Apparently rumors have been flying around for years that Clive Owen has a deep-seated fear of cute, cuddly badgers. In a new interview with Empire, the actor took the opportunity to clear things up. “Somebody used to post very weird things as if I’d said them – they’d be quotes …
Read More »'Reservation Dogs' Season 3 Premiere: A Great Show Begins Its Ending
This post contains spoilers for the two-episode Season Three premiere of Reservation Dogs, which is now streaming on Hulu. “Bussin,” the first of this week’s two episodes, opens in typical, wonderful Reservation Dogs fashion. A tumbleweed blows across the plains, a Native warrior rides into the center of the frame, …
Read More »Timothy Olyphant Loves Being TV's Ultimate Cowboy
Timothy Olyphant just can’t stay away from cowboy hats. In 2019, Olyphant reprised his role as rage-filled Wild West sheriff Seth Bullock in Deadwood: The Movie. A year later, he cameoed on The Good Place wearing the familiar Stetson and other wardrobe from his iconic role as trigger-happy U.S. Marshal …
Read More »'Justified' and Raylan Givens Enter a New Era of Policing
In the first episode of the new miniseries Justified: City Primeval, our old friend Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) — the quick-drawing, fast-talking, Stetson-wearing U.S. marshal from Harlan, Kentucky — is called to testify about a fugitive he brought back to Detroit. Defense attorney Carolyn Wilder (Aunjanue Ellis) calls him out …
Read More »'What We Do in the Shadows' Season 5 Premiere: Guillermo Gets His Wish
This post contains spoilers for the first two episodes of the fifth season of What We Do in the Shadows. Coming into its fifth season, FX‘s vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows has nothing left to prove, and barely anything to improve upon. It remains, pound-for-pound, the funniest …
Read More »'The Bear' Star Ebon Moss-Bachrach on Cousin Richie's MVP Season 2
The Bear’s Cousin Richie, played by Ebon Moss-Bachrach, has come a long way from when viewers first met him as a curmudgeonly creature of habit who’s quick to fight his cousin, Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), and his sous chef Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) at every turn. When Carmy returns to …
Read More »Inside 'The Bear' Season 2: Damaged Souls, A-List Cameos, and That Finale
This post contains spoilers for Season Two of The Bear, which is now streaming on Hulu. Late in the finale of this extraordinary season of The Bear, Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) runs out to the alley behind the FX dramedy’s eponymous restaurant to puke. She still has PTSD from the incident …
Read More »'The Bear' Season 2 Is Electrifying and Avoids a Sophomore Slump
A very strange thing happened to me early in the second season premiere of FX‘s The Bear. An early scene features Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), and the rest of the restaurant dramedy’s colorful group of characters arguing over everything they will need to do and spend in …
Read More »'The Full Monty' Boys Are Back, With Less Stripping But Lots of Charm
In the 1997 sleeper hit comedy The Full Monty, six unemployed men in a dying English steel town attempt to make some cash by putting on a show where they will dance and strip for the local women. In the new FX sequel series, Gaz (Robert Carlyle), Dave (Mark Addy), …
Read More »How 'Dave' Landed Drake and Brad Pitt in Wild Season Three Finale
This post contains spoilers for the entire third season of Dave, including tonight’s season finale, “Looking for Love.” Season Three of Dave was all about the show’s title character — rapper Dave Burd, aka Lil Dicky, aka the star, co-creator, and one of the executive producers of the FXX comedy …
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