It’s testament to Ian McShane’s strength as an actor that, after watching Deadwood, it becomes all but impossible to see or hear him and not think he’s actually the show’s monstrous saloon owner, Al Swearengen. Because of this, hearing his opinions on current TV shows—like that he loves High Maintenance and Atlanta…

“If you gaze into the abyss,” Nietzsche famously wrote, “the abyss gazes back into you.” So is the case with a mysterious image circulating on the internet, retrieved from some dim cavern on the dark seabed of our digital age and forced into the harsh light of a public eye unequipped to handle it.

Bad news for everyone protecting their “BLINK182FullDiscography+Singles /LIVE” cloud uploads with overly literal passwords: your treasure trove of dated pop punk may be compromised by hackers.

It was easier, in generations past, to stick to that classic “respect your elders” maxim. When our grandparents were dispensing advice verbally—or in admirably detailed, lengthy letters folded into birthday cards alongside a crisp $20—the wisdom that comes from age was easy to recognize. Now, though, witnessing them…

It’s possible to get away with just about anything if you’re cute enough. Take, for example, the dog who chewed through a blanket belonging to The Washington Post’s Mary Beth Albright only to be rewarded with viral fame.

In the most unexpected country crossover since LL Cool J and Brad Paisley joined forces to solve racism, the banjo-pickin’, fiddle-playin’ boys of Nashville’s The Hit Points have covered Super Mario World’s “Athletic Theme.” Unlike the regrettable example above, though, their genre exercise is actually very good and,…

Now that the Mueller report is publicly available and America has collectively agreed that everything about its process was completely fine and Donald Trump is now a good president, the nation has had to find new ways to focus its energy—like, say, comparing the black-barred redactions covering the report’s white…

Elon Musk, the man whose professional image is meant to hinge on cutting-edge ideas, can’t help himself from looking hopelessly out of touch on the internet. Musk’s recent history includes, unfortunately for us, the Harambe rap. There is also last fall’s Twitter request for the “dankest memes,” which came soon after a…

In a show filled with sadistic boy kings, reanimated murder giants, fire-breathing dragons, and vast armies of ice corpses, Lyanna Mormont, the hilariously stern child in charge of one of Game Of Thrones’ most important families, somehow manages to be the most imposing figure of the entire show.

Culture moves at an accelerated pace online. While Harambe may seem like a distant memory (to anyone but Elon Musk), the great ape’s tragic saga is actually only a few years old. Even the dusty old Rickroll, which feels like a decaying artifact from some ancient civilization, was still relevant around a decade ago.

A wealth of human knowledge, accumulated on Wikipedia and preserved on tiny disks, has been sent to the moon. This is an impressive feat that capitalizes on our species’ technological accomplishments, ensuring that, no matter what awful fate our planet’s currently rushing toward, our careful documentation of…

Game Of Thrones hasn’t always been great with guest appearances. Though it did alright with all those barely noticeable musicians over the years, any sense of restraint was thrown out the window when Ed Sheeran, one of the world’s most recognizable pop stars, made a jarring cameo as a Lannister soldier last season.…

Any celebrity who’s managed to stay within the public eye for as long as Mariah Carey is bound to attract weird internet shit just by virtue of their existence. Savvier than most, Mariah has acknowledged and controlled this aspect of her career. In the past, she embraced and broke the viral 10-Year Challenge and…

Game Of Thrones returned last night with a lot of the prior seasons’ trappings intact: incest, gore, characters discussing their lives while having sex, teenage Bran being a weapons-grade weirdo, and much more. Among the familiarity, though, there was also a notable update to the titles sequence, all freshened up for…

1998's Meet Joe Black is not well remembered. Despite starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins and marking Martin Brest’s directorial follow-up to the lauded Scent Of A Woman, the story of a supernatural romance story doesn’t really come up too often two decades following its release.

Across Madonna’s career, she has (apologies) expressed herself through a variety of different artistic personae. There’s the early years of bubblegum pop star; classic Hollywood Madonna; the conical bra, parent-scaring Erotica era Madonna; and the turn-of-the-millennium Kaballah spiritualist. Among all of these…

Dr. Spiros Frangos is Director Of Trauma/Critical Care at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital Center and an NYU School Of Medicine Professor Of Surgery. He is obviously very good at what he does, and admirable in his dedication to saving others’ lives. But Dr. Frangos, we’re sorry to say, also seems like the kind of guy…

Adam Sandler is many things. He’s a stand-up comedian, the star of approximately half of Netflix’s original comedies, and a Saturday Night Live veteran soon to host his very own episode. He is also, it turns out, a hidden subversive who uses movies about roaring boy-men in backward baseball caps to criticize the…

Well, call my name through the cream, the first-ever image of a black hole has been revealed. The result of an international effort by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the astonishing image, as described by NBC MACH’s David Freeman, “shows the supermassive black hole at the center of a neighboring galaxy known as…

Having amassed an unreasonable fortune, it would be unimaginable to just give some of it away to people who have nothing or create charities that better society as a whole. Instead, the disgustingly wealthy must get creative, dreaming up novel ways to spend their money like, say, contracting a real-life battle royale…