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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To viewers over the age of 40, I May Destroy You, the new HBO series about the life of a young millennial in the aftermath of her rape, may be striking in its bracingly modern approach to both sex and sex crimes. As soon as the protagonist, Arabella (played by …
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Elisabeth Moss portrays horror novelist Shirley Jackson in the upcoming film Shirley, out June 5th. Directed by Josephine Decker and executive-produced by Martin Scorsese, the trailer features Moss’ Jackson sitting in an armchair at a cocktail party as a guest asks her what she’s writing next. “A little novella called …
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Getting MTV‘s The State to reunite for a project has been a near-impossible task over the past couple of decades, but the near-complete shutdown of the entertainment industry finally provided the opportunity for the Nineties MTV sketch comedy troupe to band together. The group is out with a brand-new version …
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Trevor Noah skewered President Donald Trump‘s desire to earn the glory for re-opening the American economy after his handling of the coronavirus pandemic on The Daily Social Distancing Show Tuesday. Noah noted that getting back to normal in the first place will be a long and complicated process, with experts …
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Earlier this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci — head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — offered a blunt but not unrealistic opinion about how modern society will have to reshape itself following the coronavirus: “I don’t think we ever should ever shake hands ever again,” he said, …
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Trevor Noah reveled in the similarities between Tiger King anti-hero Joe Exotic and President Donald Trump on The Daily Social Distancing Show Monday. Anyone who’s watched the Netflix docuseries about the insane world of big cat owners knows just how Trump-ian Joe Exotic is, although Noah zeroes in on the …
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A riff on The Most Dangerous Game‘s well-worn premise, the Blumhouse blockbuster-to-be The Hunt was supposed to be just another project coming off a prolific production company’s assembly line, a tweaked take on class warfare that was part tongue-in-cheek transgressiveness and part tongue-ripped-from-mouth shock treatment. Then word got out that …
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UPDATE (3/4): Ronan Farrowtook to Twitter on Tuesday to announce that he’s separating ties with his publisher, Hachette Book Group, for acquiring his father Woody Allen’s memoir and concealing the decision from him. Farrow released Catch and Kill last fall, a book “about how powerful men, including Woody Allen, avoid …
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At some point (specifically next year), Better Call Saul will have to end, and, lest Vince Gilligan addicts waste away from lack of stimuli, here’s hoping lawyer Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) gets her own show. Thankfully, the folks over at Saul are doing us something similar with a new series …
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