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This story was originally published on May 22, 2013. We are recirculating it now in the wake of Carl Weathers’ death. Billions of jokes large and small pack the original run of Arrested Development, many of which you can imagine being birthed in a late-night writers-room spitballing session. But some of these gags and story lines seem so random and specific that we sensed there was a fascinatingly weird origin story to them beyond “It was 2 a. [Read More]

Friends, collaborators, and admirers on the life and legacy of a “machete-cutting truth teller.” Photo: Rob Verhorst/Redferns When Sinéad O’Connor died on July 26 of natural causes, an outpouring of love and regret flooded social media over the loss of a massive talent and truth teller. For an artist who primarily regarded herself as a protest singer, pop stardom was never a cozy fit for O’Connor, especially in the early ’90s, when her actions were construed as agitprop or merely baffling. [Read More]

The Vampire Diaries The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Vampire Diaries The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get Season 6 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Follow me here: The sound was off on The Vampire Diaries last night, which initially was annoying but then ended up being this fascinating experiment in oneness. [Read More]

The Vampire Diaries Gods and Monsters Season 7 Episode 22 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Vampire Diaries Gods and Monsters Season 7 Episode 22 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Vampire Diaries – “Gods & Monsters ” – Image Number: VD722A_0226.jpg – Pictured: Kat Graham as Bonnie – Photo: Tina Rowden/The CW – © 2016 The CW Network, LLC. [Read More]

Warning: Deep spoilers for The Lincoln Lawyer’s season-two finale lie ahead. After a month-long recess, The Lincoln Lawyer has returned to Netflix to wrap up season two’s big case. In brief: This season, idealistic criminal-defense lawyer, car-brand loyalist, and part-time foodie Mickey Haller has been in the spotlight as he takes on a high-profile murder case in which L.A. chef Lisa Trammell is accused of murdering Mitchell Bondurant, a big-time real-estate developer. [Read More]

The Voice Live Finale: Part One Season 10 Episode 27 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Voice Live Finale: Part One Season 10 Episode 27 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Adam Levine, Laith Al-Saadi. There is so much singing tonight! The finalists sing, and sing some more, then sing again! [Read More]

Thirty-five years ago, Anne Rice single-handedly launched a permanent pop-culture vampire fixation with Interview With the Vampire, the first installment of her best-selling ten-book series The Vampire Chronicles. Today, the author is interested in a different sort of eternal life: the kind that comes from religious salvation instead of erotic damnation. Raised Irish Catholic, the author re-converted in 1998 after years as a self-avowed atheist. Her spiritual awakening was followed by a transition to more explicitly Christian material: first the Christ the Lord books, which fictionalized the early life of Jesus Christ, and most recently, the Songs of the Seraphim series, about a reformed hit man named Toby O’Dare who becomes — of course! [Read More]

The Walking Dead Scars Season 9 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Walking Dead Scars Season 9 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Under Michonne’s leadership, Alexandria has been a real drag lately. There’s that constitution she wrote, then pretty much ignored as she turned her democracy into a dictatorship. [Read More]

What if Rudolf Höss isn’t vomiting out of remorse? What if it’s his own irrelevance dawning on him instead? This article was originally published on February 22, 2024. At the 2024 Oscars, The Zone of Interest won two awards, including Best International Feature. The Zone of Interest is among the most audacious movies of last year — a radical experiment in perspective, limiting the audience’s vantage on atrocities while adopting that of the people perpetrating them. [Read More]

From The Wrong Man, at MCC. ‘They say all kinds of clichés here, like ‘what happens here stays here,’” Joshua Henry sings early on in The Wrong Man. In the pop-hit-songwriting machine Ross Golan’s concept album turned stage musical, directed by Thomas Kail of Hamilton and In The Heights fame, the same line could double as a TL;DR review of the show. Well … at least the first clause. They do say a lot of clichés here, if here is the Newman Mills Theater, home to the story of an unjustly incarcerated man who was “at the wrong place at the wrong time,” and who wants you to understand what it’s like to be “in my shoes,” fighting an “eye-for-an-eye” justice system. [Read More]