Brian Lowry
media columnist and critic
Brian Lowry is a media columnist and critic, most recently at CNN, and before that Variety and the Los Angeles Times.
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Jerry Springer’s not-so-secret sauce
A new Netflix documentary takes a deep dive into the primordial ooze to show how grainy “The Jerry Springer Show” highlights (or rather, lowlights) echo into the present day.
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Demi Moore finally gets her flowers
“The Substance” star can no longer claim to have never won anything.
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The dystopian world of ‘Squid Game’ feels too close to reality
The show returns at a moment when skepticism and distrust about billionaires and their oligarchic tentacles have reached a fever pitch.
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Why ‘Wicked’ is the over-the-top escape America needs right now
The musical adaptation is perfectly timed to an American audience eager for distractions after a bruising election cycle and its uncertain aftermath.
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Amazon Prime’s ‘The Boys’ has a salient message about the incoming Trump admin
After the 2024 election, the similarities, even if cartoonish, feel harder to ignore.
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Why Trump has (several) good reasons not to want people to see ‘The Apprentice’
The film is unflattering in timely and pointedly significant ways.
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The other big winners of the Trump-Harris debate? ABC’s fact-checking moderators
David Muir and Linsey Davis will inevitably face a backlash for daring to rein Trump in at all. But any fair-minded appraisal would conclude they found the proper balance.