It was a night of laughs that’s still whispered about in comedy circles. During the last writers’ strike in 2007, Michael Cera hosted a DIY version of Saturday Night Live at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in New York City for around 200 people. The show was comprised of old …
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This post contains spoilers for the sixth season of Black Mirror, which is streaming now on Netflix. “Joan Is Awful,” the first episode of the new season of Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi satire anthology series Black Mirror, stars Annie Murphy as the title character, a tech-company executive horrified to discover that …
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Astronaut angst, ethically dubious documentarians, and a hit streaming series that literally becomes a black mirror of someone’s life — it’s all there in the new Season Six trailer for Black Mirror. The new clip teases all five episodes, starting with the most meta of the bunch: Joan Is Awful, …
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Black Mirror — once a Twilight Zone–like series presenting a twisted, alternate reality — mostly resembles real life in the official teaser for Season Six. And like past seasons, pretty much everyone is stressed out and trying to make sense of the world. “What the fuck is this?” a character …
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“I know I come across as quite confident,” says newswoman Philomena Cunk, “but sometimes when I’m talking to experts, I worry that, you know, I might come across as quite stupid.” This is easily the most self-aware moment for Cunk throughout the five-episode British mockumentary series Cunk on Earth, which …
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This post contains full spoilers for Years and Years, which aired its finale tonight on HBO. Years and Years, a limited series imagining the next 15 years of life in an increasingly dystopian vision of England and the entire world, finished airing in the UK a few days before it …
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