The coming year is shaping up to be a big one for the small screen. Big-name stars like John Cena, Julia Roberts, and Jeff Bridges will be headlining series. Big-name creators like Shonda Rhimes, James Gunn, and Lord & Miller will have new shows. Blockbuster franchises like Star Wars and …
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At this point, it’s a given that we’re living in the “golden age” of television; somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 new scripted series drop each year. With so much to choose from, that means TV can get daring, specific, and sometimes, weird as hell. Superheroes trapped inside an I …
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The oft-surreal, delightfully sickening, camp-drenched serial-killer drama Hannibal, one of the most adventurous network television shows ever made, went off the air in 2015 after three seasons. But it never really went away, thanks in part to its still-obsessed online fan base (Fannibals, of course), and the fact that its …
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Midway through the second and final season of Cinemax‘s 19th century martial arts epicWarrior, the show’s Bruce Lee-esque hero Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) and his best friend Young Jun (Jason Tobin) find themselves surrounded by dozens of trained killers who have been offered a huge bounty to take them out. …
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Is it possible for something to feel dated and too soon at the same time? Watching The Comey Rule, Showtime’s two-part limited series (premiering tonight) about former FBI Director Jim Comey’s rocky four-year tenure straddling the Obama and Trump administrations, is in some ways like stepping into a distant period …
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It’s debatable whether Ethan Hawke has ever given a better performance in his long and impressive career than his turn as abolitionist John Brown in the Showtime miniseries The Good Lord Bird. He’s certainly not given a bigger one. Brown was a passionate, bordering-on-unhinged opponent of slavery who led the …
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I broke into television criticism because of my love for a show about a racist, sexist, alcoholic cop who used the N-word and beat confessions out of suspects. I’ve been thinking about that a lot over the past few months. Related: 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time In the …
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This piece is part of our ongoing coverage of the 20th anniversary of Almost Famous. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Almost Famous, we recently reunited writer/director Cameron Crowe with stars Kate Hudson (who played “Band Aid” Penny Lane), Billy Crudup (who played Russell Hammond, lead guitarist of the fictional …
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This post contains spoilers for the second season of What We Do in the Shadows, including tonight’s finale. To understand the brilliance of What We Do in the Shadows Season Two, we have to start with Jackie Daytona’s toothpick. Of course, to understand the brilliance of Jackie Daytona’s toothpick, we …
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Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert still remember how they felt when they heard the news: It was 2014, and Fuyao, a Chinese company specializing in manufacturing glass for automobiles, announced plans to open a plant in the filmmakers’ economically depressed hometown of Dayton, Ohio. “It was really good news,” Reichert …
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