You are correct to be tingling with excitement for American Gods. The Starz TV series is based on the novel by Neil Gaiman about ancient old-world deities fighting young American ones, and its cast includes Ian McShane, Crispin Glover, and Gillian Anderson. And look who’s running the show: Bryan Fuller, who made NBC’s Hannibal such […]
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Stream Queen: Return of the Nerds! Watch Bill Nye Saves the World and Silicon Valley
Bill’s back and he’s here to save the world. I didn’t expect to be so giddy. I thought the return of Bill Nye would get an “oh, cool” out of me, like if Zoom came back to TV. But holy chemtrails! Bill is back, and he’s back like a… uh… I can’t even think of […]
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Watch the Dear White People Series on Netflix Tonight! (It’s Much Better Than the Movie)
Justin Simien’s 2014 movie Dear White People was about the politics, activism, and social scene at Winchester, a racially divided Ivy League college. In the movie version of DWP, everything was rushed—the story and issues were too big to cram into 100 minutes. But as I’d hoped, the premise works much better on TV. The […]
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The Handmaid’s Tale Starts Today on Hulu. You Should Watch It.
Margaret Atwood once said she based everything in The Handmaid’s Tale on something that really happened, and this claim of verisimilitude seems to be the guiding principle behind Hulu’s new adaptation of her sacred text. It should be. Because while sentient rape joke Donald Trump—who lost the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes—tries his hand at […]
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Starz’s Sumptuous and Slow American Gods
Gaiman, Gods, and Gay Genies
Gaiman, gods, and gay genies.
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Hulu’s All-Too-Relevant Handmaid’s Tale
It Isn’t Terrifying Because It Could Happen. It’s Terrifying Because It Already Did
It isn’t terrifying because it could happen. It’s terrifying because it already did.
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Stream Queen: Binge on Melissa McCarthy with Nobodies, Saturday Night Live, and the new season of Chelsea
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Girls Finale “Latching” Recap: Girl, You’ll Be a Woman, Soon
Mark Schafer/HBO Lena Dunham has said that she considers last week’s episode Girls‘ true finale, and this week’s episode more of a postscript. And it does feel that way. Almost all series finales are bad. Most of them are—at the bare minimum—controversial (The Sopranos), some are truly great (Breaking Bad, Mad Men), and many are […]
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Stream Queen: Put The Kids to Bed and Watch The Gorburger Show, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and Animals.
Gorburger is a superfan of Earth and pop culture, but his bloodlust keeps getting in his way. Is it just me, or are puppets everywhere this spring? And they’re not just on TV for kids, they’re on adult TV, too. The nerve! From Avenue Q‘s inclusion in Big Little Lies to the creepy drag queen […]
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Season Two of Aziz Ansari’s Master of None Arrives May 12
Dev wants to ride his bicycle, Dev wants to ride his bike. Netflix just released the trailer for the second season of Aziz Ansari’s much loved series Master of None. It looks like Dev’s going continental, Brexit be damned. The 10 new episodes show up May 12.
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Win It All Wants You to Win, Too
With His Latest, Joe Swanberg Bends Toward Conventionality
With his latest, Joe Swanberg bends toward conventionality.
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The Abuse Narrative That Was Left Out of the Big Little Lies Finale
What was left out of Big Little Lies‘ final episode speaks volumes about the pitfalls of men telling women’s stories. HBO If you haven’t watched the finale of Big Little Lies, please stop reading now. I’m about to spoil it so badly. Last night’s finale of Big Little Lies took a story that began as […]