Victoria: Compare and Contrast the Historical Figures with the Actors Who...
The first season of PBS’ Victoria might be over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still obsess over the historical figures who inspired the show. I’m not sure about you, but a huge part of my viewing...
View ArticleWatch Steph Curry Belt Out Songs from ‘Moana’ and ‘Frozen’ on Carpool Karaoke
Is there anything Steph Curry can’t do? Judging by his recent appearance on Carpool Karaoke, I’m going to go with a firm nope. Not only can he carry a tune, but, thanks to the influence of Queen...
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Alec Baldwin On Career Highs And Lows And Playing A ‘Larger Than Life’ Trump
Alec Baldwin has been keeping busy lately. The star of the animated film The Boss Baby has a new memoir out and also keeps popping up on Saturday Night Live to play President Trump. Baldwin tells Fresh...
View ArticleTom Holland Performs in Rihanna Drag on Lip Sync Battle, Wins Our Hearts
In case you’re not yet familiar with the name, Tom Holland is Spider-Man. The new one. Not the Tobey Maguire one. Or the Andrew Garfield one. And definitely not the Nicholas Hammond one. On first...
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The Frightening Realism of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Inspiring Costumed...
We are now five (harrowing) episodes into Hulu‘s astonishing new series, The Handmaid’s Tale, based on Margaret Atwood‘s dystopian 1985 novel of the same name. In case you haven’t yet engaged in the...
View ArticleOMG, Lifetime’s Michael Jackson Biopic Might Actually Be Good?
History tells us that when actors try and impersonate iconic pop stars for the purpose of television-based entertainment, the results are almost always cringe-worthy to the point of unwatchable. The...
View ArticleWhat Happened on ‘Twin Peaks’ Last Night? Even Superfans Aren’t Entirely Sure
After a 25-year break, the third season of Twin Peaks premiered on Showtime last night, and it’s even stranger now than it was back in the early ’90s. The new episodes are only partially set in Twin...
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ABC’s ‘Dirty Dancing’ Remake Succeeded! …In Making All Those Live TV Musicals...
In pop culture terms, the new trend for major television networks throwing live musicals our way every few months feels like the ultimate in post-modern malaise; a glaring confirmation that, yes,...
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‘Poldark’ Season 3 Trailer Promises More Fireworks, Baby Mama Drama, and...
The five long months since the finale of Poldark‘s second season have felt like wandering an unforgiving desert, thirsty for water… and more shirtless shots of Aidan Turner scything and mining and, um,...
View ArticleHow Big Brother Magazine Paved the Way for ‘Jackass,’ Jonah Hill, and Our...
In case you haven’t checked Hulu’s new movies section recently, there’s a documentary that just came out titled Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine. Unless you were a skateboarder in the ’90s, you...
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In the Age of Trump, Escapist Entertainment Has Become an Impossibility
Back in February, David Frum, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, jokingly likened the first few weeks of the Trump administration to my favorite show about Russian spies: This is shaping...
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‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Winner Sasha Velour Cut From A Different Fabric
On Friday night, a new American monarch rose to power beneath a cascade of rose petals, a cracked mask and the ballads of Whitney Houston. But she didn’t just use the glamour, comedy, acting and lip...
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The Not-So-Secret Real-Life of GLOW’s Rhonda Richardson
If you didn’t watch the entirety of new Netflix series GLOW over the weekend, chances are you were simply too busy doing a plethora of amazing Pride-related stuff. That’s okay. You can casually start...
View ArticleRob Kardashian’s Treatment of Blac Chyna Isn’t a Slice of Reality TV Drama,...
The latest in Rob Kardashian's long history of publicly shaming women.
View ArticleCult Hit ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Leaves Behind an Accidental Avant-Garde Legacy
How a teen mystery show became fascinating post-modern television.
View ArticleFuller House: Every Single WTF Moment from Season 2
I watched all 13 episodes so you don't have to.
View ArticleThe 13th Doctor Who is a Woman — But the Show Has Had Female Pioneers From...
In 1963, Doctor Who was a show where creative women like Delia Derbyshire and Verity Lambert could grow.
View ArticleOur Long History of Absurd Shark Content, from Left Shark to Michael Phelps...
From Sharknado to Left Shark to this, we just can't stop with the shark stuff.
View Article‘Hawaii Five-0’ Casting Announcement Doesn’t Fix CBS’s Larger Diversity Problem
For the second year in a row, every new CBS show this fall will star men -- and all but one is white.
View ArticleThe Next ‘Game of Thrones’ Could Be Set In Post-Apocalyptic Africa
The new HBO project, masterminded by sci-fi writer Nnedi Okorafor and George R.R. Martin, sounds amazing.
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