Netflix is leaning hard into the holidays this year, releasing a veritable slew of yuletide content to distract you from the fact that nobody roasts chestnuts over an open fire anymore. The streamer got Kurt Russell, of all people, to don a snowy white beard for its upcoming The Christmas Chronicles, which lands on…
This strange and wonderful new world—a world where Mystery Science Theater 3000 is not only back, but more available than ever—only continues to get stranger and more wonderful. As we reported back in September, the show returns for its second season on Netflix (its 12th season overall) on November 22, the 3oth…
No one is entirely themselves on social media. But what if a clone of your online persona turned into an independent entity, posted to your followers, and caused chaos in your real life? If that sounds like a Lynchian head-trip meets a fucked-up Black Mirror premise, that’s precisely what Netflix is going for with Cam.
Netflix, it was nice knowing you. A new streaming service is about to enter the ring to dropkick every other platform and cable TV provider, and it goes by the name of Disney+.
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, November 9 and Saturday, November 10. All times are Eastern.
Netflix has been all about anime over the last few years, adding a bunch of well-known anime hits like Fullmetal Alchemist alongside purposefully obscure originals like Neo Yokio, and the streaming service clearly has no intention of ditching its anime fans. According to Deadline, Netflix has just announced five new…
The Old West is Coen country. Senselessly brutal and rich with rapscallions, it’s a backlot backdrop perfectly suited to the preoccupations of these sibling movie brats. Yet for all the ways the genre has crept into their catalog—a sagely cowboy narrator, an oater-within-the-film, sprawling frontiers of the…
When the future is uncertain and a little scary, it can be nice to relax in the low-stakes, comforting glow of a nice cartoon, which is a philosophy that Netflix seems to have embraced—if the announcement of its latest batch of original shows and movies is anything to go by. As reported by Variety, the streaming…
All things must come to an end, even TV shows and movies. No matter how much we happen to be enjoying a work of cinema or a serialized drama, there will inevitably come a time when things fade to black and we’re left reading the names of actors in the dark. But, as video essayist Kirby Ferguson notes in his new ode to…
With things getting dark and cultish in Riverdale, Dial M For Maple decided to take a quick trip across the Sweetwater River to Greendale, where things are downright witchy! In this special episode, Cameron and guest host Danette Chavez take a look at the thrilling first season of Netflix’s Chilling Adventures Of…
Even by House Of Cards standards, this final season has been a weird one. Given the circumstances under which it was made, that was probably inevitable; either there would be no sixth season at all or it would be truncated and assembled in haste. The result is compromised, consisting of too much plot and not enough…
“Chapter 72" opens with a time jump, one long enough for Doug Stamper to grow a bushy Beard of Sadness and for the world’s longest pregnancy to finally begin to show as Claire now boasts a noticeable baby bump. Stamper has taken a turn for the Shakespearean, muttering monologues as he digs up a grave in the desert.…
Claire’s choice of movie viewing a few episodes ago and the Gothic horror overtones to the soundtrack music of late have prepared for this moment: the spawn of Satan—or of Frank and Claire Underwood, close enough—is being loosed upon this world to bring about the end times. Contrary to my prediction in the previous…
Way back in April of 2016, an innocent time when we had virtually no concerns about politics, we reported that Netflix and the BBC were teaming up on an animated miniseries adaptation of Richard Adams’ beloved bunny adventure novel Watership Down. Back then, we knew that the four-episode event would have a heavily…
Does Claire’s long con hold up to any scrutiny? Granted, this is House Of Cards, so plausibility is measured on a sliding scale, but it’s hard not to spot the flaws in Claire’s scheme even as it’s quite a bit of fun to watch it play out. (This show in a nutshell, really.) At the very least, it gives Robin Wright some…
Well played, House Of Cards. You got me.
Every once in a while, House Of Cards stumbles into a timely real-world parallel that may momentarily cause you to forget all the absurdities and pulpy twists and turns that have brought us to this point. For me, it was this episode’s subplot about Claire’s Supreme Court choice pick that got under my skin a bit, for…
Maybe Raymond Tusk had the best take on Claire Underwood. As Bill Shepherd tells her after a tense exchange of threats, Tusk always wondered whether Claire was a real person or just playing the part of one. That could read as a meta comment on Robin Wright’s performance as well. There’s an unknowable essence to…
Netflix will soon begin production on a new original comedy, Tall Girl, a John Hughesian story of a 16-year old’s struggles with her height. McG’s Wonderland production company will oversee a production led by Grey’s Anatomy alum Nzingha Stewart, but what the movie still needs is a lead.
Francis Underwood looms large over the sixth (and final) season premiere of House Of Cards, but he’s nowhere to be seen. You may have heard something about this. Production on this season was abruptly halted a year ago in the wake of sexual assault allegations against star Kevin Spacey, and not long afterward the…
