UPDATE: Here’s Mike White’s reaction to his series Enlightened getting a second-season renewal by HBO: “I know HBO has had to make some hard decisions. I feel very lucky that they are letting us make ...

Can people really change? That's the question Laura Dern and Mike White ask in their new HBO series, Enlightened, which premieres Monday night. The show features Dern as Amy Jellicoe, an ambitious ...

Not quite getting your fill of feel-bad TV? Well, here’s the show for you! Enlightened’s premiere episode opens with an image of grief at its most grotesque. Laura Dern’s Los Angeles health-and-beauty ...

So, Enlightened was canceled. HBO announced last night that the beloved show was just not beloved by enough people, so the plug has been pulled after two glorious and too-brief seasons. It's a shame ...

It’s a fine line between creating a dynamically flawed character and a pointlessly distasteful one, and “Enlightened” discouragingly crossed it with Monday’s episode. Laura Dern’s Amy was flighty, to ...

Why, the long face of Laura Dern is even more marvelous than usual on Enlightened (HBO, Mondays at 9:30 p.m. ET). It is ever changeable, sea-changeable, even, on this fairly rich, pleasingly strange ...

We learned last night that Amy has worked at Abbaddon Industries (which, according to the word’s Wikipedia page, is Hebrew for the “Depths of Hell,” the “place of destruction,” and/or “The Destroyer”) ...

There’s a general feeling among cable TV fans that television needs to be dark in order to be taken seriously. And I get that. Most of my all-time favorite shows are about meth dealers and undertakers ...

When Enlightened opens, we find 40-year-old Amy Jellicoe (Laura Dern) inside a seafoam green office bathroom stall, bawling her eyes out. It’s unsettling, and that’s the reaction the co-creators, Dern ...