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Evan Rachel Wood in Westworld Photo: John Johnson/HBO Westworld is a show about storytelling. Throughout its first three seasons, creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have made clear they are fascinated by the way narratives rule our world: Concepts like free will and agency are, in the show’s cosmology, intimately tied to the stories we … Read More “Westworld recap: Season 4, Episode 1” »
The Umbrella AcademyPhoto: Netflix Netflix’s weirdo superhero family show The Umbrella Academy just released its third season a few days ago, but showrunner and creator Steve Blackman says the end of the show is in sight… assuming Netflix lets The Umbrella Academy go out on its own terms, rather than senselessly canceling it early to … Read More “Umbrella Academy showrunner wants to end the series after season 4” »
Left: Ken Jennings (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images), Right: Mayim Bialik (MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images) Although it’s been easy to forget—as the show has just sort of rolled along for the last season with Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings handing off hosting duties, and a number of high-profile winners seemingly unaffected by the transition—but … Read More “Jeopardy! producers say they’ll have a hosting announcement “very, very soon”” »
Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO When Game of Thrones aired, much hay was made about the showmakers’ refusal to allow star Kit Harington to cut his long hair because of his role as Jon Snow, a rule that Harington himself vocally hated. Apparently, the actor has gotten over it since Thrones went off the air in 2019, … Read More “The Jon Snow Game of Thrones Sequel Was Kit Harington’s Idea” »
Nathan Fillion Photo: Mike Coppola (Getty Images) Brave white man Nathan Fillion has come forward to say that he would work again with fellow man Joss Whedon “in a second.” However, he probably love any work that does not involve playing a rookie cop in 2022…. “I mean, listen by his own admission that guy’s … Read More “Nathan Fillion would work with Joss Whedon again “in a second”” »
Photo: Evelyn Hockstein (Getty Images) “She’s not a perfect victim,” Mariska Hargitay says in Law and Order: SVU. Recent headlines say the same about Amber Heard. Heard said as much about herself. “But,” Hargitay says, “she is not making this up.” I let Law and Order play on TV while I do other mindless things, … Read More “Amber Heard Continues To Suffer From Post-MeToo Victim Blaming” »
“Lost” media comes in a lot of form—from those pieces (often from the days before TV episodes, for instance, were considered as anything more than disposable garbage) that got taped over or trashed, and are now well and truly gone, to those pieces of media that are simply hard to find or get to. As … Read More “A “lost,” “too-scary” episode of Sesame Street has been uploaded” »
Gravity FallsScreenshot: Disney/YouTube Now this is how the sausage really gets made. Of course Disney, being a cautiously conservative mega-corporation that trades mostly in children’s media, is obnoxiously hands-on about the content they put out. But we rarely get to see behind the curtain of what goes into monitoring their creatives. Thanks to Gravity Falls’ … Read More “Gravity Falls creator shares Disney’s wild revision requests” »
After years of silence from HBO, the network finally released a teaser for Westworld’s fourth season at the beginning of May, and now we already have another full trailer that gives more of an indication of what the new season will be about. We’ll have to wait and see if any of this turns out … Read More “Here’s a full trailer for season 4 of HBO’s Westworld” »
‘The Office’ actors Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute) and Steve Carell (Michael Scott) on January 22, 2006 in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Michael Buckner (Getty Images) Rainn Wilson, the actor who played Dwight Schrute on The Office, thinks his iconic character would be up to more than just selling Dunder Mifflin paper if the show was still … Read More “What Rainn Wilson Thinks ‘The Office’ Characters Are Doing Now” »