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    On Watching ‘Roots’ and ‘Holocaust’ for the First Time

    Tuning in to the 1970s historical family sagas that defined a generation’s idea of victimhood and survival—and changed television

    byRuth Margalit
  • ( Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photos Keith Bernstein/HBO and Shutterstock)
    ( Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photos Keith Bernstein/HBO and Shutterstock)
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    Why Is This Knight Different?

    As HBO’s medieval fantasy Game of Thrones returns, imagining a Jewish version of the Seven Kingdoms

    byRachel Shukert
  • Elizabeth McGovern as Lady Grantham and Hugh Bonneville as Lord Grantham on Downton Abbey.(Nick Briggs, Courtesy of © Carnival Film & Television Limited 2012 for MASTERPIECE)
    Elizabeth McGovern as Lady Grantham and Hugh Bonneville as Lord Grantham on Downton Abbey.(Nick Briggs, Courtesy of © Carnival Film & Television Limited 2012 for MASTERPIECE)
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    Downton’s Missing Jews

    The hit period-specific PBS drama glosses over a crucial detail of 1920s England: anti-Semitism

    byRachel Shukert
  • Michael Stuhlbarg in episode 29 (season 3, episode 5) of Boardwalk Empire.(Macall B. Polay/HBO)
    Michael Stuhlbarg in episode 29 (season 3, episode 5) of Boardwalk Empire.(Macall B. Polay/HBO)
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    Boardwalk Empire Blues

    The reason I don’t like the HBO drama? I want it to be a show about Jewish gangsters.

    byRachel Shukert
  • Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison and Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson in Homeland.(Ronen Akerman/Showtime)
    Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison and Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson in Homeland.(Ronen Akerman/Showtime)
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    Homeland Insecurity

    Post-Sept. 11 fear and regret loom over the gripping new season of the Emmy-winning terrorism drama

    byJudith Miller
  • Downton Abbey’s Crawley sisters, played by Laura Carmichael, Michelle Dockery, and Jessica Brown-Findlay.(Courtesy of Masterpiece)
    Downton Abbey’s Crawley sisters, played by Laura Carmichael, Michelle Dockery, and Jessica Brown-Findlay.(Courtesy of Masterpiece)
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    The Aristocrats

    The upper-crust Edwardians of Downton Abbey, now back on PBS, are as bound by tradition as the shtetl Jews of Fiddler on the Roof

    byAmanda Walgrove
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    (Brechtbug/Flickr)
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    Heartland

    Rescue Me, ending a seven-year run on FX, was the best artistic engagement with Sept. 11, and with the wounds New York sustained that day

    byAlana Newhouse
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