For the first 15 minutes of its first episode, Disenchantment seems like a promising fractured fairy tale dressed in the animation style of The Simpsons and Futurama. Created by Matt Groening, who famously gave birth to those aforementioned series, Disenchantment immediately introduces us to Bean (voiced by Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson),
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The late Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin’s career was full of achievements, and though she played herself in many different appearances (including on Murphy Brown), she only ever acted once on television. She made a brief appearance, as MeTV points out, in ABC’s high-school series Room 222 in January of
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If you’re looking for an aspirational backdrop against which to set a domestic drama, you can do worse than the Nobel Prize ceremony. It has it all: highbrow glamour, an exotic locale, swanky banquets, and obscure enough proceedings that few viewers will be able to determine if you “got it
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For years, Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle were locked in a contentious diva-off, trading jabs and extremely shady (and GIF-able) moments. (Really, it was Jennifer Lopez–Mariah Carey level, for people of a certain age and with a collection of church hats.) But a good diva forgives her rivals, so after
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Welcome to An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, the trippy romantic comedy that won over Sundance. Aubrey Plaza stars as unhappy wife Lulu Danger, married to local dweeb Shane (Emile Hirsch). When Lulu catches a commercial for a magic show starring Beverly Luff Linn (Craig Robinson), she’s determined to go
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Conan O’Brien and Samantha Bee’s TBS shows are getting makeovers. As previously reported, Conan will shift to a half-hour format in 2019, which will allow O’Brien to do, as he put it, a “higher percentage of the comedy in, and out, of the studio that I love and that seems
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If you found yourself sobbing at the end of director Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians, you’re probably already familiar with the final song on the movie’s soundtrack, a Mandarin cover of Coldplay’s “Yellow.” Sung by Chinese-American singer Katherine Ho, a former contestant on The Voice, Chu knew it would
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I didn’t appreciate what a unicorn-like rarity a good, solid boy is in a teen comedy until To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. “The male lead was a drip, but it doesn’t matter!” is a line I feel like I’ve subconsciously been telling myself since Pretty in Pink, or
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