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‘Les Miserables’ Episode 5 Recap: He’s Just Not That Into You
In the previous episode of Les Miserables, a teen Cosette was scandalized by her friends talking about wanting to have sex with their cousins: A nun rocked our worlds by rocking the fly-est headware...
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‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Finale Recap: Nevermind The End
In the previous episode of Game of Thrones, Varys got his butt torched for writing mean things about Dany in his Burn Book: Dany stopped wearing under eye concealer Jon Snow didn’t help matters by...
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‘SNL’ Musical Guests, Ranked From No. 1 To Greta Van Fleet
Saturday Night Live‘s 44th season ended over the weekend with the help of host Paul Rudd and musical guest DJ Khaled, who brought with him an all-star cast that included J Balvin, John Legend and SZA....
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‘Catch-22’ May Not Be By The Book, But It Understands Brutality
If Hulu had announced an original dramatic miniseries that follows a World War II soldier awakening to the horrors of war, executive produced and partly directed (two episodes out of six) by George...
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Watch Not One But Two Trailers For The ‘Downton Abbey’ Movie
Last December, we got a very vague sneak peek at the upcoming Downton Abbey movie. If that wasn’t enough to whet your appetite for the return of the Dowager Countess and her delightful rejoinders,...
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That Tyra Banks Meltdown Is Now A (Surprisingly Good) House Track
Remember when Tyra Banks screamed at Top Model Cycle 4 contestant Tiffany Richardson for not trying hard enough? Of course you do! Because of this: And also this: And also all of these: Tyra Merch!...
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Life In ‘Songland’: The Reality Behind NBC’s New Reality Show
“My parents have no idea what I do,” says Shane McAnally, calling from the airport in Los Angeles as he shuffles between his many duties: as a Grammy-winning songwriter, producer and now co-host of...
View ArticleRuPaul’s Drag Race: Watch Season 11’s Top 4 Queens Find Out Who’s The Winner
Last night, RuPaul’s Drag Race fans watched Denver’s “commodity of drag oddity” Yvie Oddly lipsync her way to the crown. But if her reaction to winning felt a little…um, odd, there’s a reason. To avoid...
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The Ramadan Podcast Where Muslims Go Beyond ‘Islam 101’
In a media landscape that can still be pretty awful for Muslims, Tell Them, I Am, a new podcast from KPCC, aims to give Muslims a space to define their own identities outside of stereotypes and broad...
View ArticleWatch Drag Race’s Miz Cracker Give Queer Eye’s Antoni A Drag Makeover
Not since he dressed up like “Toxic”-era Britney Spears and awkwardly spun around in a giant martini glass for Lip Sync Battle, have we seen Antoni Porowski embrace his femme side. But in a new episode...
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Everything You Need To Know About ‘Tales Of The City’ Before The Netflix Update
In 2014, after Armistead Maupin released the final book in his Tales of the City series, KQED Pop’s Tony Bravo wrote, “There’s something melancholy yet appropriate about Maupin choosing to end his...
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Shocking Surprises Still Reign in ‘Black Mirror’ Season 5
When CBS All Access unveiled its new version of The Twilight Zone earlier this year, the general consensus was that the initial episodes in the new series had fallen short of Rod Serling’s original...
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With 1 Huge Lie Revealed, ‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2 Takes A Slow-Burn Strategy
Sequels have come to seem inescapable in movies and TV, where the commercial logic is to keep a franchise going—even if it has nowhere to go. That’s why I was leery of Season 2 of Big Little Lies. I’d...
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How The Music Of ‘Sesame Street’ Keeps Up With The Times
Sesame Street, the award-winning children’s program turns 50 this year. As the iconic TV program has aged, it has managed to stay musically apace with its forever-young audience. It’s not an easy task,...
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8 Ways ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Is Pure Bay Area
The people in charge of Bob’s Burgers have denied it repeatedly. “We set it firmly in the Northeast because of the way Linda sounds, and Teddy,” showrunner Loren Bouchard told EW. “Because it’s this...
View ArticleHow The Zombie-Comedy Became The Ultimate Genre For Our Times
Remember in 2009’s Zombieland, when the gang went to Bill Murray’s house to get some rest, only to find him alive and well and in full zombie make-up? And then, after some casual Ghostbusters cos-play,...
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‘Project Runway’ Proves Change Can Be Healthy
Warning: This post contains spoilers about the finale and winner of Project Runway, Season 17. The 17th season of Project Runway concluded Thursday night, handing the win to Sebastian Grey. It was the...
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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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