The Staircasephoto: hbo max Though hardly a new trend, TV shows based on real events have been a reliable source of attention and accolades for TV networks and streaming services recently, and as that trend continues, a similar trend has popped up in its wake: people getting made that fictionalized TV shows are not emotionless,…
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Kendrick Lamar and cars both go flying in new video for “N95”
The promotional push for Mr Morale And The Big SteppersKendrick Lamar’s first (non-soundtrack) album in five years, continues to appear this weekend, with Lamar releasing an intense new video for “N95”today. The song, the second track on the first volume of the new album, seems to be all about reflecting on the weird places our…
Hulu kills Marvel’s MODOK
MOD OKpicture: Marvel Tragic news in the supervillain community today, as Variety reports that MOD OK has now been converted to MODOFGCBH, ie, the Mental Organism Designed Only For Getting Canceled By Hulu. That’s right: The stop-motion animated series has been killed off at the streaming service after only a single season on the air,…
Keith Thomas’ Stephen King adaptation
Zac Efron and Ryan Kiera Armstrong in Firestarterpicture: Ken Woroner/Universal Pictures With any subsequent adaptation, the hope is that a story improves on the version that preceded it—or at least feels as though it’s offering up a unique vision, an additional layer that makes the new adaptation purposeful in its insistence upon treading old ground….
My Chemical Romance releases first new song in eight years
Gerard Way performing with My Chemical Romancephoto: Simone Joyner (Getty Images) Perhaps youhe most beloved and revered of the mid-2000s emo boom, My Chemical Romance released its first new song in eight years today. “The Foundations Of Decay” reunites The Black Parade for another round of screamingsinging, twinkly guitars, and judd judd metalcore breakdowns. Yup,…
Apple TV Plus’ The Essex Serpent pits faith against science
Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston in The Essex Serpentphoto: AppleTV+ At the start of Apple TV+’s The Essex Serpent, Victorian wife Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes) is delivered from her husband, a brute who once, during sex, branded her with a red-hot poker on the neck (leaving an S-shaped scar). The sadist dies, apparently of throat…
Musician summons up 15 covers of Elden Ring’s theme song
In the few months that From Software’s Elden Ring has been out, the internet has enjoyed taking its creators’ carefully considered artistic vision and just kind of wreaking havoc on it. Aside from finding strategies to defeat particularly difficult enemies by doing stuff like messing with their programming so they act like dopes—a time-honored From…
The CW guts its lineup, orders some prequels
Walkerphoto: Rebecca Brenneman/The CW There was once a time when The CW was famous for renewing pretty much all of its original shows every season, with only the real problems getting the proverbial boot, but—hoo boy—those days are long gone now. A few weeks after killing off bat-woman and legends of tomorrowthe network has killed…