Last year’s Netflix documentary Long Shot revisited how an accused murderer was exonerated thanks to evidentiary footage of him at a Dodgers game while Curb Your Enthusiasm was filming. It was a kind of triumphal inversion of Ferris Bueller’s near-brush with being busted on camera at Wrigley Field during his
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Sometimes you have to break a foot to fix a friendship. Or move a story forward. Or in this case, both. Not since the Korean Armistice Agreement has there been such an anticipated standing down as we witnessed between Debbie and Ruth in this season-best seventh episode. Things wisely picked
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Comedian and Silicon Valley/Crazy Rich Asians star Jimmy O. Yang is heading to the big screen in a leading role. Deadline reports that Yang has signed on to star in a coming-of-age comedy written and directed by Steve Byrne called The Opening Act, in which he’ll play an aspiring stand-up
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In 1987, the Nemo Press released The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective, a collection of writings spanning the long career of Harlan Ellison. It speaks volumes about Ellison’s work that this attempt to distill his bibliography down to something that could be called “essential” still resulted in a book well
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As GLOW returns for its second season on Netflix today, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are getting makeovers. Quite a few characters have new additions to their in-ring costumes, though others are still sporting the same hole-ridden sweaters in their day-to-day life (cough, Ruth). Still, fans can expect season two’s
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After nine months on the air, Jordan Klepper’s late-night series ended its run on Comedy Central last night. For the show’s final “Just Between Us” segment, Klepper’s so-called “alt-right asshole” character had a rare moment of clarity. “I think the bad guys won. I think maybe we’re bad,” he said.
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Because it might be the buzziest show of the summer: Sharp ObjectsThe long-awaited adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel of the same name, Sharp Objects stars Amy Adams as reporter Camille Preaker, sent back to her hometown to cover the murder of two girls — an assignment that ends up hitting
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The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week
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