Television

The new NBC sitcom Young Rock bounces around four different time periods in the life of its producer and star, pro wrestler turned action hero Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock. In 1982, he’s a 10-year-old who goes by Dewey (played by Adrian Groulx), who lives in Hawaii with his wrestler father Rocky (Joseph Lee Anderson) and aspiring-singer mother Ata (Stacey Leilua). In 1987, he’s an oversized teenager (played by Bradley Constant) in Pennsylvania whose classmates are convinced he’s an undercover narc. In 1990, he’s a freshman football player at the...

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver broadcast its season premiere on Sunday, returning after it last aired just days after the presidential election. While a lot has happened since then —including the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, the Wall Street’s Gamestop rollercoaster and Donald Trump’s impeachment trial culminating in an acquittal — for his main story he discussed the possibility of another pandemic and how to avoid it. “Now might be the most important time to talk about this because scientists attempted to warn us about the ‘next’ pandemic long before the...

Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update focused on the absurdity of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, hours after the former president was acquitted despite his role in the Capitol insurrection. “Like so many men living in Florida, Donald Trump has once again escaped from justice,” Colin Jost said. “This has to be the dumbest trial I’ve ever seen. Here’s how dumb it was: The jurors who were deciding the case were the ones attacked by the defendant. The trial took place at the scene of the crime, and then right after...

Saturday Night Live poked fun at the viral saga of the woman who used Gorilla Glue in her hair with a sketch about a law firm that specializes in suing the makers of the super adhesive. While the sketch didn’t mention Tessica Brown by name, the Louisiana woman’s month-long nightmare after applying the Gorilla Glue spray in her hair serves as the obvious inspiration behind the sketch, with Kenan Thompson and SNL host Regina King playing lawyers out for (monetary) justice for other Gorilla Glue victims. “Fact: Every day, one...

Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge are set to co-star in an upcoming Amazon series based on the 2005 action comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Atlanta’s Francesca Sloane will serve as showrunner on the series, which will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in 2022. Glover and Waller-Bridge (in a voice role) previously appeared in 2018’s Star Wars spinoff Solo together, with the two sharing a cockpit as Lando Calrissian and his droid L3-37. At the 2019 BAFTA Awards, Glover paid tribute to the Fleabag star, praising the acclaimed British series and...

Generation The new HBO Max drama is all-in for Gen-Z.  Like most teenage stories, the characters are grappling with their sexuality, friendships, relationships, and family, but this series dives deeper into the complexities of our modern era. From new, evolving technology to changing gender norms, the social landscape is as diverse as the teens’ identities. While they embrace what makes them who they are, the conservative town they call home prefers to keep conversations quiet – especially as it relates to sexuality. (March 11th) Boss Level Frank Grillo plays a...

A review of this week’s WandaVision, “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!,” coming up just as soon as I smell crime… With “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!,” WandaVision basically skips over the Nineties(*) and heads straight to this century for an episode in the mode of Malcolm in the Middle. The show has cheated decades before — Darcy described the premiere episode as something from the Fifties, even though The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered in 1961 — so perhaps the writers are hoping nobody cares about exactly when Malcolm debuted (January 9, 2000, for...

Twenty-nine years after they essentially invented reality television, the seven original strangers from the first season of MTV’s The Real World are coming back for a new season of the show. The Real World Homecoming: New York will premiere on Paramount Plus streaming March 4th. It will feature the complete cast (Becky Blasband, Andre Comeau, Heather B. Gardner, Julie Gentry, Norman Korpi, Eric Nies and Kevin Powell) moving back into their original New York loft to catch up and reveal how the groundbreaking show changed their lives. “The Real World...

Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. With the release of Superman in 1978, DC Comics broke ground and practically invented the blockbuster genre of superhero films. Decades later, with dozens of animated movies, live-action shows, and a new ensemble-led DCEU (DC Extended Universe) film series set to rival Marvel, the expansive franchises have finally found their permanent home on HBO Max. DC Universe, the...

HBO Max has released the trailer for Generation, a new teen dramedy that explores the lives and sexualities of a group of Gen Z teenagers and their families. The first three episodes of the series premiere on March 11th. Generation follows a group of diverse high school students navigating the ups and downs of modern sexuality via new technology, changing gender norms, and closeted queerness. The teens and their families face the added challenge of living within a conservative community, where attraction and what’s done in the bedroom are not always...

Gina Carano has been dropped from The Mandalorian, Variety reports. Lucasfilm said the actress is not currently employed by the company after she drew criticism for “abhorrent” social media posts. Carano portrayed Cara Dune, a former Rebel trooper who became a Marshal for the New Republic, in the first two seasons of the Disney Plus series. “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people...

Stephen Colbert recapped the opening day of the second impeachment trial against former president Donald Trump and slammed the “cowardly” GOP senators that looked away from a video of the Capitol insurrection on Tuesday’s Late Show. “The prosecutors went straight to the heart with a devastating video proving the President’s rally and the riot at the Capitol were one and the same. I would play it for you, but it’s very hard to watch,” Colbert said. “You would need a box of Kleenex, if not a poncho, perhaps even a...

Saturday Night Live’s pre-Super Bowl featured musical guest Phoebe Bridgers and actor-director-producer Dan Levy for his first hosting gig. “Somewhere, my 13-year-old self has fainted in a really needy, melodramatic way,” the Schitt’s Creek mastermind began his opening monologue. He then began to explain how his life had changed (mostly) for the better since the show won nine Emmy’s last year (not so good: “People are mainly screaming, ‘Eww!’ at me” a line he wrote for his character David), before taking the audience on a Covid-safe backstage tour of the...