The advancing army of the dead notwithstanding, there’s never been a safer time to live in Westeros—provided you’re not the little lord of Last Hearth, a moonlighting star of a cable comedy, or a dragon’s lunch. And that’s a trend that’s likely to continue for at least one more week, according to our trusted expert in…
Griffin Newman is the ideal subject for a questionnaire-style, opinion-driven interview: Regular listeners to the movie podcast Blank Check (co-hosted by former A.V. Club contributor David Sims) know that Newman doesn’t shy away from a take or a bit, nor is he wary of steering a conversation deep into unexpected and…
This Sunday, April 14, for the very last time, a season of Game Of Thrones will begin. And then, five Sundays later, for the very last time, a season of Game Of Thrones will end. But finality’s always been baked into Game Of Thrones’ king-sized pie of epic fantasy, political intrigue, and things you can’t do, say, or…
The actor: Fiona Shaw is a capital-T thespian, an actor and director who’s done productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, played canonical roles like Electra and Hedda Gabler, and garnered acclaim and accolades in a solo recitation of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Moviegoers first became…
The box-office receipts and award nominations for Bohemian Rhapsody say otherwise, but there are few cinematic genres in need of a complete overhaul as much as the celebrity biopic, whose rhythms and tics were long ago absorbed by pop culture at large and reconstituted as parody. 12 years after Walk Hard, it’s almost…
Cersei destroys the Great Sept Of Baelor
“A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell. And I’m going home.”
This post discusses plot elements of You’re The Worst’s season finale
Game Of Thrones returns next week, and with it, a number of recurring A.V. Club features. Eckstein the Oddsmaker will be back to set the stakes for our GOT dead pool, You Win Or You Die; meanwhile, Maester Michael Walsh is awaiting your ravens, ready to answer every last burning question submitted to the Mailbag Of…
The Night King raises the dead, creates a meme
Michael Schur loves Cheers. The Good Place creator, Parks And Recreation showrunner, and erstwhile Schrute cousin has praised the barroom comedy as “the best sitcom ever made”; he more or less engineered a situation for lead Ted Danson to step back into the shoes and over-the-shoulder towel of drink-slinging, major…
At the risk of belaboring a metaphor, David Mandel has run a more successful Veep administration than any of the fictional, potty-mouthed politicos under his watch. The veteran of Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live, and Curb Your Enthusiasm joined the HBO comedy in its fifth season, taking over for creator and original…
One of 2019’s best new series wraps its first season tomorrow night, as Comedy Central’s The Other Two recovers from a startling revelation in last week’s episode—an ice-cold joke involving the fate of Cary, Brooke, and Chase’s dad—to send the whole Dream Team to that place where dreams come true: The MTV Video Music…
The Purple Wedding
Theater audiences have seen Michael C. Hall cut loose from time to time, as the Emcee in Sam Mendes’ revival of Cabaret or as the titular transgender glam rocker in Hedwig And The Angry Inch. But for television viewers, the perception of the actor is shaped by a pair of long-running dramatic roles that put him in…
