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In December, Al Franken resigned from his position in the Senate after eight women accused him of touching them inappropriately over the years, with the accusations dating back to his days as a comedian. His seat was filled by Minnesota’s lieutenant governor Tina Smith, who will now be facing a special election later…

We’ve enjoyed a wealth of zeitgeist-defining television this year, but it’s hard to imagine any show having the cultural impact of Donald Glover’s Atlanta, which is somehow both the weirdest and most crushingly real show we’ve seen in years. It’s in the tension between those two things—the reality and the…

Nico largely endures in the popular imagination for her work with the Velvet Underground, an unhappy marriage arranged by Andy Warhol in part for the model’s aesthetic virtues, the contrast she cut against the scuzzy band. On 1967’s The Velvet Underground & Nico and the same year’s solo debut Chelsea Girl, she plays…

There were many cries of excitement across the internet last month when it was announced that Joss Whedon would be rebooting Buffy The Vampire Slayer, with a black actor as the Slayer and his Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. producer Monica Owusu-Breen taking over as showrunner. (There were also people with some issues…

Leslie Jones uses her Twitter account as an endless source for infectious enthusiasm, like when she managed to make the Olympics seems really cool in 2016 despite the fact that NBC’s real commentators couldn’t seem to care less. Late last night, she finally got around to watching Avengers: Infinity War, and as you…

There’s no shortage of comics addressing the state of the world, either confronting the political climate directly or with a bit more subtlety. The New World #1 (Image) is only one such vision, set in a middle future just a couple decades out that echoes the present. After nuclear blasts wiped out significant parts of…

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Daily Double hunting is a divisive topic in the world of Jeopardy! fandom. Some people understand that selecting clues in a seemingly random fashion in the hopes that you’ll land on that all-important square is an integral part of a winning strategy. Other, more traditional fans wish contestants would simply run the…

Earlier this week, we were somewhat surprised to hear from Arnold Schwarzenegger that Terminator 6—or whatever Tim Miller’s big reboot will be called—had already begun filming. Today, Paramount shared a more official Terminator tease, tweeting a photo of the film’s three leads (Natalia Reyes, Mackenzie Davis, and…

One of the many questions raised by the death by suicide of food truck-loving, beer-swilling evangelist of the good life Anthony Bourdain was this: What would happen to all the footage from the new season of Parts Unknown that Bourdain was filming when he died? The show’s parent network, CNN, has spent the last two…

Underneath all the melodramatic cutscenes and ornamental belts, even today’s flashiest JRPGs are often built on a skeleton that ages back to Dragon Quest and the genre’s emergence. The game starts and something pushes your main character into a journey. They leave their home and travel to a new place, probably…

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We got a double dose of Sacha Baron Cohen’s far-left blowhard Dr. Nira Cain-N’Degeocello on Who Is America’s latest, with both segments serving not to humiliate his marks so much as present a satirical vision of condescending, misguided neoliberal. The character’s second segment was especially amusing, with Nira…

Michael Bay’s Transformers movies are all bad, some more than others, but the secret that all Transformers fans are eager to share with anyone who will listen is that the animated Transformers: The Movie from 1986 is actually really good. They might follow that with a few qualifiers, like “it’s bad in a good way” or…

The rise of the internet dog is something only the most prescient science fiction authors could have seen coming. For many years, cats ruled the digital world so completely that an alternative reality was simply unimaginable. Watching them play keyboards or stalk their owners in video after video, the idea that they…

One of our most exciting discoveries from this year’s Fantasia Film Festival is Luz, German filmmaker Tilman Singer’s experimental horror debut that weaves its ‘70s and ‘80s arthouse influences into the grain of its 16mm film. As the film prepares for its fall festival run, we’ve partnered with newborn sales company …

Charles “Chuck” L. McGill, Jr., Esq. is dead. There’s no use in eulogizing him here, not when Better Call Saul devotes most of its fourth-season premiere to that act, while also rattling off a touching newspaper obituary. But some acknowledgment is in order: This is a loss for the characters, and it’s a loss for the…

Super Mario Odyssey is the best-selling Nintendo Switch game to date (for good reason), but amazingly, nearly half of all Switch owners don’t have it yet. If you’re one of them, fix that today for $50, or $10 off.

The last weeks of summer may be fast approaching, but at least they’ll have a stellar soundtrack. In addition to Nicki Minaj’s overdue Queen, August brings new releases from Interpol, Blood Orange, Mitski, YG, Steve Hauschildt, Animal Collective, Wild Nothing, and many more. These are the 31 new albums we’re most…

In Page To Screen, we compare a TV show to the book that spawned it. The analysis goes into deep detail about specific plot points—in other words, you’ve been warned.

“There’s a lot of history in this town, and not all of it good,” Molly Strand straight-talks her out-of-town buyers when they discover the home they’re touring belonged to the warden of a notorious prison, who performed an even more notorious suicide just days ago. With that line, “The Box” seems determined to…

Telling Tonight Show host and fellow SNL alum Jimmy Fallon about his recent, fan-mobbed appearance alongside the Better Call Saul-Breaking Bad crew at Comic-Con, Bob Odenkirk marveled that he’s now one of the annual geek gathering’s attractions. “It was quadruple-intensity,” said Odenkirk, comparing the…

I’m gay and have been dating a guy for 10 months. He’s great overall, and I would say for the most part we both want it to work out. But I am having a problem with his friends and other lifestyle choices. All of his friends are straight, and almost all of them are women. All of my friends have always been gay men,…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, August 1. All times are Eastern.

More than any other episode in recent memory, “Damocles -Part 1" boasts an aura of death. I know that sounds like a strange claim to make about a show that just aired an episode that hinged on the fact that a whole lot of people were indulging in cannibalism to survive in a bunker where people are forced to fight to…