Play buttonWanda Sykes John Oliver enlists Wanda Sykes and Larry David to kvetch about medical biasThe A.V. Club - Dennis PerkinsSunday’s Last Week Tonight took on racial and gender bias in medicine, something host John Oliver noted he, a a white male, was pretty unlikely to experience. For one thing, Oliver is, as he put it, the
TV Dud gets back to work as Lodge 49’s creator and showrunner talk destinyThe A.V. Club - Allison Shoemaker Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, August 19. All times are Eastern. Read more...
Jesus Nothing much makes sense on Preacher, but at least there's goreThe A.V. Club - Zack HandlenIt makes a certain amount of sense to team God up with the Grail. The show is rapidly approaching its endgame, and the idea of putting all the villains on one side has an appealing narrative economy to
Danny McBride Danny McBride and Jody Hill are at the top of their game with The Righteous GemstonesThe A.V. Club - Kyle FowleThe previous work from the team of Danny McBride and Jody Hill is perhaps best known for just how divisive it is. The comedy, pitch-black with no punches pulled, attempts a tonal high-wire act; balancing
TV City On A Hill's simmering season finale bodes well for the show's futureThe A.V. Club - Scott Von DoviakIn my pre-air review of the first few episodes of City On A Hill, I noted the show’s regrettable reliance on cliche while also expressing some optimism that the series might find its footing as it went
TV "Vaulter" pivots to extinction in an all-too-timely SuccessionThe A.V. Club - Randall Colburn“Kendall Roy is no longer relevant,” Stewy (Arian Moayed) declares to the world on PGM. Kendall (Jeremy Strong), if we’re being honest, probably wouldn’t disagree. There’s shades of the enterprising usurper
Charles Manson Mindhunter reminds us to never meet your idols, especially when they're Charles MansonThe A.V. Club - Katie RifeHolden Ford is a Charles Manson fan. Holden’s been obsessing over the infamous cult leader since the very first episode of Mindhunter, when he pissed off a classroom full of Iowa beat cops by suggesting
Cartoons Kevin Smith is making a new He-Man cartoon for NetflixThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiAs announced today at the Power-Con convention in California, Kevin Smith is making a new He-Man cartoon for Netflix. Unlike the excellent She-Ra, which it will presumably be totally unrelated to (the
Fascism Marvel apparently rejected an Art Spiegelman essay about fascism because of a Trump referenceThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiIn an essay for The Guardian that went up this weekend, Maus creator Art Spiegelman dives into the so-called golden age of comics that occurred (depending on who you ask) at some point between the late-1930s
Maya Hawke Maya Hawke joins the list of Stranger Things stars who are also talented musiciansThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiStranger Things is a fun show, give or take the vast majority of season two, but now it’s becoming fairly clear that it might have been even more successful if Netflix had leaned into the strengths of
TV Carr discovers a hidden talent as Mindhunter approaches its halfway markThe A.V. Club - Katie Rife ...and it’s not bowling. She put those whiskey shots back like a champ, though. Read more...
George R.R. Martin For better or worse, George R.R. Martin says the end of Game Of Thrones isn't influencing his booksThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiPresumably because he’s a big fan of search engine optimization, George R.R. Martin spent a lot of time back in May talking about how his A Song Of Ice And Fire books versus the then-upcoming end of HBO’s
Bernie Sanders Watch Bernie Sanders talk insurance, student debt, and police brutality with Cardi BThe A.V. Club - Alani VargasIf you’re in need of a political pick-me-up (and who isn’t nowadays), Cardi B’s new interview with Senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is worth a watch. Regardless of who you’re rooting to
Jay Z JAY-Z is buying an NFL team, but we don't know which oneThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiAs reported by TMZ, JAY-Z is going to buy a “significant ownership interest” in an NFL team at some point in the “near future,” with an unnamed source saying that he wants to “continue to be a change for
Danny McBride Danny McBride would like to introduce you to The Righteous GemstonesThe A.V. Club - Allison Shoemaker Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, August 18. All times are Eastern. Read more...
They butchered Richard Williams' The Thief And The Cobbler, but its surreal beauty survives onlineThe A.V. Club - William HughesEarlier today we wrote about the death of Richard Williams, the Oscar-winning animator behind Disney’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Among Williams’ many accolades (including several Academy Awards and BAFTAs)
TV That damn Friends monkey is starring in the Y: The Last Man showThe A.V. Club - William HughesIt’s one of those weird truths of the history of television production that one of the biggest TV shows of all time—a network-saving miracle that dominated the haircuts and conversations of an entire for
Jason Blum Jason Blum says he's still hoping for The Hunt to be unleashedThe A.V. Club - William HughesAlthough it hasn’t been greeted with the same rapturous critical attention that’s been lobbed at fellow newcomer studio A24—and its founder, Jason Blum, has come under occasional fire for his purported
Mindhunter Mothers cry out for justice as Mindhunter introduces the Atlanta Child MurdersThe A.V. Club - Katie Rife “Save your promises, Agent Ford.”Read more...
R.I.P. Richard Williams, Oscar-winning animator of Who Framed Roger RabbitThe A.V. Club - William HughesRichard Williams, a three-time Oscar-winning animator whose creations breathed groundbreaking life into 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, has died. Williams—despite the widespread success of his high-profile
Music In 1989, The Frogs took a chainsaw to homophobic stereotypesThe A.V. Club - Alex McLevyImage: It’s Only Right And Natural album artThere was a period of time in the ’90s when it seemed like Milwaukee-based The Frogs were going to be one of those weird cult acts that somehow blew up into
TV Syfy blows up KryptonThe A.V. Club - William HughesDespite myriad warnings from all those more thoughtful and cautious types who could see that the planet/series was hurtling for disaster—i.e., anyone who actually watched the dang thing, and saw its viewership
Sterling K. Brown Someone finally figured out that Kerry Washington and Sterling K. Brown should film movies togetherThe A.V. Club - Shannon MillerPer Deadline, the bidding has begun on an action-drama from Leon Chills titled Shadow Farce. Kerry Washington and Sterling K. Brown are slated to both star in produce the film that is already being described
Dennis Hopper R.I.P. Peter FondaThe A.V. Club - William HughesPeter Fonda, whose performance in 1969's Easy Rider cemented his role as one of Hollywood’s most recognizable countercultural icons, has died. An Oscar-nominated actor and writer with more than 100 credits
Bruce Lee Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the latest to dunk on Quentin Tarantino's vision of his friend Bruce LeeThe A.V. Club - William HughesThe discourse surrounding the portrayal of martial arts legend Bruce Lee in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood continues apace today, with The Hollywood Reporter publishing a piece from
TV Even Tench is feeling uneasy as Mindhunter dives deeper into season 2The A.V. Club - Katie RifeThe paranoia that underlaid the professional changes and interpersonal conflict of Mindhunter’s season-two premiere continues to seep through its second episode, and even the show’s most square-jawed of
African-American News Dad and daughter need a little help in this super relatable clip from Matthew Cherry's animated short "Hair Love"The A.V. Club - Shannon MillerAudiences who plan on checking out The Angry Birds Movie 2 in theaters this weekend will also get to watch “Hair Love,” the animated short film by filmmaker Matthew Cherry and executive-produced by Peter
Silicon Valley (TV Series) Richard goes to Washington in the first trailer for Silicon Valley's final seasonThe A.V. Club - Randall ColburnOn October 27, HBO’s tech satire Silicon Valley will begin shutting down once and for all, but not without a malfunction or 10. In the first teaser for its sixth and final season, Thomas Middleditch’s
new movie news Good Boys' Molly Gordon reminisces about her middle school shenanigansThe A.V. Club - Marah EakinMolly Gordon is having a bit of a moment. The actress popped up in the excellent Booksmart earlier this summer, and now she’s playing the teen tormenter of three more-innocent-than-thou middle schoolers
John Travolta Jimmy Fallon tries, fails to out-Travolta John TravoltaThe A.V. Club - Alani VargasJohn Travolta’s played many roles, nearly all of which send him way the hell over the top. You can see Danny Zuko’s hair-combing, greaser antics just as clearly as Vincent Vega’s “Elvis-man” ways. Luckily
