12 Dec 13:37
by Randall Colburn on News, shared by Randall Colburn to The A.V. Club

One of 2020's best surprises was HBO’s How To With John Wilson, a hilarious and oddly tender docuseries in which one man’s attempts to help people make small talk or put plastic on their furniture slowly unfold to highlight the human condition. Today, following the show’s slow rise in popularity, the network has…
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06 Nov 13:51
by Andrew Paul on News, shared by Andrew Paul to The A.V. Club

One of 30 Rock’s earliest and most enduring gifts to the world was undoubtedly “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah,” a 10-second gag from Season 2 highlighting a novelty party song performed by Tracey Jordan-Morgan. The tale of “boys becoming men, men becoming wolves” included a hook catchier than it had any right to be, and the…
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02 Nov 14:01
by Reid McCarter on News, shared by Reid McCarter to The A.V. Club

Steven Novak, an artist from Dallas, can’t stop getting in trouble for being really good at celebrating Halloween. Failing to observe the long-held armistice between the law and people who leave dismembered bodies, bloody limbs, and lakes of blood on their front lawn, local police keep showing up at Novak’s house to…
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01 Nov 15:44
by William Hughes on News, shared by William Hughes to The A.V. Club

And now, a tale from the spooooOOOOOooooky world of corporate content ownership and the inherent transience of digital media: THR reported earlier this week on a new (but also very old) legal argument trotted out by Amazon of late, reminding people who “buy” movies or TV shows from its Prime Video service that they’re…
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09 Oct 16:14
by Eric Thurm on TV Club, shared by Eric Thurm to The A.V. Club

The first time you realize John Brown might be insane, he’s literally spitting mad. The famed abolitionist has stopped in for a haircut at a local saloon, somewhere in the battlefield of Bleeding Kansas—and the saloon’s owner, one Dutch Henry (played by TV’s David Morse) has not only made an aggressive defense of…
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28 Sep 14:33
by Danette Chavez on TV Club, shared by Danette Chavez to The A.V. Club

It’s good to be back in Fargo, which has always served as more of a feel or state of mind than a location in Noah Hawley’s TV adaptation of Joel and Ethan Coen’s film of the same name. The wait between seasons three and four has felt nigh-interminable—and that was before production shut down due to concerns stemming…
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28 Sep 14:32
by Britt Hayes on News, shared by Britt Hayes to The A.V. Club

We know how valuable streaming content is in these very bad times, especially the high quality, extremely pleasant, life-sustaining streaming content—you know, the good stuff you throw on to fall asleep every night, made even better if you’ve already seen every season multiple times. The pop culture sleep machine, if…
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28 Sep 14:32
by Katie Rife on TV Club, shared by Katie Rife to The A.V. Club

Desus Nice and The Kid Mero have no problem admitting that they watch their own show or that they laugh at their own jokes. Talking themselves up is how they got their first podcast, Desus V. Mero, on Complex TV back in 2013, and knowing their own worth is what motivated them to leapfrog from basic cable to Showtime…
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17 Sep 11:59
by Allison Shoemaker on TV Club, shared by Allison Shoemaker to The A.V. Club

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, September 15. All times are Eastern.
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17 Sep 11:59
by Bradley Brownell on Jalopnik, shared by Erik Adams to The A.V. Club

58-year-old actor Tom Cruise is at it again. In every one of his movies he always has to find a way to one-up himself in the stunts department. Ahead of the new Mission Impossible 7 movie, the big stunt has been shown off. How did he increase the Tom Cruise level of this new movie? He’s not hanging off a building, or…
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08 Sep 12:10
by Ian Walker on Kotaku, shared by Erik Adams to The A.V. Club

Let’s just get this out of the way: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is a masterpiece. In perfectly mimicking the iconic skateboarding series’ first two outings, this remaster gives me everything I could ever want out of a game. I am dumbfounded by there somehow being something so good and pure in the world.
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02 Sep 13:16
by Randall Colburn on News, shared by Randall Colburn to The A.V. Club

Josh Boone’s New Mutants opened to tepid reviews and plenty of vitriol on Friday, but the filmmaker’s already moved on to promoting his next project, one that won’t take three years to premiere. In December, CBS All Access will debut Boone’s eight-part adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, a post-apocalyptic story…
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20 Aug 12:00
by Britt Hayes on News, shared by Britt Hayes to The A.V. Club

Over the past week, AMC Theatres announced its plans to re-open locations across the country along with a new set of safety guidelines. Those plans were rightfully met with criticism, given that we’re still in the middle of a fucking pandemic. Studios have repeatedly postponed release dates for numerous high-profile…
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14 Aug 13:51
by Randall Colburn on News, shared by Randall Colburn to The A.V. Club

As corrosive as it is to doomscroll our way through a global pandemic, there’s something uniquely disconcerting about those whose online presence remains unchanged. Perhaps some see it as an escape, but there’s no shortage of influencers online who continue to proliferate the internet with pictures of their idyllic, …
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14 Aug 13:50
by Ian Walker on Kotaku, shared by Erik Adams to The A.V. Club

Although beloved independent comic book Scott Pilgrim concluded in July 2010, it received film and video game adaptations shortly afterward that firmly lodged the series in mainstream pop culture. The movie is fine, but the game is considered a lost gem due to its delisting from digital storefronts only a few years…
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14 Aug 13:49
by Randall Colburn on News, shared by Randall Colburn to The A.V. Club

Robert Pattinson can play a piece of shit like nobody’s business, so let us celebrate the actor embracing his dark side one last time before he becomes our new Caped Crusader. Pattinson leads the cast of Netflix’s upcoming The Devil All The Time as an “unholy preacher,” playing just one in a whole ensemble of unsavory…
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14 Aug 11:37
by Randall Colburn on News, shared by Randall Colburn to The A.V. Club

Avatar: The Last Airbender, an animated series so beloved that somebody did an oral history on one of its smallest characters, is currently being developed as a live-action series at Netflix, one that could presumably wash away the bad taste of that garbage M. Night Shyamalan movie. We expressed trepidation at the…
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