Halt And Catch Fire has always been a show that wore its heart on its sleeve, but that heart was particularly prominent in recent weeks. Following the unexpected death of Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), the show gave over…
Less than a week ago, Amazon Studios president Roy Price was placed on a leave of absence after The Man In The High Castle producer Isa Dick Hackett—who happens to be the daughter of Philip K. Dick—accused him of having “repeatedly and insistently propositioned her” at a company party in 2015. Hackett turned him down,…
Weinstein Company co-founder Bob Weinstein has been making a dedicated effort to distance himself and his company from his brother, Harvey Weinstein, both by working to fire him from the company and by dismissing him as “sick and depraved” over the many allegations that he sexually harassed and assaulted women. But…
As reported by Variety, Canadian actor John Dunsworth—best known for his role as Jim Lahey on Trailer Park Boys—has died. The news was first reported by his daughter, Sarah Dunsworth, who shared a statement on social media explaining that her father “left this world peacefully after a short and unexpected illness.”
There’s no better standup working today than Patton Oswalt, his observational skills turning anecdotes into painfully funny short stories, and insults into dizzyingly nimble tirades. For the first 35 minutes of his new Netflix special, Patton Oswalt: Annihilation, Oswalt is the comic we expect, even as his elaborately…
“eXodus,” the third episode of The Gifted, opens with another flashback, this one of Eclipse (whose “street name”—superhero name if you wanna be a geek about it—is used repeatedly) and Polaris three years earlier than the events of the series, sharing what is presumably their first kiss when Eclipse first comes to the…
“Triggers” answers the question of how Supergirl will approach Kara’s post-Mon-El funk going forward: No, her smile at the end of the season premiere wasn’t meant to indicate she magically fixed the major emotional trauma that’s plagued her for the past six months. But she’s not just wallowing in her misery either.…
At its core, “Mr. And Mrs. Mazikeen Smith” is a very by-the-numbers episode. Perhaps not for Lucifer specifically, but it’s certainly got its place in terms of classic television and procedural concept.
HBO has already had a lot of success with giving a big platform to a former Daily Show correspondent with John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, and now the premium cable network is looking to do it again by giving former Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac his own show as well. This comes from Deadline, which says the…
SpongeBob SquarePants is currently the longest running series on Nickelodeon and the second longest running animated kid’s series on television (behind Arthur), amassing over 200 serialized episodes and more than a dozen specials. In the video above, we chat with a few members of SpongeBob’s talented cast and crew,…
When I suggested last week that Ghosted could fix its A-story/B-story problems by segregating the Bureau Underground staff into their own little show, separate from the top-level antics of Adam Scott and Craig Robinson, I wasn’t expecting the series to take me quite so literally, quite so quickly. But that’s exactly…
If you caught the Family Guy episode that preceded tonight’s Last Man On Earth, you know they made a little joke at this show’s expense. After originally being a show that focused on, well, the last man on earth, the show’s cast has expanded considerably since it debuted in 2015, and has now become an ensemble…
Russell is a fragile man who can’t catch a break. Perhaps that’s karma, as the universe offsets all of his toxic nonsense and unrelenting cruelty with moments that make him cower in fear and frustration. No matter the reasons, be they spiritual or just plain bad luck, it’s clear that Russell’s path in the second…
“You two have no compassion, no caring for another human.”
“It’s an illness, for sure.”
At least we’ll always have Fat Tony.
Anyone disappointed by Star Trek: Discovery’s grim/dark view of the future past will likely leave “Choose Your Pain” still disappointed. The episode continues the trend of stark conflicts, bad vibes, and interpersonal squabbling. Even the introduction of one of the original Star Trek’s most memorably campy creations…
“Payoff” is the long con of serialized television. Anybody who’s watched a show that’s trying to be the next Breaking Bad, the next Mad Men, the next Sopranos, hell, the next Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has felt the cheat. You give the show regular installments of your time, be they in weekly allotments or in big,…
When I first saw the title of this episode, “Silence of the Louise,” I assumed that it would be Louise herself taking on the Hannibal Lecter role in some capacity. She is, after all, an evil mastermind in her own right, but with more than enough charm to manipulate those around her. Who other than Louise would have…
Edmund Kemper is not your average pop-culture serial killer. That’s the point. Mindhunter’s second episode may be dogged by many of the same problems as its premiere—we’ll get to that later—but its decision to cast “The Co-Ed Killer” as the Hannibal Lecter to restless FBI Agent Holden Ford’s Clarice Starling is as…
A certain kind of person—or maybe all people, or most people, or many kinds of people but only a few of each, who knows, moving on—a certain kind of person gets swallowed alive by an emotional trauma, and feels that the only way to feel grounded again, to feel like they’ve got direction, or get out of bed at all is to…
Last year, when Bernie Sanders was a fun herald of our gloriously liberal future and not a painful reminder of how little it pays to be hopeful about anything, his passing resemblance to Larry David inspired Saturday Night Live to bring the Seinfeld co-creator on to host an episode of the show—an episode that turned…
