Never underestimate the sheer pleasure of hearing Olivia Colman say the C-word. Yes, that C-word, and while it’s universally acknowledged that the term means something far more colloquial and congenial in the United Kingdom than it does on these shores, the British actor makes it sound as obscene as humanly …
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Jade Thirlwall’s life outside of Little Mix is still taking shape. Earlier this year, the singer and songwriter shared her debut solo single “Angel of My Dreams,” a theatric commentary on pop stardom and the music industry machine. Her latest release, the dizzying club track “Midnight Cowboy,” creates a musical …
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The first thing you notice about Ncuti Gatwa is his smile. Whether as a young, anxious queer teen in Netflix’s Sex Education, one of the many Kens in Barbie, the latest actor to play the lead character in Doctor Who, or even on a slightly pixelated Zoom screen, when Gatwa …
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In one episode of the new World War II epic Masters of the Air, a character collapses from exhaustion and sleeps through the events of D-Day, which were so memorably dramatized in Saving Private Ryan. In another, we realize that several characters are being held in the same POW camp …
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In all my years covering television, I have only everonce cursed out an interview subject, even in jest. This was back in 2009, when I was speaking with Russell T. Davies about the end of his tenure as showrunner of Doctor Who, and the launch of spinoff miniseries Torchwood: Children …
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In its four-season run, Netflix’s teen comedy Sex Education has delved into a breadth of issues affecting every manner of teenager: asexuality, abortion, premature ejaculation, consent, assault, and the wide and wonderful world of vulvas. As a show, the Asa Butterfield, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, and Gillian Anderson-led series became …
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The last season of Sex Education has a crowded lesson plan. The series returns to Netflix on Sept. 21 with its teenage and adult characters equally as misdirected in their love lives and sense of purpose. “People are doing all these new things, and I feel like I’m getting left …
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We’re four seasons into Netflix‘s Sex Education and the show’s leading man Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) still hasn’t found a way to talk about sex without fumbling his words, or making it sound like he’s in a sexual relationship with his mother. In the teaser trailer for the fourth and …
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