From left: Charithra Chandran as Edwina Sharma, Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma, Shelley Conn as Mary Sharma, and Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton in BridgertonPhoto: Liam Daniel/Netflix The hallmark of Netflix hit Bridgerton’s first season involved the beyond-steamy sex scenes between Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor), the Bridgerton family’s jewel of the social season, and attractive bachelor […]
Michael Biehn, guest starring and loving itPhoto: Josh Stringer/AMC Recruiting strangers to join a community? This is what Aaron does. It’s literally how we first met him—remember when the formerly mellow and easygoing guy showed up and pitched Rick Grimes on the idea of Alexandria? That was his job: Finding wayward souls who seem reasonably […]
RuPaul and the song selection of the LaLaPaRuZa smackdown.screenshot: RuPaul’s Drag Race After a disappointing Snatch Game, all eight queens return to the workroom after being told that everyone, sans DeJa, must compete in a LaLaPaRuZa lip sync smackdown. It is timely for those of us who have no interest in the traditional March Madness. […]
Photo: Sony Pictures In ummah (korean for mother), Amanda (Sandra Oh) and her daughter Chrissy (Fivel Stewart) live off the grid on a farm where they raise bees rather than vegetables, and it’s easy to imagine that writer-director Iris K. Shim intends for her feature debut to play out like a horror version of minari. […]
Pablo Schreiber in HaloPhoto: Paramount+ A couple of years back—that is, when the casting new first broke—The AV Club ran a Newswire headline summing up the paradox inherent to the series that would eventually become Paramount+’s Halo: “Interesting actor Pablo Schreiber to play boring hero Master Chief.” Three years later, those words have turned at […]
Michael James Shaw as Mercer on The Walking DeadPhoto: Josh Stringer/AMC You know Benjamin Franklin’s maxim about how those who would give up liberty to purchase temporary security deserve neither? Funny thing about the people who tend to quote it: You don’t often see them scrambling to avoid starvation. So while Maggie is perfectly content […]
Samuel L. Jackson in The Last Days Of Ptolemy GrayPhoto: AppleTV+ Not to diminish such a triumphant filmography, but you could say there are two Samuel L. Jacksons. One is the stone-cold badass who has dispensed wisecracks and justice in equal measure since pulp Fiction: as slick vigilante John Shaft and Marvel Cinematic Universe wrangler […]
George RR MartinPhoto: Neilson Barnard (Getty Images) We’re now coming up on the 11th anniversary of A Dance With Dragonsthe fifth—and, at the moment, latest—installation of George RR Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire series of fantasy novels. Those ten-plus years have seen a lot of changes for Martin, who’d already been a big […]
George RR MartinPhoto: Neilson Barnard (Getty Images) We’re now coming up on the 11th anniversary of A Dance With Dragonsthe fifth—and, at the moment, latest—installation of George RR Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire series of fantasy novels. Those ten-plus years have seen a lot of changes for Martin, who’d already been a big […]
Robbie Amell as Nathan in Upload season onePhoto: Amazon Studios Now, a moment of silence as we try to recall: What the heck was happening on Upload? It’s been almost two years since Greg Daniels’ charming sci-fi series debuted on Prime Video. That’s a certifiable eternity in pandemic-era TV time, so a reminder of who’s […]
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