First things first: People who own tigers are DUMB, and… wait. Did you watch last night’s episode of The Walking Dead? If not, GO ‘WAY. If so, then check out my spoiler-filled analysis of the show after the jump, and then let’s chitty-chat about it! RrrrOWWWrrrr! Tigers are the douchey fedoras of the post-apocalypse. Courtesy […]
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Insecure Is About Black Girls Pre-Magic, and It Is Everything
There isn’t another show like Insecure—a show by and for black women. Girlfriends went off the air in 2008, and Being Mary Jane and Scandal’s leading black women are overachieving characters who are too perfect to be relatable. Insecure, though? Insecure is about black girls pre-magic, and it is everything. Set in Los Angeles, the […]
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Quarry Is the Best Hourlong Show on TV Right Now
Michele K. Short/Cinemax The final episode of Quarry’s first season airs tonight on Cinemax, and I was going to give you five reasons why you need to be watching this show. But then I saw the Wall Street Journal somehow broke into my mind palace and published a piece that was very suspiciously titled “Five […]
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“This Boiling Mass Is Just Monumentally Indifferent to Scurrying Roaches, Retarded Reptiles, and Vapid Humans Alike.”
“It is hard to take your eyes off the fire that burns deep under our feet, everywhere, under the crust of the continents and sea beds,” Werner Herzog says in his new Netflix documentary Into the Inferno. “It is a fire that wants to burst forth, and it could not care less about what we […]
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Tonight at Powell’s Cedar Hills: Nick Offerman, and Also Wood
A while ago I was watching This Old House (as I do, religiously, fun fact you almost certainly did not know about how I spend my free time) and Nick Offerman popped up on it, and I lost my shit. It was like seeing all the Avengers together onscreen at once, or like when Sean […]
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President Obama Says Goodbye to “Mean Tweets”
President Obama visited Jimmy Kimmel last night and once again blessed America by reading some of the most hilarious “Mean Tweets” written about him. (Don’t worry—these are just the funny, dumb ones… not the evil racist ones that always seem to show up in my feed. #ShutUpRacistsIHateYOU) Enjoy!
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Ready Your Coffee Mugs! A Gilmore Girls Full-Length Trailer is Here!
Ready your coffee mugs, Gillies. Weedezign Quick! Set aside your electoral politics-related angst, because Netflix has finally released a full-length trailer for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, and it isn’t terrible! I mean, there’s no way you’ll find the dialogue as winsome as you did when you were a teenager, but it looks […]
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Walking Dead Recap: You Picked a Fine Time to Beat Me, Lucille
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! Welcome back to the Walking Dead Chitty-Chat Club in which we chat and chitty about last night’s brain-bustin’ episode of The Walking Dead. Will I offer up SPOILERS and insensitive jokes about noggin bludgeoning after the jump? BAM! You know I will. Let’s get chitty chatting! Oh. So this is why the […]
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Twin Peaks is Returning, and Here’s the Cast Talking About It
Guys, it’s for real! The show that brought on the new golden age of television, Twin Peaks, returns in early 2017 on Showtime. And to get you PUMPED, here’s a teaser trailer featuring the cast talking about the updated version, including Kyle MacLachlan (Agent Dale Cooper), Dana Ashbrook (Bobby Briggs), James Marshall (the eternally dreamy […]
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Woody Allen’s Brand Is Crisis
Crisis in Six Scenes is an appropriate moniker for Woody Allen’s latest project, since the present iteration of his brand is crisis. To be an Allen apologist in 2016 (which I, for better or worse, but mostly worse, am) is to join a club any rational human being would refuse to be a member of. […]
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The Excellent Black Mirror Returns and Here’s the Trailer
One of the most adventurous TV series ever, Black Mirror, is returning to Netflix on October 21, and that is reason enough to celebrate. Created by Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror is a sci-fi anthology about modern technology and how it can really screw around with society—in particularly creepy ways. Sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying, the show […]
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Well, We Tried to Go to Luke’s Diner
Luke Danes would not be into this. He hates crowds. We really tried to get into “Luke’s Diner,” Netflix’s living advertisement for Gilmore Girls that opened at Oblique Coffee Roasters on SE Stark at 7 this morning and closed up shop at noon. Alas, it was not to be. BECAUSE THEY RAN OUT OF FREE […]