If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Paradise is officially a hit, garnering more than seven million views across Hulu, Disney+, and ABC in its first week, per Variety. Created by Dan Fogelman (This is …
Read More »'Paradise' Is a Political Thriller With a Very Big, Oddly Bland Twist
This post contains spoilers for the first episode of Paradise, which Hulu released over the weekend. When This Is Us debuted in the fall of 2016, its pilot episode concluded with a twist that recontextualized everything we had been watching to that point: Instead of telling the parallel, contemporaneous stories …
Read More »How to Watch 'American Fiction' Online
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Quick Answer: Viewers can watch American Fiction online by renting it on Prime Video, streaming it on Apple TV+, or by getting a free trial on Philo. Get …
Read More »Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, America Ferrera, and More Become First-Time Oscar Nominees
Nearly a dozen actors will now have an Academy Awards section added to their Awards and Nominations page on Wikipedia. Bright and early on Tuesday morning, Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced the 2024 Oscars nominations live from Los Angeles. With 20 nominees across four acting categories, some names were …
Read More »'American Fiction': How Cord Jefferson Took on Hollywood and Won
Cord Jefferson wants to tell a quick story. It involves something that happened to a friend of his, although the writer-director of American Fiction is quick to point out that the incident in question could have easily happened to any number of Black creatives he knows, or for that matter, …
Read More »'American Fiction' Is a Scathing Satire, a Family Drama, and an Absolute Triumph
Thelonious “Monk” Ellison has hit his breaking point. The students in his Southern-lit class at the prestigious university he teaches at are oversensitive snowflakes. His superiors think he needs a break from academia. Monk’s novels may still be in print, but you wouldn’t know it; they’ve all been relegated to …
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