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David Lynch loves teasing us with monkeys. One of the more beguiling bits of Twin Peaks lore involved a monkey uttering the name “Judy,” and now the filmmaker is back with another talking primate, this one named Jack. In a wonderful surprise, the filmmaker dropped an incredible short on Netflix today called “What Did…

Perhaps one of the medium’s most overlooked gems, Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast is doing great work in keeping alive the legacies of countless performers from Hollywood’s golden age while being utterly profane and riotously funny. Between the eponymous Gottfried and co-host Frank Santopadre, the show is…

No, dear reader, you are not mistaken; The A.V. Club did just come back in full force after a rather lengthy holiday. However, if there’s an available moment to collectively pay our respects to true, definitional leadership, then we’re going to take it. With that in mind, we’re going to give our keyboards a rest and…

In the fledging “alternative rock” world of 1990, the words “major-label debut” were greeted with a mix of anticipation and dread. Cheers to the fact that your favorite band was finally being recognized, jeers to the fact that the major-label machine may chew them up and spit them out, leaving a tame, shiny version of…

In the past, the Arrowverse’s big crossover events were self-contained enough that you could pretty much skip them and still follow along with Supergirl’s storytelling just fine. That’s very much not the case for Crisis On Infinite Earths, an event that rewrote the fundamental worldbuilding of the Arrowverse moving…

“You said, ‘If it’s a myth.’”

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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, January 20. All times are Eastern.

“Happy New Year,” the 10th season premiere of Curb Your Enthusiasm, is an irascible, though not exactly compelling, reintroduction into Larry David’s world of spite, ersatz cultural anthropology, and eschewing of social norms. Though the wait between seasons nine and ten wasn’t nearly as long as that between seasons…

When it comes to Bette Porter and Shane McCutcheon in particular, watching The L Word: Generation Q in the context of the original The L Word is simultaneously frustrating and satisfying. It’s frustrating insofar as watching characters make the same mistakes over and over again—now literally a decade later—is a hard…

Against the void of space, Avenue 5 gleams. The luxury space liner is three weeks into its maiden voyage, an eight week cruise around Saturn. The ship’s design is sleek, with curved lines and a pristine white and gold interior, and as the camera follows the confident, affable captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie), the…

Celebrities often seem like they’re “prettier” or “richer” or “better” than us regular folk, but one night a year, they come down from their enormous estates behind the Hollywood sign and reveal themselves to be no better or prettier than the average blue-collar union worker. We’re referring, of course, to the Screen…

Last week’s episode of Shameless ended on a pivotal emotional moment: Lip, realizing that the best path forward for his family is moving to Milwaukee, breaks the news to his siblings that he intends to leave Illinois. It’s a scene that promises a difficult aftermath: even if we are practically-oriented as viewers and…

“High-speed inventing is one of my specialisms.”

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Batwoman has had one of the stronger first seasons to come out of the Arrowverse shows. Kate Kane has had to deal with a psychotic sister back from the dead, on top of becoming Gotham’s newest vigilante. But after the solid midseason finale and that massive crossover, “How Queer Everything Is Today!” is a little…

Today, Apple held a Television Critics Association panel for its upcoming Apple TV+ animated series Central Park, and in addition to sharing a teaser image and announcing the premiere window for the show, co-creator Loren Bouchard addressed some potential controversies with the voice cast. Bouchard is also the creator…

The saga of Apple’s attempts to revive Steven Spielberg’s classic anthology show Amazing Stories could, itself, be classified as an amazing story (even if there are no fantasy or horror elements): Way back in 2015, we reported by Hannibal’s Bryan Fuller was developing a reboot of the show, and a few years later we…