Television

This column contains full spoilers for Season Two of Apple TV+’s For All Mankind. If you want to know more about the season without being spoiled, read our pre-season review. “I started jogging again.” This sentence is uttered by astronaut Gordo Stevens (Michael Dornan) midway through the Season Two finale of For All Mankind, the Apple TV+ series depicting an alternate history where the Soviets landed on the moon first, triggering a never-ending space race. Gordo’s statement will likely not go down in the annals of quotable dramatic television with...

A review of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier finale, “One World, One People,” coming up just as soon as I save people a lot of redacting and a lot of shredding… For its first five episodes, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier kept hovering around mediocrity. Sometimes, like Sam’s conversation with Isaiah last week, it was much better than that. At others, like those forgettable (save for Zemo) middle chapters, it was a bit worse. But the series as a whole seemed fine: less audacious than WandaVision, but a...

AMC has announced that its highly anticipated dark comedy Kevin Can F**k Himself will premiere Sunday, June 13th on the AMC+ streaming service, followed by a television premiere on Sunday, June 20th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on AMC’s cable channel. The series stars Annie Murphy — best known for playing Alexa on Schitt’s Creek — as a literal sitcom wife named Allison McRoberts. As Allison dotes on her couch-potato husband and endures being the butt of his and his friends’ jokes, she slowly starts to rebel against her pre-scripted life....

ABC News will air a two-hour 20/20 special on the life of George Floyd this Friday, April 23rd at 9:00 p.m. EST. The special will feature interviews with the friends and family of Floyd, including Gianna Floyd, his youngest daughter. “I see myself as being a black girl and being a black star for my daddy,” Gianna says in one of the special’s interviews alongside her mother, Roxie Washington. “I want to be that for my daddy.” Other interview subjects include Christopher Martin, the former store clerk who testified that he regretted...

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. The ultimate tournament of fighting champions begins anew in the new Mortal Kombat, set to arrive in theaters and online on HBO Max. Based on the video game franchise of the same name, and directed by Simon McQuoid, this gruesome battle royale was originally slated for release on April 16, before being pushed back. But fans can finally...

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. Awards season can often feel like a marathon rather than a sprint, but the finish line is in sight and there is no grander finale than the Oscars. The 93rd Academy Awards air this Sunday from Los Angeles, and this year’s event features some bold-face nominees, from Carey Mulligan (nominated for Promising Young Women) to Sacha Baron Cohen...

HBO has released a trailer for the upcoming two-part documentary, The Crime of the Century, which examines Big Pharma and the opioid crisis. Part One of the Alex Gibney-directed film premieres via HBO Max on May 10th, with Part Two airing the following night. The HBO original documentary is presented in association with The Washington Post. The new clip features patients, medical professionals, journalists, authors, whistleblowers, investigators, insiders and others. Together they detail how Big Pharma used its considerable money, marketing might and political influence to keep their prescription opioids...

Apple TV+ has released the first look at Season 2 of Ted Lasso, the award-winning sports comedy starring Jason Sudeikis. The new season premieres Friday, July 23rd on the streaming platform. Sudeikis returns as the small-time Kansas football coach Ted Lasso, employed as a professional soccer coach in England. This year sees Lasso and his underdog team facing more uphill battles with determination, charm, and most importantly, shortbread biscuits. “I don’t care what our record is,” Lasso says during a press conference in the trailer. “It’s all about believing that everything’s...

After enduring production in the pandemic age, Season 3 of the critically acclaimed Starz series The Girlfriend Experience finally returns on May 2nd. Based on Executive Producer Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film of the same name, this third installment of the anthology series will continue to examine the transactional relationships between exclusive escorts and their wealthy clientele. These women, known as GFEs, provide “The Girlfriend Experience”– a high-priced romantic service that implies far more than just sex. This season, true to form, you can expect a fresh story, characters and setting...

Back in 2019, when showrunner George Kay was fleshing out the protagonist for a new crime show inspired by Arsène Lupin — the “gentleman thief” at the center of a popular series of early-1900s novels by French author Maurice Leblanc — there was one quality he knew his hero would need: “Good arrogance.” “It’s arrogance you don’t object to; you just admire ,” Kay says. “It’s: ‘I’m going to literally take all your life savings. But if I do it with a big enough smile on my face, you kind...

Sharon Osbourne discussed her controversial exit from The Talk as well as cancel culture during an interview Friday on Real Time With Bill Maher, Osbourne’s first TV appearance since departing the daytime talk show. In March, CBS announced that Osbourne “decided to leave The Talk” following a heated on-air conversation about race as well as accusations of racist comments that led to an internal investigation by the network. Asked by Maher how she’s doing now, Osbourne said, “I’m angry, I’m hurt.” Maher summarized the situation as this: “Meghan Markle and...

Felix Silla, the actor who donned the full-body hair suit and bowler hat as Cousin Itt on the original The Addams Family television series, has died at the age of 84. Silla, who also played the robot Twiki on the sci-fi series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, died Friday following battle with pancreatic cancer, the Hollywood Reporter writes. Silla’s Buck Rogers co-star Gil Gerard confirmed the actor’s death on Twitter, “Felix died just a few hours ago and the only good I can draw from his passing is that...

After another tragic week of officer-involved shootings, Trevor Noah discussed “the talk” black families have with their children about encountering police on the latest episode of The Daily Show. “It has been another week in America, which means it has been another week of black people being killed or harassed by the police. And by now, everybody’s aware about what happened to Daunte Wright and Lieutenant Nazario,” Noah said. “And although each incident ended very differently, they both began the same way. It’s the same way that many of these...