundstage, a black ribbon was wrapped around her caricature. Lavin had died on Dec. 29, at age 87. Now the creators and cast of “Mid-Century Modern,” …

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Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman, a Team Again in “Paradise’

Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman, a Team Again in “Paradise’

Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman realize that some viewers might want another “This Is Us.” That tear-jerking NBC hit, which Fogelman created, was a sprawling, time-hopping family drama in which Brown played Randall Pearson, the adopted Black son in a white family who is grappling with his mental health. …

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