Orange Is the New Black Recap: Mischief Night

Orange Is the New Black Mischief Mischief Season 6 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Orange Is the New Black Mischief Mischief Season 6 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » It’s the week of Halloween, and no one seems to agree on when exactly the festivities should start. [Read More]

Outlander Recap: Sightseeing in 18th-Century Scotland

Outlander Down The Rabbit Hole Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Outlander Down The Rabbit Hole Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Alert! Alert! Before we begin this time-traveling journey, Outlander Squad, you must know that there is no Claire or Jamie to be found in “Down the Rabbit Hole. [Read More]

Ozark Season-Finale Recap: Life Is All About Choice

Ozark The Toll Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Ozark The Toll Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » There’s something about the Netflix model that encourages more intense creative investment in season premieres and finales. With shows that people are likely to binge in a weekend, a company needs to hook them and leave them wanting to keep their subscription active at least until that weekend’s season-ending cliffhanger is resolved. [Read More]

Painkiller Series-Premiere Recap: The Quite Literal Opiate of the Masses

Painkiller The One To Start With, The One To Stay With / Jesus Gave Me Water Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Painkiller The One To Start With, The One To Stay With / Jesus Gave Me Water Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Over the last few years, we have had a bumper crop of shows about When Medicine Goes Bad, a subcategory of white-collar true crime. [Read More]

Parks and Recreation Recap: Get a Chard-On

Parks and Recreation Farmers’ Market Season 6 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Parks and Recreation Farmers’ Market Season 6 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » So many of my favorite recurring Parks themes and things made appearances in this episode: Pawnee’s obesity epidemic, Burt Macklin, Craig the doppelgänger, delighted Ron, and Donna as the voice of reason. [Read More]

Parks and Recreation Recap: Mona Lisa and Porn Shops

Parks and Recreation Bailout Season 5 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Parks and Recreation Bailout Season 5 Episode 16 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week in Pawnee, we see mortal enemies become friends, friends — friends who recently were walking down the aisle, arm-in-arm, like the father and daughter figures they are! [Read More]

Party of Five Reboot Canceled at Freeform After One Season

Party of Five, the Amy Lippman and Christopher Keyser reboot of their 1990s Fox family drama, has been canceled by Freeform after one season. The series, which reimagined the original show’s orphaned Salinger children as the separated-by-deportation Acostas, aired its 90-minute season finale on March 4. The reboot, which premiered January 8, starred Brandon Larracuente, Niko Guardado, Emily Tosta, and Elle Paris Legaspi as four of the five Acosta children, who must work to stay together as a family after their undocumented parents, played by Bruno Bichir and Fernanda Urrejola, are forced to return to Mexico. [Read More]

Paul McCartney and Kanye Met by Adorably Bonding Over Breakups

Aaaaand now you’re crying. Paul McCartney and Kanye West have been professionally linked for around four years, working together and with Rihanna, but it turns out their relationship actually stretches back a decade and has a touching origin story. McCartney tells GQ that the two were both attending the 2008 European MTV Awards in Liverpool when they broke the ice by getting deep in their feelings. McCartney recalls, “I’d just gone through my divorce [from Heather Mills], and I was kind of a little bit raw from it, and I said something to him about it, and he’d just broken up with someone [Alexis Phifer], and he just pulled out his phone and played this great little track—I don’t even remember what it’s called, but it’s one of his famous ones. [Read More]

Pete Davidson Returns to Instagram to [Checks Notes] Promote His Sundance Movie

The prodigal son returns! Pete Davidson has reactivated his Instagram account for the sole purpose of promoting his upcoming film, Big Time Adolescence. Davidson flipped off the internet earlier this summer, deleting his Instagram around the height of his roller-coaster relationship with Ariana Grande. While she’s already said “thank u, next” and converted her Instagram page into a shrine to classic teen movies, Davidson’s had remained blank, until now. [Read More]

Phylicia Rashad Returning to TV

NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 15: Phylicia Rashad poses backstage at the B Michael America Fall 2012 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Museum of the City of New York on February 15, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week) Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast of NBC’s Jekyll-and-Hyde-in-a-hospital pilot Do No Harm as everyone’s sophisticated and loving, but stern mother. [Read More]