Yep, Ballers Will Be Every Dude's New Obsession
A nation of dudes wiped off their dried up Entourage spittle and tuned in to the premiere of HBO’s Ballers, which stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Spencer Strasmore, a retired Miami Dolphins player turned financial advisor. Broke athletes, with a side of tits, is what it is, and it’s likely to be every football…
John Oliver's Internet Misogyny Rant is Satisfying As Hell
Yesterday on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver devoted 16 full minutes to the topics of vicious, misogynist online harassment and revenge porn, the difficulties of stamping them out, and the absolutely unacceptable responses from authorities. The whole thing culminates in a parody of an early 90s AOL ad. It was pretty…
Game of Boners: Oh Snow, They Didn't
We’ve reached the end of Season Five of Game of Thrones, and what a slow and meandering journey it’s been! Looking back on the past ten episodes, doesn’t it feel like we watched too much talking and not enough stabbing? (Oh, god. It’s like Frasier all over again.) Doesn’t it also feel like the showrunners owed us a…
Entourage Is So Bad It Put Us in a Terrible Mood
On Wednesday, June 3, the feature length version of HBO’s Entourage was unleashed on America’s movie theaters like the cinematic equivalent of a venereal disease (hyped, preventable, and the uncomfortable manifestation of an activity—in this case, watching a weekly half hour sitcom about Hollywood dickwads—that you…
Tennis Fans: Rejoice at Andy Samberg & Kit Harington's 7 Days in Hell
The long-awaited movie of my dreams, 7 Days in Hell, starring Andy Samberg and Kit Harington, will premiere on HBO on July 11 (the second to last day of Wimbledon). Featuring cameos by Serena Williams and John McEnroe, this mockumentary pits bad boy Samberg against by-the-book Harington, who are playing one another in…
Game of Boners: Lost Minds, Lost Virginities
Oh, hey there, daughters of the Harpy! Did you think Game of Boners forgot about you? That we were gonna leave you high and dry? No way! I—QUEEN HARPY—just needed Memorial Day off to lie in the sun and sip on some of Cersei’s special sangria. A tip from the queen herself: replace the fruit chunks with more wine. And…
Southern Rites: A Small Town's Inability to Acknowledge Its Own Racism
In 2009, photographer Gillian Laub published a series of photos documenting the high school proms in the tiny Georgia community of Montgomery County, which was remarkable because the proms were racially segregated. Though the students grew up together, played together, and went to Montgomery County High together,…
HBO Cocks Head, Shrugs, Casts Jude Law as an American Pope
In the upcoming series The Young Pope, Jude Law will portray an Italian-American pope named Pius XIII. Hmmmm. Let’s take a few moments to deconstruct that first sentence. “In the upcoming series The Young Pope...” —OK, so there’s going to be a series about a young pope, got it—“... Jude Law will portray an…
Sophie Turner 'Loved' Sansa's Game of Thrones Wedding Night Scene
This post contains spoilers: On last night’s Game of Thrones, “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken,” Sansa finally married Winterfell’s most eligible sadist, Ramsay Bolton. The setting of their nuptials—at night, in the woods, as it snowed—made it abundantly clear that this would not be cause for celebration, and that sense of…
Game of Boners: Enter Stoneman
Belieb it or not, we take our television recapping pretty seriously at The Muse via Jezebel dot com. Our goal, typically, is not to simply regurgitate the plot of a television episode that you’ve already watched, but to talk about theme, how things fit together, and ideally provide some insights that you maybe haven’t…
Amy Schumer, who has recently brought us both the song of the summer and a Friday Night Lights sketch that gave the internet life, is getting her own HBO special. Multiple sources confirm that Schumer’s special will be filmed at The Apollo on May 29th and will be directed by Chris Rock.
Will the New Kurt Cobain Doc Spur More Sexist Hate for Courtney Love?
I DVR’d Montage of Heck and watched it a day after it premiered on HBO. I waited partly out of dread. Everything I’ve read about the Kurt Cobain documentary cast it as the most through and fascinating depiction of him ever—largely due to unprecedented access to home movies, journals, and a clutch of his Dr Demento-…

