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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Can Portlandia Be Funny In the Age of Trump?
What’s so funny about loving bikes and trying to save the planet? IFC Season 7 of Portlandia premiered Thursday on IFC. The comedy show, which stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, continues to make fun of white, urban, progressive people who would never vote for Trump—indeed, who, if given the chance, would for Bernie Sanders. […]
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La La Land Sweeps, Donald Glover’s Atlanta Is Triumphant at the 2017 Golden Globes
La La Land, a musical about two crazy kids struggling to make it in Hollywood, won a record-breaking seven awards at last night’s Golden Globes—including best musical or comedy film, best director, best screenplay, and acting honors for stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. It was a sweep that nearly shut out critical favorite Moonlight, […]
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Fox News Replaces Megyn Kelly with Bow-Tie Wearing Pile of Moldy Laundry
Courtesy CNN Ever since former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly jumped ship to work for a more factually correct, less sexually harrassing network (that would be NBC News), many have been speculating as to who would be replacing her. Well, we now have the answer and SURPRISE! Fox News has replaced Megyn with another white […]
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Tom Hardy’s Taboo Looks Dark and Twisted and Beautiful
Hey, so what’s Tom Hardy been doing since The Revenant? Continuing to hang out in the first half of the 19th century, looks like. His new show, Taboo, airs on January 10 on the FX network and it’s a period drama set in 1814 that looks… PRETTY FUCKING DOPE. According to FX’s official plot synopsis, […]
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The Year in Television: A Comprehensive List
Mackenzie Davis in Black Mirror‘s “San Junipero,” one of the TV highlights of 2016. Netflix There was a lot of television to watch in 2016, so let’s cut the chitchat and get right down to business. Here is everything you need to know about what was on TV this year. The Best Episodes of Television […]
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Of Life, Loss, Princess Leia, and the Crushing Weight of 2016
Carrie Fisher died the morning of December 27. She had suffered cardiac arrest four days earlier on a plane taking her back to Los Angeles for the holidays. She was an advocate for women and for mental health issues. She was an acclaimed writer and she was a beloved actress. She was Princess Leia. She […]
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I Am Still Mourning Good Girls Revolt, The Only Show That Got Women Journalists Right
RIP the only show that depicts women journalists as capable adult humans who are good at their jobs. Amazon Unless you watched it with the same quasi-religious fervor that I did, you probably don’t know that Amazon had a streaming series called Good Girls Revolt, much less that it was prematurely canceled after premiering in […]
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Watch and Marvel at the Teamwork Behind an SNL Set Change
Is it possible for Americans to ever again truly work together? Well, anything is possible, as you’ll see from this unusually exciting behind-the-scenes sneaky peek of an SNL set change in action. I suppose I just always figured that SNL was performed on a revolving stage… but as you can see from this cold opening […]
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Meyers Is The New Stewart
Watch: Trump didn’t use a hat to distract us from Russia and his conflicts of interest and the appointment of plutocrats today. He had something better… Donald Trump just met Kanye West at Trump Tower. Here’s what he’s trying to distract you from. https://t.co/2vBxOMmVqJ — Vox (@voxdotcom) December 13, 2016
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The Walking Dead Recap: And Now We Fight (for Apples)! RAH! RAH! RAH!
Good morning, Walking Dead fans! Did you happen to catch last night’s mid-season finale that was intended to PUMP YOU UP for taking on Trump in 2017? (That was probably not the intention, but since we’re grasping at straws anyway, why the hell not?) Let’s CHITTY CHAT about it with my spoiler-filled recap of last […]
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Dear Amy Sherman-Palladino: Get it Together. Gilmore Girls is Not a Gritty Cable Drama.
Rory Gilmore deserved better than this. Netflix Eds. Note: Spoilers for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life are coming so don’t say I didn’t warn you. Anyone else feeling personally victimized by Amy Sherman-Palladino after watching the Gilmore Girls revival? Me too. A hate crime-enabling cheeseball covered in sliced almonds is our president-elect. The […]