Amazon may have won its first Emmy for Outstanding Comedy this Sunday, but Hulu remains the only streaming network to win one for Outstanding Drama (The Handmaid’s Tale, last year), and Amazon seems to want some of its shine. Amazon announced today that it’s signed an exclusive TV deal with
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Maya Rudolph is a revelation on Amazon’s new series, Forever, which premiered last Friday. I hate to break out this hoary cliché, but it fits. While Rudolph has always been an incandescent presence onscreen — bringing humor and sincerity through her seven-year tenure on Saturday Night Live, animated series like
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As the pickings keep on getting slimmer, Variety and Us Weekly are reporting that the NFL has landed on Maroon 5 as the 2019 Super Bowl halftime performers. They’ve apparently been extended an offer and “pretty much accepted” the slot for Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, ignoring all of Bruno
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For our inaugural “The Best Sex I Ever Read” column, Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel, selects Rachel Ingalls’s 1982 book Mrs. Caliban, about a woman who meets a hot amphibian.He stepped forward, took off her bathrobe, letting it fall on top of the bed, and started
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Spoilers below for Forever. You’ve been warned!There’s a lovely stand-alone story embedded in the new Amazon series Forever. The bulk of the show is anchored by Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen’s characters June and Oscar, a married couple who die and then find themselves in the afterlife, still facing the
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Don’t you love it when a dear friend turns on you, spilling some real (and embarrassing) tea? It’s hard out there for an impressively talented and awarded British actress in her 80s, but even harder when you’re competing with Dame Judi Dench for every little Hollywood role. According to Dames
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The best segment in late night, “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell,” returned to Late Night With Seth Meyers last night, and in addition to covering things like National Be Late for Something Day, Martina Navratilova’s recent “What Serena Got Wrong” op-ed, and what question lesbians get asked the most (“Can you
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Maniac is an experimental show about an experiment in curing mental illness. It is wild, audacious, addictive, and teeters so precariously between reality and fantasy that the audience will immediately question what’s real and what isn’t. The bold ten-episode series, one of the fall season’s best, repeatedly bounces in and
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