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Troy Patterson

Troy Patterson

Staff Writer at The New Yorker

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Troy Patterson
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Thuso Mbedu Is Just Getting Started

In ‘The Underground Railroad,’ the South African star gave one of the TV’s most powerful performances—and made history. Now, with Viola Davis, Mbedu heads back home.
newyorker.com

“Get Organized with The Home Edit” Is Infomercial Reality Television

Netflix’s new relative of “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” in which two organizing influencers transform Khloé Kardashian’s garage and regular families’ clutter, feels like just another marketing channel.
newyorker.com

The Celebration of Juneteenth in Ralph Ellison’s “Juneteenth”

The book features an extraordinary passage that shows how to regard the holiday as a holy day.
newyorker.com

The TV-Studio Audience Goes Missing in the Coronavirus Crisis

This dispersal of community is a necessary thing, with an eeriness that is actual and conceptual and metaphorical: a symptom of a new approach to public space.
newyorker.com

“Hunters” Is a Spectacularly Misbegotten Tale of Avenging the Holoc...

Neither the moral deliberations of the new Amazon series nor its technical facility are adequate to its ambitions.
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“Love Is Blind” Is Offensive to Human Dignity, Which Is Key to Its ...

The premise of the Netflix show is promoted as a utopian innovation. “Your relationship will begin by forming an intimate bond with nothing to distract you,” a co-host, Nick Lachey, says.
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A New Update of “High Fidelity” Feels Stuck in Its Original Century

“High Fidelity” has always concerned itself with nostalgia for youthful heartbreak, but, this time around, the mists of memory haze obscure the hero.

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The Top Thirty Cultural Moments of the Twenty-Tens

The running-through-Chinatown scene in “Frances Ha,” Vogue’s interview-less Beyoncé cover story, Cindy Sherman’s Instagram account, and more.
art-critique.com

A new exhibition explores the complexities of the hoodie

There are few items of clothing as socially, politically and racially charged as the hoodie. It has come to represent a modern day parable of social inequality,
newyorker.com

Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television

Programs on WE tv, AMC, Netflix, and Hulu offer celebrity chat, in-depth analysis of landmark songs, a reality competition, and a dramatized look at the making of one of the genre’s titans.
newyorker.com

The Time-Bomb Tension and Thrilling Surreality of HBO’s “Watchmen”

Regina King gives a performance so subtle and muscular as to exhaust all superlatives.
newyorker.com

The Trash-Talk Pyrotechnics of the “Succession” Finale

The final episode of Season 2 deconstructs the characters’ ways of speaking power into existence. When they try to talk normally, they find that they have reached their limit.
newyorker.com

A Lifetime Movie Nails the College-Admissions Scandal

The movie knows a thing that is, apparently, rather difficult to say: that the system of higher learning in the United States is a scam at its essence.
newyorker.com

A New Book Argues That Trump Is Television in Human Form

“Audience of One,” by James Poniewozik, identifies Donald Trump as a postmodern feeler, who intuits and responds to the stimuli of electronic media with the dark brilliance of an idiot savant.
newyorker.com

How Beabadoobee’s “I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus” Reckons with a Roc...

A new track by a London teen-ager joins a catalogue of tribute songs that honor and interrogate rock-and-roll heroes.
newyorker.com

The Joyous, Fragmented, and Slightly Anxious 2019 Emmy Awards

These Emmys were uneven and unsettled, and thus unusually interesting by the standards of this telecast. It was the text of a medium in flux.
newyorker.com

Tender Buttons, a One-of-a-Kind New York Institution, Closes Shop

The Upper East Side institution wasn’t just a shop; it was performance art. It presented a new parsing of common objects, with Wunderkammer charm.
newyorker.com

A Message of Useful Beauty from New York Fashion Week

I am optimistic about the futures of some of the very youngest designers precisely because they are palpably pessimistic about the future at large.
newyorker.com

How the Orange-Wine Fad Became an Irresistible Assault on Pleasure

The fact that orange wine is challenging—that its appeal is more cerebral and gastronomic than carnal and epicurean—is central to its identity.
newyorker.com

Why “Styling Hollywood” Is One of the Best Celebrity-Stylist Realit...

The show is a wholesome domestic soap about the perils and rewards of mixing business and pleasure, in which high style merges with basic cheese.
newyorker.com

“The Loudest Voice” Eviscerates Roger Ailes and Fox News

The series presents the view that Fox News programming is essentially a propagandistic edit of Ailes’s own conservatism—nakedly self-interested, tacitly white supremacist, and theatrically aggrieved.