Features & Columns
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Interview: "The Persian Version" director Maryam Keshavarz
An in-depth Q&A with Maryam Keshavarz, a fellow Iranian bisexual whose latest film tells a multi-generational story with a wry wit and huge heart.
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Maya Rudolph cover
An in-depth conversation on everything from burnout to Beyoncé to why music and comedy intertwine so well.
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"How Streaming TV Turned the Premier League Into a Great American Pastime"
A reported look at how streaming TV — from Peacock to Paramount to Apple — have found a lucrative fanbase in England’s Premier League.
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Breaking Down the "Broad City" Cinematic Joke Universe
A video breakdown of “the weird and wonderful world” of Broad City’s surrealistic New York City (ed. Estelle Caswell).
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Jazz Jennings: Variety's Pride cover
Revisiting trans reality star Jazz Jennings, her impact on TV, and her own assessment of it at a particularly fraught time for trans kids.
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"TV Isn't About to Get Worse. It Already Is."
A timely column for The Atlantic on how necessary the WGA strikes were in an increasingly hostile streaming production landscape.
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"How TV Failed Me on Bisexuality — and Then Got Its Act Together"
A personal column on how TV’s fraught relationship with bisexuality mirrored my own, until it didn’t.
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Inside the making of FX's "The Americans"
An in-depth, hands-on report on the production of FX’s Cold War classic series from the beginning of an episode to its end.