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If nothing else, AMC and ITV’s three-part series Quiz will remind you of the squirmy joys of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, the immaculate tension leading up to one’s confirmation that, yes, this is their final answer. That show is still on, believe it or not—Jimmy Kimmel just rebooted a new iteration this year—but,…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: David Lowery’s The Green Knight, starring Dev Patel as King Arthur’s nephew Gawain, has been postponed. But there are plenty of other interesting takes on the…

Can a celebrity be too big to cancel? It’s often said we build our heroes up just to knock them down, eagerly anticipating the moment when some superstar athlete goes from GOAT to notorious, or a pop star gets lambasted for saying something stupid on Instagram, or a congressman is nailed in a corruption sting. And…

Stargirl is part of a long history of shows that use their genre premises to comment on the realities of high school. Buffy The Vampire Slayer is the most famous example and maybe Stargirl’s biggest point of inspiration, but you can also see shades of everything from Smallville to X-Men: Evolution. Yet because …

This year’s Memorial Day is mainly be marked by what it lacks—but it shouldn’t be devoid of entertainment. A long weekend with nothing interesting to do or any interesting people to see is the perfect time to dig into all the great podcasts you haven’t gotten around to yet. This week on Podmass, we present five of our…

Throughout her life, Maggie Krause, the protagonist of Ilana Masad’s ambitious, cinematic debut novel, All My Mother’s Lovers, has been shaped by her mother, Iris, despite her best efforts to resist. Like her mother, Maggie has a hard time with commitment, in part tied back to Iris’ absences during long work trips…

As you can tell by the Seeso hat Ian Abramson was wearing during a recent video chat with The A.V. Club, he’s serious about comedy. Recently, Abramson took it upon himself to keep a cooped-up nation entertained with Saturday Night Quarantine, which wrapped up its incredibly chaotic run on Twitch earlier this month.…

Today is Memorial Day, the day when Americans get the day off of work so they can spend some time solemnly honoring people in the military who have died. Generally, this is accomplished by barely acknowledging the military at all and instead having barbecues with family and enjoying some warm weather, but this year is…

If you’ve heard of Betty Broderick at all, it’s likely as the ultimate illustration of the adage “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” In the 1980s, Broderick’s marriage ended when the father of her four kids dumped her for a younger woman—a tale as old as time. But Broderick responded by smashing her car into her…

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It’s a bold move to get halfway through your show’s season and then let the audience know the person they’ve been following since the beginning is actually sort of the bad guy. That’s the clever twist unveiled in the fourth episode of Homecoming, and it’s executed with enough interpersonal drama between the…

It’s a funny thing to say about one of the most beloved Disney characters of the last 25 years, but Woody can be kind of a prick, can’t he? The cowboy-doll hero of Toy Story and its three sequels always does the right thing eventually, getting his priorities straight in time to save the day. But en route to that…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Memorial Day, Monday May 25. All times are Eastern.

I’ve been critical of the second half of Rick And Morty’s fourth season, because I’m a small-minded, spiteful man who wouldn’t know a good joke if it crawled up his pants leg and bit him on the—wait, hold on, got my note cards shuffled wrong.

“The two worlds of the world met. Brown and white. Aztec and European. Hummingbird, wizard, and Jesus. Malinche and the Virgin Mary.”

“Lowkey Trippin” is Insecure’s first episode without Issa. It’s also the worst episode of the season so far. And yes, the episode was directed by Jay Ellis (Lawrence on the show), but that’s not why it fails to land. In fact, the beautiful shots of Molly and Andrew are the only things that keep this episode afloat.…

After Ruby and Billy fled their past lives to reconnect with each other; after they passed the initial awkward discomfort to arrive at some sort of sincere connection; after Fiona got involved and stole Billy’s money and jumped off a train; after the two lovebirds jumped after her to chase her down, only for her to…

“Prepare To Brace” is almost too on-the-nose of a title for Snowpiercer’s second episode—not because the passengers literally have to prepare to brace for impact when the train rattles an avalanche awake in the episode but because watching it does feel like waiting for something to happen. And yet, not much happens!…

As the third season of Killing Eve winds towards its close, there’s an unshakeable sense that the chickens are coming home to roost. Or as Carolyn puts it in a rare unguarded moment with her daughter, the walls are closing in. For her, it’s the realization that even as she gets closer to solving the mystery of her…

With everything in Hollywood except reunions of TV show characters on Zoom still completely shut down, it would normally be a little reassuring to see that production was about to resume on a movie or TV show that didn’t involve people talking on a video chat—but not when the movie in question is an Avatar sequel.…