There’s a certain morbid satisfaction—uncomfortable to admit, but that’s probably the right word for it—in watching the events of a tragic fuckup play out more or less exactly as you expect. Like watching a car crash in slow motion, there’s nothing to be done save for rubbernecking as the grim reality unfolds, replete…
Taylor Kitsch’s character on Friday Night Lights was a dangerous bad boy, but he was so cool and charming that you wanted to like him anyway. Thankfully, Tim Riggins didn’t become a religious leader and piss off the government, but this new trailer for the Paramount Network’s Waco offers a good preview of what that…
Not everyone who suffers a series of great tragedies in their life becomes Batman, as evidenced by this trailer for Michael Cuesta’s American Assassin. When this kid’s parents died and his girlfriend was killed in a terrorist attack, he didn’t become Batman, he joined up with a CIA black ops team so he could learn how…
Who he is: Gambit, a.k.a. Remy Lebeau
Back in August, we reported that Friday Night Lights heartthrob Taylor Kitsch had signed on to play Branch Davidian leader and self-proclaimed messiah David Koresh in a limited series about the FBI’s 1993 standoff at Koresh’s headquarters in Waco, Texas. Koresh and his followers were facing allegations of polygamy and…
Combining the current popular fascinations with true crime and the 1990s in a way that hasn’t been since since—well, quite recently, actually—Taylor Kitsch has made a deal to star in an upcoming limited series dramatizing the 51-day standoff that led to the deaths of 76 people on April 19, 1993, in Waco, Texas. That…
It’s a good time to be a man in Hollywood, and not just because you can continue to get leading roles opposite significantly younger women while your bones turn to dust, and not just because you tend to get paid more than women, and not just because of all the other benefits that men tend to get in society, but…
Despite his Tim Riggins being one of the best parts of Friday Night Lights, Taylor Kitsch has struggled to carry any of that goodwill into much of a movie career. Through no fault of his own, John Carter was a legendary flop, X-Men Origins: Wolverine was reviled by both critics and fans, and Battleship was a movie…
Most of the official images released ahead of this season finale show its characters sitting in thought, hands together as if in an attitude of prayer. Looking at the net of collusion tightening around the surviving leads of True Detective, divine intervention seems the only way out of this mess. Ani Bezzerides is…
If you’re like us, and frankly, like the rest of the television watching public, you’re probably having trouble keeping track of all the threads in the increasingly tangled web of corruption that is Vinci, CA. A Twitter user named @jackoapostrophe has made a helpful flow chart to help viewers keep everything straight…
After all the allusions to The King In Yellow and the Carcosa mythos, many viewers were disappointed that the first season of True Detective didn’t pay off in a supernatural event or explanation. It’s fitting, then, that season two is proving to be a ghost story—a ghost story with no supernatural elements.
The reaction to the second season of HBO’s True Detective has been less than stellar. It’s still an entertaining exploration of the darkness that eats at the souls of men, but certainly has lost something from the propulsive first season that seemingly churned out classic episode after classic episode. Perhaps instead…
Tonight, HBO offers another lesson to aspiring TV coroners everywhere: Don’t declare a character dead until you’ve seen a bodybag, a corpse, or a corpse in a bodybag. After the best dream sequence of the summer, “Maybe Tomorrow” gets right to the point: Ray Velcoro survived the ambush at the end of “Night Finds You,”…
All is not well in Frank Semyon’s inland empire. He can’t sleep. There’s water damage on the bedroom ceiling. He has to pay a visit to a previous business venture he’d much rather forget. He’s reminded of the time his drunk father locked him in the basement for the better part of a workweek. And, oh yeah: The guy who…
HBO’s Brand New Sunday Night is doomed to suffer from comparisons. Ballers must answer to the crimes of Entourage; The Brink moves into territory, subject matter, and settings previously occupied by Veep, but doesn’t speak the same, tart language. True Detective season two, meanwhile, has the looming shadow of a big…
“Why would I do another buddy-cop show?” asks True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto in a recent Vanity Fair profile. “I think whatever I had to say about the buddy-cop genre, I said.” More’s the pity. In place of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson bickering on long car rides and gradually figuring out how to work…
The hotly anticipated second season of HBO’s True Detective doesn’t premiere until June 21, but the race to become the next “Time is a flat circle” has officially begun with the release of a new teaser featuring tiny bits of dialogue. The first trailer of season two, released last month, was all smoldering glances set…
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: We add TV to the mix, presenting a week of our favorite series finales in honor of Parks And Recreation’s final episode. (Note: Plot details are revealed.)
Confirming the Internet’s hunch, and thereby validating the Internet’s belief that it would make a pretty good detective, Entertainment Weekly reports that HBO has officially cast Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch in the second season of True Detective. McAdams has been widely reported as the favorite for the main…
Not content to let Vince Vaughn have his moment in the online sun, Taylor Kitsch is actively stoking the #TrueDetectiveSeason2 hype furnace. Kitsch has been on the short list of rumored leads for season two for some time now, but in an AdWeek interview currently spreading all over the Internet he “confirms” his role…
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