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Will no one stop Greg Berlanti? His realm keeps growing and growing, devouring network after network, genre after genre. His latest conquest adds to the carnage: he’s joined the Zoom fundraiser fray, joining fellow producer Ben Blacker (Thrilling Adventure Hour) and writer Adam Mallinger (former “Bitter Script Reader…

The Trump administration treats politics as entertainment so it’s not all that surprising that so many performers have used it as a stepping stone to modern relevancy. Kevin Sorbo, Dean Cain, and Kristy Swanson have turned the MAGA agenda into an aesthetic, while a kook like Chuck Woolery can rebrand himself as a…

Sarah Cooper’s Netflix special, Everything’s Fine, goes out of its way to both give the people what they expect (that is, Trump lip-syncing) and to demonstrate that Cooper has more to offer than the gimmick that got her this break. (Yes, she speaks in her own voice, and yes, she is very funny.) But the centerpiece of…

Over 19 months after news of the college admissions scandal initially broke, Lori Loughlin has surrendered to begin what is supposed to be a two-month prison sentence for her involvement, per Variety. A Federal Bureau Of Prisons representative confirmed that the actress arrived to the Dublin, California prison on…

Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But you know what you can always rely on? The expert opinions and knowledgeable commentary of The A.V. Club. That’s why we’re scouring both the menus of the most popular services …

Ah, Tatooine. The most action-packed backwater in the galaxy. One begins to wonder if Luke Skywalker was just being a petulant adolescent when he told C-3PO, “if there’s a bright center to the universe, you’re on the planet that it’s farthest from,” because both in the movies and on The Mandalorian, there’s plenty of…

Few people in entertainment are following the Trump presidency as closely as the team over at The Daily Show With Trevor Noah. Almost every day, the people working on the show are forced to stare down the president’s hurtful, left field nonsense and try to make something funny out of it–a task that, frankly, is pretty…

Kick over a tree stump and you’ll find ants, thousands of them swarming at the sudden disturbance. You could’ve leapt over it, oblivious, but you wanted to see what’s beneath. You won’t make that mistake again. We’re happier oblivious. If you saw what swims in the depths of the ocean—hello, dragonfish—you’d think…

Whether it’s the pressures of baking in a bubble or the general anxiety of 2020, the bakes on this season of The Great British Baking Show have been uneven to say the least. In early episodes, the showstoppers left quite a bit to be desired, but in recent challenges, they’ve been great. Sometimes the familiar is a…

In 2017, comic fans discovered an unexpected dream team when writer Mike Mignola and artist Adam Hughes released Hellboy: Krampusnacht, a holiday one-shot that showcased Hughes’ talent as a horror storyteller. Known for flashy superhero comics and sultry pin-ups, Hughes takes to Mignola’s creepy world exceptionally…

Paramore is taking this time to express its unwavering support for the LGBTQ+ community after homophobic comments made by former bandmate Josh Farro surfaced on Twitter. In what appears to be a partially redacted Facebook post that began circulating on October 28, Josh—who left the band in 2010—compares homosexuality…

Paul Rudd, actor, youthful star of COVID PSAs, chicken wing-enjoyer, and presumed owner of a painting in his attic that looks like absolute shit these days, is now giving cookies to people waiting to vote. Rudd was seen in Brooklyn yesterday, managing to inspire more excitement than any politician just by hanging out…

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…

The first signs of Sassy Justice appeared in Wyoming last weekend, when a curly-headed character with a striking resemblance to the president began appearing on local billboards and commercials. After hitting the internet, the short was revealed to be an elaborate demonstration of deepfake technology, with Trump and…

In mukbang videos, audiences turn on streams of people eating way too much food in order to, we guess, live vicariously through the taste buds and gullets of others. While the trend doesn’t make a ton of sense to us, it seems harmless. That is, it seems harmless as long as the food isn’t wasted and it’s performed in a…

Werewolves had a moment in 1981. Excluding Wolfen, whose killer canines technically don’t fit the species description, Hollywood produced not one but two odes to the lycanthrope that year: John Landis’ Oscar-winning An American Werewolf In London and Joe Dante’s franchise-launching The Howling. But which of these…

In November 1997, Tom Hanks and Ben Affleck were in The New York Times Magazine together. On the cover, the two of them snarled in each other’s faces, pretending they were enemies. The headline for the accompanying Lynn Hirschberg profile: “The Two Hollywoods.” Those two Hollywoods were the old studio-system…

Desus and Mero can be forgiven for fanning out hard on their guest on Thursday’s show. Multi-hyphenate Wu-Tang Clan legend RZA even gave back a little of the pair’s old school Bobby Digital beeps and boops in greeting, as the hosts greeted fellow New Yorker and their childhood idol with unbridled enthusiasm. (The fact…

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 30, and Saturday, October 31. All times are Eastern.

It was just supposed to be a cool little zombie show. When Frank Darabont, the acclaimed writer-director best known for his Stephen King adaptations like The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, first discovered Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, a black-and-white comic about a small band of survivors trying to…

Credit where it’s due: It takes an absolutely monumental effort of batshit weird energy to wrest the nation’s horrified, slack-jawed attention away from the fecal-flinging toilet hurricane that is the upcoming national election. But god damn if Kim Kardashian hasn’t pulled it off, because we are now completely unable…

Although Justice League actor Ray Fisher first spoke up about his issues with the filming of the 2017 superhero flick back in July—including accusations that replacement director Joss Whedon was “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable” in his treatment of its cast and crew—he’s never gone into…

The Insidious series is a hell of a work horse. Most franchises would be running out of steam after four movies, either because they’d have burned through too much plot or because people would be absolutely sick of them, but Insidious has managed to keep things going for a long time without becoming as annoyingly…

As far as tag lines go, it’s hard to beat “In space, no one can hear you scream.” It’s creepy, to the point, and scientifically accurate. But, as it turns out, just because sound waves can’t travel through the vacuum of our vast, empty, uncaring universe doesn’t mean that other forces can’t be rendered into sound—s…