Nandini Bapat wasn’t raised a quitter. She began acting in 2012 and has since juggled full-time gigs while landing small roles on Fox’s Scream Queens, HBO’s Barry, and Apple TV’s Physical. And after last year’s nearly four-month-long actor’s strike and work stoppage, she still believes her acting career is worth …
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Lost began streaming on Netflix last week, which meant the Internet was once again legally obligated to lose its collective mind about Lost. Practically since it debuted on ABC 20 years ago this fall, the sci-fi drama about survivors of a plane crash who find themselves trapped on a mysterious …
Read More »How 'Love Island USA' Became a 'Perfect Storm' of Reality TV Magic
It’s summertime, which means a group of gorgeous twentysomethings have taken over a kitschy villa in Fiji in an attempt to find love — or win a $100,000 cash prize — on Love Island USA. Since it first hit television screens back in 2015, Love Island U.K. has been the …
Read More »Flashback: Shelley Duvall Battles Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining'
The sad news came down earlier today that actress Shelley Duvall died in her sleep of complications related to diabetes. She was 75. “My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us,” Dan Gilroy, her life partner, said in a statement. “Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly …
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I’ve been through culinary school and worked in professional kitchens, and I know it’s easy to nitpick The Bear for certain unrealistic details (Carmy’s utter indifference to food costs being at the top of my list). However, the show also gets a lot of things absolutely right: the razor-thin profit …
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Former Gossip Girls star Chace Crawford has a great time playing one of the most absurd characters on television, no matter how weird it gets —and it gets pretty weird. In an interview conducted for our recent in-depth feature on The Boys, Crawford looks back at his time so far …
Read More »Why Are the Emmys Categories So Damn Confusing?
Over the weekend, my phone blew up with texts from TV comedy writers who were in the middle of watching the latest season of The Bear. Some were enjoying the new episodes, others were frustrated by them, but not one person said this story of toxic workplaces, addiction and mental …
Read More »'The Bear' Cracks Open Tina's Emotional Origin Story
This post contains spoilers for the sixth episode of The Bear Season Three. The entire season is now streaming on Hulu. “You know how much I loved him, right?” “How much?” “A lot. I loved him a lot” This was Tina and Carmy talking about Carmy’s late brother — and …
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Antony Starr, the 48-year-old actor behind the greatest villain on TV right now, The Boys‘ Homelander, really doesn’t like walking around in public with the character’s dyed blond hair. “It kind of sticks out,” he says, in an interview conducted for Rolling Stone‘s recent in-depth feature on the show. “Like, …
Read More »'The Umbrella Academy' Showrunner Accused of 'Toxic, Bullying, Manipulative, and Retaliatory Behavior'
Months before The Umbrella Academy’s premiere in February 2019, showrunner Steve Blackman knew he’d delivered Netflix a hit series. Forty-five million households would tune in to the first season —making it Netflix’s third-most-watched television series that year, behind Stranger Things and The Witcher. Anticipating a quick greenlight for Season Two, …
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