Spike Lee’s iconic 1986 feature film debut She’s Gotta Have It—a rare coming-of-age tale about a black woman’s sexual exploration in 1980s Brooklyn that was widely raved about and also criticized—has gotten a 10-episode series order on Netflix, with Lee on board as director. Yikes.
Hot on the heels of Making of a Murderer, Netflix is releasing another true crime documentary, this one focusing on the trial of Amanda Knox, the American student accused of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy in 2007.
They could put out a new iteration of Chef’s Table every month and I’d be happy about it, but then it wouldn’t be Chef’s Table—careful, even-handed, and beautifully shot. But the new, four-episode stint that drops on Netflix today (just in time for your Hurricane Hermine-thwarted Labor Day weekend) is convincing me…
In news that is making the soul of the 10-year-old that lives inside me very happy, Bill Nye will be leading a talk show to air on Netflix in 2017.
Everyone’s supernatural summer obsession Stranger Things has expectedly been renewed for a second season and, according to its creators, there will be new and stranger-er things.
Alison Brie has signed on to another Netflix show in addition to voicing Diane Nguyen on BoJack Horseman.
As was reported back in January, there’s a new Anne of Green Gables adaptation in the works, from the CBC and Breaking Bad writer Moira Walley-Beckett. Now Netflix says they’re picking it up for audiences in America and elsewhere around the world. A celebratory round of raspberry cordial for everyone!
It’s almost September, which means it’s almost time to pack the kids off to school, get out the coats (oh god, please let this heat finally recede), and get ready for the new TV season to begin. Some of these shows even manage without time travel!
Things didn’t work out for Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, so Cage has moved uptown. Like many comic book super heroes before him, he’s here to clean up the neighborhood.
In February, it was reported that NBC had ordered a series based on Cruel Intentions, the 1999 movie that helped many of us discover true horniness for the first time. In May, they announced the series at their upfronts, but it was then nowhere to be seen on their fall schedule. There are now too many Cruel Intentions…
Portrayals of abortion on television often lack nuance. Usually, they’re a grab for an emotional response from the viewers, a totem of despair for the character or, most often, a plain old cautionary tale. Jenny Slate’s film Obvious Child opened up what an abortion narrative can look like onscreen by being charming,…
Rory and Lorelai are back, shooting the shit in Stars Hollow. Noted set design investigator Bobby Finger observed that they have sat down to a meal of what looks like a family sized pack of toasted Pop Tarts arranged on a platter. It’s gonna be a great four episode (or possibly more!) stint.
One by one, Hamilton’s original Broadway cast shuffles off the stage and answers our—and King George’s—question: what comes next? For newly-minted Tony winner Renée Elise Goldsberry, the answer is the titular role in HBO’s film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Movie musical impresario Baz Luhrmann is deep into the 1970s Bronx—that era and place in which city blight and rampant poverty led young people to get beyond creative, inventing hip-hop, punk, salsa and disco—and finally, his Netflix show about it will debut August 12.
On its surface, Netflix’s new ‘80s-inspired series Stranger Films is an homage to the kid-posse films of that era: it opens with four boys, around 11 or 12, playing a very heated and rambunctious Dungeons & Dragons campaign at the moment of a crucial showdown, a foreshadowing of what’s to come.
OMG! All of Gilmore Girls will be on Netflix July 1, including the last season that you didn’t watch all of! In every country Netflix is available in—as is their way now—you can watch Gilmore Girls. And A Year in the Life is still coming, later this year, date TBD.
You’ll have to wait until August 12 to see Baz Luhrmann’s ‘70s hip-hop drama The Get Down, but in the meantime, this dazzling trailer will whet your appetite.
In its infancy, Orange Is the New Black was the story of Piper Chapman, a narcissistic white woman thrown into a prison complex that seemingly erased privilege. It didn’t take long for the series to reveal itself as less about the chronicles of Piper—the show’s obnoxious nucleus—and more as a tragic saga about the…
Here is a bad idea: to celebrate the return of Orange Is the New Black, a restaurant in Singapore, in an apparent partnership with Netflix, is doing a pop-up “prison dining experience.” That means “home-cooked prison grub” served in a jail-like cafeteria setting. Piper Kerman, who wrote the book the show is based on…
Netflix describes its new series as “a love letter to the supernatural classics of the ‘80s,” and it’s certainly got that feeling all the way down to the Wes Craven-style font and Alan Howarth-worthy score. Premiering July 15, Stranger Things is the tale of a small-town boy who disappears without a trace, which the…
