0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/18/2015
We are approximately six weeks away from Trevor Noah’s debut as the new host of The Daily Show. And while the program’s former star, Jon Stewart, prepares to host WWE’s SummerSlam this coming Sunday (Aug. 23), his successor is making sure he’s comfortable in that anchor chair and making sure it’s the right height behind […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire on 8/17/2015
Review just began its second season on Comedy Central, and in one of the latest episodes, Forrest MacNeil (Andy Daly) — the man who will review literally anything life throws his way — finds himself in the midst of one of his simplest reviews to date. He’s gotten involved in a bare-knuckled brawl and, as […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Saturday Night Live has announced the hosts for its first three shows of the upcoming season. Miley Cyrus headlines the season premiere on Oct. 3, followed by perhaps the hottest comedian in pop culture right now. The Summer of Schumer continues with Amy Schumer hosting the following week on Oct. 10. But the name with […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/14/2015
I can’t pretend that I listened to or was any sort of fan of N.W.A. or Straight Outta Compton when it came out in 1988. Anyone who grew up with me at the time — in my white, metal-listening world — would laugh at me even pretending otherwise. But close friends of mine certainly played […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Sesame Street is getting quite an upgrade, thanks to a generous benefactor. The longtime children’s program is partnering up with HBO in a pairing that will nearly double the number of new episodes produced. According to the New York Times‘ Emily Steel, the Sesame Workshop and HBO will now produce 35 original episodes, as opposed […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Ten years ago, Bradley Cooper played a star chef in a TV adaptation of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential for Fox. The show only lasted for four episodes, in part because of being put on hiatus during the MLB playoffs. Cooper has obviously gone on to far bigger and better things, but the idea of playing […]
0 comments by Alex Kaufman on 8/13/2015
In 2005, the Food Network launched a reality competition show called The Next Food Network Star, with pretty self-explanatory goals. The show was created with the goal of finding the next Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse, or Robert Irvine. It became the American Idol of cooking shows and is currently airing its 11th season on Sunday […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
The much-maligned second season of HBO’s True Detective wrapped up on Sunday evening with a 90-minute finale that according to most critics did little to save a season that was confusing for some, and down right boring for others. To be fair to True Detective’s creator and writer, Nic Pizzolatto, this season was behind the […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
We don’t really know much about Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film, The Hateful Eight. But do we need to know much more than “Directed by Quentin Tarantino”? Oh, and it’s hitting theaters on Christmas Day. But that will only be a present for some of us, as the Christmas rollout will be a limited release shown on […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
The first time I encountered the Fantastic Four was at the impressionable age of five, during the autumn of 1978. At the time, I was just beginning to understand the Marvel Universe, and my breakthrough was through the Saturday morning cartoon. The show didn’t even have the true Fantastic Four (referred to by their standard […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/12/2015
The CW gets it when it comes to staying true to DC Comics’ original roots. More specifically, the network allows producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg to be unapologetically geeky in its faithfulness to the four-color source material that spawned The Flash, his rogues gallery and supporting cast. An important character in the character’s mythology […]
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(This post contains spoilers. You can read my thoughts on previous episodes of True Detective, season two, here.) In the end, True Detective wrapped its much maligned second season with a perfect metaphor. Thwarted by the cartel — whom he has affectionately referred to as “the Mexicans” over the duration of the season — Frank Semyon […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/11/2015
Arrow star Stephen Amell and WWE wrestler Stardust have been puffing their chests out at each other since May, when the grappler got in the actor’s face at ringside during a taping of RAW in New York. Since then, the two have taunted one another through social media, presumably building toward some kind of event. […]
0 comments by Liam McGuire
When Wet Hot American Summer came out in 2001, it wasn’t exactly met with praise, failing both critically and at the box office. While that combination is usually an indicator the film was a failure, Wet Hot became a cult classic and more appreciated over time. I first watched the movie this year and found it to be […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/10/2015
The success of Game of Thrones (and True Blood, to a lesser extent) has encouraged HBO to continue making ambitious programming in the science fiction and fantasy realm. With Westworld, the network looks to be making a push into harder sci-fi that explores the psychology of its characters and maybe challenges the nature of reality, […]
