Inkoo Kang
@inkookang.bsky.social
Television critic at The New Yorker. Pronounced in-goo. Get updates from me: https://inkoo.substack.com/ | https://linktr.ee/inkookang
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Sterlin Harjo’s new series, “The Lowdown,” starring Ethan Hawke as a citizen journalist determined to expose the crimes of the élite, is at once rollicking and timely, @inkookang.bsky.social writes. Read her review.
“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era
Sterlin Harjo’s new series, starring Ethan Hawke as a citizen journalist determined to expose the crimes of the élite, is at once rollicking and timely.
www.newyorker.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Sterlin Harjo’s new series, “The Lowdown,” starring Ethan Hawke as a citizen journalist determined to expose the crimes of the élite, is at once rollicking and timely, @inkookang.bsky.social writes. Read her review.
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The Trump Administration’s attack on late-night TV is part of a much broader agenda, @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
How Donald Trump’s Culture-Wars Playbook Felled Jimmy Kimmel
The late-night host’s show was pulled from the air after an F.C.C. pressure campaign—one that’s part of a much broader Presidential agenda.
www.newyorker.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Trump Administration’s attack on late-night TV is part of a much broader agenda, @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
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Many in Hollywood have concluded that they have to win back audiences by producing more content that represents red-state values. “There’s an experimental energy in the crop of shows catering to this newly prized demographic,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
Hollywood’s Conservative Pivot
After the success of “Yellowstone” and “The Chosen,” the industry is chasing other red-state hits—an uneasy context for the revival of the Texas-set “King of the Hill.”
www.newyorker.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Many in Hollywood have concluded that they have to win back audiences by producing more content that represents red-state values. “There’s an experimental energy in the crop of shows catering to this newly prized demographic,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
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Is “And Just Like That” bad enough to retroactively diminish its predecessor? “I’d argue yes,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
“And Just Like That . . . ,” Carrie Bradshaw Bids an Unsatisfying Farewell
The series sequel to “Sex and the City” ends with an abrupt, disappointing finale.
www.newyorker.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Is “And Just Like That” bad enough to retroactively diminish its predecessor? “I’d argue yes,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
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With its quicksilver shifts and sneaking sweetness, the experience of watching “Too Much” feels a lot like falling in love, @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
“Too Much” Remixes the Rom-Com
In her new Netflix show, Lena Dunham revitalizes the genre by delving into her characters’ pre-meet-cute pasts—and all the attendant emotional baggage.
www.newyorker.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
With its quicksilver shifts and sneaking sweetness, the experience of watching “Too Much” feels a lot like falling in love, @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
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With its quicksilver shifts and sneaking sweetness, the experience of watching “Too Much” feels a lot like falling in love, @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
“Too Much” Remixes the Rom-Com
In her new Netflix show, Lena Dunham revitalizes the genre by delving into her characters’ pre-meet-cute pasts—and all the attendant emotional baggage.
www.newyorker.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
With its quicksilver shifts and sneaking sweetness, the experience of watching “Too Much” feels a lot like falling in love, @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
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more than 8,000 journalists have been laid off since 2022. That's 9% of the industry.
What’s common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Not everything you think should be said out loud.
Not everything you think should be said out loud.
June 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
more than 8,000 journalists have been laid off since 2022. That's 9% of the industry.
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June 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.
(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)
Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.
(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)
What is common knowledge in your field, but. shocks outsiders?
Most algae isn't bad or harmful. #NotAllAlgae
Most algae isn't bad or harmful. #NotAllAlgae
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Scientists and governments aren’t colluding to hide the cure for cancer.
Scientists and governments aren’t colluding to hide the cure for cancer.
June 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.
(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)
Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.
(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)
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Recent shows about the ethically challenged rich have emphasized their characters’ personality disorders along with the trappings of the high life. ” ‘Your Friends and Neighbors’ flips the formula, to unsatisfying effect,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
“Your Friends and Neighbors” and the Perils of the Rich-People-Suck Genre
The Apple TV+ series, starring Jon Hamm as a hedge funder turned thief, serves up luxury porn in the guise of social critique.
www.newyorker.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Recent shows about the ethically challenged rich have emphasized their characters’ personality disorders along with the trappings of the high life. ” ‘Your Friends and Neighbors’ flips the formula, to unsatisfying effect,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
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Recent shows about the ethically challenged rich have emphasized their characters’ personality disorders along with the trappings of the high life. ” ‘Your Friends and Neighbors’ flips the formula, to unsatisfying effect,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
“Your Friends and Neighbors” and the Perils of the Rich-People-Suck Genre
The Apple TV+ series, starring Jon Hamm as a hedge funder turned thief, serves up luxury porn in the guise of social critique.
www.newyorker.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Recent shows about the ethically challenged rich have emphasized their characters’ personality disorders along with the trappings of the high life. ” ‘Your Friends and Neighbors’ flips the formula, to unsatisfying effect,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
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A sitting cabinet member being unable to define the bedrock principle of Anglo-American law for nearly a millennium will get .00001% of the coverage devoted to Hillary Clinton’s email server or Joe Biden’s mental capacity
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.
Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as the President’s Right to Deport People
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A sitting cabinet member being unable to define the bedrock principle of Anglo-American law for nearly a millennium will get .00001% of the coverage devoted to Hillary Clinton’s email server or Joe Biden’s mental capacity
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that one scene in SINNERS is one of the most breathtaking feats of cinema i've seen in years. coogler is cooking.
May 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
that one scene in SINNERS is one of the most breathtaking feats of cinema i've seen in years. coogler is cooking.
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Sharp @inkookang.bsky.social column about Hacks and The Studio: www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
On “Hacks” and “The Studio,” Hollywood Confronts Its Flop Era
The industry has long loved to tell stories about itself—but, in 2025, the self-satirizing has an air of crisis management.
www.newyorker.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Sharp @inkookang.bsky.social column about Hacks and The Studio: www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
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The Pulitzer I’m most excited about was for audio reporting, “In the Dark,” which didn’t get nearly the attention it should have. www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-t...
In the Dark
Long-form investigative journalism, hosted by Madeleine Baran.
www.newyorker.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The Pulitzer I’m most excited about was for audio reporting, “In the Dark,” which didn’t get nearly the attention it should have. www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-t...
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Hollywood has long loved to tell stories about itself—but, in 2025, the self-satirizing has an air of crisis management. @inkookang.bsky.social writes about the new season of “Hacks” and Seth Rogen’s new series, “The Studio.”
On “Hacks” and “The Studio,” Hollywood Confronts Its Flop Era
The industry has long loved to tell stories about itself—but, in 2025, the self-satirizing has an air of crisis management.
www.newyorker.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Hollywood has long loved to tell stories about itself—but, in 2025, the self-satirizing has an air of crisis management. @inkookang.bsky.social writes about the new season of “Hacks” and Seth Rogen’s new series, “The Studio.”
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This is two global elections in ONE WEEK where the conservative candidate trying to become prime minister not only led his party to a big loss but lost their own seat in parliament (!) in huge upsets. We are global pariahs unseen since the end of the Cold War and need stronger domestic opposition.
Australia re-elects Anthony Albanese as Labor rides anti-Trump wave to seal crushing win
Opposition leader Peter Dutton fails to dissociate himself from Trump-like rhetoric and policies – and loses his seat
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This is two global elections in ONE WEEK where the conservative candidate trying to become prime minister not only led his party to a big loss but lost their own seat in parliament (!) in huge upsets. We are global pariahs unseen since the end of the Cold War and need stronger domestic opposition.
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Gotta love these AI simps constantly misrepresenting why people hate this technology
It’s not just because it currently sucks
It’s because it’s very existence is based on a crime
It’s not just because it currently sucks
It’s because it’s very existence is based on a crime
April 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Gotta love these AI simps constantly misrepresenting why people hate this technology
It’s not just because it currently sucks
It’s because it’s very existence is based on a crime
It’s not just because it currently sucks
It’s because it’s very existence is based on a crime
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I finally subscribed to WIRED a few months back and...I love it?
Its tech lens on culture and politics means it's writing some of today's best journalism. You can see that scope just in today's most popular pieces.
Its tech lens on culture and politics means it's writing some of today's best journalism. You can see that scope just in today's most popular pieces.
April 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I finally subscribed to WIRED a few months back and...I love it?
Its tech lens on culture and politics means it's writing some of today's best journalism. You can see that scope just in today's most popular pieces.
Its tech lens on culture and politics means it's writing some of today's best journalism. You can see that scope just in today's most popular pieces.
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There are not many jobs like this in journalism, so when somebody quits one for this reason, it is worth listening to.
Breaking News: The executive producer of “60 Minutes” said that he would resign from the long-running program because he had lost his journalistic independence.
Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence
The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
There are not many jobs like this in journalism, so when somebody quits one for this reason, it is worth listening to.
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Though Season 2 of HBO’s “The Last of Us” gives its characters’ individual dynamics more room to breathe, it ends up feeling smaller than its predecessor over all, @inkookang.bsky.social writes. Read her review.
Can “The Last of Us” Outlive Its Antihero?
The series’ most exhilarating episode yet ended with the brutal murder of a beloved character. Where does the show go from here?
www.newyorker.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Though Season 2 of HBO’s “The Last of Us” gives its characters’ individual dynamics more room to breathe, it ends up feeling smaller than its predecessor over all, @inkookang.bsky.social writes. Read her review.
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The new miniseries “Dying for Sex” has a morbid, somewhat off-putting hook: a woman with terminal cancer looks to get laid while she still can. But the show is “also something of a Trojan horse,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
In “Dying for Sex,” Cancer and Kink Are Just the Beginning
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.
nyer.cm
April 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The new miniseries “Dying for Sex” has a morbid, somewhat off-putting hook: a woman with terminal cancer looks to get laid while she still can. But the show is “also something of a Trojan horse,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
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“The Pitt” is built on nostalgia and predictability. “It’s structured such that you know you’ll have your heart broken and mended several times per episode—it’s just a matter of how,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt”
The hectic medical drama, now streaming on Max, is a throwback to a different era of television—and a counterintuitive comfort watch.
nyer.cm
April 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“The Pitt” is built on nostalgia and predictability. “It’s structured such that you know you’ll have your heart broken and mended several times per episode—it’s just a matter of how,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
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“The Pitt,” an “E.R.” meets “24” medical drama, harkens back to a different era of television. It’s “a counterintuitive comfort watch,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt”
The hectic medical drama, now streaming on Max, is a throwback to a different era of television—and a counterintuitive comfort watch.
www.newyorker.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“The Pitt,” an “E.R.” meets “24” medical drama, harkens back to a different era of television. It’s “a counterintuitive comfort watch,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
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The second season of “Wolf Hall,” a PBS/BBC adaptation of the novelist Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of the same name, arrives a decade after the first season but it is “arguably greater than its acclaimed predecessor,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
The Second Season of “Wolf Hall” Surpasses Its Acclaimed Predecessor
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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March 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The second season of “Wolf Hall,” a PBS/BBC adaptation of the novelist Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of the same name, arrives a decade after the first season but it is “arguably greater than its acclaimed predecessor,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.