On Futurama, Fry’s romantic interest in Leela was a series-long arc. Though it eventually culminated in their coupling, the established pattern was Fry would hit on her or ask her out, she would reject his advances, he wouldn’t listen and continue to pursue her, rinse and repeat. Some of these storylines haven’t aged…
As an established comedy institution, The Daily Show is responsible for launching the careers of many of its esteemed correspondents. Traditionally, when one of these series regulars jumps ship to kickstart their acting career or take the helm of their own weekly talk show, they get one final segment to say their…
Now, that’s more like it.
Episode 1: “A Princess, an Elf and a Demon Walk into a Bar” | Episode 2: “For Whom the Pig Oinks” | Episode 3: “The Princess of Darkness” | Episode 4: “Castle Party Massacre” | Episode 5: “Faster, Princess! Kill! Kill!” | Episode 6: “Swamp and Circumstance” | Episode 7: “Love’s Tender Rampage” | Episode 8: “The Limits…
A marked improvement on the pilot, “Chapter II: For Whom The Pig Oinks” features Disenchantment’s first great joke premise: Mermaid Island and Walrus Island are right next to each other, and since walrus calls sound eerily like a siren song, wayward sailors flock to their deaths at the hands of tusked mammals instead…
It makes a certain amount of sense that Matt Groening’s third TV series would be Disenchantment. If The Simpsons tackles our heightened present through the eyes of a dysfunctional nuclear family, and Futurama skewered an imagined future influenced by the whims of 20th century science fiction, then Disenchantment …
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When we last spoke to Eric Andre, the actor-comedian told us The Simpsons remains one of the funniest things on TV, which is why he wanted to voice a character on the long-running animated sitcom. The good news is that Andre has landed a gig on a Matt Groening show—he’s joined Simpsons vets Josh Weinstein and Bill…
Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.
Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.
Censorship in the arts is something that very much exists. The great American novelist Toni Morrison has had some of her works banned or hotly contested by school systems because of their unflinching looks at sexual and racial violence, and we’re probably all familiar with the furor caused by Salman Rushdie’s Satanic…
He’s been a dimwitted camp counselor, a dimwitted millionaire, a dimwitted sports reporter, a dimwitted surf instructor, a dimwitted drug lord, and a searingly honest portrayal of working-class ennui and frustration as a sensitive small-town fisherman. Oh, and also a guy who can communicate with ants.
Throughout his long stand-up career, Demetri Martin has been compared to deadpan comedy assassins like Steven Wright and the late Mitch Hedberg. But, as Martin’s latest special shows, his low-register absurdism owes a lot to tireless road veteran Todd Barry as well, though Martin’s affectless manner isn’t a sly…
We are not in the business of judging a book solely by its cover, nor a film or TV series by the trailer (and when we do weigh in on the marketing, it is after the fact). No, we make the journey—sometimes a sprint, sometimes a slog—from cover to cover, opening credits to stinger, cold open to epilogue to offer some…
As teased back in March, Netflix has officially announced Patriot Act, a new talk show from comedian Hasan Minhaj that will premiere on October 28. The weekly show already has a 32-episode order, which a press release says is “unprecedented,” and it makes Minhaj the first Indian-American host of a weekly comedy show…
Having already sent up the nuclear family and science fiction, Matt Groening turns his eye to medieval times for his first Netflix series, Disenchantment. The Simpsons and Futurama creator reunites with Josh Weinstein and Bill Oakley for this fantasy parody, which could be described as “Game Of Thrones as recapped by…
According to Deadline, Netflix has picked up the rights George Orwell’s Animal Farm, with Andy Serkis set to direct a motion-capture based adaptation co-produced by his War For The Planet Of The Apes director Matt Reeves. Serkis has been trying to make an adaptation of Animal Farm for years, and he originally intended…
This weekend at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Netflix VP Cindy Holland was asked about one of of the shows on the company’s roster, and if it had considered the sensitivity with which it might handle its potential return. Holland was surprisingly direct in her reply:
Yesterday, at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Netflix VP Cindy Holland made, well, a lot of announcements. New shows! New seasons of old shows! No, we’re not saving Timeless! That kind of thing. She also stepped on the hopes of anyone pining for a return trip to Hawkins before the year is out,…
What is it with Brooklyn and funny cops? We’ve already got Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and now Netflix is getting into the game with The Good Cop, a new series starring Tony Danza and Josh Groban that comes from Monk creator Andy Breckman. The show stars Groban as the eponymous cop that is good, with Danza playing his father,…
