NBC's Parenthood was never fair, but it was consistent. Not fair because, in its efforts to show an imperfect but strongly bonded family having very realistic problems and eventually solving them through the power of love and communication, it made real family life seem like a barren hellscape full of dysfunctional…
Thanks to Netflix and PBS, I can feed my British pop culture addiction without booking a Virgin flight. But American television executives are determined to ignore this luxury and cook up watered down versions of international shows like no one's ever heard of Pirate Bay (RIP).
When Parenthood first started, it was an excellent show about complicated family relationships that rang true for many people. But now, many seasons later, (and with the addition of Ray Romano) it has become a sad sack of emotional garbage that not even Christina Braverman could love. I'm not sad it's ending, but the…
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Like most married couples, Elizabeth and Philip Jennings have their share of ups and downs, passion and apathy, parenting mishaps and frequent misunderstandings and breakups. Unlike most married couples however, The Jennings, the TV family at the center of The Americans, are also undercover Cold War-era Soviet spies…
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You're probably not watching USA's Suits. Not because it's not an entertaining, smart show—but do you really have time for another legal drama in your life, and one on USA at that? I began watching Suits when it debuted in 2011 because I watch a lot of television and I'll give almost anything a chance. I stayed for…
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Amazon has added so many benefits to Prime that they're starting to get hard to keep track of, so we're going to round them up for you, and update this post as new ones roll out. Sadly we can't list drone delivery as a perk just yet.
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CBS has cast the lead role for its upcoming Supergirl pilot.
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Netflix has released the first trailer for the Tina Fey/Robert Carlock produced The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which stars Ellie Kemper as a doomsday cult member who, after years in an underground vault in Indiana, learns that the world hasn't ended and moves to New York City to start her above-ground life.
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Call it the Netflix curse: An entire weekend spent with my eyes transfixed on the television, consuming episode after episode of The Fall, a show about a murderer, a detective and the crimes that draw them together. It's a bleak series—full of ugly, sad things that are only made more grim by the rainy Belfast…
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The anticipation for Lifetime biopics has become more about expecting the worst, and by those measures the Whitney movie wasn't so bad. The most important question about it, though, is whether they got her story relatively right.
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Twenty years ago today, Star Trek: Voyager premiered. Of the five live-action Star Trek series, Voyager is not the best. If you were ranking them, Voyager and Enterprise would probably duke it out for last place. But none of that matters, because Star Trek: Voyager meant everything to me as a child.
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Just two weeks in, Empire is already becoming a treasure trove of ludicrous moments. Several unusual things happened on Wednesday night's episode, and among them was the use of what looked like a "blowjob bib." What is a blowjob bib?
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We loved, loved, loved last week's lady-centric Agent Carter premiere — so much that we immediately got Michele Fazekas, one of the series showrunners, on the phone to spill all the delicious details she was allowed to reveal about this season. Here's the scoop (small spoilers ahead).
Stephen Colbert will be back on your televisions in roughly nine months.
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In what's likely some unsurprising news, a study released Friday by the Director's Guild of America found that white men are still overwhelmingly hired for entry-level directing jobs.
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Um, I can't even report this news without it being a spoiler for those who know certain things about the Game of Thrones TV show, the A Song of Ice and Fire book series, or even just one pertinent behind-the-scenes fact. Do not read unless you want news that could destroy one of GoT's most popular fan theories.
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To tell you the truth, the Mad Men nostalgia craze always annoyed me.
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"I do not love that there's a million bitches inside this house right now," said Jordan, a 24-year-old student from Windsor, Colorado during Monday night's premiere of The Bachelor. Jordan wasn't the only one upset by the number of women in the house, which was higher than usual (30 in total): almost as if they knew…
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Today The Weinstein Company announced that it will be developing a live, daily syndicated show based on the gossip site Radar Online. If you're unfamiliar with Radar Online, just imagine if TMZ gave less of a fuck.
When I was in grade school, I wanted to be a run-of-the-mill Sailor Moon villainess: obsessed equally with galactic conquest and my own vanity, in pursuit of both immortality and human domination. They had knife-sharp sartorial tastes, impeccable make-up, shrill cackles, and endless magical reserves—and most cases, a…
