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One of the things on the short (short, short, short) list of positive developments to come out of this hellmouth of a year is the resurgence in popularity of Nickelodeon’s marvelous Avatar: The Last Airbender. (That resurgence also extends to its sequel series, The Legend Of Korra.) The series arrived on Netflix on…

The pandemic has turned us all into streaming video-addicted shut-ins, but if you’re being honest, weren’t you well on your way already? Now that millions of us have cut cords with cable companies, pretty much everyone subscribes to one streamer or another, and likely more than one. But what if you want to explore the…

There’s a good amount of beloved vintage Disney content that peddled anti-Black and anti-Indigenous ideology, often with a jaunty tune. Peter Pan is especially guilty of this with its depiction of Tiger Lily, as is Dumbo, which based the crows and minstrel imagery that boiled Black people down to stereotypes. All are…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: A new Liam Neeson potboiler is headed for theaters, so we’re singling out the best movies of the star’s aging ass-kicker renaissance (excepting The Grey, which we’ve …

Here’s your daily dopamine hit: One guy cycling through 71 Nirvana riffs in just under five minutes. All the hits are here—“Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Lithium,” “All Apologies,” “Polly”—as are several B-sides, demos, and covers, from “I Hate Myself And Want To Die” to “Magnolia” to Molly’s Lips.”

Rare is the person whose history is not littered with little heartbreaks. Exes, of course, but also jobs that were loved and lost, beloved homes or apartments. And pets, of course, but let’s not dwell on that because pets live forever. That’s also true of actors, but sometimes their ones-that-got-away take the form of…

For anyone who’s followed the NXIVM saga over the last several years, it might seem strange that HBO’s The Vow, an HBO docuseries about the sprawling multi-level marketing scheme and wellness cult, has, with only one episode left, yet to delve into the arrests and convictions of founder Keith Raniere, actor Allison…

The Great British Baking Show does not have a great track record with chocolate challenges. While this is only the second season to have a dedicated “Chocolate Week”—the other being series six of Bake Off, aka season three of PBS’s Baking Show, aka Netflix’s collection three—chocolate bakes have plagued contestants…

After a summer largely devoid of big-screen action blockbusters, there’s a hunger for stories that deliver large-scale spectacle with world-shattering stakes. Comic books are here to fill the void, and TKO Studios’ upcoming The Pull tells an exhilarating tale of a future Earth on the verge of annihilation and the…

Heidi Schreck’s remarkable What The Constitution Means To Me, a 2019 finalist for the Pulitzer Price for Drama, is surprisingly funny for a play about very sad, very serious things. (Among them: domestic violence, sexual violence, the marginalization of everyone who isn’t a land-owning straight white guy, the failures…

There’s nothing normal about interviewing Xbox chief Phil Spencer these days.

Rose McGowan is a very important person who loudly advocates for abuse victims, regularly calls out Hollywood’s toxicity, and stands up to industry bullies. None of this precluded her and former Charmed costar Holly Marie Combs, however, from taking at least one more petty swipe at the current-day CW reboot, which…

Frictional Games is responsible for some of the scariest video games ever made, from the oppressive and ominous Amnesia: The Dark Descent to the existentially harrowing sci-fi of 2015's Soma. With the latest entry to the series, Amnesia: Rebirth, coming out next week, Ars Technica spoke with Thomas Grip, Frictional’s…

On Friday, just hours after he was grilled for retweeting conspiracy theories from QAnon nuts—“I’ll put it out there, people can decide for themselves,” claims the president— Donald Trump appears to have earnestly shared an obviously satirical article from The Babylon Bee, a Christian Onion knockoff that deifies dorks…

Spoilers follow for seasons one and two of The Boys and the comic book series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.

It only took 266 popes and the invention of the internet, but the Vatican has finally found itself at the center of a viral moment that doesn’t explicitly focus on the darkest aspects of its diseased institutional behavior. Thanks to the hard work of the social media devout, centuries of tradition have culminated at…

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist, and if you like what you hear, we encourage you to purchase featured artists’ music…

One of the many tricky bits of constructing effective horror is determining how much to explain. Things go bump in the night, but why? Who are they? What happened? An origin story provides context, and context can deepen the horror experience, layering in more emotions than just fear, providing real-life touchstones…

Most people use the terms “horror movie” and “scary movie” interchangeably. But that raises a question: Does a horror film really have to be scary? And are some scares better or more valuable than others? On this week’s episode of Film Club, critics A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife discuss these questions, as well as the…

Compared to the bitter arguments that surrounded the December 2019 release of Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise Of Skywalker, The Mandalorian felt like a port in a storm. Lucasfilm’s first foray into live-action television was popular with both critics and fans, who praised it as a return to the franchise’s roots. In…

Ethan Hawke’s in Ireland—in a hotel ballroom in Ireland, more specifically, as a wary European film industry gets back to work, and some bad shared WIFI meant that Hawke got some seriously socially distanced alone time to talk to Desus and Mero. Broadcasting from the empty, echoing reaches of the one spot in his…

It’s the string quartet that really gets me. The passengers are running around, screaming, doing everything they can to get onto the few remaining lifeboats, and the musicians, who have been placidly playing jaunty music the whole time, finally decide that it’s time to move on, to either live or die. But bandleader,…

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, October 15, and Saturday, October 16. All times are Eastern.

A weird night for TV politics this evening, as Joe Biden and Donald Trump—in what we can’t help but see as some kind of metaphor for some goddamn thing or another—essentially had a debate without actually looking at, talking to, or being in the same room as each other, instead holding televised events on two separate…