Earlier this afternoon, Lifetime released its new film Salt-N-Pepa, which, as the name suggests, is a biopic covering the ups and downs of the careers of rap’s first Grammy-winning, platinum-selling all-female group. Unlike some Lifetime projects that have crawled out of the woodwork over the years, Salt-N-Pepa is…

Gregory Sierra has died. Best known for his performances on shows like Sanford And Son, Barney Miller, and in regular TV roles throughout the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, Sierra played more than 100 parts across his long career. He died this week, from cancer. Per Variety, Sierra was 83.

Larry King died today, ending one of the most prolific and singular careers in the history of television broadcasting. For all his personal biases, idiosyncrasies, and outright faults, King was never not that rarest of things in the chameleon-friendly world of TV and radio talk: A person who was only, and entirely,…

If there’s one thing that defines the career of actor-director Kenneth Branagh—a man who has, in his day, veered between critically acclaimed adaptations of Shakespeare plays, to playing the legless, racist, robo-spider-driving bad guy in Wild Wild West, to directing Thor movies, to making Artemis Fowl—it’s that every…

Hey, there’s a COVID vaccine—wait, two COVID vaccines! And you probably can’t get it yet because of, reasons! Still, the medical community has rallied to invent, test, and release a life-saving inoculation in world record time, putting a penciled-in return-to-normal date on our collective calendar—sometime. Still, as…

The number of available streaming services reached an upsetting high in 2020, bringing along an unprecedented deluge of original programming. And though we try our best here at The A.V. Club, we just can’t cover everything. So this week’s question, from web producer Baraka Kaseko, is:

As with the close-look at Rue’s spiral out of sobriety following Jules’ departure in “Trouble Don’t Always Last,” Euphoria’s latest special episode zooms all the way in, eschewing plot for the sake of a close character study. This time, it’s Jules in the spotlight. We don’t exactly see what happened when Jules left…

It’s been roughly a day since news broke—and by “news,” we mean the infamous British tabloid The Daily Mail, and by “broke,” we mean “wrote down some stuff someone sort of suggested they told them sometime, we guess”—of a bizarre rumor that alleged that Michael “MyPillow Guy” Lindell and Jane “Jane Krakowski”…

It’s been a long ramp up, but competitive Drag Race is finally here. The Winners’ Circle and B Squad have met up, drama has been fomented, and by the end of the episode, a new hierarchy has emerged. These may not be the most memorable sketches in Drag Race herstory, but the episode’s loving embrace of Hallmark Channel…

For many of us, the pressure of being Borat is a fleeting, mostly pleasant high, a brief excursion into the realm of the Other that rarely lasts longer than the space between saying “Mah” and “Wife.” (Or the grim lacuna that exists betwixt a “Very” and a “nice.”) For Sacha Baron Cohen, though, the character is…

The Japanese government is pushing back vigorously today against a recent newspaper report that suggested that the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo—and yes, we’re still apparently referring to them as the 2020 games, despite *shrugs in direction of nearest calendar*—might end up getting canceled. “This is categorically…

This post contains plot details from the first season of Netflix’s Bridgerton, and also makes use of the term “duke-fucking sleeves.” Proceed with caution.

Much as audiences might long for Hollywood to change its approach to superhero movies, studios are loathe to let go of the genre’s established hallmarks. So things like glowing MacGuffins and overstuffed’s crossovers are utilized for a variety of reasons—including the simple fact that a lot of people genuinely like…

Saturday Night Live returns at the end of January and from the look of its roster of upcoming hosts and musical guests, it’s coming back swinging.

It was only a few months back that Loren Bouchard emphasized his desire for the Bob’s Burger’s movie to come out in theaters, and he appears to be sticking by it. Disney today announced that the film spin-off of the animated hit is now unset after being bumped from its April 9 release date. This thing’s gonna be ice…

WandaVision returns this week, now in color, with a groovy opening theme song that recalls The Partridge Family and The Brady Bunch, but it’s not all fun and bell bottoms. There’s been criticism that the first two episodes were too dependent on viewers picking up all the clever meta references to classic TV sitcoms…

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 …