Sunday, May 10, 2026
SPOILER ALERT: The following piece contains plot details from the series finale of “The Comeback,” now streaming on HBO Max. Five minutes before the credits roll, “The Comeback” is s…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2026
The Amazon Prime Video comedy "Bait" has two contradictory concepts that uncomfortably co-exist inside the same six-episode season. On the one hand, the show is a deeply personal story from …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2026
"The Comeback" is everywhere now. Once a pop cultural Cassandra doomed to swift cancellation after a single season on HBO in 2005, the brainchild of comic actor Lisa Kudrow and veteran TV wr…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2026
Per its title, the NBC sitcom "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins" is a comeback story, but it's also a reunion. Comedian Tracy Morgan has produced a wide-ranging body of work since his bre…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2026
Even before Saoirse-Monica Jackson turns up around the halfway point, it's clear "How to Get to Heaven from Belfast" comes from the same sensibility as "Derry Girls," in which Jackson played…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:01AM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2026
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from "Eyes Without a Face," Season 4, Episode 5 of "Industry," now streaming on HBO Max. On "Industry," heroes are hard to come by. B…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 1, 2026
Kaley Cuoco seems to have caught the international thriller bug. The actress followed up her decade-plus stint on "The Big Bang Theory" with two seasons of "The Flight Attendant," the globe-…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2026
It's always hard to believe a public figure is gone after their unexpected passing. But in the case of Catherine O'Hara, it's especially difficult, because the actor and comedian remained su…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2026
Over the last few years, the Golden Globes has made a concerted effort to improve its reputation. Once somewhat infamous for a small voting body easily influenced by star power, a setup that…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 4, 2026
The protagonist of the lighthearted new Fox series "Best Medicine" may be a doctor, but the hourlong show isn't really a medical procedural. Instead, the series borrows a time-honored setup …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 21, 2025
Saturday marked comedian Bowen Yang's final appearance as a regular cast member on "Saturday Night Live," a move Yang had already confirmed and cemented by tearing up on live TV alongside Ar…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2025
Marissa Irvine, the protagonist of the Peacock thriller "All Her Fault," bears a superficial resemblance to Siobhan Roy. For one thing, both characters are played by Sarah Snook, the Austral…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15AM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2025
For the monologue of his second stint as a guest host of "Saturday Night Live," actor Miles Teller told an endearing anecdote. As children, he and his sisters would dress up as iconic charac…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2025
In his seminal video essay "Los Angeles Plays Itself," a definitive exegesis on the sprawling metropolis and its depiction on screen, critic Thom Andersen takes issue with the city's nicknam…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2025
"Slow Horses" is the unlikely seed of a franchise. Now in its fifth season, the Apple TV drama follows a gang of screw-up spies who are nobody's idea of the Avengers, led by Gary Oldman's ir…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2025
"Interview With the Vampire," the opening salvo of AMC's attempt to turn the oeuvre of fantasy author Anne Rice into a so-called Immortal Universe of television shows, is one of the best sho…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Let no one say "The Lowdown" is shy about its influences. Ethan Hawke's hero, a Tulsa "truthtorian" by the name of Lee Raybon, ruffles feathers as a freelance reporter "Â but for his not-a…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
The central metaphor of the Netflix crime thriller "Black Rabbit" is obvious enough. When Brooklyn-born brothers, ex-bandmates and restaurant co-founders Jake (Jude Law) and Vince Friedken (…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:15AM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2025
It's been a long while since the USA Network last premiered an original drama. (Five years, to be precise, since the one-and-done "Briarpatch.") A lot has happened since " so much that…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
You don't know what you've got till it's gone. And what we had in the "Sex and the City" sequel series "And Just Like That," which ends this week after three seasons, was a cringey, sweet, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2025
When the comedian Leanne Morgan reached her mid-50s, her life drastically changed. The same is true of the namesake character she plays on the Netflix sitcom "Leanne," albeit in a less inter…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2025
SPOILER ALERT: The following piece contains plot details from the first two episodes of "Smoke," now streaming on Apple TV+. Three years ago, crime writer Dennis Lehane and actor Taron E…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 31, 2025
Following up "Succession" is a daunting feat " so much so that it's best to think of the HBO film "Mountainhead" as more of a palate-cleanser than a next act. Written and directed by "Succes…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2025
SPOILER ALERT:Â This story contains spoilers for the Season 4 finale of "Hacks," now streaming on Max. In its Season 4 finale, "Hacks" goes where the Emmy-winning comedy has never gone bef…
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