Television
Why You Should Stream ‘Watchmen’
by Linda Holmes, Glen Weldon, Soraya Nadia McDonald, and Daisy Rosario The HBO miniseries Watchmen recently earned 26 well-deserved Emmy nominations. And if you haven’t seen the series, now is a good time to catch up. Watchmen is not strictly an adaptation of the landmark comic book series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons — it’s technically →
Diego Luna Says Shared Meals On ‘Pan Y Circo’ Transformed Cast And Crew Alike
by Rachel Martin, Simone Popperl, and Lilly Quiroz Diego Luna wants you to start talking. The star of Y →
Saucy, Slimy, Super-Secret: Behind The Scenes With ‘Floor Is Lava’ Star … Lava
by Matt Kwong If you’ve already watched the hit Netflix gameshow Floor Is Lava, you know the rules: “Don’t fall in,” host Rutledge Wood warns contestants, as they enter an obstacle course filled with 80,000 gallons of gurgling goop, “because the floor … is … lava!” It’s a goofy grown-up take on a kids’ playtime staple, →
‘I May Destroy You’ Let Michaela Coel Explore Dangerous Areas In A Safe Place
by Terry Gross Note: This interview discusses, and the show contains, scenes depicting, and stories about, sexual assault. →
In ‘Perry Mason,’ Matthew Rhys Lives Out His Boyhood Noir Fantasies
by Terry Gross As a child, Welsh actor Matthew Rhys fell in love with old American noir films →
CBS’ Legal Drama ‘All Rise’ Tackles Coronavirus As A Story Line
By Eric Deggans If the pandemic shuts down TV production for many months, can the industry still crank →
From ‘Parks And Recreation,’ A Brief But Delightful Return To Pawnee
By Linda Holmes It’s been five years since Parks and Recreation ended its run, after a final season that jumped forward into the future — specifically, to 2017. We haven’t got the nifty transparent touchscreens their 2017 showed. Instead, we have a pandemic, and we have social distancing, and we are doing without many of our comforts, →
Inventive New Comedy ‘Upload’ Explores (Virtual) Life After Death
By David Bianculli We hardly get to know the lead character of new sci-fi comedy Upload — and the world →
‘Hollywood’ Serves Up A Progressive Alt-History Parable, Thinly Sliced
By Glen Weldon “My time in Washington,” Eleanor Roosevelt (Harriet Sansom Harris) says at one point in the →
‘Mrs. America’: A Star-Studded Cast Puts The ERA In The Spotlight
By Linda Holmes “With everything else going on in the world, now I gotta spend almost nine hours of my life thinking about Phyllis Schlafly?” It only seems honest to admit to this reaction to the approach of Mrs. America, a nine-part miniseries created by Dahvi Waller. It was made under the FX Networks umbrella, but →