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In Peacock’s new Saved By The Bell reboot, out now, Bayside’s white, privileged bubble is popped as a state-wide busing initiative starts sending less-fortunate kids into The Palisades. It’s a smart way to shine a light on how incredibly stilted and unfair our national system of school funding is, as well as how stark…

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

There’s no episode of The Simpsons—or, perhaps, television—more hilariously sad than “A Milhouse Divided,” the season eight entry about a newly divorced Kirk Van Houten. After a very public split during a dinner party at the Simpsons, Luann finds love with an American Gladiator while Kirk records a dud single and…

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for another installment in The A.V. Club’s efforts to bring our gaming prowess (or utter, contemptible lack thereof) to this new-fangled phenomenon called streaming. (And specifically, at 2 p.m. Central time, over at twitch.tv/AVClubTwitch.) Today, we’ve decided to step back from…

Sitting at a 26% on Rotten Tomatoes, the Ron Howard-directed Netflix adaptation of J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, failed to garner much love from critics, despite its stacked cast. While some filmmakers in his position might’ve just accepted the momentary loss—especially if they are fortunate enough to have a…

Not long into We Live #1 (Aftershock), a young boy named Hototo is playing with toys, running around with a tiny mutated lizard he’s designated as his “monster.” Dressed like a superhero, he’s about to begin snooping around their neighbor’s seemingly empty home, when his childlike curiosity gets abruptly stymied by…

In Netflix’s new show Selena: The Series, Walking Dead actress Christian Serratos plays Selena Quintanilla, the “Queen of Tejano Music” who was tragically killed by a friend and fan in 1995, when she was just 23. It’s a heavy burden to bear, with millions of fans still idolizing both the singer and her rich voice. In…

Last month, Harry Styles, Dunkirk actor and occasional singer, shattered the monocles of right-wing dipshits like Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens by wearing a Gucci ball gown on the cover of Vogue. “Bring back manly men,” Owens tweeted. Shapiro, peeking over the edge of the kids’ table, wheezed about the feminization of…

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Isla Fisher is a comedic firecracker who’s never quite gotten her due in Hollywood. Despite scene-stealing roles in everything from Wedding Crashers to Bachelorette to the last few seasons of Arrested Development, she might still be best known for getting regularly confused with her Nocturnal Animals co-star Amy…

How badly do you want—nay, need—to hear Taylor Swift’s re-recordings of her back catalog? On a scale of one to “I bought the folklore sweater months ago,” how big of a fan are you, really? That mischievous little vanilla pudding cup Miss Taylor herself would like to challenge that devotion with an endurance test that…

The past week has been positively tumescent with statue news. The first big item to come springing forward was the discovery (and subsequent removal) of a weird metal monolith that had been erected in the Utah desert. Then, as if our hands weren’t already full dealing with the story of that mysterious unit, another…

Of the many scenes that mildly frightened and generally confused kids when they watched A Christmas Story with no context for its late ‘30s setting, the parents’ argument over a lamp shaped like a woman’s leg ranks up there with the hostile department store Santa and the furnace meltdown. Even knowing why Mrs. Parker…

It takes a long time for Crispin Glover to show his (unsmiling) face in The Smiley Face Killers, a disquieting new thriller penned by acclaimed novelist (and notable contrarian) Bret Easton Ellis, but it’s worth the wait. Glover is absolutely terrifying as the black-clad stalker of an athletic college student (9-1-1:…

“Perhaps the golden age of the Vikings is gone,” intones a character in the trailer for Vikings’ final batch of episodes. She’s wrong, of course; Vikings live on through metal bands like Mastodon. Still, their brawny way of life is no doubt imperiled in this climactic season, which, in a rare instance, will stream…

One of the three people who directed 76 Days, a documentary portrait of the COVID-19 crisis in Wuhan, is credited only as Anonymous, perhaps due to some legally problematic association with the hospital where most of the film was shot. That seems apropos in another way, though: Virtually everyone who appears on screen…

Apple TV+’s Earth At Night In Color is a new docuseries that literally shines a light on nocturnal wildlife, using high-tech cameras and what the streamer calls a “revolutionary editing process” (think reverse “day for night”) to show us all the stirring that goes on at night across the world. For a shoot in the…

When Selena, the Jennifer Lopez-led film that detailed the tragically short life of Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, debuted in 1997, it set an incredibly high bar for any biopic destined to come after. Gregory Nava’s film was produced in conjunction with the late singer’s father, Abraham Quintanilla;…

Another season of The Great British Baking Show has come to an end, and by all accounts, it was a subpar one, marred by a compressed filming schedule in order to keep all the contestants in a COVID bubble, plus record heat, unfair judging, and the continued presence of Paul Hollywood. I wouldn’t know any of this…

Appearing on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live (via the pandemic-thwarting internet), John Mulaney addressed the controversy about his 2020 Saturday Night Live monologue Trump joke. No, not the most recent one (he’s hosted in both February and October of this year), although he did that, too, confessing that anti-Trump…

“The Big Rick” is the first episode of Big Sky that feels like it has any sense of forward momentum—even though, technically, it doesn’t. This is the episode where Grace escapes captivity… only to return to it by the end of the episode… but now she’s really pissed off about it. It’s also the episode where Jenny gets…

You will not be missed, 2020. The past year will certainly go down as one of the most generally shitty in memory, thanks to a certain horrifying virus that just refuses to go gently into that good night, instead hanging around and ruining everyone’s lives way past the point it should have conceded. (Pick your poison…

It finally happened. For nearly a decade, since The Avengers came out and crushed all expectations, people have been wondering when Marvel’s utter dominance of the box office would end. That dominance did end in 2020, but then, so did the box office. The superhero-movie apocalypse that has appalled so many filmmakers…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, December 2. All times are Eastern. 

I’m a lesbian and my girlfriend is bi. I’ve read your column and listened to your podcast for a long time, Dan, and I always thought I’d be fine with having a partner ask me about being monogamish. Then my girlfriend of about a year and a half told me she wants to see what other women are like. She says the thought of…