Новости за 04.02.2020

When Beverly Hills, 90210 star Shannen Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2015, she was open about her struggle, even posting pictures of herself during extensive treatment that involved chemotherapy and radiation. She stated that her cancer was in remission in April 2017. But this week, Doherty…

With Homeland finally coming to an end this season, there’s been plenty of time for introspection about the show’s story and message. And no one has done more thinking about Homeland than the show’s creators, Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon. The A.V. Club sat down with the pair to talk about what they’ve learned in the…

Have we actually, truly reached the end of Awards Season 2020?! Since the first week of January we have have survived your standard cavalcade of nominations, perplexing snubs, statuettes, performances, and the lengthy (but necessary) discourse regarding just who keeps getting left out of these things. But come Sunday,…

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“There is no sex in Georgian dance,” declares a gruff dance instructor named Aliko (Kakha Gogidze) at the beginning of Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced. The line’s obvious irony inspires titters from his students, who are uniformly young, hot, and fit; as we will soon learn, sex is just about the only thing they talk…

Unlikely action star Chris Pratt is returning to the smaller screen from whence he came for a new thriller series from Antoine Fuqua and MRC Television. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Pratt and his improbable abs will executive produce and star in The Terminal List, based on the novel by Jack Carr. Fuqua, who directed…

If you’ve listened to any shows in Last Podcast Network’s roster, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the voices of Jackie Zebrowski, Molly Knefel, Holden McNeely, and Jake Young, hosts of Page 7 and Wizard And The Bruiser. Early last month, while the quartet was in Chicago for a live performance, we invited them to…

Lately, The CW has reveled in taking the soda shoppe-clean characters of viewers’ youth—Archie Andrews, Betty and Veronica, Nancy Drew—and sending them off on as dark a path as possible, toward gloomy cults, serial killers, and supernatural haunts. Katy Keene, protagonist of the latest Archie Comics/CW hybrid, seems…

The Oscars arrive on Sunday, which means it’s time for the usual press roundups of past awards winners. Variety features a rare interview with Liza Minnelli for its Oscar cover story, where the EGOT recipient dishes on her famous parents Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli, various career highlights, and the…

The giant corporations that dominate Superbowl commercial airtime are, as we covered yesterday, increasingly interested in making absurd shit with the hopes that it might go viral as a result. For all their focus-tested, carefully planned design, though, they can never compete with the organically unhinged work of…

Altered Carbon is returning on February 27 with a whole new look for its protagonist, Takeshi Kovacs. Played in the first season by Joel Kinnaman, the character has been given a new “sleeve” (or meat sack, or skin suit, or whatever you want to call it), and with it a new actor to take on the role: Anthony Mackie. The…

When it comes time to vote, the only thing that should matter is your own (hopefully informed) opinion, conscience, and the ballot in front of you. That said, all sorts of other junk can come creeping in to influence your choice that really shouldn’t matter. Well, if you need a bit of inspiration to ignore anything…

Welp, the bloated boondoggle that is the modern Democratic Party has done it again, fudging up the Iowa caucus so badly that Trump isn’t even wrong when he says that he emerged as last night’s big winner. And serving as the public’s frustrated, exhausted embodiment last night was Shawn Sebastian, an Iowa caucus…

By golly, those wizards in the Netflix algorithm department have done it again! The results of their latest experiment: A young adult series (ding) based on a graphic novel (ding), starring It’s Sophia Lillis (ding) and Wyatt Oleff (ding ding), produced by the folks behind Stranger Things (ding) and directed by the…

Nathan Sawaya plays with blocks for a living. As a renowned Lego artist, Sawaya has spent a good portion of his adulthood creating gallery-friendly pieces out of the Danish toys. Recently, though, he’s gone Hollywood, lending his quick-building skills and Lego smarts to Fox’s new reality competition series Lego…

Don’t you just hate it when an interaction suddenly veers into extreme awkwardness because of some self-imposed brain-fart? Like when you accidentally called your third teacher “Mom” twice in a row back in elementary school, or when you swapped your romantic partner’s name with an ex’s during a particularly heated…

Since her early days designing stage shows for Pee-wee Herman and David Byrne, production designer Barbara Ling has specialized in creating heightened fantasy worlds. You can see it in her work on Joel Schumacher’s Batman movies, including the over-the-top sets for the infamous Batman & Robin. And, in a way, you can…

The “smart girl” trope has been woven into the pop-culture lexicon for decades, from Zelda in The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis to BoJack Horseman’s Diane Nguyen. Oftentimes, this brainy character is a brunette (like Harry Potter’s Hermione or Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rebecca Bunch) whose school smarts don’t necessarily…

One of the most impressive things about FX’s adaptation of Fargo was how successful it was at capturing the spirit of a Coen brothers production while never feeling like an imitation of the real thing. Many have tried and failed to reproduce the alchemical mix of pathos, humor, and slice-of-life absurdism (not to…

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There’s a rule—never explicitly codified by the show’s writers, but well-understood among its fans—that BoJack Horseman only ever employs a single use of the word “fuck” per season. It’s a matter of restraint, not Standards And Practices. (Considering that the show lived and died on the digital Wild West of Netflix,…

Stephen Colbert has routinely blurred the lines between political satire and reportage in interviewing political figures over the years, but that line is never more blurry than when he farms out a field piece to his pugnacious puppet pal, Triumph. The Insult Comic Dog, as he’s also known, may or may not be Robert…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, February 4. All times are Eastern. 

Back in August, we reported that Disney was planning to expand the Marvel presence at Disneyland’s California Adventure park with a new superhero zone called Avengers Campus. We didn’t know much at the time, beyond promises of an Ant-Man restaurant with “oversized and shrunken foods” (still sounds awesome) and some…

He was only elected one episode ago, but it feels like John Brannox has been pope for ages. Much of this fourth episode focuses on the day-to-day of the Vatican in the early days of John Paul III’s papacy, and everyone already seems to be tired of his leadership. A layperson—an idolator, no less—directly insults the…