The 10 Best ‘Twilight Zone’ Episodes to Watch Before Jordan Peele’s Reboot
Fifty-five years after the original went off the air (and two failed re-boots later), Jordan Peele is set to executive produce a new season of The Twilight Zone! Stars scheduled to travel through...
View Article‘Victoria’ Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: On The Road Again
In the previous episode of Victoria, the writers obliterated our hearts by killing off Babyface Maid. That watching experience looked a little something like this: Will this week’s episode involve...
View ArticleNetflix Refuses to Remove Real-Life Disaster Footage From ‘Birdbox’
Canadians are furious over Netflix’s use of real-life footage of a deadly oil-train disaster in two of the company’s recent science fiction productions. The 2013 accident in Lac-Megantic, Quebec,...
View Article‘Victoria’ Season 3 Episode 6 Recap: Love on the Brain
In the previous episode of Victoria, yet another assassin tried to kill the Queen. Scary stuff, yet this guy was thoroughly entertained: Disney Villain continued to be the worst: The writers used an...
View ArticleStudents are Making Their Own (Surprisingly Good) ‘Survivor’ Series
College sophomore Jake Schwartz looks up at the red Solo cup teetering dangerously close to the 15-foot ledge above him. The cup is full of water, and it’s attached to his arm by a string. One wrong...
View Article‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Producer Dream Hampton Takes on Ecosystem That Supported...
Last week, reports surfaced of a new videotape showing singer R. Kelly engaging in sex acts with an underage girl. This is not the first time the R&B superstar has been accused of sexual abuse....
View ArticleOscars 2019: The Complete List
Updated at 11:36 p.m. EST Director Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, about a black musician (played by Mahershala Ali) touring the segregated South with a white chauffeur (Viggo Mortensen), won the 2019...
View ArticleOscars 2019: What Trevor Noah Really Said in His ‘Black Panther’ Joke
While presenting the montage for best picture nominee Black Panther, Daily Show host Trevor Noah made a joke in Xhosa, a language spoken by millions in South Africa and in a few other African countries...
View ArticleFrom the Bronx to Showtime, Desus & Mero are Remaking Late-Night
When Desus and Mero stopped by NPR’s New York bureau the day after their buzzy new late-night talk show debuted on Showtime, they were still taking it all in. “We’re still a little hungover from the...
View Article‘Victoria’ Season 3 Episode 7 Recap: California Love
In the previous episode of Victoria, Bertie wished his mom was dead so he could be king and never have to go to tutoring again: Feodora was still shamelessly on her BS: There was a very random gendered...
View Article‘Leaving Neverland’ Makes Powerful But One-Sided Case Against the King Of Pop
HBO’s Leaving Neverland is ultimately a tribute to the power of personal testimony. Over four hours, the film slowly excavates the stories of James Safechuck and Wade Robson. The two men each met...
View Article‘Victoria’ Season 3 Finale Recap: Matchmaker, Matchmaker
In the previous episode of Victoria, the loony bin got in the way of Disney Princess and New Footman moving to California: Victoria and Albert stopped fighting long enough to pretend they were in The...
View ArticleGoodbye to Luke Perry, Our Favorite Bad Boy With A Heart
Luke Perry died today, and just like that, an entire generation is thrown into heartbreak. It is perfectly normal and OK to be crying at Dylan McKay GIFs right now. — Louis Peitzman (@LouisPeitzman)...
View ArticleGame of Thrones: Every OMG Moment from the Season 8 Trailer!
It’s been nearly a year and a half since we watched the Night King saunter up to the Wall, think LOL! This little thing? and promptly obliterate it, sending a flood of zombies into Westeros and leaving...
View ArticleOn CBS, an Indicted R. Kelly Literally Screams His Innocence
R&B star R. Kelly has given his first interview since being charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault late last month. The conversation, which journalist Gayle King taped Tuesday at Kelly’s...
View ArticleQueer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness Set to Live His Ice Skater Fantasy on Netflix’s...
Last summer, we enthusiastically declared that following Queer Eye‘s Fab Five on social media might just have life-changing consequences. Well, those of you who took our advice have probably been...
View ArticleWhile Women’s Soccer Fights Inequality in Court, Sexism Remains Rampant in...
Last Friday, citing the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Right’s Act, the US women’s soccer team filed an “institutionalized gender discrimination” lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation—and...
View ArticleHow True Crime Helped Me Deal With a Real-Life Monster
A few years ago, after 17 years of friendship, a man I adored and thought I knew very well was sentenced to three decades in prison for charges related to pedophilia. His case included acts on children...
View ArticleThe ‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 Trailer Is Here And It Is Totally Tubular
One of the major appeals of Stranger Things has always been how darn ’80s it is. Stylistically, the Netflix series has been E.T. meets The Goonies meets Stephen King from the get-go. Those of us who...
View ArticleHow ‘Friends’ And ‘Seinfeld’ Changed The Way We Talk
In May 1997, there was a throwaway comment in an episode of Friends that somehow got itself permanently stamped into the lexicon. Phoebe rushes into Central Perk to tell the gang all about a woman who...
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