Mae Martin wants people to know that they identify, mainly, as a comedian. The nonbinary Canadian-turned-British-turned-LA transplant has been doing stand-up comedy for years. But right now, they’re best known for the semi-autobiographical dramedy Feel Good. The series, which had two critically acclaimed seasons on Netflix, stars Martin as a …
Read More »Afrika Bambaataa's Abuse Allegations Cast a Cloud Over The Universal Hip-Hop Museum
Dozens of people gathered at City Hall in New York City on Monday as part of a demonstration calling for Rocky Bucano to step down as Executive Director, President and Chairman of the Universal Hip-Hop Museum (or UHHM) because of his alleged ties with the Universal Zulu Nation. Journalist Leila …
Read More »'Succession' Season 4 Premiere: The Roy Siblings Team Up to Take Down Daddy
THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of Succession, “The Munsters.” Succession begins its final season exactly where it began its first: on Logan Roy’s birthday. He is as miserable, angry, and manipulative as ever. And he is once again chasing his white whale by attempting to acquire PGM. …
Read More »MTG Responds to Nashville Shooting by Calling for More Guns Around Kids
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is calling for prayers and more guns in schools following a mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school that left three students and three teachers dead on Monday. “How many more children have to murdered before Democrats will agree to protect children at schools the …
Read More »'Yellowjackets' Season 2 Has New Faces and the Same Old Problems
Among the fundamental questions of Yellowjackets is how much trauma does or doesn’t change a person. The Showtime drama largely takes place in two timelines: one showing the immediate aftermath of a plane crash that stranded a high school girls’ soccer team in the remote Canadian wilderness, the other catching …
Read More »Inside TV Writers' Fight to Keep Their Shows From Disappearing
Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz has been working in television writing and production for over 12 years. But the script for the HBO Max original series Gordita Chronicles was the first time she’d ever seen a TV series that mirrored her own family’s story. “My mother came to the US from Colombia in …
Read More »Trump Scoffs at Calls for 'Peaceful' Response to Arrest
Donald Trump last Saturday told his supporters to “PROTEST” his impending arrest on charges stemming from the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Republicans tried to clean up his mess either by rejecting the idea that people should protest, or insisting they should do so peacefully …
Read More »'Succession' Goes Out Guns Blazing in Deliciously Dark Season 4
In the 25-odd years that HBO has been serious about producing original programming, the pay cable giant has given us some of the greatest comedies and dramas television has ever seen. Succession, in whatever genre box you choose to place it — and I think of it more as a …
Read More »Shocker: Trump Was Bullshitting About Arrest Timing
Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he was going to be arrested on Tuesday. It didn’t happen, and it’s not going to happen Wednesday, either. Rolling Stone has confirmed a report from Insider that the Manhattan grand jury will not meet on Wednesday, which means they won’t be able to …
Read More »Sex, Shark Week, and Hush Money: A Trump and Stormy Daniels Timeline
It arrived a bit later than he was expecting, but Donald Trump has been indicted via a vote from a Manhattan Grand Jury. The unprecedented criminal charges against the 45th president don’t relate to Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election by unleashing a bloodthirsty mob on the U.S. Capitol. …
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