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For fully three years now, that powers that be behind the Star Wars franchise have been engaging in a series of frankly flirty hypotheticals, asking questions like, “Hey, wouldn’t it be wild if Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit director Taika Waititi directed a Star Wars movie for us?” In the intervening years of…

“The words are nice, but the tone is scary.”

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We all have that line delivery that sticks with us—as Rachel Syme described it on Twitter, one that “continually pops up in your brain like a catchy lyric.” When Syme asked the Twitter populace for their own earworm lines, she was inundated with memorable deliveries in movies from Raising Arizona to The Princess Bride…

Missy Elliott released the third installment of The Iconology Saga (not the official name, but humor us here) in the form of another new music video. “Why I Still Love You” is retro, du-wop R&B ballad about a frustratingly persistent love. As she cruises through the decades with her girl group, the Demeanors, Missy…

NBC’s new streaming service Peacock told us what it wants (what it really, really wants) today, and what it turned out to mostly want was a whole boatload of old Dick Wolf shows. But a full complement of laws, orders, and Chicago public services wasn’t the only thing the new service has on its mind as it prepares for…

Vic Berger’s done as much as anyone in entertainment to make life in the Trump era bearable. The magic he’s been able to work with existing video footage—deft edits, emphatic zooms, clownish sound effects—highlights unconscious absurdities as much as it does overt ones, resulting in some of the most searing satire of…

Sending shockwaves through a community still reeling from the staff turnover that brought her to the series in the first place—genial baking competition audience not necessarily being the most receptive to quick change, and all—TV presenter and writer Sandi Toksvig has announced that she’s leaving The Great British…

As a creator, Armando Iannucci has a long list of successful ventures under his belt, and with Avenue 5, he seeks to add another. The A.V. Club sat down with Iannucci and Avenue 5 star Nikki Amuka-Bird to talk about how the creator dipped into his well of players to cast the show, and what sort of space survival…

HBO’s Watchmen provided some of the most compelling television of 2019, delivering a pertinent look at the relationship between race and a broken criminal justice system through one of DC Comic’s biggest properties. For nine episodes Regina King wore the role of Angela Abar—otherwise known as Sister Night—like a…

What’s that? You don’t want another streaming service? Well, the good news is that NBC knows that, and isn’t aiming to be Disney+ or HBO Max. Sure, there will be some original series—we reported on some, like the Macgruber sequel series, earlier today—but, as network executives explained during NBC’s panel at the TCAs…

When writing up these round-ups of what’s coming to (and going from) streaming services in a given month, we used to go to excessive lengths to come up with a “theme” for each month, operating under the joke premise that, say, Hulu had purposefully chosen all of the things coming and going to fit that theme. Well, for…

Cenobites. Demons to some, angels to others. Sunglasses models to...uh, a select few, it seems, as writer and podcaster Mallory O’Meara discovered possibly one of the greatest product reviews of all time: