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We can never know exactly what passed through George Harrison’s head when he first sat down to pen the lyrics to one of his finest songs, reflecting on the transitory nature of existence and the ephemeral state of our lives, coming and going as but a fleeting whisper on the sands of time . But had he lived to see…

As reported by Pitchfork, alt-country singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle—son of outlaw country singer-songwriter Steve Earle—has died. The news was confirmed on Earle’s social media pages with a note mentioning the fans who have “relied on his music and lyrics over the years” and adding that Earle’s music will…

In the past, MTV’s teen-led programming possessed a certain duality that made predicting the next project tough, from frivolous confections like Sweet 16 to more sobering slices of life like 16 And Pregnant. For its next project, the network is retraining its focus on another fairly undocumented element of youth:…

Is it worth living in a big city when you can’t engage with everything a big city’s supposed to offer? When you can’t go to the restaurants, the plays, the concerts, the copious orgies? Plenty of people are reckoning with that question in the COVID era, asking whether it’s worth paying exorbitant rents and taxes when…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: We’re highlighting some of the best movies of 2020 so far that we didn’t review.

Since his international breakthrough with 2009’s I Killed My Mother, which he made at the age of only 19, Xavier Dolan has embodied a youthful cinema: impetuous, heartfelt, queer, and deeply aware. Now, with his eighth feature, the Quebecois filmmaker seems at last to be transitioning from the immediacy of youth to…

Warner Bros. debuted the (very good) first trailer for Matt Reeves’ The Batman over the weekend during the virtual DC FanDome event, which gave news outlets all kinds of fun things to write about—like our first look at James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad (you can tell all these movies are different from the other DC movies…

It appears that Phoebe Robinson (2 Dope Queens) is ready to sling some advice with her new podcast, the title of which implies the cocoa-colored equivalent to Kelsey Grammer’s sitcom psychiatrist. (The late comic Patrice O’Neal did a similar stint when he assumed the role of an African-American Dr. Phil on The Black…

By the time Katy Perry released Teenage Dream in August 2010, the album had already given us the summer of “California Gurls” and the title track was well on its way to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Expectations were exceedingly high—and critics were quick to say they were not met. The A.V. Club’s own review…

YouTube’s foray into original programming didn’t quite pan out, but it did cough up one worthy series before croaking: Cobra Kai, a continuation of the Karate Kid franchise starring Ralph Macchio and William Zabka.

Members of the very small but very vocal group of Alien: Covenant supporters (and its smaller Prometheus chapter) are probably a little extra excited for Raised By Wolves. HBO Max’s new sci-fi series is executive produced by Ridley Scott, who also directed the first two episodes of a story that definitely looks like…

Video game programmer Giuseppe Navarria, much like a genius scientist whose groundbreaking theories upend our understanding of the natural world, has just identified a previously unidentified game genre. Over the course of a series of tweets, Navarria outlines the classification of a kind of video game we’ve all seen…

Even faster-than-sound superheroes can fall a little behind the times. Take Homelander (Antony Starr), the sadistic and disturbed Superman who leads America’s team of ostensibly heroic do-gooders, The Seven: Halfway through season two of The Boys, Amazon’s pitch-black deconstruction of superhero tropes (based on Garth…

When it first started broadcasting in 1981, MTV was cutting-edge stuff. Nearly 40 years later, the channel’s associated less with non-stop music videos than it is with reality series like Teen Mom, The Real World, and Jersey Shore. Looking back at the first few hours of its broadcast, newly remastered and available to…

Mike Flanagan has maintained a very consistent batting average with horror, from his adaptations of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game (both of which were previously thought to be unadaptable properties) to The Haunting Of Hill House—his terrifying and deeply poignant Netflix series based on Shirley…

Ellen DeGeneres was supposed to host the 53rd Primetime Emmy Awards on September 16, 2001. But in the wake of September 11, the awards show was canceled twice, until finally, on November 4, DeGeneres hosted a more casual ceremony, to a seemingly reluctant crowd. It was an undoubtedly difficult task, to usher in…

The world continues to quake beneath our feet as this fall’s election draws ever closer, making the events of 2016 seem all the more distant. Well, Showtime’s here with a reminder of the months both leading up to and following the election of Donald Trump to the presidency with The Comey Rule, a two-part miniseries…

D’Arcy Carden received her first Emmy nomination this summer—though it should’ve been her second. It’s difficult to watch “Janet(s),” from the third season of Michael Schur’s phantasmagorical sitcom The Good Place, and argue otherwise: In that episode, she portrays not only afterlife assistant Janet and one of her…

Without question, “It Never Ends Well For The Chicken” is an impressive episode of Lucifer. But it’s even more impressive coming right after “¡Diablo!,” a gimmick episode that didn’t quite go all-in on its particular gimmick. Not only does “It Never Ends Well For The Chicken” go all-in—with Lucifer fully immersing…

“All of this was stupider than even I thought was possible,” eventually concluded John Oliver toward the end of his Sunday Last Week Tonight main story about Donald Trump’s flagship boondoggle, the border wall between the United States and Mexico. And, indeed, Oliver did peg quite a few—but not all—of the ways this…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, August 24. All times are Eastern.

This post discusses plot points of the Lovecraft Country episode, “Whitey’s On The Moon.”

As Lovecraft Country’s Atticus “Tic” Freeman, Jonathan Majors is diving headfirst into a world of monsters, myth, and family drama. Majors, who previously starred in The Last Black Man In San Francisco and this summer’s Da 5 Bloods, brings a level of righteous intensity to the role of Tic that’s downright…

Lovecraft Country serves up another dish of oh-my-god-what-the-fuck as biblical imagery, science, and magic collide in this haunted house episode, “Whitey’s On The Moon.” Once again, Misha Green’s pen pushes a horrifying narrative mixed with macabre gore, insightful exploration of Black American life in the…

In May, Donald Trump tweeted some awful/dumb/awfully dumb shit that was pretty clearly an active threat of violence against Black Lives Matter protestors along with an insistence that mail-in ballots are “substantially fraudulent. Twitter, finally recognizing the damage that can be done by giving someone like Trump an…