Bill Maher will resume filming his HBO talk show Real Time With Bill Maher despite the ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike. The host confirmed the series is “is coming back, unfortunately, sans writers or writing.” “It has been five months, and it is time to bring people back …
Read More »Renee Bach's Missionary Malpractice Dissected in HBO 'Savior Complex' Documentary Trailer
The first official trailer for the forthcoming HBO documentary, Savior Complex, cycles through multiple complicated and often conflicting perspectives. The first presented in the clip is that of the documentary’s primary subject: Renee Bach. “I think some of the most wild accusations that were made about me is that I …
Read More »'How To With John Wilson' Says Goodbye in Sweet, Heartbreaking Fashion
This post contains spoilers for the series finale of How To With John Wilson, which is now streaming on Max. The HBO docu-comedy series How To With John Wilson show is so idiosyncratic and unpredictable that it could have concluded on almost any note, and the ending would have seemed …
Read More »Fall TV Season Is Looking Mel Gibson-Bleak, and It'll Only Get Worse
In an ordinary TV year, this would be the kind of column that writes itself: a rundown of somewhere between 10 and 20 of the new and returning shows we’re most excited to see this fall. But as you may have heard, this is not an ordinary TV year. The …
Read More »'The Idol' Won't Get a Second Season on HBO
The Idol won’t be returning for a Season 2. The controversial show helmed by Sam Levinson and The Weeknd will not be renewed by HBO after its mixed-reviewed first season. “’The Idol’ was one of HBO’s most provocative original programs, and we’re pleased by the strong audience response,” a spokesperson …
Read More »Why John Wilson Wants 'How To With John Wilson' to Go Up in Flames
This post containsspoilers for Episode Five of How To With John Wilson, available on HBO and streaming on Max. About nine minutes into this week’s episode of How To With John Wilson, the titular director/writer/star finds himself hooked up to a polygraph machine and being asked some intense questions. Have …
Read More »How 'And Just Like That…' Season Three Can Actually Be Good TV
And just like that… another chaotic, traumatizing, and strangely addictive season of And Just Like That… has come to an end. Season Two introduced penis pumps and a palatial new apartment into Carrie Bradshaw’s world, plus the reappearance of her former flame Aidan Shaw and the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it return of Samantha …
Read More »'The White Lotus' Composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer Breaks Down That Haunting Theme Song
The White Lotus doesn’t work without the eerie mystery that rests under the surface of every encounter between characters on the popular HBO series. And in order for an audience to completely lean into the suspense, they have to be fully grounded in it. That’s where composer Cristobal Tapia de …
Read More »'BS High': A Fake Football School and the Slippery Conman Behind It
Maybe you remember reading about the Bishop Sycamore scandal. Originally known as the Christians of Faith Academy, the Ohio-based institution was trying to build a reputation around itself as the next big thing in high school football. Its target demo was, according to someone involved with the recruitment program, “[student] …
Read More »HBO's 'Telemarketers' Exposes a Billion-Dollar Scam the Cops Are in On
Sam Lipman-Stern was 14, he’d just dropped out of ninth grade, and he needed a job stat. There wasn’t a host of options for an underage kid in New Jersey in terms of gainful employment, and his main interests at the time — skating, graffiti, filming his friends on his …
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