John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight and contender for Best British Human, has gifted his adopted country with a video in honor of Independence Day. But he also reminds viewers what our independence from Mother England has cost us young, scrappy, and hungry ruffians.
Game of Thrones wraps up its sixth season tonight. How is everybody feeling about that?
Throughout Vinyl’s first—and now final—season, my opinion changed ever so slightly from when I first wrote about its debut episode. Vinyl remained absurd, overly nostalgic, ahistorical and evenly lionizing of men, but at the very least, the effervescent Juno Temple got to shine a little and, even better, the “getting…
The first trailer for Issa Rae’s HBO series Insecure is finally here, after enduring the treacherous Hollywood pilot cycle. The show, a worthy follow-up to her popular web series The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl, premieres this fall.
“I want a divorce,” says Sarah Jessica Parker at the beginning of this teaser for HBO’s upcoming series, Divorce. In the following scene, she flips off her husband (Thomas Haden Church) after he prevents her from joining him in an elevator (“I need my space,” he says). Next, the two of them complain about each other…
Looking, the HBO series about a small group of gay men in San Francisco, was canceled in early 2015 after two seasons on the air, with the promise the story would conclude with a feature-length finale. It’s been over a year since that announcement, and we finally have a trailer.
HBO’s picked up a new show titled Mogadishu Minnesota, executive produced by Kathryn Bigelow. The pilot is written and directed by Somali Canadian rapper K’Naan Warsame.
If you’re at the point in the 2016 election cycle where you can no longer stomach the phoniness of Washington politics, then it’s definitely time for you to check out Veep’s Jonah Ryan. This Jolly Green Jizz Face is as real as a fictional character gets and he wants to be YOUR congressman!
Oprah Winfrey, queen of Earth, is starring in an HBO movie about Henrietta Lacks, a black woman whose cells were controversially used to make major discoveries in medical research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks—adapted from Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 New York Times bestseller—will play out from the perspective of…
Robert Durst, the disquieting real estate heir and subject of the HBO documentary series The Jinx, has been sentenced to seven years and one month in prison for illegal possession of a .38 revolver.
Hello, perhaps you have noticed that Beyoncé is debuting a... something on HBO this evening. Is it an album? Is it a documentary? Is it a narrative film, or all three? We know as much as you do; here’s your spot to follow along, comment, and behave totally rationally and in a very calm, adult fashion as this happening…
Maybe it’s the rape, or the violence, or how it’s really boring. Everyone seems to have an opinion about why Game of Thrones, once a mesmerizing fantasy land that darkly mirrored modern day dilemmas, has become near unwatchable. (Which is not to say people have by any means ceased to watch it.) But there is one reason…
The Beyoncé extravaganza on Saturday—whatever it is!—will be free for all. No need to perform an extremely shameful favor for some free HBO or mooch off a friend’s subscription.
Before being sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice in 1991, Clarence Thomas first had to confront the truth. Anita Hill, then a professor at the University of Oklahoma, had accused Thomas of sexually harassing her when she worked for him at the Department of Education and U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission.…
Game of Thrones returns on April 24, and the only person guaranteed an advanced screener lives in the White House. Yes, President Obama is using his few remaining executive powers to watch frozen zombies, crazy fire witches and religious zealots on HBO’s much-anticipated drama—it probably reminds him of this election…
Jon Snow, formerly one of Westeros’ most eligible bachelors, died during the finale of Game of Thrones’ fifth season. After months of speculation (more like “specu-bae-tion!”) about our would-be hero, HBO has just confirmed the state of his body in the official synopsis for this month’s Season 6 premiere, released…
Game of Thrones, a silly show about slow-moving, power-hungry dopes that I sort of hate but continue watching because I’ve spent far too much time to quit now, contains a lot of female nudity. Whether wandering in the back of a frame while two men drink wine, or shot in a lingering close-up beside a fully-clothed man,…
As we anxiously await the release of HBO’s Confirmation, starring Kerry Washington as Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas’ confirmation, we can occupy ourselves with the stories of how image-conscious politicians have fought to ensure they are, I guess, respectfully portrayed.
HBO has released another teaser trailer for the sixth season of Game of Thrones, one that offers up the usual GoT fare of action sequences rather than ghostly metaphor. Oh, and there’s no sign of Jon Snow. The ambiguity of his status will without a doubt plague us until the last possible moment.
The fifth season of Veep comes in the middle of an election year and why no it doesn’t at all resemble America’s real-life political hijinks. Picking up from last season’s finale, Selina Meyer and the crew deal with the aftermath of a tied election.
