Welcome back, welcome back, welcome ba-a-a-ack. May 21 on Showtime. This news just arrived on Twitter: TWIN PEAKS RETURNS ON MAY 21 WITH 2-HOUR PREMIERE! #TwinPeaks #TCA17— Twin Peaks 🦉 (@ThatsOurWaldo) January 9, 2017 This site has more details, but it’s currently swamped (in the old sense of the word, not the Trump one). Happy […]
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The 34 Moments in Film & TV That Helped Us Survive 2016
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero.” LAURIE SPARHAM/NETFLIX • The moment when, in Black Mirror‘s “San Junipero,” “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” plays and Yorkie rounds the bend in her little red convertible and Kelly comes out to greet her and you realize that in this horrible Trumpian universe, good […]
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Vice Is Ditching Comments, Too. Santa Must Be Real After All!
Commentary and dissent really have merged to form Dissentary Vice.com announced yesterday that it will join the growing number of websites (NPR.com, Reuters, Popular Science) that are disabling their comments sections altogether. I don’t have much to add to what I said in August when NPR saw the light, which basically amounts to this: …the […]
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2017 Grammy Nominations Announced: Beyoncé Gets Nine. Eight Each for Drake, Rihanna, and Kanye
Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year… It looks like another good year to be Beyoncé. The 2017 Grammy Award nominations were announced this morning. Leading the pack with nine was Beyoncé, whose triumphal album/long-form video Lemonade brought her the most nominations overall. Coming in closely behind her with eight […]
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Trump Dread
You Think the Campaign Is Almost Over. It Will Never Be Over.
The Season of Trump Dread Is Nearly Over. Or Is It Only Beginning?
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A Tiny Glimmer of Hope in a Bleak World: A New Randy Newman Song, “Putin”
Randy Newman can still crank ’em out. Tae Won Yu If, like every other element of the ongoing international humanitarian crisis that is this presidential election, the brutality of last night’s debate has you feeling desperate for a little non-mindless levity, take heart. The now-reliable election season ritual of a new Randy Newman song every […]
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No More Wilmore: Comedy Central Cancels The Nightly Show
Larry Wilmore: Funny ha-ha, just not funny “in terms of multiplatform outlets and with shareable content and on social platforms.” A year and a half after premiering as the Colbert Report to a post-Jon Stewart Daily Show, Larry Wilmore’s late night show has been axed. “Unfortunately, it hasn’t connected with our audience in ways that […]
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Did Donald Trump Just Encourage His Followers to Shoot Hillary Clinton?
Trump welcomes his new campaign advisor, clear and present danger Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock Today in new lows… At a rally in Wilmington, DE, Donald Trump employed his characteristic verbal wizardry to float the idea that the only solution to Hillary Clinton having the power to appoint judges (by being elected) can be found in the Second […]
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Jon Stewart Returns, Courtesy of Stephen Colbert, To Help Reasonable Humans Shake Off Trump Terror (and Bash Fox News)
It’s nice to see you again, Mr. Stewart. The echo chamber has been lonely in your absence. Of the many, many horrible things we learned last night during the speech that refused to end, perhaps the most poignant was the proof that no one will ever invent a time machine. If there were to be […]
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Scott Baio’s Path to RNC Glory
If his work in Skatetown USA is any indication, Baio is certain to be a commanding public speaker Tinseltown/Shutterstock If you’re of a certain age and you see a headline that reads “SCOTT BAIO TO SPEAK AT REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION,” you’re liable to be struck by a certain feeling. I don’t know if there’s a […]
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A Toast to The Toast: I Love You, I’ll Miss You, and I Don’t Blame You One Bit for Closing
May ye be in heaven an hour before the devil knows your monetization metrics! ifong/Shutterstock Today’s first bummer came in the form of news that The Toast, a three-year-old blog run by Mallory Ortberg and Nicole Cliffe, will be closing July 1. It’s tempting to add another drop to the ocean of tearful, shame-spraying tirades […]