The occasional tragic death is a fact of life for a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. When you’re risking your life on a near-daily basis, fighting some of the most powerful bad guys on earth (and elsewhere), it’s inevitable that colleagues will fall, loved ones will die, and you might have to end someone else’s life, even if you…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, April 20, and Saturday, April 21. All times are Eastern.
We’re on the record as being supporters of Cardi B. Her new album is pretty good! She has a delightful aesthetic, and generally comes across as an engaging and entertaining presence on the pop landscape. Even the annoying attempts to force her into some sort of feud with Nicki Minaj haven’t hurt her profile.
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. This week: The recent (and very strange) Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc has us tapping our toes to other rock musicals, rock operas, and rock-driven movies.
Ajit Pai, America’s 12th-best Bernie Madoff cosplayer, has been busy during his time as chair of the Federal Communications Commission. Whether it’s mocking the public he’s been appointed to serve or just talking down to his fellow commission members, Pai has made his blithely hypocritical stances no secret.
Actor and professional handsome son of a bitch Idris Elba has been busy in recent years: Winning awards for his roles in Beasts Of No Nation and Luther, headlining massive would-be blockbusters (albeit with underwhelming results), and of course DJing his little heart out as always. One area he’s been deficient?…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, April 18. All times are Eastern.
The frustrating thing about illness is never knowing when you’re going to get hit with it. Sure, you don’t want to be around someone coughing and feverish, and it’s best to wash your hands before eating, but there’s only so much you can do to prevent infection. So how much worse is it to become the architect of your…
Dorm-room philosophizing gets a bad rap. The phrase has become shorthand for lazy, facile thought experiments, but in truth, having long and searching conversations with friends about the big questions in life is often a lot of fun, even when you don’t possess the knowledge to go terribly deep on a subject. (Some…
We’ve been beating the drum about upcoming horror film Hereditary for a while now. First it was the film’s premiere at Sundance, then the nightmarish follow-up screening at SXSW to haunt lucky(?) viewers. But there’s a good reason we keep talking it up: The damn thing is absolutely terrifying. And now there’s a new…
We’ve noticed here at The Takeout that practically everyone has their own weird food peculiarities. Staffer Gwen Ihnat’s husband won’t eat fruit, for example. Editor Kevin Pang can’t stand the sight of cottage cheese. We’ve had friends who can’t do hot beverages or hate the texture of melted cheese. And we know…
Well, it took a very long time to get here, but now we know the cause of Rick’s tears from that flash-forward we saw way back in the season, when our former sheriff was seen sobbing under a tree: It’s because he and the rest of his people are the luckiest dummies ever to walk the face of the earth.
I have long hated shopping for clothes for myself, but shopping for my significant other is just as difficult. It doesn’t help that we’re both bad about bookmarking things when we find something we like, though they are notably better than me when it comes to adding things to the clothing Pinterest board. We have a…
The title of this episode, “The Honeymoon,” can’t help but feel ironic once you take into account the fact almost everyone ends this hour worse off than they began it. FitzSimmons may have shared a trip back across the pond together—“I’m protecting England from evil robots with the man I love”—but it came at a cost.
Lo, in these many hours since we first uncovered the boot-scoot-boogeyin’ boy Mason Ramsey—it’s been more than a week, now!—his Walmart-based yodeling habits have been remixed into oblivion as the internet chewed up and spat out its latest meme. But during that time, Ramsey has capitalized on his moment in the…
Every country has tourist attractions geared toward a particular national idiosyncrasy. Just as the United States possesses treasures like the toilet seat art museum, for reasons that definitely don’t involve a big honking metaphor about the state of the nation, so too does Germany now have a gallery dedicated to…
