Tramell Tillman nearly missed the audition for Severance’s perma-smiling Mr. Milchick. On a frigid January day, he made a split decision to make the 15-minute commute on foot, rather than wait for a delayed train. Acting on instinct, much like his limber counterpart, Tillman ran through the industrialized South Bronx …
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Not everybody’s a winner — and some, shockingly, aren’t even contenders. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 97th Oscars this morning, and as usual, there were yelps of joy throughout the land: Big up The Brutalist! Viva Anora! You got in for Best …
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For many Bravo fans this season, The Real Housewives of New York City has not necessarily lived up to expectations. While the series is in its 15th season, this is only the second season for RHONY newcomers since the show was rebooted with fresh faces and a fresh perspective. Despite …
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The second season of Severance, which debuts tonight on Apple TV+, proves that the corporate sci-fi drama has still got it. But it has also been [checks notes] three years since we last got an episode, so you cannot be blamed for feeling a little fuzzy on what was happening …
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“I love the logic of dreams… Anything can happen and it makes sense.”—David Lynch The first thing I thought of were the bugs. If you’ve seen Blue Velvet, then you remember the opening — and whether you love or hate David Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece of curdled Americana, it’s not a …
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When it debuted in the spring of 1990, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks was inarguably the strangest show to have ever been made for American television. It was, simultaneously, a gothic horror story, a murder mystery, a supernatural thriller, a throwback to 1950s soap operas and movie melodramas, …
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Ted Danson was 34 when Cheers debuted in the fall of 1982, on the younger side for a TV star at the time. That season’s top 10 highest-rated shows included a few other thirtysomething leads in Tom Selleck on Magnum, P.I. and John Ritter in Three’s Company, but for the …
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Keke Palmer is a performer down to her bones, honey. She’s booked, she’s busy, and thanks to her two-year-old son, Leo, she can now act out a good portion of Boss Baby on demand. “I do that [voice] to my son, and he immediately starts laughing,” Palmer, 31, says. “He’s …
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In Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper goes rogue and launches an unprovoked nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. He is asked by RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake — a voice of reason in the madness —to recall the B-52 bombers that will …
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Any football fan, true crime aficionado or news junkie knows the story of Aaron Hernandez, the prodigiously gifted NFL star who was found guilty of murder and then hung himself in prison. Much less famous are two of his former teammates at Bristol Central High School in Connecticut, Nick Brutcher …
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