Television

A review of the Loki season finale “For All Time. Always.” coming up just as soon as I tell you not to kick the door in… And down the hatch we go again. The interconnectivity of the Marvel movies and, now, TV series, can be both a feature and a bug. The whole can often feel greater than the sum of the component parts, and there’s real joy to be had from seeing characters and story ideas from one corner of the MCU intermingle with those of another corner. (If...

With fewer entries than ever before thanks to the pandemic, the nominations for the 73rd annual Emmy Awards had less room for error than in years. And yet somehow, voters found a way. While the majority of the categories seemed to have a consensus that was largely confirmed this morning—Ted Lasso! The Flight Attendant! The Crown!— that doesn’t get Emmy voters completely off the hook for some of today’s blunders. Here are the biggest surprises and straight-up snubs from this morning’s nomination announcements. Heidi Gutman/Peacock Girls5Eva for Best Comedy Comedy...

The Crown, I May Destroy You, Hacks, and Mare of Easttown all secured multiple nominations for the 2021 Emmy Awards, which will air on September 19th on CBS. The Crown and The Mandalorian led all nominees with 24 each, and both will vie for Outstanding Drama Series against The Boys, Bridgerton, Lovecraft Country, The Handmaid’s Tale, Pose, and This Is Us. The Crown’s ensemble cast scored an array of nominations, with stars Olivia Colman and Emma Corrin receiving nods for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama, while Josh O’Connor is...

Charlie Robinson, whose five-decade acting career included playing series mainstay Mac Robinson the court clerk on Night Court, died on Sunday in Los Angeles due to cardiac arrest and cancer complications, as Variety reports. He was 75. Starring in numerous TV, film and theater productions, Robinson’s enduring role was as Mac Robinson on Night Court, which he joined in 1984 for Season Two and portrayed through the rest of its nine-season run. His first recurring role before portraying Mac was in primetime soap opera Flamingo Road, and in 1983 he...

Lior Raz portrays a man seeking revenge after his wife is killed in a mysterious accident in Hit & Run, the latest thriller series from Netflix. The nine-episode arc premieres on August 6th on the streaming platform. Raz, who is also a co-creator on the show, plays Segev Azulai, a happily married man whose wife is killed in a hit and run Tel Aviv. Suspecting that her death was no accident, the man goes searching for his wife’s killers, who have fled to the United States. In order to find them,...

Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming docuseries about tennis star Naomi Osaka. The three-part series, titled Naomi Osaka, will premiere on July 16th on the streaming service. The trailer features a collage of footage and narration from Osaka as she discusses everything from the work and sacrifice that goes into being a professional athlete to the pressures of celebrity and wanting to excel at tennis — if only so her mother could stop working so much. The clip ends with Osaka discussing her public activism and declaring,...

Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s most popular segment is probably Mean Tweets and this time the late-night host tapped NBA players to read out haters’ tweets. The clip includes everyone from Shaquille O’Neal to Dwight Howard to Grant Hill being forced to confront the unfortunate things basketball fans have said about them online. “Shaquille O’Neal?” O’Neal reads off Twitter. “More like Shaquille-Hasn’t-Missed a Meal.” He responds, “That’s a good one. Tell your mother, ‘Make my sandwich and be naked when I get there.'” LaVar Ball reads, “If LaVar Ball is such a...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe officially enters the Multiverse with What If…?, a Disney+ animated series that radically reimagines the events of the MCU through an infinite number of possibilities. What If…? arrives on Disney+ on August 11th. As seen in the first trailer for the 10-episode series, among the plotlines that What If…? plays with are if Tony Stark was rescued by Black Panther villain Killmonger and never became Iron Man, a world where the British “Captain Carter” — and not Captain America — wields that indestructible shield, and a...

Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story series is receiving a new spinoff titled, somewhat confusingly, American Horror Stories, and the first teaser clip for the show is out now. Whereas its predecessor focused on a different storyline every season, American Horror Stories takes the weekly anthology route, featuring new characters, monsters, and gore in each hour-long episode. A few spirits from AHS: Murder House make cameo appearances in the new trailer, but plenty of other new horrors await, like an abandoned asylum, a coven, a creepy hotel, a traveling sideshow, and Danny Trejo’s ax-murdering...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Mr. Corman is down on his luck, or at least he thinks so when he reflects on his life in the new trailer for Mr. Corman. The comedy-drama series premieres via Apple TV+ on August 6th. In the new trailer, Mr. Corman is disillusioned by the life he’s leading. Rather than living his dream of being a rock star, he’s a fifth-grade teacher. His fiancée has left, and he’s suffering from anxiety and panic attacks. But despite his self-doubt, he has a lot of supportive people around him....

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. Head back up to the Upper East side to the elite Constance St. Jude’s with the new Gossip Girl reboot, streaming now on HBO Max. Set eight years after the original series, but with Kristen Bell returning to voice the narration of Gossip Girl herself, you can catch the drama of a new group of Manhattan’s elite teens on...

A review of “Journey Into Mystery,” the penultimate Loki Season One episode on Disney+, coming up just as soon as I paper cut a giant cloud to death… Journey Into Mystery was the title of the first Marvel comic to feature either Thor or Loki. It began as an anthology series featuring monsters and aliens, but Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and Larry Lieber were so smitten with their adaptation of the characters of Norse myth that the Asgardians gradually took over the whole book, which was renamed after its hammer-wielding...

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. History will decide for sure, but it seems likely that F9 sending cars into space at the end of June 2021 will mark the moment summer moviegoing started to return to something like normalcy. The season continues in full swing this month with the release of the first Marvel movie since Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019 and...

For an upcoming feature story tied to September’s third season premiere of FX’s What We Do in the Shadows, I spoke with the cast and creative team of the vampire comedy about what’s made it the funniest show on TV. In one of those conversations, star Matt Berry noted that the show is a convergence of three different comic sensibilities: New Zealand, courtesy of creator Jemaine Clement; the U.K., courtesy of him and co-stars Natasia Demetriou and Kayvan Novak; and the United States, courtesy of the show’s other writers, plus...