Radhika Menon

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Netflix’s One Day is the second adaptation of the 2009 David Nicholls novel of the same name, this time in the form of a limited series starring Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall. Over 14 half-hour episodes, the series charts the friendship and underlying romance between best friends Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew over 20 years, and is by and large a much richer and more engrossing version of the story than the 2011 film that starred Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess.

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In the new Hulu limited series Tiny Beautiful Things, Clare (played by Kathryn Hahn) is a mess, coping with the fallout of her decisions. Our first introduction to her is while she’s wasted in the back of an Uber on her way to break into the home her husband has exiled her from. Suddenly homeless, Clare camps out at her hospice care job where she is routinely reprimanded for bad behavior; she makes impulse romantic decisions; and she’s still carrying the festering grief ...

In March 2005, ABC premiered a medical procedural as a midseason replacement for “Boston Legal.” It featured no huge names and wasn’t helmed by an auteur writer: “Grey’s Anatomy” came out of nowhere to become a primetime phenomenon. The series about a group of surgical interns learning their craft, falling in and out of love, and working at a hospital that is a hotbed for large-scale crises has been on the air for 19 seasons and i...

The “Grey” in Grey’s Anatomy officially hung up her scrubs. After 19 seasons, Ellen Pompeo exited the series that shot her to stardom and made her one of the highest-paid TV actresses, where she played the titular “dark and twisty” surgical intern turned Chief of Surgery Meredith Grey. Pompeo’s Meredith has anchored the long-running ABC drama through love triangles, major catastrophes, and a revolving door of cast members. Meredith is literally the voice of the show, with a voice-over that gu...

Co-showrunner Jonathan Lisco breaks down what happens to our teen mom-to-be in season 2, episode 6.

Lexi Howard (Maude Apatow) spent much of the first season of Euphoria waiting in the wings. After watching her best friend, Rue (Zendaya), spiral into addiction and her sister, Cassie (Sydney Sweeney), pine for emotionally unavailable men, Lexi gets her moment in the spotlight in season two. The quiet observer has been teasing her brainchild, a school play that will show the events of the hit HBO show through her eyes, since the season-two premiere. When her burgeoning love interest, Fezco (A...

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In times of trauma, humans often look for explanations. To make sense of experiences that seem abnormal, we seek out reasons and search for explanations behind human impulses. We might call it fate or even chalk it up to God’s will. On Yellowjackets, that phenomenon is called “the wilderness,” and satisfying this high-powered entity seems to dictate much of the girls’ choices and actions—at least, that’s how they’ve explained their subversive behavior to themselves. Blaming th...

Early on in "India Sweets and Spices," Alia (Sophia Ali) spots a handsome young man from across the way in the local Indian store. Immediately, they lock eyes, and romantic music swells, as her hair blows back elegantly by a mysterious indoor breeze. It's a dramatic cliché familiar to fans of Bollywood, whose over-the-top romantic arcs typically start with a scene like this. Alia, it seems, is living in a Bollywood daydream of her own, though crucially she actually lives in the posh New Jerse...

Cole Sprouse has been acting since he was eight months old, but it wasn’t until he was 29 that he took his first crack at a rom-com. In HBO Max’s Moonshot, the actor plays an unlikely leading man: a space-obsessed barista who, after one too many rejections from the Student Space Program, sneaks aboard a shuttle to Mars. It’s a departure from his best-known roles, as h...

Christina Perri is a self-proclaimed emo girl. The singer calls “Jar of Hearts” — her angsty 2010 debut single for the brokenhearted — her “true essence.” A year later, though, is when the songwriter released the song she is best known for: “A Thousand Years.”
“A Thousand Years” from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 has taken on a life of ...

The Character: Kelli Prenny, the fourth corner of Issa Dee’s close college friend group. Always prepared with a clever quip or comeback, Kelli was originally introduced as the “party friend”; in the final season, she’s California sober (minus Champagne, which “ain’t alcohol”), on a path to enlightenment, and intent on becoming BFFs with all her friends’ moms.
The Actor: Natasha Rothwell, 41, a longtime improv performer and comedy writer whose résumé includes a stint on SNL. She was the first ...

After years of churning out now-beloved Disney Channel Original Movies, the network finally has its first Indian American movie star: Avantika, the self-aware and confident teen starring in the highly-anticipated dramedy, Spin.
For decades under the DCOM banner, Disney Channel launched one-off films and new franchises that transcended what a made-for-TV movie could be. But it isn’t until now that one of their original films featured an Indian American lead, despite 5.4 million South Asian diaspora in the US.

Spoilers for “Ruminations: Big and Little Bullys,” the third episode of the second season of Euphoria, below.
Euphoria, HBO’s drug-fueled daydream of a show about high-school students exploring their sexuality, sexual limits, and party drugs, returned for its second season earlier this month. In the premiere, Nate (Jacob Elordi) was beaten within an inch of his life by Fezco (Angus Cloud) at the New Year’s rager, and his strict dad, Cal (Eric Dane), sought revenge in episode two — first by in...

After Rue hits rock bottom, fueled by a tour de force performance from Zendaya, the latest episode of Euphoria offers a much-needed comedown. She still has a shaky relationship with her mother (Nika King) and sister (Storm Reid), who must bear the brunt of her drug-induced outbursts, but in the throes of withdrawal, Rue tries to make good — at least with her sponsor, Ali (Colman Domingo). She apologizes for breaking his trust earlier this season in a heartbreaking phone call; Ali accepts and ...

It seems the TV Gods have heard me. Late last year, I lamented about the lack of college shows. It’s a setting that ideally enables characters to break out and find themselves away from parental oversight (much like it does in real life), instead of pigeonholing adult narratives to high school. When Mindy Kaling’s Sex Lives of College Girls premiered, I was overjoyed that it showcased four diverse girls navigating their newfound freedom, providing an excellent slice of life story at a pri...