Melanie McFarland

Meghan Markle doesn't elevate how-to TV, giving the haters more to hate

The platform that changed the very meaning of electronic communication is now a dominant TV platform.

It's a familiar story of a wellness scam that explains how we came to see conspiracists as health experts.

All four episodes of Henry Louis Gates' latest are fundamental, but the second holds familiar historic beats

Salon talks to the series' creators about their fantasy of taking on the healthcare system with a mushroom.

Tillman challenged the show's creators to honestly depict office dynamics for Black workers. The result was eye-twitching

If you get a fever for this docuseries, it'll assuredly have been caused by one episode

The "Real Time" hosts latest special, "Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?" is what giving up at the "concepts of a plan" stage looks like

TV's murderously meta reality competition shows us how fame leads us to assume the wrong things about worthiness

It's been years since a Golden Globes telecast was this entertaining, and not just due to its successful emcee