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At this point, it’s as much a cliché to say “The Simpsons did it first” as it is to say “The Simpsons isn’t as good as it used to be,” but that doesn’t make it any less bone-chilling when a line that the show intended as a joke ends up coming true. Everyone laughed when…
Buried in the manufactured drama around last night’s finale of “The Bachelor”—in which Bachelor Ben Higgins ended up proposing to Lauren Bushnell, after an agonizing period in Jamaica where he claimed to be in love with two different women—was a far more significant and broad-reaching story: that of which Americans are allowed to become America’s…
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Still: PBS Last night, PBS NewsHour ran a story on the Tilly family of Fayetteville, North Carolina. The Tillys do not have a history of being active in politics, but various members of the family—both old and young—are being motivated to vote or work for a campaign for the first time by Donald Trump. If…
On Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton secured huge primary wins in Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, and Ohio, making Bernie Sanders’s path to the Democratic presidential nomination nearly impossible. But as The Daily Show points out, those big wins capped off a week where Clinton repeatedly goofed up and said some puzzling things. In a segment called…
You may have heard that Xena: Warrior Princess —the gloriously camp 1990s fantasy show starring Lucy Lawless—is being rebooted by NBC. Now the pilot’s executive producer has suggested he’ll be going boldly where the original series failed to go, by turning the heroine into an out-and-proud lesbian. Of course, the ‘90s series had various homoerotic…
Gif from Game of Thrones season 4 bloopers I’d like to ceremoniously welcome Ian McShane to the DGAF Club—for actors who are going to say exactly what’s on their minds, even if fans, producers or suits don’t appreciate it. He can join Daniel Craig and Robert Pattinson in the British chapter of the club. Spoilers…
Should television journalists be staging child abductions as a sort of science experiment? Last Friday, Kathryn Nathanson, a producer at NBC’s “Today” show, sent an email to friends looking for volunteers for an upcoming segment. “We are going to stage a fake abduction of a young girl or boy (ages 9-14),” she wrote. “They will…
People die. Characters die. This is perhaps life’s most unfortunate fact: that people will die and leave the rest of us behind. It’s incredibly rare that any dramatic television series lasting over three seasons will never kill a main or recurring character, and all those deaths have driven a stake through the heart of fandom: Joyce on Buffy, Lady…
At pep rallies and football games, University of Texas students sing “The Eyes of Texas,” a school spirit song that’s ostensibly meant to inspire greatness, but instead, creeps everyone out with its threat of constant surveillance. “Do not think you can escape them/ At night or early in the morn,” goes the song, which was…