It’s become common for TV creators to toy with a show’s opening credits, what with series like The Wire and Weeds having previously invited different artists to interpret their respective theme songs. A cursory watch of HBO’s Sharp Objects might lead one to think each episode begins with an entirely different song…
Things change so quickly in our current political landscape. Goalposts get moved, attention gets shifted, and politicians routinely double back on their previous, seemingly earnest statements. But in this topsy-turvy world of politics, there’s at least one consistent truth that we can all count on: Elizabeth Warren…
Despite exploring some ugly, violent material, HBO’s Sharp Objects is damn beautiful to look at. Director Jean-Marc Vallée gives the series an elegant, sun-baked visual palette, and the settings are rich with character and detail. That, too, goes for star Amy Adams’ body, which, due to the numerous words she’s carved…
Nobody wanted to like Succession. Nobody asked for a show about about the rich, white people destroying America. Nobody asked for the Roys—an amalgam of the Murdochs, Redstones, and Trumps—in an economic and cultural climate hobbled by billionaires and clueless media conglomerates. Nobody wanted to like these people,…
With the third season of HBO’s animated series Animals just around the corner, The A.V. Club jumped into a swan boat on Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles with creators Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano to talk about the upcoming slate of episodes. While on the water, we learned Bob Balaban loves to rap, Jameela Jamil is a…
In Page To Screen, we compare a TV show to the book that spawned it. The analysis goes into deep detail about specific plot points—in other words, you’ve been warned.
Finally free of the Doctor Who franchise and its various and convoluted time travel shenanigans, former Who showrunner Steven Moffat has just announced his next TV project: An HBO adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, complete with its own separate set of convoluted time travel shenanigans. (Man…
It’s of the nature of American TV to want to propagate itself. Given how soul-crushingly hard it can be to find a project that the wider watching public can connect with, once you’ve got one, you inevitably want to keep it going—even if the source material you’ve been basing it on runs out after the first or second…
As Jemaine Clement teased at the very beginning of the year, Flight Of The Conchords really is returning to HBO later this year for an hour-long special with him and Bret McKenzie. The duo confirmed the return in a predictably low-key and jokey teaser video, which features the two of them deciding which of them is…
Today, during the TCA press tour, HBO president Casey Bloys announced that the final season of Game Of Thrones will premiere “in the first half of 2019,” implying at the very least that we won’t have to wait until next July to see what happens to all of our favorite romantically involved relatives. Game Of Thrones has…
According to Deadline, the gosh darn Deadwood movie we’ve been hearing about for a few years now is actually going to freakin’ happen, proving that Timothy Olyphant is nothing but a handsome pessimist. This news actually seemed somewhat inevitable back in April, which was when HBO got approved for a big tax benefit…
As good as Justice League was this month, HBO Go and HBO Now are getting a couple of legitimately acclaimed films as part of their new streaming offerings in August: Darkest Hour and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Of course, the acclaim those movies received was also a bit controversial, with Gary Oldman…
It’s nearly 15 years to the day that Firefly was canceled back in 2003. How fitting, then, that as we approach that most traumatic of anniversaries, we can share with you the following news: Joss Whedon is making a new science fiction drama, and it’s going to be on HBO.
We don’t know about you, but today we feel a little more ready for Trailer Happy Hour than we normally do. It’s a good day to just pour a big glass of trailers, chug ‘em all down, and then quietly contemplate the movies and TV shows that we’ll be seeing in the future. Today we’ve got a teaser for the next season of …
As HBO’s new telecommunications overlords figure out how to mess with a good thing, the premium-cable network is over here conducting the kind of business that earned it the reputation that got AT&T’s attention in the first place.
AT&T recently purchased Time Warner for $85.4 billion, which means the conglomerate that can’t seem to use its vast resources to beam a reliable signal to your smartphone is now also in charge of a storied movie studio, the Justice League, and the TV destination where millions of Americans wind down their weekends…
The Game Of Thrones producers have been going to extreme lengths to keep the secrets of their eighth and final season securely under wraps. Pretty much all we know is that the final six episodes will be very bloody and very expensive, which, frankly, could be said about every season up to this point. This lack of…
Westworld got stuck dragging its boots a bit in season two, an unfortunate side-effect of the twisting timelines and various different factions that are all trying to get to the same place, but things did start to move at a decent clip once it got to the finale—to the extent that the post-credits stinger apparently…
Game Of Thrones’ eighth and final season is due out some time next year, which means the most ruthless game of musical chairs ever is coming to an end. With HBO deploying Mission: Impossible-style methods to prevent any spoilers, we don’t have much insight into the new season, beyond the fact that the final six …
Now that their Halloween reboot is in the can, Danny McBride and David Gordon Green have reached down deep into their big bag of comedic Southern archetypes and pulled out a new show. As Variety reports, the duo (and their frequent collaborator, Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals creator Jody Hill) have set a new…
