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HBO’s first teen drama, starring Zendaya, is a wild, unsettling ride that refuses to tie up loose ends or let its characters take easy ways out.

Aesthetic is all Nicolas Winding Refn’s Amazon series starring Miles Teller has to boast.

Even when “Big Little Lies” Season 2 is messy — and it is, more often than not — the mess at least feels like the point.

Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us” immerses viewers in a tale with none of the gaudy fun that true crime often offers.

The musical adds up to more than the film’s cynical goth fantasia by creating themes and characters (a few) worth caring about.

If anyone could play Hillary Clinton, it’s Laurie Metcalf – and here she is, in Lucas Hnath’s “Hillary and Clinton.”

Adam Driver and Keri Russell make sparks in a passionate dance of denial and discovery, in this Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s play.

The Broadway “Be More Chill” feels more even and flows more smoothly than it did Off Broadway.

Madonna sounds uncompromising and less concerned with mass consumption on “Madame X.”

“Western Stars” may not be Springsteen’s most lived-in-feeling album, but its orchestrated ’60s folk-pop is irresistible.

This resumption proves we weren’t just imagining how good their pop chops were in the 2000s.

Morrissey, the quintessentially curmudgeonly crooner, finds the crabbiness in other artists’ songs in the all-covers album “California Son.”

“Rage” tried to stretch a shooter across an expanse; “Rage 2” does the opposite and threads an expanse through a shooter.

Uncomfortable. Outlandish. Campy. Combined with the game’s complex, precise gameplay, it’s a damn good fighting game.

It’s hard to shake the feeling that if it traded in some of its stubborn design cruelty for just a touch of empathy, it would be all the greater.

Seven years of Telltale’s “The Walking Dead” comes to a close with this final season.