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One South Is a Well-Intentioned But Shallow Look Into the U.S. Mental Health Crisis
The statistics are alarming: one out of 10 young adults in the United States are diagnosed with a serious mental...
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Dancing for the Devil Blurs the Line Between True Crime and Reality TV
While Netflix’s true-crime catalog continues to grow, its 2024 titles have been a mixed bag so far.
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ID's Fallen Idols Walks a Thin Line Between Platforming Victims and Exploiting Them
In Investigating Discovery+, Primetimer staffers and contributors comb through the Discovery+ catalog to identify hidden gems and take a closer look...
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Not Even Tiger King and Fyre Fest Could Prepare Chris Smith for The Hollywood Con Queen
It’s always been incredibly difficult to make a steady living in entertainment.
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Frontline and The AP Document Police Use of Force Among the Most Vulnerable
As other programs and programmers increasingly take the rubbernecking approach to documentaries, PBS stalwart Frontline continues to hold the line...
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Far From Comprehensive, Hulu's Bon Jovi Documentary Still Strikes a Chord
Tommy used to work on the docks.
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An American Bombing Delivers a Potent Warning About Right-Wing Extremism
The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.
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Eva Orner on How Brandy Melville and Social Media Fuel 'Toxic' Exploitation of Teen Girls
In the 2010s, it seemed like every teenage girl had a bunch of Brandy Melville tees hanging in her closet.
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FX's Spermworld Wades Into the Choppy Waters of Family Planning
“I look at this as making a cake.
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Murder in Boston Isn't Another Look at the Carol Stuart Case — It's a Reckoning
The tragic story of Carol DiMaiti Stuart has been told many times before.
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Facebook and Flimsy Beliefs Lead to Catastrophe in HBO's Love Has Won Documentary
Is Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God a true-crime documentary? It’s shot like one, albeit with the benefit...
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FX's How to Fix a Pageant Makes the Case for Saving Pageantry
The pageantry circuit needs more than a new publicist.
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Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me Succeeds by Refusing to Glorify Its Subject
30 years after Alek Keshishian ended his ultra-successful Madonna documentary with an infamous game of "Truth or Dare," he employs...
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Armie Hammer 'Preparing Himself' for Bombshell House of Hammer Allegations (Report)
Content warning: This story includes references to sexual assault and domestic abuse.
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BBC Marks 20 Years of Facebook With Zuckerberg Doc
It's been almost 20 years since Facebook's founding, and the social media network has impacted society in profound ways.