The Last of Us Episode 6: Eugene Flashback Explained
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Episode 6 of The Last of Us Season 2. For those who were wondering what exactly went down between...
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The True Story Behind Netflix’s ‘Untold: The Liver King’
Yanking organs out of bloodied animal carcasses and tearing them apart with his teeth; gnawing bull testes around the dinner table with his family as...
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J.J. Abrams’ ’70s Crime Show ‘Duster’ Is Almost Too Much Fun
Someday, Josh Holloway should play Matthew McConnaughey’s brother. There’s an obvious physical resemblance; born within months of one another in 1969, both actors are tall...
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The History Behind Judy Blume’s Controversial Novel, Forever
In 1975, Judy Blume released Forever, a YA novel about a young woman falling in love for the first time and losing her virginity. Almost...
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Celine Song’s Journey From Matchmaking to ‘Materialists’
A decade ago, before Celine Song scored two Oscar nominations for her debut film, Past Lives, she was a struggling playwright searching for odd jobs...
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Shah Rukh Khan on Making His Met Gala Debut
The feeling, or maybe it’s a frenzy, that Shah Rukh Khan inspires can’t be tamed by borders or time. His smoldering gaze, that hair toss,...
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‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Ends With a Ludicrous Finale
The fourth and final season of HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones wrapped up with a bang—well, multiple bangs—on Sunday night, closing out another madcap adventure with...
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‘Miss Austen’ Inverts Jane Austen’s Marriage Plot: Review
No novelist in the English language is more closely associated with the marriage plot than Jane Austen. That literary trope turned rom-com convention gives structure...
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Is ‘Bad Boy’ Netflix’s Next ‘Adolescence’?: Review
In an early scene of Bad Boy, an award-winning Israeli drama series that has just arrived on Netflix, Tamara Scheinman opens her front door to...
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What to Know About Sentry and The Void From Thunderbolts*
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Thunderbolts*. Thunderbolts* introduces one of the more unassuming villains of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Some guy named Bob walking...
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The Story Behind Netflix’s Angi: Fake Life, True Crime
In 2008, the death of a fashion designer in a Barcelona apartment would reveal one of the most cold and disturbing crimes in recent Spanish...
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‘The Four Seasons’ Reveals a Different Side of Tina Fey
Warm. Wistful. Tender. Empathetic. These are not words typically associated with Tina Fey, whose humor has a reputation for being brutal. But they all apply...