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 Fashion, sex, drugs, drama—the life of Roy Halston Frowick had all of that, and Halston, the Netflix miniseries from executive producer Ryan Murphy, captures it. Ewan McGregor stars as Halston, an American designer as inventive and inspired as he was troubled, with Krysta Rodriguez, Rebecca Dayan, and Sietzka Rose as Liza Minnelli, Elsa Peretti, and Karen Bjornson, just some of the muses, friends, clients, and collaborators who filled out his glamorous circle. “I’ve found that Halston was so interesting because his environment was so controlled while his creativity was so chaotic,” Murphy told Vogue earlier this year, and director Daniel Minahan explores both sides of that dichotomy: the vision of slicked-back chic that emerged from his studio, as well as the personal and financial crises that led to his untimely undoing.—Marley Marius

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the inventive AMC series Kevin Can F**K Himself, Ilana Kaplan wrote in June, Schitt’s Creek star Annie Murphy plays Allison, “a dowdy sitcom wife in Worcester, Massachusetts, who has had enough of the humiliations her husband has inflicted on her and decides to exact revenge. Allison is looking for a way out of her airless, claustrophobic marriage, and the show manifests her drive through a unique, genre-bending form in which Murphy’s character lives in two worlds: a multicam sitcom where she grins and bears the indignities of her situation and a dark, single-cam prestige drama that underlines her suffocating rage and anguish. Murphy walks through doors or other passageways and the format changes—a jarring and effective  shift that, in its contrasts, highlights the artifice and contrivances of the sitcom world.”“You can’t make a show about the god of mischief unless you’re willing to get weird, and Marvel’s Disney+ series Loki is just that,” Janelle Okwodu wrote in July. “A time-traveling dramedy about Norse deities who make poor life choices, Loki crams an immense amount of information and action into six episodes. While there’s plenty of phase-four exposition and references to the comics, there’s also an evil cartoon clock, romantic comedy subplots, alligators, alternate timelines, and a mustachioed Owen Wilson.”

 

 

Netflix’s Maid stars Margaret Qualley as Alex, a young mother who turns to domestic work after leaving her abusive partner. “Without money, a degree, or much family support to speak of—Andie MacDowell (Qualley’s real-life mother) plays Alex’s bipolar artist mom, and her father is mostly out of the picture—she finds herself at a loss, navigating a catch-22 safety net: In order to qualify for the benefits that will sustain her, she has to obtain the very thing she lacks, a paycheck,” Chloe Schama wrote earlier this month. Yet Maid is no slog: “Qualley’s performance lights up the small screen, while MacDowell’s skrewball antics, stopping just short of caricature, give her scenes a madcap pleasure. She may not be of much use to Alex, but in all her gray-haired glory, she sure is a delight to behold.”“I have a weakness for the cheap thrills of a thriller, the benign jeopardy of the fantastic,” Raven Smith wrote in May. “Step forward Mare of Easttown, the Kate Winslet–fronted HBO drama that’s keeping audiences engrossed (and ever so slightly depressed) with its portrayal of police detection in rural Pennsylvania. As we try and ascertain who done it (and the tricky vowels of the rust belt accent), episodes offer precisely what we want from a police drama: a sense of authenticity, minus the actual banality of real life. The show is equally drab and riveting, claustrophobic and caustic. I’m going nuts on thesaurus adjectives to stop myself writing gritty, cliché as the word is, but Easttown is Gritopia, and the show is greased by the brutal tenacity of Winslet in the titular role.”