Even if you can't afford the astronomical ticket prices, you too can see Beyoncé and Jay Z’s On The Run tour: HBO is delivering the couple’s concert to fancy cable. (You will have to be able to afford cable, or befriend a cable-having person.)
Today in really shitty, boring news disguised as really exciting and awesome news, HBO has announced that they'll be running a weekly series starring Beyonce! Huzzah! But: it's running in 4-minute segments, all of which are just pulled from the Mrs. Carter World Tour. Meh-zzah.
We can now officially add True Blood to the list of shows that likes to kill off regular characters we love (or hate).
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George R.R. Martin wants to murder you.
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Oh, Game of Thrones. Could it be we've gone a few weeks without a rape? Or should I say, rapes.
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Last night in New York, HBO threw a premiere for The Normal Heart, which airs later this month. The movie is based on a play based on the life of Larry Kramer and the rise of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York. Big stars were in attendance.
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John Oliver wasted no time on his new HBO show last night taking on all of the eye-roll inducing bullshit comedians are expected to skewer.
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For its last season, the HBO vampire drama True Blood isn't screwing around. At least not when it comes to drawing parallels between a bloody scourge of demon vampires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Once again, Sunday night's Game of Thrones episode sent fans into a frenzy. But at least this time it was for something that people were actually thrilled about, as opposed to some embarrassing technological fail.
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Female rockers Joan Jett, Lorde, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and St. Vincent joined Nirvana onstage for their induction into the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Thursday.
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Sorry Game of Thrones fans who don't like to watch their cable television shows on cable television. Once again, HBO Go crashed during an extremely popular program, causing viewers to collectively lose their shit on the Internet.
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"It's like she can't win for losin'." This is something my grandmother — who worked in a shirt factory for most of her life in rural Tennessee — used to say about seeing the struggle to make ends meet. And it's what I still think of when I see stories about poverty in this country.
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Westeros has somehow fallen even further to shit since the finale of Game of Thrones' third season. The Starks are dwindling in their numbers, Littlefinger is more devious than ever before, Daenerys Targaryen is being questioned by her most loyal of subjects and the Lannisters appear to be destroying themselves from…
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If you're like a lot of people who wanted to watch the True Detective finale Sunday night on HBO Go, the cable network's on demand service, this is what you were watching instead of one of the best television finales ever.
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Hey, America! Do you want to see struggling twenty-somethings milling about in front of New York's most uninspiring architecture? Have I got a deal for you.
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HBO's True Detective seems to have filled a Breaking Bad-sized hole in the hearts and minds of television fans. But while most of the coverage of the show has been obsessively fawning, it's still gotten some criticism because of the less than creative ways women and minorities are represented on it. Pegged to that…
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In a recent interview, True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto told Entertainment Weekly that his hit show's fictional inspirations range from high literature to low pulp. But it seems the show drew inspiration from elsewhere as well — an incredibly horrifying real case of satanism and sexual abuse in rural Louisiana in…
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HBO dropped a new trailer for the upcoming series Silicon Valley, centered on the contemporary gold rush that is the tech industry, and it's kinda problematic, like the tech industry itself. First up, there's only one visible woman in the clip who's allowed to speak: A stripper named Mochachino. (I definitely thought…
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Yesssss. Another day, another badass trailer for the new season of Game of Thrones. This one is titled "Vengeance."
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Accepting a starring role in an HBO adaption of a beloved epic fantasy series comes with a bit of baggage, and that baggage is called fans. Specifically, a small subset of fans who feel entitled to act like jack-offs, for instance by drunkenly demanding you sing them "Happy Birthday" then criticizing your acting.
