In 2015, former The Girls Next Door star Holly Madison dropped some big bombshells on what her relationship with late Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner was like in her debut memoir Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny. She detailed the alleged emotional abuse she endured…
HBO’s Allen V. Farrow is an overwhelming documentary series; its emotional intensity should come with a trigger warning. The docuseries scrutinizes the sexual abuse allegations against Oscar-winning director Woody Allen made by adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow in 1992, when she was only 7. This case has been excessively…
“The Leftovers should have won an Emmy!” hive rejoice. Justin Theroux is returning to his dramatic side with new Apple TV+ drama, The Mosquito Coast. It’s based on the 1981 best selling novel of the same name written by his uncle, Paul Theroux. The seven-episode series will follow Allie Fox (Theroux), an idealist and…
Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen)’s dream life has become a nightmare. Her kids, Billy (Julian Hilliard) and Tommy (Jett Klyne), complain that their video game controls have turned into a deck of UNO cards. Wanda’s bottle of almond milk changes to dairy, which I consider an improvement, but I respect Wanda’s dietary choices.…
It’s been 5 months since our last dose of South Park arrived, which presumably means we’re long overdue for that second jab. Hence Comedy Central announcing today that the second of its pandemic-adjacent hour-long South Park specials will be arriving on March 10, skewering our usual host of deep and dumb existential…
Resident Alien’s Alan Tudyk dons his Devil hat in Devil May Care, which is part of Syfy’s TZGZ late night programming block dedicated to animated series. The resident ruler of Hell isn’t all evil here. In fact, he often bungles his duty as the Devil because he is a surprisingly nice guy and seeks the help of Beans…
HBO is adding Kate Winslet to its slew of actresses—like Amy Adams in Sharp Objects, Nicole Kidman in The Undoing, and the women of Big Little Lies—who find themselves embroiled in a murder mystery. In the seven-episode limited series Mare Of Easttown, Winslet puts on her best Philly accent as Mare Sheehan, a…
A twisting bayou noir where nothing is as it seems, Tell Me Your Secrets follows two women at their wits’ ends and on opposite sides of the same crime. (Or so they think?) Before the show slinks onto Amazon Prime Video this weekend, The A.V. Club sat down with two of its stars, Lily Rabe and Enrique Murciano, to talk…
This post discusses details of the latest episode of WandaVision, “Breaking The Fourth Wall.”
Like its main characters, Tell Me Your Secrets has a mysterious backstory. It’s been sitting on the shelf for a few years, after TNT decided to cancel it after the entire first season had been shot. Brett Weitz, general manager of TNT, TBS, and TruTV, said that it “wasn’t right” for TNT. But the ready-made thriller…
Two years ago, it was announced that Kate McKinnon would be playing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in the Hulu limited series, The Dropout. She was also going to be one of the show’s executive producers. It seemed like the perfect casting decision; McKinnon looks enough like her and excels at playing weirdos. But…
Starz has joined the travelogue game with Men In Kilts: A Road Trip With Sam And Graham, a winning new series that sets Outlander buddies and co-stars Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish on a journey through Scotland to learn more about their homeland. The series premiere, which aired February 12, was a mostly leisurely…
The one thing that Marvel people and the Martin Scorseses of the world can probably agree on is that WandaVision is the year’s biggest TV show yet. Even if you haven’t watched any MCU movies, the nonstop chatter around the show (not to mention the resulting, spoiler-riddled social media trending topics that transpire…
“Hearts Before Parts” may be a saying that Mayor* Neil Bremer just makes up to remind his daughter Orly about all the (many) times he’s taught her about sex, but it’s also an integral component of what makes this episode of Mr. Mayor work so well. Of the constant internal battle (workplace sitcom versus family sitcom)…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, February 19, and Saturday, February 20. All times are Eastern.
Sci-fi and fantasy nerds—and the occasional news writer responsible for penning obituaries that will then be read by sci-fi and fantasy nerds—had a moment of nasty shock tonight, as both Sir Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan began trending on Twitter. Luckily, it wasn’t because anything bad had happened to these two…
Even now, thirty years later, there’s a thrilling chill that seeps into the bones when watching Jonathan Demme’s The Silence Of The Lambs. The eerie unpredictability of the killer, the perfectly calibrated relationship between Jodie Foster’s young FBI cadet and Anthony Hopkins’ urbane monster, the highbrow execution…
“It’s about a woman who keeps playing perfect housewife. Then one day, she realizes what she wants: to kill her husband.”
After trying dozens of times, Netflix has finally landed on a live-action adaptation of a cartoon that people actually seem to like (or at least one that people are watching, whether they like it or not). As reported by The Wrap, the streaming service has ordered a second season of Fate: The Winx Saga, its adaptation…
Zooey Deschanel and Michael Bolton are teaming up for a new version of The Dating Game for ABC, but in keeping with the wacky unpredictably of modern life, this one’s going to have some twists. First, it’ll be called The Celebrity Dating Game, meaning celebrities will be involved in the dating, and also Michael Bolton…
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