It’s hard to pick the most cynical moment from last night’s cavalcade of horror on The Bachelor. But I think the winner may be the moment Chris Harrison cut to commercial break in the middle of an excruciating split-screen breakup with the words, “to say this is trending and blowing
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After Recording Academy president Neil Portnow said that female nominees need to “step up,” the Academy announced it would launch an independent task force to investigate its own gender bias. That task force now has a leader: the same woman running the Time’s Up initiative. Portnow has announced to Billboard
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Sometimes the best way to understand how something works is to think about all the ways it could’ve been different. Such is the case with the supposedly unedited scene from Monday night’s finale of The Bachelor, a half-hour long spectacle of human misery and producer-driven exploitation.When Arie Luyendyk Jr. decided
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The science-fiction-flavored cop thriller Hard Sun squanders one of the most audacious hooks I’ve ever seen in a TV series. In scene after scene, it demonstrates a knack for doing the least interesting thing possible with its great central idea, to the point where a hate-watch becomes inevitable. I’ve used the word
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The art of presenter pairings at awards shows has long been a delicate, suggestive, and pretty deeply heteronormative art. Sometimes the producers opt to send out two well-known co-stars of a recent or upcoming tentpole: Let’s have Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst present the visual effects award, because Spider-Man was
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At this point, the future Black Mirror imagined way back in its first season is pretty much the present, which makes it all the more terrifying to wonder what Black Mirror might get up to in the future. Netflix announced today that the sci-fi anthology series will return for a
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Cue the Golden Girls gospel remix: “Thank you for being a friend.” When Jordan Peele scooped up Get Out’s Best Original Screenplay Oscar, no one was happier for Jordan Peele than his Key and Peele partner Keegan-Michael Key. Watching from the Vanity Fair Oscar viewing party, the Friends From College
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Casey Affleck sat out the Oscars this year. Choosing to avoid the potential awkwardness of allowing his history of sexual-harassment allegations to “distract” from the broadcast, Affleck and his publicists made the decision that the 2017 Best Actor winner was safer staying home. (Brother Ben, and much of the usual
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