Television is where long-form storytelling lives now, for better and occasionally much worse. This tag collects reviews and essays on TV: series worth study, storytelling at episodic scale, and what the medium teaches writers.
1970sJune 6, 2026
Tobe Hooper made one of the finest TV horror productions ever, with a silent Nosferatu-style vampire and unforgettable scares. Salem's Lot earns its 7.5 as one of the finest pieces of television horror ever made and proof that the right…
1990sMay 19, 2026
Hideo Nakata directs the Japanese supernatural horror about a cursed videotape that kills viewers seven days after watching. Ringu is Hideo Nakata's 1998 Japanese supernatural horror film adapted from Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel, depicting a Tokyo television reporter investigating a…
2010sMay 19, 2026
Made viewers cry in theaters. The production combines archival footage from the program with new interviews and exploration of Rogers's larger cultural significance.
2000sMay 19, 2026
Joseph Sargent's 2004 HBO film. Alan Rickman as Dr. Alfred Blalock, Mos Def as Vivien Thomas.
1970sMay 19, 2026
Sidney Lumet's 1976 TV news satire. Network is Sidney Lumet's 1976 American satire about commercial television.
1990sMay 18, 2026
1997 Roger Spottiswoode Bond film with Brosnan facing media mogul Carver. Tomorrow Never Dies is Roger Spottiswoode's 1997 British spy film.
2000sMay 16, 2026
Attenborough's 2006 eleven-episode HD landmark. Five years, $25M, 71 cameramen.
1990sMay 16, 2026
Attenborough's 1995 series using time-lapse to make plants act like animals. Strangler figs, carnivorous pitchers, vines that kill their hosts.
2000sMay 16, 2026
Attenborough's 2002 ten-episode series on mammalian behavior. Hunting, social order, sex, parenting.
2010sMay 16, 2026
Marine iguana versus racer snake sequence broke the internet. Planet Earth II is the BBC natural history television series narrated by David Attenborough.
1970sMay 16, 2026
Attenborough's 1979 thirteen-episode evolutionary survey. Life on Earth is the BBC natural history television series presented and narrated by David Attenborough.
1990sMay 16, 2026
Attenborough's 1998 ten-episode avian survey. Mating, migration, song, flight.
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