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Courtesy Showtime Last night’s debut of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime show Who Is America? got off to a blazing start when the prankster debuted his newest character anti-terrorism expert Erran Morad, and convinced a bunch of Republicans that America should arm preschoolers. The program Baron Cohen described to GOP members was called “Kinderguardians” in […]
Set in mid-1980s Los Angeles—specifically, in an unglamorous warehouse in the San Fernando Valley—two intertwined conflicts drove GLOW’s first season. Inspired by the real-life TV show Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, which aired between 1986 and 1990, Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch’s Netflix series followed the underdog story of a group of struggling actors trying to […]
Don’t be fooled by the Spandex.
Angry Kevin Costner is fun! The rest is… not as fun.
Was Fred Rogers—the writer, producer, and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood—really a soft-spoken, sweet-tempered man? Spoiler alert: Yes, he was! Finally, one single thing has escaped your childhood without scandal! It’s too bad Rogers isn’t still with us to make a special episode about how to pick up the pieces of all the other things […]
Sense8, the Netflix series in which eight strangers wake up suddenly sharing each other’s senses and skills, is ending. Though it was created by the nerd-royalty team of the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski, the ambitious series never amassed the viewership required to fund a show filmed on location around the globe. When Netflix cancelled […]
As an adolescent, I would stay up to watch Cartoon Network’s late-night, “big kid” block, Adult Swim. In a streaming era, admitting this fact makes me feel 100-years old, but to my generation, Adult Swim was important—its esoteric, low-as-highbrow programming made you feel like you belonged to an exclusive club, even if all it really […]
Well, that was quick. This morning, “comedian” Roseanne Barr tweeted something vile and racist—which ordinarily would not be news, except for the fact that earlier this year, the ABC network decided to reboot her ’80s/’90s TV sitcom to disturbingly strong ratings. The tweet in question, which has been deleted, specifically insulted Valerie Jarrett, a former […]
“I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths,” an old man says in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. “No one wanted them back. No one missed them.” The scariest thing about Bradbury’s science-fiction nightmare—published in 1953, and bearing stunning similarities to 2018—isn’t that books are outlawed and burned; or that the country wages vague, never-ending war; […]
THE TERROR “Oh dear god, Roseanne‘s back on TV?!” AMC If you’re wondering why your watchlist has been flooded with very important, must-see television programs, it’s just that time of year. The end of March and beginning of April brought a perfect storm of prestige TV premieres: The timing of the Emmy eligibility window (which […]
It’s a perfect storm of prestige TV!
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