Monica Hesse

Beth and Rip are in Texas now, and there are still cows, as the 'Yellowstone" universe expands again.

A critic spends hundreds of hours in the weird and wonderful world of television for young children.

One of the most popular movies on Netflix is a true-crime documentary exploring an incident that might not even be a crime, and behaviours more nebulous than the law was ever prepared to adjudicate.

The phrase “Platonic ideal” refers to the philosopher's conception that real life and meaning exist on an abstract spiritual plain beyond our physical existence and comprehension. You think you have seen a donkey, say, but no, you have only seen a shadow of a donkey - a hypothetical representation. You cannot even begin to comprehend the real thing. All of us go through life like dogs seeing in muted colors, not knowing what we're missing, except on Sunday night when anyone with a subscription to Paramount+ was allowed to experience the Platonic ideal of what it means to be an American in 2026, the real donkey, and it was a UFC fight on the White House lawn.

By Monica Hesse washington post The best show on television or any other screen right now is Reflecting Pool.

When HBO sent out advance press materials for its new limited sketch comedy series, “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness,” the network included several requirements.

I lived through that decade, and the over-scrubbed version we see in the new TV show about the pink-clad blonde ain’t it.

Monica Hesse Graham Platner emerged from the Atlantic and into our national psyche in the summer of 2025 like a scubadiving walrus-prince, slugging

In 1869, Laura Ingalls peered out from the keyhole-shaped opening of a covered wagon bound for Kansas, and the American story she saw became the American story you heard, in

In a new adaptation of the book series, there's more destiny to manifest and more American myths to make