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…
Penny Dreadful is a slow-burning and terrific show, one that for the last three seasons has taken iconic literary figures—Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Dracula—and used them to explore the pathos behind monstrosity. It’s also pitch-perfect at capturing the gloom of 19th century London, the tenor of Victorian horror,…
All Things Must Pass is director Colin Hanks’s documentary about the history of Tower Records, which in 1960 became the first store in America to sell records exclusively, and which incomparably shaped youth culture and music consumption until its bankruptcy in 2006. It came out last October in limited release, but…
The Affair moonlights as a mystery, the question of who hit and killed wayward junkie Scott Lockhart with their car threading through and unraveling the whole of the show, which wrapped its second season Sunday night. (As a plot device, vehicular manslaughter also propelled a show that, without it, would consist…
The Affair, an excellent show about the nuances and complications of infidelity and self-identity interspersed with fuckloads of sex scenes, commenced its second season last night, expanding its two-person perspective to four by including the viewpoints of spurned spouses Helen and Cole.
On Showtime’s hit series The Affair, premiering October 4th for a second season, Dominic West plays Noah Solloway, a man who seems to have it all: Happily (and faithfully) married to his first love Helen (Maura Tierney) for seventeen years; four healthy children; financial stability; a newly published novel; and a…
Just Kids, Patti Smith’s National Book Award-winning memoir about her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe, is being developed into a limited series for Showtime.
Screwing on screen in front of tons of people is awkward. It's also vastly fascinating. The process has been talked about ad nauseum, but this Showtime panel, "Sexuality and Television: A Female Perspective," featured exclusively women leading the discussion.
As of now, we don't know very much about Christopher, one of the many guests who'll appear on the new Showtime series Sex with Sunny Megatron. Here's what we do know: He's a formicophile. That means he loves to have bugs crawl over him, slithering on and around his nipples and genitals.
The gods are smiling on us because Showtime is prepping a series based on Spike Lee’s second film, She’s Gotta Have It.
Penny Dreadful, the latest premium cable show to exploit the talents of under-worked actors and period-piece costumers, will arrive with buckets of blood, sex, and creepy backwards hand-walking on May 11. In the meantime, this trailer will stoke your anticipation for a show about Victorian monsters that stars Josh…
Starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, Showtime's new one-hour drama series Masters of Sex chronicles the "unusual lives, romance, and pop culture trajectory" of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Rowr. ish.
Question: Do you like literature? Yes, of course you do, how silly of me to ask. Do you also like monsters, provided they're menacing someone who is not you? Uh-huh, and what about psychosexual horror flicks? If you can emphatically check all these off under your "things that are awesome to me" list, then you will…
Though Showtime has suggested that The Real L Word reality series has likely reached the end of its run, the concept could yet again receive a fresh look. Speaking to reporters on Saturday after his executive sessions at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour, Showtime entertainment president David…
Actor Michael C. Hall, left, and actress Jennifer Carpenter from the television show "Dexter," participate in the CW Showtime TCA Panels, Monday, July 30, 2012, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
We're not entirely sure what this...is...but it looks like Karl had a fever dream after watching Mannequin (or maybe after watching the Amber Valletta horror vehicle Dead Silence), woke up, and thought, "What a tremendous concept for zee new video!"
Karl Lagerfeld's boy-toy Baptiste Giabiconi's first dance single — yes, he has a dance single — sounds a little like Ke$ha, if Ke$ha had DJ Pauly D hair and sang to really, exceptionally trashy house music. His video is amazing.
In the wake of Shit My Dad Says, the internet has spawned yet another TV project. Alexi Wasser's "provocative" blog, ImBoyCrazy.com, will be a half-hour comedy on Showtime. You know, the lady network?
If you're staying in and skipping Eat, Pray Love tonight, check out Strikeforce on Showtime, where 135-pound MMA phenom Miesha Tate will be part of a one-night tournament. She's not just fighting her opponent — she's battling sexism.
