The Zoom-ification of our daily lives—i.e., the blending of the private and the personal, enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic in a way that jams every aspect of ourselves into a single fuzzily buffered video window—has created some unquestionably strange moments over the last year or so. That’s rarely truer than in the…

Jimmy McGill has apparently found a way to keep his comeuppance from coming (for now, anyway) yet again. That’s because, per The Wrap, the sixth and final season of AMC’s Better Call Saul is now unlikely to appear on television in 2021. AMC CEO (WTF?) Josh Sapan dropped the bad news earlier this week, noting that the…

If you were watching NBC at 1:30 a.m. on Friday, you might have noticed a new face in the late-night network TV lineup. No, not Lilly Singh, whose A Little Late With Lilly Singh normally airs its Friday reruns at that time, but the other woman of color finally busting through the all-white, all-boys, many-Jimmys…

SpongeBob (Tom Kenny), the lovable and highly merchandisable naïf from Bikini Bottom, has a problem: His pet sea snail, Gary, has been stolen by the vain King Poseidon (Matt Berry) for use in his daily skincare routine. Those who have absorbed too many episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants (or even just the first SpongeBob…

To call Seattle-based songstress Lady A a “busy woman” would be a pretty laughable understatement. Despite the many limitations imposed by a global pandemic to similarly grounded artists, she is finding more than enough ways to occupy the downtime: When she’s not working during the day as a senior administrator with…

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, Vitalina Varela’s are a skylight. Whole texts could be written on the history of heartache visible in her steady gaze. Varela—star of the haunting, somnambulistic movie that bears her name—spends long stretches of the runtime staring into the middle distance, all but her face…

Good news tonight in the high-profile, big-name breaking story of the week that would be merely whimsical and silly and strange, except that a man got shot: Lady Gaga’s French bulldogs have now been found. As noted by People, the dogs—Koji and Gustav—were stolen from Gaga’s dog walker, Ryan Fischer, on Wednesday…

Just two days before the Golden Globes, a new coalition of voices organized by the Time’s Up campaign has risen up criticizing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and calling for reform of its memberships rules and goals. Per The L.A. Times, a collection of prominent actors and directors—including Ava DuVernay,…

At long last, the Terminator franchise—a massively convoluted sci-fi opus with too many characters, bizarre inter-generational romantic relationships, and more ret-coning and timeline erasing than you can shake a severed android limb at—is finally ready to ascend to its most fitting and perfect form: Anime.

Big news in the world of Pocket Monsters today, as The Pokémon Company announced ambitious new plans for its long-running pet-war franchise. As with, like, all video game news these days, the big announcements were largely backwards looking, albeit in an ambitious sort of way, as the partially-Nintendo-owned company…

The internet can be a very bleak place, but occasionally, something magical happens.

Topher Grace is back. The That ‘70s Show actor—fine, yes, he’s done a whole lotta Hollywood movies since—is returning to a network sitcom after the Fox show ended in 2006. In ABC’s upcoming ensemble comedy Home Economics, a trio of siblings are in different financial situations: Tom (Grace) is living a middle-class…

Editor’s Note: The Rise of the Black Superhero is a three-part series breaking down the past, present and future of Black superheroes across comics, film, and tv. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2.

Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But you know what you can always rely on? The expert opinions and knowledgeable commentary of The A.V. Club. That’s why we’re scouring both the menus of the most popular services and our own archives to…

Here’s a Superman movie finally worth getting excited about.

Last year was an amazing year for Black female filmmakers. Before the pandemic hit, Stella Meghie’s love story The Photograph opened in theaters across the country. Not long after, Tayarisha Poe’s Selah And The Spades hit Amazon Prime, while Channing Godfrey Peoples’ Miss Juneteenth went out virtually. Maïmouna…

During the first weeks of coronavirus quarantine, I binge-watched a lot of television but not the newest Netflix offerings. Instead, I retreated into classic TV sitcoms, shows I’d grown up loving, most of which I hadn’t seen in years. (My 7-year-old has a new appreciation for I Dream of Jeannie.) These programs were…

Last spring, a chef figured out how to navigate COVID-19 capacity rules by filling his restaurant with a bunch of creepy mannequins. It’s almost a year later and, since we’re still dealing with the same pandemic that made the doll diners necessary in the first place, the restaurant industry’s had to escalate this…