Erik Henriksen

Us Universal Welcome to What to Watch This Weekend™, a weekly post in which I tell you what to watch this weekend! I will continue doing this post until you have watched everything you should watch. The big movie this weekend is, of course, Jordan Peele’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to Get Out, Us, which is […]

Cam Divide/Conquer Hey, just what you need: More TV to watch! Here’s what we’re watching right now at Mercury HQ, which is another way of saying here’s what we think you should be watching right now. Ciara Dolan, Senior EditorI totally missed this when it came out in November, but Cam is a smart thriller […]

The new Avengers: Endgame trailer came out yesterday, and already 870 trillion people have watched it on YouTube!! It truly is an Avengers world we live in!! There are two very important things about this: 1) This trailer contains even more hints that in a post-Endgame universe, Captain Motherfucking Marvel will be the leader of […]

Triple Frontier Netflix Welcome to What to Watch This Weekend™, a weekly post in which I tell you what to watch this weekend! I will continue doing this post until you have watched everything you should watch. Shrill, the Hulu series based on former Mercury contributor Lindy West’s bestseller, is now on Hulu! Mercury Arts […]

Workin’ Moms CBC Hey, just what you need: More TV to watch! Here’s what we’re watching right now at Mercury HQ, which is another way of saying here’s what we think you should be watching right now. Ned Lannamann, Senior EditorI recently finished season three of True Detective on HBO, whose slow squandering of the […]

“What you need to know,” says Elinor Jones, “is that Captain Marvel is a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, and MCU movies are generally good-to-excellent, and Captain Marvel is no different. It’s smart, funny, and deliriously self-aware, and there are a bunch of cool explosions. It is an all-around successful comic book movie, like the 5,000 […]

The Other Two Comedy Central Hey, just what you need: More TV to watch! Here’s what we’re watching right now at Mercury HQ, which is another way of saying here’s what we think you should be watching right now. Bri Brey, Social Media DirectorI just finished watching Sex Education on Netflix, which is heartfelt and […]

All About Eve Welcome to What to Watch This Weekend™, a weekly post in which I tell you what to watch this weekend! I will continue doing this post until you have watched everything you should watch. Greta—Senior Editor Ciara Dolan found some stuff to like about Neil Jordan’s “twisted little thriller,” but ultimately, this […]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine never entered the mainstream consciousness like Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation, but over its seven under-appreciated seasons, it helped pave the way for a lot of the fancy-pants prestige television we enjoy today. From richer, darker explorations of formerly light material to complex plotting that stretched across […]

A bunch of shiny trophies were given out last night at Hollywood’s longest trailer for itself, the Oscars—and here at the Mercury, we reviewed just about every movie that earned somebody an award. Our takes are below, along with hahahahaha of COURSE Green Book won, why did any of us think it would possibly be […]

Welcome to What to Watch This Weekend™, a weekly post in which I tell you what to watch this weekend! I will continue doing this post until you have watched everything you should watch. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World—The first How to Train Your Dragon was great! The second one existed, and […]

Heads up: If you’ve ever owned a dog, a cat, or a dragon, the final 20 minutes or so of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World will reduce you to a wheezing, weeping, snot-soaked wreck, and because this will happen at the very end of the movie, as soon as you stumble out […]