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Jan 19, 2020
Here's what's happening in the world of television for Sunday, January 19. All times are Eastern.
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Jan 19, 2020
Our weekly thought-starter asks you (and us) a simple question each week: What pop culture did you consume this weekend, and what did you think of it? If you have suggestions for AVQ&A questions, big or small, you can email them to us here.
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Jan 18, 2020
In what we can only imagine is terrible news for the people over at Quibi—i.e., the other internet content provider that seems bound and determined to scoop up all your favorite folks, no matter the cost—Variety reports this weekend that Julia Louis-Dreyfus has signed an overall deal to develop new projects at Apple…
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Jan 18, 2020
Today in "Objectively awful things that somehow got transformed into comedy memes" news: Lifetime has announced a slate of new projects for its 2020 calendar today, including its latest Surviving limited series—this one centered on living convicted sex offender-turned-dead conspiracy theory fodder Jeffrey Epstein—and…
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Jan 18, 2020
Christopher Tolkien has died. As both the literary executor, and the posthumous editor, of the works of his father, fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien spent much of his life as the public face, steward, and occasional fierce protector of the fantasy realm of Middle-Earth. Over the course of his career, he was…
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Jan 18, 2020
Few elements of modern television production strive harder to emulate the fast-moving, nausea-inducing, Tetsuo-from-the-end-of-Akira-level pace of viral internet content more closely than the annual Super Bowl ad, the proverbial Big Game of "Hey, look at me for 20 seconds!" attention-seeking behavior. We are, of…
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Jan 18, 2020
In Avenue 5, Josh Gad plays Herman Judd, the Billy McFarland-style billionaire whose interstellar cruise ship is stuck in space for the next three years. He's bumbling, boarish, and shows a complete lack of business savvy, but he's also rich as sin. As his assistant Iris, Suzy Nakamura acts as a frustrated fixer, as…
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Jan 18, 2020
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Jan 18, 2020
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Jan 18, 2020
Forget the cautionary tales of yore: Online duplicity is actually ridiculously fun.
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Jan 18, 2020
With the unlikely screen duo of Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey appearing on Friday's Tonight Show to hype Guy Ritchie's latest attempt to recapture the long-ago cheeky British gangland thrills of Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels, The Gentlemen, Jimmy Fallon thought it'd be hilarious to have the actors read out…
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Jan 17, 2020
In what might be the least gentle gesture of an acquisition process that has already been pretty damn un-gentle to date, Disney announced today that its recently purchased vassals at 20th Century Fox have now been stripped even of their long-familiar names. In an act of frank and obvious vulpine intolerance, Variety reports
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Jan 17, 2020
Nicolas Cage and Jon Turteltaub's National Treasure movies come about as close to the platonic ideal of good dopey cinema as it's possible to get, existing as they do in a world in which a man—two-fisted antiquities expert Ben Franklin Gates!—can first declare his intentions to steal the Declaration Of Independence,…
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Jan 17, 2020
It's an enduring source of frustration for a particular class of comic fan that, despite both the consistency and popularity of his work, only a single one of Brian K. Vaughan's comic projects has ever been successfully adapted for film or TV. (His youth-oriented Marvel series Runaways, which he co-created with Adrian…
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Jan 17, 2020
[Note: This article contains language discussing sexual assault.]
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Jan 17, 2020
Given the current political landscape, many of us long for an alternate reality that features President Hillary Clinton. Hulu's upcoming four-part Hillary docuseries probably won't help us feel any better, but it does take a deeper dive into what the production describes as the "most admired and most vilified women in…
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Jan 17, 2020
For the second Film Club of the year, A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife sit down to discuss 1917, the "one-shot" World War I film from director Sam Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins. Join our critics as they discuss why this recently minted Oscar favorite feels like an empty technical showcase.
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Jan 17, 2020
Being verified on Twitter is a big deal to some social media addicts. People take you slightly more seriously, your insults pop up first in people's mentions, and everybody wants to know how you got that tiny blue checkmark. Twitter hasn't unveiled any new process since halting verification in 2016. But now, thanks…
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Jan 17, 2020
Reservoir Dogs has gone 28 years without a sequel, which is good because it absolutely doesn't need one. Even so, the temptation to revist such a career-defining film must be powerful for those involved. How else to explain the decision made by Steve Buscemi and Tim Roth to reprise their parts as Mr. Pink and Mr.…
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Jan 17, 2020
For the first Film Club of the year, A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife are taking a look at Dolittle, the wholly unnecessary reboot of Hugh Lofting's children's lit series starring Robert Downey Jr. in his first post-Endgame film. Join our critics as they try to figure out who thought this was a good idea, and what the hell …
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Jan 17, 2020
Tyler Perry Studios has grown into a filmmaking empire that includes its own fully functioning studio lot. But rather than enabling Perry to make more ambitious, larger-scale movies, his efficient machinery still produces work that's less polished than vaguely professional-looking. "Vaguely professional-looking"…
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Jan 17, 2020
Amid all of the news emerging from the TCA winter press tour this week, Hulu has finally revealed the premiere date for its Golden Globe-winning original comedy Ramy. Per the streaming platform, all 10 episodes will premiere Friday, May 29.
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Jan 17, 2020
Apple's marketing machine has done its very best to create a brand whose name immediately conjures up images of high-tech refinement. Its stores are airy, minimally decorated, and its products are advertised with clean, simplistic iconography. All of this is meant to make us think that the company's somehow different…
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Jan 17, 2020
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Jan 17, 2020
After spending the last few years touring a two-man show, Steve Martin And Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life, the comedians are teaming up again for a new series. On Friday, Hulu announced that the pair would star in an as-yet-untitled comedy about "three strangers who share an…
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Jan 17, 2020
There's a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist.
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Jan 17, 2020
Based on Celeste Ng's bestselling novel, the upcoming Hulu series Little Fires Everywhere focuses on the contrast between two mothers in the planned community of Shaker Heights, Ohio: Reese Witherspoon's high-strung supermom of four Elena, and Kerry Washington's Mia, an artistic and unconventional single mother who…
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Jan 17, 2020
Since comic Hari Kondabolu interrogated the stereotypical characterization of The Simpsons' Apu Nahasapeemapetilon in a 2017 documentary, fans of the show have debated whether it's worth it to keep the Kwik-E-Mart owner around. The show itself even made an episode that directly addressed the controversy, though it …
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Jan 17, 2020
An Electric Water Flosser Gold Box, a Chewy Toy Flash Sale, and temperature-Regulating Sheets lead off Friday's best deals from around the web.
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Jan 17, 2020
It's okay to be skeptical of Hulu's riff on High Fidelity, the 1995 Nick Hornby novel that became the beloved 2000 film starring John Cusack. The first full trailer for the series apes some of the original film's best scenes, and reveals that Zoë Kravitz's lead is still named Rob.
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Jan 17, 2020
The underdog Houston Texans came into Arrowhead Stadium brimming with confidence for their contest against the vaunted Kansas City Chiefs. The game began at 2:05 Central time, much to the surprise of the Chiefs, who were still reading their paper and finishing the last bits of their cruller. While Kansas City hastily…
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Jan 17, 2020
On Thursday, the Senate formally began its impeachment trial of our president, Donald J. Trump. Trump responded with a perfect tweet that declared he "JUST GOT IMPEACHED FOR MAKING A PERFECT PHONE CALL."
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Jan 17, 2020
There are very few superhero comics with the cool factor of Far Sector, a sleek, sexy, and sophisticated sci-fi story that reinvigorates the Green Lantern concept. Written by N.K. Jemisin with art by Jamal Campbell and letterer Deron Bennett, Far Sector is all about the new, introducing a new Green Lantern and taking…
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Jan 17, 2020
"What if I have the urge to tell you something and you don't like what you hear?" Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) says in this exclusive teaser for the fifth season of AMC's Better Call Saul. Come on now, Jimmy. That's not a great way to begin.
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Jan 17, 2020
There's nothing new in pointing out that Donald Trump's style of speaking, removed from the status-boosting context of cheering rally crowds or a White House backdrop, sounds pretty pathetic. When he isn't all-caps tweeting about "perfect phone calls," he's getting out in front of the people to rage and moan about…
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Jan 17, 2020
Hot pot is an incredibly wholesome experience centered around the communal cooking (and eating) of a soup. You gather up a few friends, get seated around a massive pot of a boiling broth, and dunk every raw morsel the servers bring you. But, as anyone who loves hot pot will tell you, the bill adds up quickly. And the…
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Jan 17, 2020
I have the bad habit of, whenever I see someone wearing University of Wisconsin gear, I give them a HUGE smile and aggressively enthusiastic head nod. Think the Paul Rudd "Look at us" Hot Wings gif, but...even friendlier, if that's possible? The funny thing is, I didn't even go to UW, but I did grow up in Madison. So…
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Jan 17, 2020
Since When Romance Met Comedy kicked off 2019 with an impassioned defense of Katherine Heigl and 27 Dresses, it seems only fair that I kick off 2020 by taking a look at the more questionable side of her rom-com oeuvre. Because while I stand by my defense of Heigl, there's no defending her 2009 vehicle The Ugly Truth, …
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Jan 17, 2020
Since When Romance Met Comedy kicked off 2019 with an impassioned defense of Katherine Heigl and 27 Dresses, it seems only fair that I kick off 2020 by taking a look at the more questionable side of her rom-com oeuvre. Because while I stand by my defense of Heigl, there's no defending her 2009 vehicle The Ugly Truth, …
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Jan 17, 2020
With the sixth and final season of Canadian stealth hit comedy Schitt's Creek currently airing in America on Pop TV (and reruns cementing its cult hit status on Netflix), the cast assembled in slightly less than their Rose family finery on Thursday's Tonight Show. (Note that Fallon, wary of the FCC, one supposes,…
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Jan 17, 2020
For the second time in the span of a handful of years, Eminem has surprised the musical world by abruptly dropping an album onto his legion of fans, pretty much in the middle of the night. But whereas 2018's Kamikaze included—amid a fresh stew of warmed-over beefs—the Detroit rapper's homage to that beloved monster of…
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Jan 17, 2020
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
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Jan 17, 2020
Here's what's happening in the world of television for Friday, January 17, and Saturday, January 18. All times are Eastern.
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Jan 16, 2020
If there's one person who most perfectly represents the divisiveness that so frequently defines Star Wars fandom in the modern era, it's got to be, well…Actually, we're kind of spoiled for choice on this one, aren't we? You've got J.J. Abrams, obviously, or John Boyega, for all the Reylo 'shippers in the audience.…
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Jan 16, 2020
If you can measure a pop song's success by the number of accusations of plagiarism, theft, and copyright violation it brings down on its creators' heads in a post-"Blurred Lines" era, then Ariana Grande's "7 Rings" is doing pretty well for itself. (It's not doing too bad on metrics like Grammy nominations, streams, or …
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Jan 16, 2020
The long and winding story of Jimmy McGill's transition from criminal lawyer to "criminal" layer has finally got its end in sight: AMC announced today that it's renewing Vince Gilligan's critically acclaimed prequel series Better Call Saul for one more, sixth and final season. And while we didn't get the spectacle of…
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Jan 16, 2020
For fully three years now, that powers that be behind the Star Wars franchise have been engaging in a series of frankly flirty hypotheticals, asking questions like, "Hey, wouldn't it be wild if Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit director Taika Waititi directed a Star Wars movie for us?" In the intervening years of…
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Jan 16, 2020
"The words are nice, but the tone is scary."
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Jan 16, 2020
We all have that line delivery that sticks with us—as Rachel Syme described it on Twitter, one that "continually pops up in your brain like a catchy lyric." When Syme asked the Twitter populace for their own earworm lines, she was inundated with memorable deliveries in movies from Raising Arizona to The Princess Bride…
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Jan 16, 2020
Missy Elliott released the third installment of The Iconology Saga (not the official name, but humor us here) in the form of another new music video. "Why I Still Love You" is retro, du-wop R&B ballad about a frustratingly persistent love. As she cruises through the decades with her girl group, the Demeanors, Missy…
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Jan 16, 2020
NBC's new streaming service Peacock told us what it wants (what it really, really wants) today, and what it turned out to mostly want was a whole boatload of old Dick Wolf shows. But a full complement of laws, orders, and Chicago public services wasn't the only thing the new service has on its mind as it prepares for…
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Jan 16, 2020
Vic Berger's done as much as anyone in entertainment to make life in the Trump era bearable. The magic he's been able to work with existing video footage—deft edits, emphatic zooms, clownish sound effects—highlights unconscious absurdities as much as it does overt ones, resulting in some of the most searing satire of…
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Jan 16, 2020
The climate apocalypse is coming to your television. HBO announced Wednesday that the David Wallace-Wells' book The Uninhabitable Earth will influence a fictional anthology series that examines what our future may look like as climate change progresses.
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Jan 16, 2020
Sending shockwaves through a community still reeling from the staff turnover that brought her to the series in the first place—genial baking competition audience not necessarily being the most receptive to quick change, and all—TV presenter and writer Sandi Toksvig has announced that she's leaving The Great British…
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Jan 16, 2020
As a creator, Armando Iannucci has a long list of successful ventures under his belt, and with Avenue 5, he seeks to add another. The A.V. Club sat down with Iannucci and Avenue 5 star Nikki Amuka-Bird to talk about how the creator dipped into his well of players to cast the show, and what sort of space survival…
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Jan 16, 2020
HBO's Watchmen provided some of the most compelling television of 2019, delivering a pertinent look at the relationship between race and a broken criminal justice system through one of DC Comic's biggest properties. For nine episodes Regina King wore the role of Angela Abar—otherwise known as Sister Night—like a…
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Jan 16, 2020
What's that? You don't want another streaming service? Well, the good news is that NBC knows that, and isn't aiming to be Disney or HBO Max. Sure, there will be some original series—we reported on some, like the Macgruber sequel series, earlier today—but, as network executives explained during NBC's panel at the TCAs…
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Jan 16, 2020
When writing up these round-ups of what's coming to (and going from) streaming services in a given month, we used to go to excessive lengths to come up with a "theme" for each month, operating under the joke premise that, say, Hulu had purposefully chosen all of the things coming and going to fit that theme. Well, for…
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Jan 16, 2020
Cenobites. Demons to some, angels to others. Sunglasses models to...uh, a select few, it seems, as writer and podcaster Mallory O'Meara discovered possibly one of the greatest product reviews of all time:
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Jan 16, 2020
Helping to soothe the sting of Josh and Benny Safdie's incredible Uncut Gems being shut out of the Oscars comes a new short from the creative team. The Safdies dropped the six-minute flick, "Goldman v Silverman," on Vimeo on Thursday, treating us to a war between two painted street performers (played by Adam Sandler…
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Jan 16, 2020
Oh, you thought the world had enough streaming services already? Well, sorry to shatter everything you thought you knew, but NBC still hasn't officially launched—or even really talked about—it's upcoming Peacock platform. The real details are coming later today at a big event with a giant peacock, but NBC is easing us…
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Jan 16, 2020
The PlayStation 4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn will come to personal computers this year, sources tell Kotaku. It's an unprecedented move for Sony that signals a future in which the publisher releases games on platforms beyond its own consoles.
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Jan 16, 2020
The Rise Of Skywalker was mostly pretty bad. We say mostly because, regardless of its slapdash plot and character work, it also included the character of Babu Frik, one of the finest aliens Star Wars has seen to date. Well, now you don't have to watch more than two hours of boring stuff to get to the good parts of the…
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Jan 16, 2020
Family Guy may be the most famous member of the Seth MacFarlane Cartoon Family, but it's certainly not the only member. After a long run on Fox and then a transition over to the (presumably) less strict ratings expectations of TBS, American Dad! has continued to be one of the best animated comedies on television—it's…
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Jan 16, 2020
If you found James Wan's 2018 Aquaman to be an awfully cartoonish superhero outing, it seems Wan agrees with you: The director of DC's blockbuster hit is turning the hero into an actual cartoon for HBO Max.
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Jan 16, 2020
The sentiment "It can't be all hell, all the time" is expressed in the new trailer for Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina's upcoming season (part) three, but honestly, we think the show is in disagreement. Even though Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) defeated her father Lucifer at the end of last season, her beloved boyfriend…
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Jan 16, 2020
This week, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame announced its 2020 inductees, and honestly, after seeing the list of nominees back in October, they did a surprisingly good job. As revealed on the Hall Of Fame's website (via Vulture), the 2020 class consists of Whitney Houston, the Doobie Brothers, T. Rex, Depeche Mode, the…
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Jan 16, 2020
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Jan 16, 2020
Robert Kolker's acclaimed Lost Girls tracked the compelling, frustrating true story of five sex workers whose bodies were found on the same Long Island beach in 2010, and the agony of their killer remaining in the wind. Today, Netflix dropped a trailer for its adaptation of the novel, which comes from Academy…
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Jan 16, 2020
Anyone who's ever plummeted down the rabbit hole of after-hours television knows there's a goldmine of unintentional comedy waiting at the bottom. But it's not as easy as Adult Swim makes it look, clowning on this twilight zone of programming. The challenge is that some of the funniest things you might stumble upon in…
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Jan 16, 2020
For years, Russell Simmons was looked at as the "face of hip-hop." A go-to promoter and manager of the emerging genre in the '80s, Simmons eventually become one of the most powerful men in the music industry. The pioneering mogul founded Def Jam, launched the influential TV series Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry…
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Jan 16, 2020
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Jan 16, 2020
The YouTube apology video's become something of an artform, having been deployed so often that people are dressing up as them at conventions. If you've seen more than one, then you've probably recognized a relatively familiar format that goes something like this:
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Jan 16, 2020
There was a specific kind of kid in school—most often a boy named Cody or Darryl—who had a pet reptile. Usually, these pets were snakes and the child in question took great pleasure in showing off its fetid enclosure, warming lights humming in the corner of a bedroom that may or may not have had a water bed, and…
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Jan 16, 2020
"Ozzy changed everything," Rick Rubin says in this trailer for Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy, a documentary in which the Prince Of Darkness himself takes a sober look at his wild days as a pioneering metal god. Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, and even Post Malone offer similar sentiments, with the latter saying that…
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Jan 16, 2020
A Vitamix blender, Huckerry outerwear sale, TCL TVs, and
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Jan 16, 2020
The second season of Netflix's raunchy comedy Sex Education is all about moving forward, especially for unlicensed junior sex therapist Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield). He's closing up the underground sex therapy clinic, moving on from his ostensibly fruitless crush on Maeve (Emma Mackey), and cultivating his…
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Jan 16, 2020
In an effort to lower my baseline anxiety level, I recently cut back to one cup of coffee per day, replacing it with tea (because decaf coffee is terrible). I've always been a fan of tea, but my tea consumption has increased exponentially since removing my second (and sometimes third) hot bean water.
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Jan 16, 2020
SXSW has premiered some exciting, acclaimed original comedies over the last few years, from Olivia Wilde's Booksmart to Kay Cannon's Blockers. Potentially slotting into that role this year is The Lovebirds, a comedy and murder mystery set to debut at the festival that reunites star/beefcake Kumail Nanjiani with…
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Jan 16, 2020
Empyre is coming to pull Marvel's heroes back into the cosmic drama between the Kree and Skrull alien races, and Spider-Man is swinging into the action in a big way. Yesterday, Marvel revealed that Spidey and Wolverine would be rejoining the Fantastic Four during the event, and The A.V. Club has the exclusive…
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Jan 16, 2020
Apple TV 's new anthology series, Little America, is an evocative experience. The eight episodes that make up season one are all based on true narratives selected in a series from Epic Magazine and presented, with some alterations, as a gradation of immigrant tales. The show invokes hopefulness and optimism despite…
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Jan 16, 2020
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Jan 16, 2020
TCL 50" Class 5-Series 4K UHD Dolby Vision HDR Roku Smart TV | $255 | Amazon | Clip Digital Coupon
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Jan 16, 2020
Part of what's exciting about the start of a new year in music is how little we know of what's to come. Will we begin the 2020s with fresh material from Rihanna and Frank Ocean? We hope so. Ditto that for rumored efforts by Fiona Apple, Kendrick Lamar, Rosalía, and Tierra Whack. As for the confirmed and highly likely…
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Jan 16, 2020
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Jan 16, 2020
You remember that Robert Downey Jr. was a full cast member on Saturday Night Live, right? Alongside other luminaries like his Weird Science co-star Anthony Michael Hall, Joan Cusack, Randy Quaid, and Damon Wayans? Danitra Vance? Terry Sweeney? Anyone? Well, he was, back in 1985, the first year Lorne Michaels returned…
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Jan 16, 2020
Here's what's happening in the world of television for Thursday, January 16. All times are Eastern.
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Jan 16, 2020
Serial killers of all stripes are frolicking in the streets of America tonight, as Deadline announced that Netflix has allowed its options on the cast of David Fincher's Mindhunter to expire—at least, for now. Killer clowns and black widows alike will rest easy in their beds this evening, confident in the knowledge…
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Jan 15, 2020
"The world has changed."
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Jan 15, 2020
"Legacy" is a very strange episode of Modern Family, and one that once again deals with a character death in a rather mystifying way. After a holiday break and last week's solid but rather inconsequential episode, "Legacy" doesn't exactly get back to the season's overarching storylines, but it does introduce a new,…
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Jan 15, 2020
Although the conversation around this year's Oscars snubs remains both ongoing and fractious, it still pales in comparison to the outcry that broke out last year, when a true travesty was unleashed on the movie-viewing world: The snubbing of Gabriel Gundacker's "Zendaya Is Meechee" from consideration for Best…
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Jan 15, 2020
As the Stephen King TV adaptation machine gives, so, too, must it take-eth way: Hot on the heels of HBO's The Outsider—one of the most critically well-received King TV projects in pretty much ever—Amazon has confirmed that it isn't moving forward with a TV version of the author's sprawling, Western-inflected omnibus …
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Jan 15, 2020
Few TV shows in the history of the medium have been more aggressively pursued for, well, more than NBC's former ratings juggernaut Friends. Back in the day, NBC head Jeff Zucker had to all but beg the show's stars to come back for a final season (a request that came with a hefty million dollars per episode per Friend…
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Jan 15, 2020
Like so many rampantly successful entities before it, SXSW Film appears to have improbably fallen for Pete Davidson: The festival announced today that the Saturday Night Live star's semi-autobiographical new film, King Of Staten Island, is scheduled to open this year's fest. Directed by Judd Apatow, the film stars and…
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Jan 15, 2020
"If you can get it right, there's a real opportunity to advance the racial discussion in America." This is what HBO president Casey Bloys said after scores of people made it clear they didn't, actually, want a speculative series about slavery in the modern age from the two guys in the above picture. Well, it appears…
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Jan 15, 2020
Good news for everyone who's found their TV-watching habits insufficiently dragon-filled since Game Of Thrones went off the air last year: HBO president Casey Bloys has hazily confirmed that the show's spin-off prequel, House Of The Dragon, will run on the network some time in 2022. That's a measly two years away,…
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Jan 15, 2020
If two people made one of the most iconic Star Wars posters ever in less than two days, wouldn't you want to hear that story?
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Jan 15, 2020
Daniel Radcliffe, refined English thespian, has guns bloodily bolted to his hands in the trailer for Guns Akimbo, a grimy-looking exploitation flick tapping, at least in the below trailer, into that Neveldine-Taylor magic. That's not to be reductive, of course, as Kiwi director Jason Lei Howden has an aesthetic all…
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Jan 15, 2020
Superheroes were a quaint thing in the ‘60s, with Adam West and Burt Ward leading the charge as a much sillier spin on Batman and Robin than we're accustomed to seeing these days. Still, as boomers will remind you, Batman was a huge fucking deal, despite the show's relentless campiness and infatuation with labeling…
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