*Wipes sweat from my brow* Somehow we all survived an Emmy Awards hosted by Colin Jost and Michael Che! #MeToo jokes were made, diversity was lampooned, and interns were paraded. And in case you weren’t aware, many people tonight did win tiny golden statues who weren’t a part of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. So here are…
Life’s a bitch, and then you die. For the cast of the awards season favorite Modern Family, life is eight consecutive years of Emmy nominations, and now one of you must get the axe.
A new study found that 7 percent of all speaking roles for women in television go to Latina actors. It was one of the only bright spots in the report from San Diego State’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film; previously it was just 5 percent of all speaking roles. Oh yay! Crumbs? I love crumbs.
A truly artful scene in “Our Raison d’Etre,” the premiere episode of the second season of The Deuce, shows Maggie Gyllenhaal, shot from above, lying prostrate in a teddy, looking blankly at the ceiling. Her character Candy, an ingenious full-service sex worker-turned-porn director and star, has spent a day cutting a…
When I think back on my most formative moments there is the shower threesome on The Real World: Miami; the wet t-shirt contests of MTV spring break programming; and there’s typing “a/s/l” into mid- to late-’90s AOL chatrooms and making bumbling attempts at cybersex. But none of these moments even begin to approach the…
You have to wonder whether Dr. Pimple Popper (née Dr. Sandra Lee) is a sadist. Yes, she has devoted her career to helping the lump-afflicted. Yes, she wields a local anesthetic to numb wherever on the body she goes in to dig. But not only is she unsparing in the gory details of her work, which routinely finds pus…
We’ll miss her kindness. We’ll miss her food metaphors. We’ll miss her splash mask. Join us as we say goodbye (for now) to the single most disgusting series in the history of basic cable, Dr. Pimple Popper.
Dr. Pimple Popper, a show full of things I can’t quite believe that I’m seeing even though I tune in every week, will return for a second season in January 2019. That’s about five months away, so do keep your barf bags handy.
Preppy floral button-ups, uncomfortable white modern furniture, and sugar masks are coming your way, because Queer Eye just inked an deal to release merchandise.
Reality television romances rarely evoke emotion other than schadenfreude, Debordian fascination, or derangement. The closest thing to a fascinating reality romance in America right now is that of Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson, whose whirlwind love and compulsive watchability combined with seamy speculation on…
Trauma and triumph have always been source material for queer performers. The difference now is that people with power are starting to pay attention: men, heterosexuals, cisgender people, white people—even the holy trinity of cishet white men. At the cutting edge of this cultural reckoning are comedians Hannah Gadsby,…
As a child, my favorite fantasy books were not Harry Potter but a series called Dealing with Dragons, which followed the adventures of a feisty unconventional princess and the dragon she implored to hold her hostage. Princesses pissed me off because they were beautiful and boring. Dealing with Dragons’s heroine was…
About halfway through this season of Westworld, I finally stopped watching. I kept getting frustrated with how repetitive and meandering the show had become. And plot lines seemed to stretch out forever. I wasn’t alone in my complaints—many other critics called Season 2 “a mess” and “too complicated.” But according to…
Kurt Metzger, the comedian and former Inside Amy Schumer staff writer who loves to joke about rape and harass women online, has a new gig writing for Sacha Baron Cohen’s show Who Is America?
Days after announcing their upcoming Jerry O’Connell-hosted talk show with a terrible name, Bravo has succumbed to the justifiable uproar over the undeniably homophobic and gender traditionalist title Real Men Watch Bravo. Per HuffPo, the show “will be renamed.”
The 2018 Primetime Emmy nominations were announced on Thursday morning, confirming that Sandra Oh is fantastic in Killing Eve and that we all watch way too much television. But the usual guessing games surrounding “Who will get that Emmy?” can quickly devolve into “Who has not gotten that Emmy?”
“I’m going out to join the search party now,” St. Louis crime reporter Camille Preaker nearly whispers to her editor in the Sunday night premiere of HBO’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s book Sharp Objects, while cradling a pay phone in one hand and an ample glass of whiskey in another. “Hopefully, we’ll turn up a dead…
Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe is many things: a mature, refreshingly funny children’s program, a beautifully weird animated sci-fi series led by a woman, and the source of my favorite birthday song. It’s also known for its exceptional LGBTQ representation, depicting several queer love stories and a gender-fluid…
The trailer for Patty Jenkins’ new miniseries has arrived, and it features plenty of Hollywood’s Greatest Chris regnant, Chris Pine.
The best, most beautiful, weird as hell show The Young Pope is coming back for a second season as The New Pope, with Jude Law still playing the mysterious, Cherry Coke Zero-loving pope Lenny Belardo. But he’s bringing a new pope with him.
