The Good Place thrives on a sense of manic improvisation, both from its characters, and from itself. Nobody embodies that sense of “Screw it, let’s try the next plan/idea/iteration of the planet Earth” better than Ted Danson’s Michael, who’s been scrabbling for three seasons now, first to keep Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani,…
Look, we don’t know about you, but we rely on YouTube for a lot of shit over the course of a day. What was the theme song to that TV show we watched three times in the 1980s? YouTube’s got it. Need to watch another human being play through the entirety of Chex Quest? YouTube has your back. Children having annoying…
It’s been decades since Adam Sandler last did stand-up on a regular basis, preferring to deliver his laughs in a format more conducive to filmed (and paid) family vacations. So when Netflix announced that it was extending its relationship with Sandler into a big-budget comedy special this year, there were questions…
Note: This article contains spoilers for tonight’s season premiere of The Conners.
Those genius innovators at Netflix have stumbled onto yet another earth-shattering revelation about the entertainment business: People really like it when attractive, charming people say funny things while falling in love. Netflix announced today that its recent spate of romantic comedies—including To All The Boys…
You can now add Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s name to the list of conservatives whose outside-the-home dining options now come with a family style (and complementary) serving of “Consequences.” Carlson complained on a recent podcast appearance that he can no longer eat in public without people yelling at him all the…
For most of us, the release of the recent teaser for Disney’s live-action, Guy Ritchie-directed Aladdin was little more than a digital comma, a 90-second lacuna in which our brains neutrally registered the thought, “Oh, yep, that’s Aladdin,” and then moved on. But for at least one of the people partially responsible…
[Note: Although Harvey Birdman, Attorney General doesn’t air on Adult Swim until tomorrow night, it’s currently streaming on the Adult Swim web site.]
Amazon’s celebrated Emmy-winner Transparent has been in flux for almost a year now, ever since multiple women involved in the show’s production accused star Jeffrey Tambor of sexual harassment. Tambor has since been fired and/or loudly quit the series, which has been forced to decide where to go in the absence of its…
Like an unemployed, daytime TV-addicted 25-year-old with a Joy Behar fetish, the American government has now expressed some uncomfortably strong opinions about The View. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders took aim at the long-running ABC chat show last night, when she expressed umbrage on Twitter at a comment…
As with so many places where entertainment and emotion intersect, rap beefs exist in a weird, semi-real space. On the one hand, they’re pure marketing moves—a way for two performers to raise each other’s profiles, show off their lyrical cleverness, and hopefully sell a few extra albums. But they’re also often the…
M. Night Shyamalan looks well on his way to his own cinematic superhero universe, with the new trailer for Glass focusing on the team-up between Samuel L. Jackson and James McAvoy’s budding villains.
Good news, Danny Rand fans! After years of trailing along sadly behind other, better, more interesting shows, Marvel’s Iron Fist has finally found a way to distinguish itself from its fellow Netflix Marvel entries: By being the first one to get kicked out of a window and straight into Cancellation Land.
Netflix released the first season of The Haunting Of Hill House today, Mike Flanagan’s family-focused (but absolutely not family-friendly) adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s horror novel classic. We’ve got lots of coverage of the series to help accompany your latest trip into the realm of streaming terror—including Katie…
Let’s start with a dark, furtive confession: Divorced of its association with millions of repeats, remixes, and sound clips of Mike Myers screaming “Donkey!”, Smash Mouth’s hit anthem “All Star” is still a pretty damn catchy song. Relentlessly bright and fast-paced, it’s an earworm for a reason, even if its been so…
Spider-Man’s proving to be quite a Clothes-Horse in his upcoming Homecoming sequel, Far From Home: Crafty photographers (including Instagram account comicgodz) have snapped a few new shots of Tom Holland on the set of the 2019 film, sporting what’s apparently the fourth distinct spider suit that’s been spotted in…
Amid the thousand or so projects he’s working on at any given moment—which currently include Jungle Cruise, Fast And Furious spin-off Hobbs And Shaw, Black Adam, a Jumanji sequel, and his controversial decision to play black folk hero John Henry for Netflix—you’d be forgiven for letting a few of Dwayne Johnson’s…
Ensuring that those of you excited to get a good look at its new live-action Aladdin movie are just going to have to sort of stay excited, Disney released the first teaser for the Guy Ritchie-directed film tonight. And we do mean teaser; unless you were really jonesing to get a look at CGI Iago, there’s not much more…
2016 Oscar winner Manchester By The Sea pulled in a lot of accolades—for its gorgeous visuals of New England living, for its unflinching performances, for its messy examination of family bonds. But if there’s one complaint that almost every critic came away from Kenneth Lonergan’s heartbreaker with, it’s this one: Why…
Look, we all know our green-haired murder friend The Joker isn’t your most…conventional…of hosts. He’s a little weird. A little wacky. A little—dare we say it?—off-kilter, and he’s got the expensive and painful facial tattoos to prove it. But let’s be clear: There’s plotting the destruction of an entire city via the…
