The Gentlemen Refined Aggression / Tackle Tommy Woo Woo Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Gentlemen Refined Aggression / Tackle Tommy Woo Woo Season 1 Episodes 1 - 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Does crime pay? It does if you watch television in 2024.
On August 19, a Twitter account called “Black Phillip” — its avatar the illustrated eye of a darkly colored goat, squinting with a pretty unmistakable rage — tweeted for the first time. For a goat, the tweet made sense:
Bah bah bah
— Black Phillip (@BlackPhillip) August 19, 2015 Since then, @BlackPhillip has tweeted 14 more times, including retweets of @TheSassyGoats and @tbhjustgoats, a pair of accounts with nearly 400,000 combined followers.
The Good Place A Fractured Inheritance Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Good Place A Fractured Inheritance Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Because of The Good Place’s twisty, overlapping timelines — all “Jeremy Bearimy,” as Michael put it — it’s easy to forget that in the show’s current reality, Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason don’t know as much as we do about what they’ve all been through.
The Good Wife Cooked Season 7 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Good Wife Cooked Season 7 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “This is semantics.”
“No, it’s the law. Know the difference? I get a gavel.”
So says Judge Schakowsky, while presiding over bail/bond court.
Helena Zengel and Tom Hanks in News of the World. This review originally ran in December 2020. We are republishing the piece on the occasion of the film’s release on demand.
News of the World might be set in post-Civil War Texas, but it opens with mention of a meningitis outbreak and ends with mention of a cholera outbreak — a subtle (or maybe not-so-subtle) reminder from director Paul Greengrass that even when he makes movies set at a fixed point in the past they’re ultimately about the way things are now.
The Great British Baking Show Pies Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Great British Baking Show Pies Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Can you believe it? We’re already at the halfway point of the season! I’d like to issue this special, apologetic shoutout to Great Britain before we dive into the Pie Week cooling on the windowsill: While our Special Relationship takes a hit in London thanks to a certain human-sized small intestine coiled within an ill-fitting suit and Scotch-taped tie who shall remain nameless, it’s also about to be tested right here in the tent.
A new year has arrived, and with it, a new crop of literature, music, films and other media enter into the public domain. “That means that copyright has expired,” explains Center for the Study of the Public Domain director Jennifer Jenkins told NPR. “And all of the works are free for anyone to use, reuse, build upon for anyone — without paying a fee.” In other words, as of today, the seminal works of 1925 are yours to have, to hold and to adapt into an anachronistic musical or zombie-filled prestige horror-drama.
Semi-anachronistic period comedies are, like, so in right now. In the wake of the success of dark period comedy The Favourite, and the recent Pinterest–friendly Emma, Hulu has hired that movie’s screenwriter Tony McNamara to write a very Favourite–esque TV series about Catherine the Great. Elle Fanning stars as the woman who married her way up to becoming the Russian monarch, with Nicholas Hoult going absolutely hog wild as her bro-tastic husband Peter III.
Netflix’s new documentary about the making of “We Are the World” will be hard to resist for a lot of us. Gen-X nostalgia is a powerful drug. We grew up in the age of runaway mass media, but before the internet was around to capture every moment of our childhoods. So the signposts of our lives are well documented but not ever present; they have to be actively unearthed from time to time.
The Great The Devil’s Lunch Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Great The Devil’s Lunch Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We begin the episode with Catherine trying to hump a chair. She’s all revved up on pregnancy hormones and hasn’t slept with anyone since Leo died.