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The acting profession is not an easy one. The public often sees only the glamor; the perfectly quaffed performers in designer clothing, paid millions of dollars to play pretend in massive summer blockbusters. Yet many creative sorts who choose this path in life struggle for years. It is a long road, filled with rejection, sleepless

In addition to its many other charming qualities, Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys is a very chatty show. The show’s lead, Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), is particularly loquacious, providing enough profanity-laced quotes to fill up a whole coffee table book. So when a new trailer arrives completely devoid of dialogue, you know the show is

Warning: The article contains references to homophobia and suicide. On Oct. 15, 2021, Power Rangers Dino Fury’s ‘The Matchmaker’ debuted on Netflix and ended like most Power Rangers episodes do. In it, the Dino Fury team saves the world from a giant monster and Javi, the Black Ranger, learns a valuable life lesson in communication

Warning: contains spoilers for The Last Kingdom’s season 5 finale. After five seasons, Uhtred’s cry of “To Bebbanburg!” is finally a toast and not a direction of travel. He’s made it back. Every twist of fate over the years that took him further from his childhood fortress was leading to this moment – when his

This article contains Star Trek: Picard spoilers. Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 2 Based on trailers, promotional material, and interviews, Star Trek fans have been made aware that Brent Spiner is back for Star Trek: Picard Season 2, but in an entirely new role, playing a member of the Soong family that we’ve never

Warning: This article contains STAR TREK: PICARD spoilers. Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 2 After a fairly low-key premiere that was primarily focused on catching us up with where our favorite characters stand emotionally following the events of Season 1, Star Trek: Picard kicks things into high gear by following through on the promise

The following contains spoilers for The Flash. The Flash Season 8 Episode 6 Given that The Flash has been on hiatus for the better part of the past three months, one might expect the series’ return—which also kicks off Season 8 proper in the wake of the show’s five-part Armageddon event—to be a bit, well,

Taylor Sheridan is single-handedly making Paramount one of biggest success stories in television. The season 4 finale of Yellowstone (ironically, one of the shows’ slower seasons), airing on Paramount Network, brought in a reported 9.3 million viewers to watch the Dutton family drama. Its prequel, 1883 debuted with over 6 million viewers, and gained so

When it comes to Star Wars in 2022, there’s no bigger event than the return of Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi. The Jedi Master stars in his own Disney+ series that picks up 10 years after the events of Revenge of the Sith. The Jedi Order has fallen, and the few knights who remain are

Warning: contains major spoilers for The Last Kingdom season 4. Adapted from Bernard Cornwell’s novels The Pagan Lord and The Empty Throne, season four of The Last Kingdom introduced a raft of new characters. We met Uhtred’s grown-up children Young Uhtred and Stiorra – respectively a Christian cleric and a passionate Dane. There was Dane

Move over Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha, The Walking Dead is coming to the big city! AMC announced today that it has ordered a new series set in The Walking Dead universe, with Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan reprising their TWD roles of Maggie and Negan. The series, titled Isle of the Dead, will

Warning: contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season six episode two ‘Black Shirt’. Peaky Blinders is known to pay homage to different film genres with every season, from Westerns to Gangster flicks to Hitchcockian and conspiracy thrillers. In ‘Black Shirt’, season six revealed its genre: horror. From the Hammer picture image of lightning cracking over Tommy’s

Warning: contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season six, episode two ‘Black Shirt’ In the world of Peaky Blinders, it’s been ten years since we last saw Esme Shelby Lee, the gypsy widow of John Shelby. Played by Aimee-Ffion Edwards (War of the Worlds, Detectorists, Skins), Esme left Birmingham in a fury after John was shot

Contains spoilers for Pieces of Her episodes one to four Netflix’s thriller Pieces of Her is based on a novel by the aptly named best selling author Karin Slaughter. Though it’s set in America, the whole of the series was shot in Australia with the majority of filming taking place in 2021, and many of

Warning: This article contains Star Trek: Picard spoilers. Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 1 The Star Trek: Picard season 2 premiere has a lot of ground to cover, getting Picard’s new emotional arc underway, checking in on the rest of the cast, and catapulting a new storyline forward. For all the bombast that the

This past Sunday, 1883, the prequel to the immensely popular Paramount drama Yellowstone concluded its premiere season, and in what seemed to be a very definitive fashion. To avoid specific spoilers for those fans who still haven’t seen it, approximately half of the major cast members had unconditional endings, whether their journey simply ended with

We’ve got movie sign! Well, almost. Mystery Science Theater 3000 season 13 debuts at 8 pm EST on Friday, March 4th! But it’s going to look a little different this time, and not just because the beloved comedy series won’t be on the cable channels it called home from 1989-1999. Nor will it be on

The irreverent world of Amazon’s smash-hit superhero series The Boys is getting bigger, as new animated anthology show Diabolical highlights tales of various unsuspecting people affected by Vought’s Compound V serum, including everyone’s favorite maniacal Supe, Homelander. Invincible showrunner Simon Racioppa spearheaded the ambitious eight-episode series, where every installment boasts its own animation style and

This article contains Batwoman spoilers. Batwoman Season 3 Episode 13 This season of Batwoman gave us new twists on classic characters, after relics of Batman villains’ past washed up in Gotham. And while the Bat Team set off to secure the dangerous artifacts, the past caught up with Ryan when she discovered her birth mother

The following contains Star Trek: Discovery spoilers. Star Trek Discovery Season 4 Episode 11 After a couple of episodes where it felt like nothing much actually happened, Star Trek: Discovery bounces back with an hour that, though it somehow still manages to put off first contact with Unknown Species 10-C for another week, at least

“Who doesn’t want to be a pirate?” Rhys Darby certainly does, but not just any pirate. In the new HBO Max series Our Flag Means Death, the comedian immediately recognizable from Jumanji: The Next Level, What We Do in the Shadows, Flight of the Conchords, and so many more roles, assumes the mantle of real-life

CW for discussion of sexual assault and PTSD. Interview contains thematic spoilers for Outlander Season 6. When we last left Outlander at the end of Season 5, the men of Fraser’s Ridge had freed Claire from her abductors and rapists and Marsali had poisoned one of the men behind the attack, while Bree and Roger

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow wraps up its seventh season this week with “Knocked Down Knocked Up.” After last week’s episode, you’ve probably got a guess as to what the episode title is a reference to, but in addition to possibly paying off some of the future hints given to the Legends by Evil Gideon in

March 2022 is a great month for blonde women with cold, dead stares on Hulu. With its list of new releases for March 2022, Hulu is highlighting two major original series ripped straight from the headlines. The first is The Dropout, which premieres on March 3. This show stars Amanda Seyfried (taking over from the

This article contains massive spoilers for the 1883 season 1 finale. Perhaps you’ve heard by now, but the season 1 finale of Yellowstone prequel 1883 killed off its lead character. That’s not very unusual on its face. Plenty of TV shows kill off important characters and season finales present good occasions to do so. One

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 12 After 33 seasons, and now 12 episodes, The Simpsons is an institution in TV comedy. It was once the new brat, spray-painting its tag all over the Springfield at the heart of every American state. Now the series is the elder states-drawing. The

This Attack on Titan review contains spoilers. Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 24 “Let’s go.”“To where?”“To save the world.” Pride and hubris are rampant in Attack on Titan right from the very first episode. Pride is a transformative force that can be a poisonous venom when it’s abused, but this episode explores the healing

Believe it or not, it’s been over a decade since NBC’s flagship crime drama Law & Order went off the air. It doesn’t feel quite so long though because, despite spending 11-plus years away, Law & Order never really went anywhere. Reruns air constantly across basic cable, with syndication positively loving the show’s “drop into

Warning: contains major season five spoilers. The very first image you see in Peaky Blinders season five is a lone green weed growing in a field of mud. In most dramas, that’d be a symbol of rebirth and recovery – a representation, say, of Tommy Shelby’s gradually returning conscience years after war blasted it to

The information that’s been coming out about Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings prequel series has started to give us a much clearer idea about what sort of things we might see. We know that the timeline has been compressed so that the series will cover all the major events of the Second Age of