A bone-dry comedy for anyone who ever sat in front of a TV trying to conjure a showing of Beetlejuice, Los Espookys arrives in mid-June like a tall glass of cold water garnished with a prop eyeball. Created by Fred Armisen, Saturday Night Live wunderkind Julio Torres (he of “Wells For Boys” and “Papyrus”), and Ana…
This August marks the 25th anniversary of the debut of My So-Called Life, the short-lived but influential teen drama that was also one of the first network shows to have a gay character as a series regular. Rickie Vasquez (Wilson Cruz) faced some of the same adolescent woes as his peers Angela Chase (Claire Danes) and…
There’s a lot of poetry in Deadwood: The Movie. Of course there is: It’s the feature-length coda to one of the most idiosyncratically and dazzlingly written television shows of all time, which fucked up the English language flatter than hammered shit but stood before HBO audiences of the mid-2000s beholden to no…
You know ahead of time what you’re getting into with a film called Star Raiders: The Adventures Of Saber Raine, especially when the poster looks like this and the words “Star Raiders” are rendered onscreen like this. Which is not to say that a straight-faced, Kickstarted homage to the age of Flash Gordon and Buck…
Leave it to The Lonely Island to end a three-year sabbatical with a lavishly produced, surprise drop celebrating a nearly forgotten period of baseball history. While Andy Samberg has been busy patrolling the streets of backlot Brooklyn and the whole troupe has put their collective imprimatur on some of 2019’s funniest …
Brockmire was faced with a challenge entering its third season: Its golden-throated, snake-bitten play-by-play man had gotten sober. For much of the 16 episodes that preceded the IFC comedy’s 2019 run, Hank Azaria had played Jim Brockmire as a man committed to both rebuilding his reputation in professional baseball…
It all comes down to this: On Sunday, May 20, Game Of Thrones will all be over, but for the cries of fans who feel betrayed by the abrupt turns of season eight and the posts on websites seeking to squeeze just a little blood from the Dragonstone (hello). But some things must come to a definitive end, like the lives of…
It’s the confusion.
This article contains discussion of the Veep series finale, “Veep.”
The final season of Game Of Thrones promised two major confrontations: Between the living and the dead, and between whatever was left of the living and Cersei’s forces down in King’s Landing. Despite the depletion of their ranks (though not in terms of the major characters we were expecting), those who’ve sworn…
Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin’s Netflix sketch series I Think You Should Leave has proven to be one of 2019’s sleeper TV hits, its quarter-hour bursts of feet-in-mouths and social situations gone surreally awry sneakily monopolizing the cultural conversation, like a wily oddball whose good car ideas gradually win them…
Look, we’ve all been there: You’ve just staged a feature-length battle sequence, purportedly the longest ever put on screen, and you’re a little wiped out. You want to take a breather, but there’s just no time: There’s another war on the horizon, and you’re running out of real estate. So maybe you fast track the…
Nobody knows benders, being on the losing end of adultery, and calling a baseball game like Jim Brockmire. And in the next episode of the IFC comedy that bears his name, he’s putting that expertise toward helping out new broadcast booth partner Gabby Taylor (Tawny Newsome), who’s been hit with the devastating…
As the dust and ashes of “The Long Night” settle, as the forces at Winterfell assess their victory and its casualties and prepare for the journey south, your Game Of Thrones dead pool anticipates another break in the violence this week. Chalk it up to the demands of the narrative, or attribute it, as Eckstein the…
