‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Episode 2 Recap: Let’s Get It On
In the previous episode of Game of Thrones, all the men (except Lord Varys, Grey Worm and the Unsullied) froze their balls off at Winterfell as they prepared for the zombie apocalypse. Speaking of...
View ArticleHBO’s ‘Gentleman Jack’ Brings Britain’s “First Modern Lesbian” To Swaggering...
HBO’s new period drama, Gentleman Jack, is set in the 1830s and tells the extraordinary story of Anne Lister: landowner, businesswoman, mountaineer, and sometimes called “the first modern lesbian.”...
View Article‘Ramy’ Is About One Millennial Muslim—And Everyone’s Racist Uncles
Stories of first-generation Americans tend to stress the same struggles. How do you fit in with your peers when your parents aren’t assimilating? How do you balance your instinct to rebel against your...
View ArticleHuge Bets, Fast Buzzer: Sports Bettor Smashes ‘Jeopardy!’ Records
A new star has risen on a classic game show. James Holzhauer, a Las Vegas professional sports bettor, is on a Jeopardy! hot streak. He has breezily won the last 12 games in a row. But most notably, the...
View Article‘Les Miserables’ Episode 2 Recap: Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi?
In the previous episode of Les Miserables, a lot of miserable things happened. We were forced to watch a gazillion horses die at Waterloo because being scarred for life by Artex’s death scene in The...
View Article‘Les Miserables’ Episode 3 Recap: I Will Follow Him
In the previous episode of Les Miserables, Fantine effortlessly bounced back from her breakup with Felix and treated herself by getting a fun 1990s makeover! Juuuuust kidding. A scammer played by...
View Article‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Episode 3 Recap: Great Balls Of Fire
In the previous episode of Game of Thrones, the Brienne-Jamie-Tormund love triangle heated up in a major way. I haven't been this invested in a love triangle since Felicity, Ben and Noel. (Peep more...
View ArticlePatricia Arquette Talks ‘The Act,’ Religion, and Lessons From Her Trans Sibling
In 2015, a woman named Dee Dee Blanchard was found stabbed to death in the Missouri home she shared with her teenage daughter, Gypsy Rose. As the details surrounding the murder came out, it was...
View ArticleThe Obamas Head to Netflix with Seven New Projects
NEW YORK (AP) — Barack and Michelle Obama on Tuesday unveiled a slate of projects they are preparing for Netflix, a year after the former president and first lady signed a deal with the streaming...
View ArticleTeen Suicide Spiked After Debut Of Netflix’s ’13 Reasons Why,’ Study Says
When Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why was released two years ago, depicting the life of a teenager who decided to take her own life, educators and psychologists warned the program could lead to copycat...
View Article‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 3 Trailer Features Rebellion, Sexy Hand Touching...
The second season of The Handmaid’s Tale wasn’t easy to watch. I mean, neither was the first, but the second one took all that agonizing misery we’d gotten used to and somehow threw it into overdrive....
View ArticleNetflix’s ‘Tuca & Bertie’ Puts The Lady Birds In Charge
Tuca & Bertie is the latest adult animation to hit Netflix, and it centers on a brassy, colorful toucan (voiced by Tiffany Haddish) and her neurotic best friend, a songbird (voiced by Ali Wong)....
View Article‘Les Miserables’ Episode 4 Recap: Like A Virgin
In the previous episode of Les Miserables, I learned that the actress who plays Fantine is Phil Collins’ daughter. My mind is still very blown by that. Oh, and some plot-related stuff happened too. A...
View Article‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Episode 4 Recap: Drunk In Love
In the previous episode of Game of Thrones, all hell broke loose. This Lyanna Mormont moment captures the essence of the Battle of Winterfell: Everyone’s favorite middle schooler ended up dying, along...
View ArticleMTV Moves From Reality TV To Serious Documentary For Generation Z
The global youth brand MTV has chosen Sheila Nevins to head a new documentary division. Nicknamed the “doyenne of documentaries,” Nevins, 80, was the president of HBO Documentary Films. With some 1,500...
View Article‘Wine Country’: An Ode To Female Friendships, With Mellow Notes
Cameos are expected in comedies, but it’s a surprise when the guest roster trends a bit highbrow. Amy Poehler’s new Netflix movie Wine Country, starring Poehler and her closest Saturday Night Live...
View Article‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Episode 5 Recap: Hells Bells
In the previous episode of Game of Thrones, there was a lot of loss. Missandei lost her head, Brienne lost her V card and, with Rhaegal’s senseless death, this gif I made at the beginning of the season...
View Article‘Fleabag’ And ‘Killing Eve’ Creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge Is Full Of Surprises
Phoebe Waller-Bridge writes female characters who are flawed, reckless and unpredictable. “As an audience, all we ever want really is to be surprised by things,” she says. The actor and writer just...
View ArticleTry Not To Get Mad But A ‘Party Of Five’ Reboot Is Coming
Were you even alive in the ’90s if you didn’t tune in to witness the weekly overwrought adventures of the Salinger family in Party Of Five? Set in San Francisco, it was about a bunch of siblings making...
View ArticleAfter 12 Seasons, ‘Big Bang’ Writers Bid Farewell To Their ‘Surrogate Family’
The hit TV show The Big Bang Theory is signing off after a 12 season run—and the show’s writers and creators aren’t quite ready to say goodbye. For more than a decade, the writers have pitched...
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