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As laid out its first trailer, The Bachelor Season 23 sets out to find love for Colton Underwood, former Bachelorette contestant, Bachelor in Paradise participant and one-time San Diego Charger. On a barely related note, Colton is also a virgin, a fact that…

There is nothing subtle about the second episode of The Little Drummer Girl, which gives the dueling stories of two prisoners and invites us to interrogate the similarities and differences of their situations. One is Salim, the Bad Godesberg bombing suspect…

Like so many spy stories before it, The Little Drummer Girl starts with a bang. The year is 1979. The city is Bad Godesberg, West Germany. And the key motif is a nerve-jangling collection of ticking clocks, which collectively count down to a terrorist bombing.…

In his multi-part deep-dive into HBO’s Sex and The City, journalist James Andrew Miller’s Origins podcast features interviews with Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Noth, Kristin Davis, Willie Garson and other pivotal figures in the show’s creation, though…

If there is one thing that became shockingly, abundantly clear while watching this finale episode of the Real Face Pullers of Aquafina Gulch, it’s this: none of these women know what a femme fatale is. Emily — who, much like a Kuerig pod or a Tenga Egg,…

The playwright Tom Stoppard has a reputation for intellectualism—to put it bluntly, for genius—that precedes him like a motorcade at this point. People tend to step out of the way, either in awe or in veiled annoyance. The ones I’ve met who aren’t…

“Do you know who the plebs are?” Maestra Oliviero asks Elena in the middle of this second episode, while the two sit preparing for the middle-school exam. Elena offers the historical answer: “The people. The tribunes of the plebs are I Gracchi,” the…

If your kid was dying to see Deadpool 2, he or she is going to lose their mind when they see the first trailer for Once Upon A Deadpool, the film’s PG-13 recut due out next month… because it’s only going to remind them how you didn’t let them see…

Here we are at the end of Narcos: Mexico. It’s been a strangely uneven season (it looks like I will have to eat my hat), and more than anything else, “Leyenda” makes it clear that the show left a lot of cards on the table. There are so many interesting…

The legal battle over the Harvey Weinstein case is getting even nastier. Prosecutors on Monday claimed that Weinstein’s lawyers are turning the sexual-assault case into a “public circus,” in part because the defense wants to air allegations of police…

It was announced over the summer that Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams would lead the Lin-Manuel Miranda produced limited series Fosse/Verdon for FX. The eight-episode program will focus on the love and creative-partnership between director-choreographer Bob…

Every single episode of Narcos: Mexico has involved one or more instances of bureaucratic stonewalling (that have only gotten more frustrating as the season has progressed), and “881 Lope de Vega” cashes in pretty much every single one of those chips.…

Former Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj isn’t a true newcomer to late-night comedy, but as co-creator and host of his own Netflix show (the first Indian-American to host a weekly comedy series), he’s trying to refresh the crowded, and at times dated,…

SoundCloud Rap has exploded over the last two years with rappers whose criminal pasts have led to uncertain futures. XXXTentacion was murdered in June while awaiting trial on charges that he brutally assaulted and threatened to kill his pregnant girlfriend in…

At the start of the new documentary Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams, director Mat Whitecross plays a recording of a telephone conversation between him and the band’s front person, Chris Martin. Whitecross asks Martin if he’s watched the edit of the film…