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Hanh Nguyen is an Executive Editor, Culture & Food at Salon and an the award-winning culture critic whose work has also appeared on IndieWire, TVGuide.com and The Hollywood Reporter. She co-hosts the "Good Pop Culture Club" podcast, which examines the good pop that gets us through our days, from an Asian American perspective. Follow her on Bluesky @hanhonymous

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Judy Ho in "House of Ho" (HBO Max)

Challenging patriarchal practices makes “House of Ho” more than just a Vietnamese Kardashians clone

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Blake Lee and Ben Lewis in "The Christmas Setup" (Lifetime)

TV’s first crop of queer Christmas movies range from saccharine fun to superficial flops

Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
(Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fanny packs are back, baby! A weird fashion silver lining in a sweatpants year

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(Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ronan Farrow’s voices (and other audiobook delights) helped me get through this year

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Amy Adams in "Hillbilly Elegy" (Lacey Terrell/Netflix)

“Hillbilly Elegy” is “poverty-class cosplay” and “laughably bad” – reviews of Netflix’s adaptation

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Zita Hanrot and Marc Ruchmann in "The Hookup Plan," "Harley Quinn," and Jason Sudeikis in "Ted Lasso" (Netflix/DC Universe/Apple TV+)

Comfort TV: 9 comedies to binge as an escape from our nation’s madness

Melanie McFarland, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon in "The Queen's Gambit" (Netflix)

The fluidity of “The Queen’s Gambit” is its secret weapon

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Anya Taylor-Joy and Jacob Fortune-Lloyd in "The Queen's Gambit" (Netflix)

“The Queen’s Gambit” is the sexiest and most thrilling TV show about chess you’ll ever watch

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Deaf U (Netflix)

Netflix’s “Deaf U” wants viewers to see “there is no one right way to be deaf”

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Millie Bobby Brown in "Enola Holmes" (Legendary/Netflix)

Sherlock’s teen sister channels “Fleabag” for Netflix’s fourth-wall-breaking feminist romp

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Matthew Broderick in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986) (Paramount Pictures)

How the iconic “Ferris Bueller’s” parade and “Dirty Dancing” number inspired Netflix’s new musical

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Vivian Wu, Mark Ivanir, Hilary Swank, Ray Panthaki, and Ato Essandoh in "Away" (Netflix)

“A world beyond fear”: Netflix’s “Away” questions the pull of Earthbound politics in space

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How a disastrous attempt to pee inspired Netflix’s mission to Mars drama “Away”

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"Twenty Thousand Hertz" episode audio deepfakes (Matt Fleming/20kHertz)

Beware the audio deepfake, which can be far more damaging politically than video

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Lee Re & Lee Jung-hyun in "Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula" (Well Go Entertainment)

Despair all ye who board the joyless “Train to Busan” sequel, where even the zombies feel generic

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"Luster," "All the Right Mistakes," "A House Is a Body," "True Story," "Disappear Doppelganger Disappear," "The Death of Vivek Oji" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/She Writes Press/Algonquin/Viking/Little a/Riverhead Books)

The dark and biting “Luster,” plus 5 more provocative must-reads for August

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
"Raised by Wolves" key art poster (HBO Max)

Watch the trailer for Ridley Scott’s U.S. TV directorial debut, sci-fi series “Raised by Wolves”

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Feliks Zemdegs and Max Park in "The Speed Cubers" (Netflix)

Netflix’s engrossing Rubik’s Cube competition doc reminds us what we’re missing without the Olympics

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Peacock TV (Peacock)

What the hell is Peacock? Here’s a guide to the “free as a bird” streaming service

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July Reading List (Salon/Henry Holt and Co./Dial Press Trade/Flatiron Books/Ecco/Gallery/Saga Press)

New page-turners heat up our summer reading: “Blacktop Wasteland,” “The Only Good Indians” and more

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
Death in her Hands by Otessa Moshfeigh, Self Care by Leigh Stein, Block Seventeen by Kimiko Guthrie, You Exist too Much by Zaina Arafat, and The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Salon/Riverhead Books/Catapult/Blackstone Publishing/Penguin)

Brit Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half” and 4 more must-read novels out in June

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
Friends, from left, Sheba Sahlemariam, from Los Angeles, Vicky Van, from San Gabriel, Raven Ramos, from Culver City and Jasmine chow, from San Gabriel, joined nearly 1,000 people gathered to protest the death of George Floyd and in support of Black Lives Matter, in downtown, Los Angeles, CA, on Friday, June 5, 2020. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

My fellow Asian Americans, we must address the anti-Blackness rampant in our community

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Matthew Macfadyen and Michael Sheen in "Quiz" (AMC)

True or false? AMC’s “Quiz” goes inside the game show coughing scandal that tests confirmation bias

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"Looney Tunes," "Love Life," "The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo," "Legendary" (HBO max)

HBO Max is here – but not for everyone! Here’s how to watch, plus reviews of every original show

Melanie McFarland, Ashlie D. Stevens, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Hanh Nguyen
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