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Season Two of Betty, the warm and irresistible HBO dramedy about a group of female skateboarder friends, was filmed and takes place in those cold, harsh New York months when the city was largely shut down due to the pandemic. On the one hand, this turn of events clears out the streets for the women to skate together, and the show’s creator and chief director Crystal Moselle takes full advantage, filming the city with just her characters rolling through it like it’s their own playground. On the other hand, life...

A slice of pizza. The New York Yankees. Waiting for a delayed train on a sweaty, summer subway platform. Desus & Mero. The comedy duo of Desus Nice (or Daniel Baker) and The Kid Mero (or Joel Martinez) is just about as New York as you can get — and more specifically, just about as Bronx as you can get. But their hyper-local humor and musings hasn’t stopped the bodega boys from gaining notoriety as the funniest guys on late night television, as co-hosts of Desus & Mero on Showtime...

The scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite are back on display in a new trailer for HBO Max’s upcoming Gossip Girl reboot. The glossy clip teases a new ruling class of students, whose ranks are shaken by the arrival of a newcomer. There are the requisite hook-ups, fashion shows and dramatic conversations, all set to Frank Ocean’s fitting track “Super Rich Kids.” The show’s synopsis notes, “Nine years ago, the original Gossip Girl website shut down. But after a new generation of New York’s young elite takes control of private school...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe keeps expanding into television, now with the premiere of Loki on Disney+. A review of this first episode — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I know whether I’m a robot… With the debut of Loki, the Kevin Feige era of Marvel TV is two-for-three on bold swings. While The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was basically just a very long MCU movie (and not always a good one), WandaVision was a fascinatingly weird mash-up of sitcom deconstruction and reckoning with grief. And...

Tim Robinson’s Netflix sketch show, I Think You Should Leave, is set to return for its second season on July 6th. In anticipation of the show’s return, Netflix shared a short video in which Robinson performs a medley of songs from various Season One bits with the help of frequent collaborator Sam Richardson and musician Phredley Brown. The medley includes the funeral power ballad “Friday Night,” the “Baby of the Year” theme, and the Robby Star-produced hits-that-never-were, “Moon River Rock” and “Palm Tree.” (Alas, “The Day That Robert Palins Murdered...

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. After the action-packed The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and decade-hopping Wandavision, Loki will be the next entry in the MCU, streaming on Disney+. The Norse god of chaos finally getting his own series has Marvel fans seriously hyped up, expecting more weirdness, surrealness, and timeline shenanigans with Tom Hiddleston reprising his role as the titular character. Ready...

Dave Chappelle will release a vinyl edition of his 2020 stand-up special, 8:46, which he recorded and released in the wake of George Floyd’s murder last summer. A special version pressed on red, black, and green vinyl and limited to just 846 copies is available now on a first-come, first-served basis at the Third Man Records stores in Nashville and Detroit, and online. A standard black vinyl pressing is also available to preorder and will be shipped October 29th. All proceeds from the vinyl sales will be donated to Chappelle’s...

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. Time will ultimately determine whether Warner Bros.’ 2021 strategy of releasing its biggest movies simultaneously to theaters and HBO Max was a good idea, but it’s certainly been a boon to those who currently prefer watching movies at home to going to theaters. (Long term, moviegoers getting used to staying home could be a big problem, of course.)...

HBO has unveiled the official trailer for the second season of Betty, a series about an all-female skateboarding crew in New York City. Following its six-episode first season in 2020, the Crystal Moselle-directed series — based on her 2018 film Skate Kitchen — further chronicles the adventures of Kirt (Nina Moran), Honeybear (Kabrina “Moonbear” Adams), Camille (Rachelle Vinberg), Janay (Dede Lovelace) and Indigo (Ajani Russell) in pandemic-era NYC. The first episode of Season Two of Betty is available to watch now on HBO’s YouTube channel. The rest of the six-episode...

Ed Sheeran belatedly joined the Friends reunion by recreating Ross and Monica’s infamous dance number with Courteney Cox. “Had a reunion of our own this weekend,” Sheeran wrote on Instagram when sharing a video of the pair doing the entire routine together in a field. He added, “#obviouslybetterthanross.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ed Sheeran (@teddysphotos) Cox also shared the clip, writing, “”Just some routine dancing with a friend…” The actress originally performed the dance with Schwimmer, who played her onscreen brother Ross, in Season 6...

When Netflix got into the original programming business, it presented itself as a safe space for cancellation-scarred viewers. Netflix shows wouldn’t necessarily run forever, but their creators would at least be given warning to wrap up the story. Eventually, though, the almighty algorithm decreed that long runs were a bad thing — particularly the ones that weren’t aiming for a Stranger Things-sized audience — and the streamer forced many shows to wind down with a third season. And now, we’re in a moment where Netflix has begun abruptly canceling shows after...

“Our music is about representation. It’s about being heard,” explains Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey), the lead singer of the band that gives the new Peacock import comedy We Are Lady Parts its title. Saira’s explanation for why she plays music is a fairly trite one out of context — what wannabe rock, pop, or hip-hop star hasn’t expressed a similar sentiment before in fiction? But once you understand that Lady Parts is an all-female, all-Muslim punk band in London, Saira’s battle cry about the importance of representation becomes the key...

At first glance, Sweet Tooth seems like an odd title for a post-apocalyptic drama, particularly one about an apocalypse caused by a virus, which has the unfortunate timing to arrive while we are still digging our way out from under Covid. But once we get to know its adorable young hero Gus, “sweet” turns out to be the most accurate possible adjective to describe the show. Adapted by Jim Mickle (Happ and Leonard) from a comic book by Jeff Lemire, Sweet Tooth takes place a decade after “the Great Crumble,”...

Nine years after iCarly went off the Nickelodeon airwaves, the show is coming back via Paramount+. The trailer dropped Tuesday. For those unfamiliar with the show — meaning people that weren’t the parents of young children or young children themselves in the late Aughts — iCarly centers around tween online talk show host Carly Shay (Miranda Cosgrove), her best friend/on-air sidekick Sam Puckett (Jennette McCurdy), her technical producer Freddie Benson (Nathan Kress), her older brother Spencer (Jerry Trainor), and her oddball friend Gibby (Noah Munck). It ran for six seasons...