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Tina Fey and John Slattery hash it out. Christopher Saunders/Amazon Studios This is a busy weekend for television and streaming: In addition to the fascinating and very worthwhile Watchmen, which debuts on HBO this Sunday, Netflix is dropping the Paul Rudd/Paul Rudd comedy Living with Yourself today, while Hulu’s releasing Looking for Alaska, a miniseries […]

Netflix Paul Rudd started trending on Twitter today, which seemed to alarm a lot of people, who weren’t sure why the actor would be in the news unexpectedly. Don’t worry, everybody! Paul Rudd is not dead! He’s not in trouble! He simply has a new Netflix show premiering tomorrow! It’s called Living with Yourself and […]

Regina King in HBO’s Watchmen. Mark Hill/HBO How you react HBO’s Watchmen will likely depend on what type of TV viewer you are. Are you looking for a cozy Sunday night diversion, with a straightforward plot and clearly demarcated character motivations? Watchmen will leave you cold. But if you’re the type of person to spend […]

Ben Rothstein / Netflix Breaking Bad gave Jesse Pinkman the perfect ending. So what’s the point of El Camino, a new Netflix movie that picks up Jesse’s story where the show left off? The point’s not so much to tie up any loose ends, but for Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan—who wrote and directed El […]

Fox Searchlight Pictures Lucy in the Sky is not good, but it’s a little hard to pinpoint why. It’s based on the story of Lisa Nowak, the astronaut who, in 2007, drove from Houston to Orlando wearing a diaper, chased down the guy she had an extramarital affair with, and attempted to kidnap his new […]

Monos It’s primarily a sensory experience. Monos follows a team of teenaged guerilla soldiers somewhere in South America, but we’re told nothing about them. Instead, we’re embedded with them—we watch them squabble and laugh and wrestle in the dirt; we see them try to keep warm at night, and then fire off their rifles in […]

Nigél Thatch as Malcolm X and Forest Whitaker as Bumpy Johnson in Epix’s Godfather of Harlem. DAVID LEE/EPIX The outside signifiers all point to Epix’s Godfather of Harlem being something exceptional: It stars the excellent Forest Whitaker as “Bumpy” Johnson, a real-life Harlem crime boss who rubbed shoulders with Malcolm X, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., […]

Courtesy of Lookout Point – Photographer: Dean Chalkley/Colin Hutton Not to toot my industry’s own horn, but a newspaper’s office is the PERFECT setting for a TV show. It’s an infinitely rich mine of opportunities for drama: The day-to-day pressures of deadlines. The excitement of landing a secret scoop. The ever-shifting sands of a changing […]