I’m most excited this week about a weird limited series called Maniac from Cary Joji Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation, True Detective, It). Emma Stone and Jonah Hill star as patients in a “mindbending pharmaceutical trial gone awry.” It looks like they hallucinate themselves into a lot of wacky situations, allowing for…
NPR’s Morning Edition recently revised their clock, the second-by-second schedule of newscasts, longer segments, promos, music beds and funding messages for each hour of the show. The new clock, effective August 13, 2018, represents the first change in Morning Edition’s scheduling since 2014. Most notably, it features…
Friends, Netflix is doing us right this week. Not only are we blessed with new seasons of both American Vandal and BoJack Horseman, but we’ve got a Netflix original with a promising pedigree: Ted Thompson’s highly praised 2014 novel The Land of Steady Habits has been turned into a feature film by Nicole Holofcener (…
This is your friendly weekend entertainment concierge reminding you that Black Panther was released on Netflix on Tuesday. If you’ve already seen Crazy Rich Asians and Eighth Grade and BlacKkKlansman, you should stay home, invite a couple pals over, make some spicy prosciutto spread, and watch it. It’s so infrequent…
Black Panther. Tuesday. If you need anything else to watch, Next Gen (Friday, Sept. 7), an animated kid-and-robot-vs.-the-bullies feature starring John Krasinski, Jason Sudeikis and Charlyne Yi looks kind of fun. Its tagline is “Friendship is the ultimate upgrade” which, having just gotten AirPods, I take issue…
On yesterday’s rumor that we won’t be seeing second-gen AirPods until the fourth quarter of 2019, I hied to the Apple store and bought myself a pair. I quickly discovered that I am one of those people who is not going to be raving about how the AirPods seem magically cemented to my ears. I will not be able to cycle in…
If you haven’t watched season 1 of Ozark, the Southern Gothic thriller starring Jason Bateman as a crooked-but-well-intentioned dad who moves his family to Missouri to launder cash for a Mexican cartel, then you have a few days to mainline it before season 2 drops on Friday, Aug. 31. It’s good! The entire show looks…
A moody teen love story with a supernatural twist featuring Guy Pearce uttering lines like, “You’re a young woman in a frightening new world. I think you just need somebody to walk through it with you”? Could it be this summer’s answer to Stranger Things? Let us hope that The Innocents (Friday, Aug. 24) is even half…
Updated Aug. 14, 2018, 4:41 ET: A representative from Netflix reached out to us after publication to say that Pinky Malinky “will no longer be arriving on 8/17...Currently, I do not have a new date for the title.” So, there goes our recommendation for this week. Guess you’ll have to watch Evan Almighty. Our…
Do you spend more time on Twitter each day than you do sleeping? Are you a Facebook ninja whose wit turns the most basic status update into a thing of beauty? Do you love geeking out on the details of everything from how to fix a zipper to the finer points of modern etiquette? Are you the MacGyver of your friend group?
Am I going to recommend you watch The Ponysitters Club? It depends on how desperate you are to stay inside this week, because things are not looking so great on the Netflix docket. The best thing happening, if you’re constitutionally suspicious of Netflix originals (and who isn’t), is the terrifying No Country for Old…
Mac: If you’re clipping a bit of text to send in a tweet or saving info from a rental car confirmation page, your standard Command-Shift-4 shortcut for a screenshot is more than adequate. But adding a couple keystrokes can make all the difference when you want to, say, include a professional-looking image of your…
Chipotle had so much fun giving free guacamole to their hordes of new digital subscribers yesterday, they’ve extended their promotion through today, Wednesday, August 1. No code necessary.
Netflix loves to deluge us with new stuff early in the month, so while you’re shaking your head at how fast summer is going by—yes, it’s already August—you can take cold comfort in A/C and a bunch of slightly interesting new releases to stream.
Lock yourself in the house as Orange Is the New Black returns to Netflix for a sixth season on Friday, July 27 with a new credit sequence...
Netflix has been mysteriously quiet about the new docuseries Dark Tourist from New Zealand journalist and filmmaker David Farrier (July 20). Farrier made his name in the U.S. for exploring disturbing corners of the internet—see his haunting 2016 documentary Tickled and this creepy exploration of kids being exploited…
If you’re nursing an obsession with MSNBC’s Lockup series, this is the week to finish State Prisons: Collection 1 (leaving July 15) to make room for Extended Stay: Collection 1 (arriving July 9).
Netflix didn’t stack its lineup with bingeable fare for the mid-week holiday, so you’ll have to content yourself with stalwarts from your queue if you’re planning to be an A/C hermit this 4th. (I’ll be diving into Mindhunter at long last.)
