June Thomas

I’m interested in the speculation in the comments that Mike either a) has an informant in the DEA or b) is watching Lydia’s office. (As Shrek and...

In Slate’s Homeland TV Club, June Thomas will IM each week with a different partner—policy experts, intelligence researchers, critics, and...

Editor’s note: For the benefit of American readers who haven’t yet seen Season 3 of Downton Abbey, please do your best to avoid spoilers when...

Emily and Matt,

Friends,

The tricky part about playing Walter White is that it requires a quiet kind of skill. Bryan Cranston rarely gets to do Lear-like scenes of ranting in...

New York City won’t have an openly lesbian mayor any time soon. In Tuesday’s election, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the early frontrunner to...

If there was one takeaway from this week’s episode, it’s that things can always get worse. Jesse’s pit of hell at least came with occasional servings...

The amateur sleuth trope gets an update.

“Making the gradual shift from quantity of work to quality of work is important.”