It’s a Detroiters twofer
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, June 21. All times are Eastern. …
Read more“Lucky motherfucker” Pete Davidson confirms his engagement and plugs someone else’s movie on The Tonight Show
Saturday Night Live star, standup, and, as he confirmed on Wednesday’s Tonight Show, Arianna Grande’s forever “plus-one,” Pete Davidson brought the traditional late-night movie clip to promote. Except the first clip he brought wasn’t for the new Netflix comedy Set It Up (which Davidson claimed he’s in for “like, ten… …
Read moreIt sounds like filming the new season of Arrested Development was a total mess
Brockmire’s second season promised booze but delivered medicine
In television, sometimes the most daring move is not to give the people what they want. During the back run of The Sopranos, when the series netted its highest audience share, creator David Chase deliberately piled anticlimax onto anticlimax and eschewed mob mechanics for dysfunctional family drama, inevitably… …
Read moreTV writers team up help keep immigrant families together
Donald Trump is still trying to figure out …
Read moreA brutal The Expanse finds weight in zero gravity
This week’s Expanse feels more episodic than usual for the show, and I don’t mean that as a criticism. “Fallen World” does something TV actually does better than books or movies, at least when it comes to genre storytelling: stopping to take stock of the consequences. In a book, scenes of the aftermath of events at… …
Read moreThe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are coming back out of their shells
We reported on a lot of horrible news in 2016, but one of the most horrible was the confirmation that the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series…
Read moreHere’s what’s coming to (and leaving from) HBO in July
Justice League didn’t murder its box office competitors with a precision blast of heat vision, as DC and Warner Bros. surely hoped it would, but everyone who passed on its theatrical run will soon get a chance to see some of the biggest superheroes in the world joining forces—assuming they have an HBO Go or HBO Now… …
Read moreToday’s Trailer Happy Hour has Steve Carell’s toy story, a killer house, and Tiffany Haddish
We haven’t had a Trailer Happy Hour in a while here at The A.V. Club, but we could all use a chance to relax, turn off the regular news, and pour ourselves a big glass of movie trailers. Today we’ve got some real refreshing stuff, including a movie where Steve Carell builds a toy town to recover from a traumatic […]
Read moreThe King brilliantly traces the life of Elvis to discover where the country went wrong
The American Dream is a conceit that’s woven into the fabric of the country: Anyone can come to the U.S., and through hard work and diligence, accomplish anything they set out to do. It’s also almost a complete fabrication, as evidenced by the fact that the majority of the wealth in this country is controlled by an… …
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