“Politics and Potatoes” would have been a better name for the cooking show at the center of the Apple TV+ limited series Lessons in Chemistry. Set in the early 1950s, the eight-episode series stars Brie Larson as Elizabeth Zott, a chemist who ends up cooking in front of the nation …
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Each year at Sundance, there’s one film that warms audience’s hearts so much they leap out of their seats when the credits roll and shower it with thunderous applause. Flora and Son, however, holds the distinction of inspiring not just a lengthy standing ovation but also a group sing-along, with …
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The marriage of elite journalism and documentary has been a welcome one, for reasons that should be clear. Get experienced, polished reporters involved in a story and you’re generally going to get a tale not only well-told but responsibly told, with due diligence taking precedence over flash and sensation. Add …
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It’s not hard to understand why Dan Harmon would have been drawn to Nathan W. Pyle’s Strange Planet comics for his latest TV project. Harmon’s Community and Rick and Morty are beloved for the ways they experiment with genre, tone, and sheer self-awareness. But once you strip away the formal …
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Zooey Deschanel doesn’t need you to like her. Sure, the California native has spent almost two decades bringing her signature deadpan comedy and effortless emotion to screens big and small. She went from a few television appearances to a part in the rock film Almost Famous, and followed it up …
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When the Beanie Baby craze reached its apex in the late Nineties, around the time desperate suburbanites were shelling out small fortunes for the purple Princess Diana bear on eBay and ransacking shopping malls whenever rumors hit that a new shipment had arrived, screenwriter Kristin Gore and OK Go frontman …
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The Morning Show will hit reset with its third season, premiering Sept. 13 on Apple TV+. In the first teaser trailer for the upcoming set of episodes, led by Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, loyalties within alliances formed at the broadcast morning news program are put to the test — …
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Imagine you throw a party for your bestie, and one of your other besties — let’s say Tiffany Haddish — says she wants to bring her new boyfriend. But you’re like “No! I said no plus-ones.” And then you find out Haddish’s boyfriend is actually Drake. What would you do? …
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television, but some aspects of hit shows are easier to imitate than others. Fox’s 24, for instance, inspired other dramas built around international intrigue, most notably Homeland (which shared several producers). But nobody else attempted to set an entire series in real time. Oh, …
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The Beanie Baby empire is stuffed until it pops in the first official trailer for The Beanie Bubble, premiering on Apple TV+ on July 28. The film isn’t some twisted live-action imagining of the stuffed plushies that ruled the mid- to late-nineties, especially on the internet — it’s an over-the-top, …
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