Television

Zoë Kravitz got a Catwoman-themed surprise during her SNL hosting debut this week: more Catwomen. After joking about how she “watched the movie musical Cats every day for a year” to prepare for her role as Catwoman in The Batman, Kate McKinnon appeared in a leather dominatrix suit asking, “Somebody out here talking about cats?” McKinnon quickly revealed that she was “the Catwoman from the ’90s, the one with the whip.” She then revealed her origin story to Kravitz. “Okay, I fell out of a window onto a pile of cats....

Weekend Update tackled Russia’s fake news law, the country’s ban on car exports and Disney’s response to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. “Russia has passed a fake news law that makes it illegal for any organization to report information that contradicts what the government says,” co-anchor Colin Jost said, “which explains the recent headline, ‘Six-foot-five Putin Not Insane.'” After discussing President Biden’s refusal to step into World War III and the rising gas prices nationwide, Michael Che quipped, “Russia has responded to...

A review of this week’s Winning Time, “Is That All There Is?” coming up just as soon as you come back with a real business plan… Among the many conflicts that Winning Time established in its series premiere was incumbent Lakers coach Jerry West’s opposition to drafting Magic Johnson with the first overall pick. West mostly argued in basketball terms regarding his belief that a six-foot-nine man handling the ball as much as a point guard (a position traditionally played by guys at least a half a foot shorter) would...

The Kardashians found a new home on Hulu with The Kardashians following the series finale of Keeping Up With the Kardashians less than a year ago. Now, as they make their return, they’re leading with a mission statement… or a warning: “Never go against the family.” In the official trailer for the fresh series that puts the cameras back on the Hollywood family, Kourtney and Travis Barker, her fiancé of Blink-182 fame, explore having a baby, while Kylie Jenner details having her own highly publicized pregnancy. Meanwhile, Khloe, entwined in...

Evan Rachel Wood responded to Marilyn Manson’s defamation lawsuit against her during her Monday appearance on The View. Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, alleged that the actress defamed him in conversations with other women who have accused him of sexual abuse. “I can’t obviously speak about any of the specific allegations of the lawsuit, but I’m not scared,” she said ahead of the release of her upcoming doc Phoenix Rising. “I am sad, ’cause this is how it works. This is what pretty much every survivor that tries...

Apple+’s adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s historical-fiction epic Pachinko bounces back and forth between several phases of its heroine Sunja’s life: growing up in Korea under the yoke of Japanese rule, where she’s played as a girl in the 1920s by Yu-na Jeon, and as a young woman in the 1920s played by Minha Kim; then her late-Eighties retirement in Japan (where she’s played by Youn Yuh-jung), reflecting back on her life’s many triumphs, tragedies, and compromises. In one scene in 1989, Sunja and her banker grandson Solomon (Jin Ha)...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. West Side Story, Dune, and Belfast are among the top contenders vying to take home the award for Best Picture at this weekend’s Critics’ Choice Awards. Originally set for earlier this year but rescheduled because of Omicron, the show — hosted by Nicole Byer and Taye Diggs — will finally make its way to your screen on Sunday, March 13th. “Following the science and tracking the course of...

For a few years in the mid-2010s, Amy Schumer was as prominent and acclaimed a comic voice as there was to be found anywhere in American pop culture. Her Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer wickedly parodied the television of the day. (Josh Charles came in for note-perfect spoofs of both Friday Night Lights and The Newsroom, the latter “bestowed upon you by Aaron Sorkin.”) It dug deep on the strange and terrible ways society could view women, or that women could view themselves, whether in the implied homoeroticism of...

Jimmy McGill cements his transformation into Saul Goodman with that “LWYRUP” license plate in the new trailer for the final season of Better Call Saul.  The trailer (unsurprisingly) doesn’t offer much in the way of hard plot points about the Breaking Bad prequel’s endgame, but it sure does capture an ominous vibe the way only Vince Gilligan and Co. can. The clip pairs the dulcet tones of Andy Williams’ “Days of Wine and Roses” with a moody montage of footage as Jimmy/Saul (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim (Rhea Seehorn) take stock...

Disney+ has finally offered Star Wars fans a glimpse of their upcoming series Obi-Wan Kenobi, with Ewan McGregor reprising the role of the Jedi Master. The limited series takes place between the events of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope, which first introduced Kenobi (then portrayed by Alec Guinness) as a recluse of sorts living on the planet of Tatooine; as shown in the teaser, Obi-Wan was watching the young Luke Skywalker from afar in the decade that preceded the first Star Wars film....

Olivia Rodrigo has shifted almost entirely into pop star mode, but she’s keeping one foot in the door at her old Disney+ stomping grounds, at least for now. According to Entertainment Tonight, the actress-turned-chart topper will reprise her lead role as Nina Salazar-Roberts on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series as a recurring character for season three. The presence of Rodrigo’s character was notably diminished in the early episodes of season two, which was filmed in Salt Lake City — pre-“Drivers License” — during the making of her debut...

Netflix has shared the latest trailer for the much-anticipated second season of Bridgerton ahead of the series’ return to the streaming service on March 25. Based on the novels by Julia Quinn, Bridgerton season 2 will center around Anthony Bridgerton as he works to untangle his love life; as evidenced by the trailer, the second season will feature the fan-favorite Pall Mall game captured in the novels. The hit Shonda Rhimes-produced series received a renewal for a second season after less than a month on Netflix, and a year before even Season...

Manhattan transforms into harrowing place in DMZ, a four-part limited series coming to HBO Max March 17. The series, based on the DC graphic novel of the same name, stars Rosario Dawson as a woman who has to navigate a demilitarized zone in a quest to find her lost son. The trailer for the show reveals a destroyed, overgrown New York City, where cheetahs roam among the crumbling buildings. Along the way, Dawson’s Alma Ortega encounters gangs who may stand in her way. DMZ also stars Benjamin Bratt, Hoon Lee,...

Three years after season one’s Groundhog Day-like mindfuck, Natasha Lyonne’s Emmy-nominated Russian Doll is returning for a second season. And this time, her character Nadia is just going to let the Universe do its thing. On Monday, Netflix announced that the dramedy will be returning on April 20. The short teaser starts with Nadia waiting for a train. As the teaser dramatically spells out the show’s title, clips from the season show Nadia literally walking out of a grave, falling down a set of stairs, and approaching a door with...