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Mindy Kaling And Emma Thompson Shatter The ‘Late Night’ Glass Ceiling
There’s a funny thing about late night TV, says Mindy Kaling. Watching these shows, “there’s such a joie de vivre“—but it’s at odds with the “ruthlessness and mercilessness” that goes into making the...
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Like ‘Black Mirror’ And ‘Handmaid’s Tale’? Get Ready To Love ‘Years And Years’
Things are looking bright for pessimists these days—the world has caught up with their sense of gloom. Well over half of those living in the developed world think their countries are heading in the...
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‘Euphoria’ Is Great—But It Does A Disservice To Gen Z Teens Too
In many ways, HBO’s Euphoria perfectly captures the anxieties, the concerns and the general discomfort of being a Gen Z teenager. Getting through high school one lockdown at a time, navigating sex in...
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Sarah Jessica Parker On ‘Divorce,’‘Sex,’ And Her Own #MeToo Moments
Sarah Jessica Parker has spent much of her acting career exploring what it means to be in a relationship—and to be single. In the HBO series Sex and the City, which ran from 1998 until 2004, she played...
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David Harbour on the ‘Stranger Things’ Kids, Being Jim Hopper and Missing Barb
In Stranger Things 3, the citizens of the fictitious town of Hawkins, Ind., have a turbulent Fourth of July ahead of them. But the unconventional teenage protagonists of the show, led by grumpy police...
View ArticleIt’s About Damn Time We Got A Show Like ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’
Over the weekend, the first trailer for A Black Lady Sketch Show dropped and we haven’t been this excited to watch skits since SNL‘s 2005 cast first got together. Executive produced by Insecure‘s Issa...
View ArticleAziz Ansari Aims For Redemption With His New Stand-Up Special, ‘Right Now’
As far as #MeToo revelations go, none have been more controversial or more divisive than the Babe article in which a woman calling herself Grace described a terrible night with Aziz Ansari. The...
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The Most Unintentionally Terrifying Commercials From Your Childhood
Recently, for reasons that remain unclear, that weird Quizno’s Subs commercial from 2004 started trending on Twitter. If you were alive and awake that year, you definitely remember this: Some hailed...
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Netflix Cuts Controversial Suicide Scene From ’13 Reasons Why’
Two years after it released the first season of the show 13 Reasons Why with a graphic suicide scene, Netflix has announced that it has edited it out. The show is centered on the suicide of fictional...
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Now Starring in Children’s Cartoons: Authentic Indigenous Characters
For decades, animated children’s stories included negative stereotypes of Indigenous people. There was Disney’s Pocahontas, which presented the daughter of a Powhatan chief in a romantic love story...
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Inside the All-Black Writers Room of Netflix’s ‘Family Reunion’
In Family Reunion, the new Netflix series, Tia Mowry-Hardrict plays Cocoa McKellan, a free-spirited mother of four and wife of a retired football player, Moz (Anthony Alabi, himself a former NFL...
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‘Veronica Mars’ Offers More Than Nostalgia; She’s Always Been a Survivor
The original Veronica Mars premiered on television 15 years ago, which, in TV terms, was a whole different era. David Milch‘s HBO series Deadwood, which just reunited its cast for a fabulous TV movie,...
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A Kinder, Gentler Wave of Reality TV Tries a Little Tenderness, For a Change
It’s a genre known for screaming matches, hot-tub hookups and contestants who are there to win, not to make friends. But as of late, reality television has taken a kinder, gentler turn. Fire up Netflix...
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A Man and His Bot Wrote a Fake ‘Queer Eye’ Script—and it is Sublime
“I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Queer Eye and then asked it to write an episode of Queer Eye of its own,” the tweet read. Despite the fact that it is almost certainly a false claim—there...
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