We Seriously Don't Need True Detective Now That Amy Adams Will Be on HBO Uncovering Murders
After the success of Big Little Lies, HBO is hitching their wagon on gritty, women-led crime dramas that will definitely keep me up at night staring at my ceiling trying to piece together the mystery. The latest is Sharp Objects.
You Can Thank Reese Witherspoon For Helping Get Equal Pay Across HBO
Nobody should be surprised that Reese Witherspoon is such a Renaissance woman in her industry—simultaneously acting, producing great projects for women, and running an intimidatingly preppy lifestyle brand—given the actor’s forte is playing women who do the most. So of course she’s going to help fix pay discrepancies…
Westworld Teased Fans With Spoilers, and Then Rickrolled Them
If you watched Westworld’s first season, you might remember that it was stupidly easy to figure out important plot points ahead of time (and it’s not just because more than half of the characters are robots built to complete the same, routine storyline every day).
Lena Waithe's Dream Project Is a Mary Tyler Moore BiopicÂ
Lena Waithe has had a busy last few months between her groundbreaking Vanity Fair cover, a role in Ready Player One, and getting her Showtime series The Chi renewed for a second season, but she’s already looking forward to her next project. And one movie she’s hoping to get made is a biopic of her childhood TV hero…
TV President Promises TV Solution to Opioid CrisisÂ
During remarks on the opioid crisis in New Hampshire on Monday, President Donald Trump promised “a large-scale rollout of commercials that show how bad it is for the kids.”
Clarissa Still Has More to ExplainÂ
In the past few years, we’ve seen the Tanner Family, the Conner Family, and Cory Matthews and Topanga return to television. And now Clarissa might be coming back, right on time to when scrunchies are officially cool again.
American Idol Is Back and Easy to Ignore
We can debate whether or not we need American Idol back so soon—it only went off the air two years ago, which means the gap between getting the boot and being rebooted is shorter than ever. One day that gap will cease to exist, and then what? Some version of the singularity where the computers take over but all they…
Season 2 of Jessica Jones Misses Its Chance for Complexity
“I’m not a killer,” Jessica Jones tells a client in the opening episode of the show’s second season. The client, a hard-working woman whose boyfriend, Jones reveals, is cheating on her, has asked Jones to murder him. “Oh bullpucky, you broke a man’s neck,” Jones’s client shoots back. “I heard about it on Trish Talk.…
Drake's Degrassi-Era Lyric Notebook Is Selling For $54k, Hopefully Includes Jimmy/Hazel Fanfic
You can snag an old notebook containing Drake’s early lyrics right now for the low, low price of $54,000! The purple notebook contains 12 pages of lyrics, personal notes, multiple instances of Drake’s signature—signed with his government name, Aubrey Graham—as well as a smattering of phone and credit card numbers. It…
Erika Alexander On the Legend of Maxine Shaw, Living Single, and Her Buffy Spinoff Comic
Erika Alexander has one of those signature laughs. It’s really more of a cackle. Over the phone, her effusiveness travels, just as her character Maxine Shaw’s did through five seasons of Living Single, the prototypical ’90s sitcom about four black women in Brooklyn. At one point a cultural force—the highest-rated…