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.
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.
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.
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When Hannah's editor died, all of his projects—including Hannah's e-book—died with him. Now she's forced to find a new home for her memoir, otherwise no one will get the chance to read "everything that's ever happened" to the 25-year-old.
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That Hannah Horvath is a Gawker reader and Jezebel commenter is undoubtedly quite upsetting to the many Gawker and Jezebel commenters who've disparaged Girls, its characters, and Lena Dunham herself. But it's perhaps the most clever dig Dunham has issued to her haters yet.
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HBO (short for "Honking Boob Orifice") is a network that has never shied away from showing a lot of nudity. In fact, tits and ass seem to be a pretty integral part of their business model and series are often encouraged to get as racy as possible. But how many minutes of the HBO show "story lines" (yawnzo) do you have to…
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Season two of Girls left us with a brilliantly inverted grand gesture: Adam, like any classic rom-com cad after his Big Realization, raced through the streets to "rescue" Hannah, his true and abiding love...from the throes of her severe mental illness. To me, it was perfect—illuminating the disconnect between Hollywood…
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Americans in big cities (but particularly Americans in those big, grey northeastern cities where we'll imprison the burgeoning mutant population after the nuclear fallout) love to brag about how hard they work. They wear their work ethic like a badge of courage, as if working an hour longer than one's peers had some…
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Let us ponder this rumor with a quietly shitting Eric Northman. If you've hung in there with True Blood this far, congratulations — you have the television stamina of a silverback gorilla, which I guess means you have a lot of stamina. Your dedication to a series that often oscillates between frenzied, nonsensical…
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This 15-second Game of Thrones nipple-twisting trailer is so short that you could sneeze and miss it, but, remarkably, HBO has managed to make a series of even shorter micro-teasers that you could blink and miss. It's all part of a the premium cable network's strategy to make sure you're as antsy for GoT's return as…
