
Inkoo Kang
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Television critic @newyorker. Pronounced in-goo. Find me at the other place and/or get updates from me: https://t.co/PWBRWywr9v
San Francisco Bay Area
Joined February 2010
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RT @NewYorker: Recent shows about the ethically challenged rich have emphasized their characters’ personality disorders along with the trap….
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The Apple TV+ series, starring Jon Hamm as a hedge funder turned thief, serves up luxury porn in the guise of social critique.
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RT @NewYorker: “If Hollywood still can’t resist telling stories about itself, it can at least strive for honesty about its flop era.” @inko….
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The industry has long loved to tell stories about itself—but, in 2025, the self-satirizing has an air of crisis management.
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RT @NewYorker: The first season of the Tudor-era drama “Wolf Hall” ends with Anne Boleyn’s decapitation. Season 2 ends with Thomas Cromwell….
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In the culmination of the Hilary Mantel adaptation, Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell becomes a more poignant figure, weighed down by regrets.
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RT @NewYorker: The new FX/Hulu miniseries “Dying for Sex” has a morbid, somewhat off-putting hook: a woman with terminal cancer looks to ge….
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The Michelle Williams-led series, about a woman seeking erotic fulfillment amid a terminal diagnosis, starts off as an unorthodox comedy—then deepens into something far better.
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RT @NewYorker: The first season of the Tudor-era drama “Wolf Hall” ends with Anne Boleyn’s decapitation. Season 2, which débuted on March 2….
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In the culmination of the Hilary Mantel adaptation, Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell becomes a more poignant figure, weighed down by regrets.
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RT @NewYorker: “Dying for Sex,” the Michelle Williams-led series about a woman seeking erotic fulfillment amid a terminal diagnosis, starts….
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The Michelle Williams-led series, about a woman seeking erotic fulfillment amid a terminal diagnosis, starts off as an unorthodox comedy—then deepens into something far better.
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RT @NewYorker: “The Pitt,” a new Max series, is built on nostalgia and predictability. “It’s structured such that you know you’ll have your….
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The hectic medical drama, now streaming on Max, is a throwback to a different era of television—and a counterintuitive comfort watch.
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RT @NewYorker: This season of “The White Lotus” is “not quite dark enough to confront what happens in a country where foreigners can buy ne….
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In the third season of Mike White’s HBO satire of the rich and terrible, a now familiar formula yields diminishing returns.
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RT @NewYorker: “The Pitt,” a new Max series, is built on nostalgia and predictability. “It’s structured such that you know you’ll have your….
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The hectic medical drama, now streaming on Max, is a throwback to a different era of television—and a counterintuitive comfort watch.
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RT @NewYorker: The new season of “Severance” seems to pull back from bleakness, losing itself in abstract ethical conundrums and rote emoti….
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The sci-fi series was hailed as a dark, timely satire of office life—but its return is bogged down by abstract ethical conundrums and rote emotional ones.
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RT @roxana_hadadi: I had a good time on It's Been a Minute, being very cynical about what it means that we keep killing our daddies on TV,….
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From HBO's Industry to FX's The Bear, 2024 was full of TV characters working out their "daddy issues" the tough way...by committing patricide. This week Brittany is joined by Vulture's TV critic...
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RT @NewYorker: This year was an exceptionally weak one for television—until the arrival of a few late, great contenders. @InkooKang shares….
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In an otherwise bleak year for television, a few truly great entries shone all the more brightly.
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RT @NewYorker: With the new HBO comedy “The Franchise,” Hollywood gets the “Veep” treatment. The two shows are “united in a bone-deep cynic….
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Satirizing the superhero-blockbuster business, HBO’s new comedy finds mostly easy targets, but eventually something more.
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RT @NewYorker: In setting, subject matter, and theme, “Say Nothing,” stands “refreshingly apart from most other American programming, and i….
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The FX adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book captures both the allure of the I.R.A.’s cause and the way violence comes to weigh on its perpetrators.
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RT @NewYorker: The new FX/Hulu series “Say Nothing,” a nine-part drama adapted from The New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe’s nonf….
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The FX adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book captures both the allure of the I.R.A.’s cause and the way violence comes to weigh on its perpetrators.
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NYC! It’s your last chance to get tickets for my talk with Bridget Everett and Amy Sedaris at @NewYorkerFest on Saturday, October 26th
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I would not have guessed a miniseries written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Cate Blanchett to be one of the worst shows of the year, but life is full of surprises.
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Alfonso Cuarón’s foray into television is a work of such vacuity that even Cate Blanchett can’t salvage it.
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RT @NewYorker: Apple TV+’s soi-disant succession drama, “La Maison,” is “more diversion than art, but what diversion,” @inkookang writes. “….
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Apple TV+’s soi-disant succession drama may gesture at weighty themes, but it’s soapier—and often more fun—than its prestige counterparts.
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