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Marvel’s Inhumans is becoming a TV show that’ll debut in IMAX theaters

by Chaim Gartenberg

Marvel’s Inhuman characters are officially moving to TV. Instead of the originally planned movie, Marvel announced yesterday that the company has greenlit an Inhumans TV show that will debut in theaters for a limited two-week run through a new...

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HBO has renewed Westworld for a second season

by Andrew Liptak

HBO’s Westworld, currently one of the networks biggest shows, will be returning for a second season, according to Variety. The series will return alongside Insecure and Divorce, though a premiere date hasn’t been announced. Based off of the 1973...

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Why Westworld will grow out of its robot amusement park

by Chris Plante

Every week, I swing for the fences with one massive theory about the future of Westworld. Am I wrong? Am I right? We probably won’t know for sure for years, so why not enjoy the present? Spoilers ahead. Put a point on the board: Bernard Lowe is a...

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The Walking Dead is turning into a slog, but there is hope

by Nick Statt

At long last, The Walking Dead finds itself back in Alexandria, as Negan pays a visit to Rick and the survivors. But don’t let their compliance fool you: a resistance is coming.

Westworld vs. Jurassic Park: when playing god is clearly a bad idea

by Megan Farokhmanesh

Let’s play a quick guessing game. The franchise in question involves an old guy trying his hand at being god, a wondrous theme park that goes awry, and a lot of death and destruction. What pop-culture project am I describing? If you answered W...

Two of Silicon Valley's stars were harassed over their opposition to Trump

by Andrew Liptak

Following the results of this week’s presidential election, there has been a rise in reports of violence and harassment related to the election of Donald Trump as the country's next president. Earlier today, Silicon Valley stars Kumail Nanjiani...

10 new trailers you should watch this week

by Jacob Kastrenakes

I rewatched The Big Short recently, and one moment near the end of the film stood out to me in a way that didn't quite register my first time through. Steve Carell's character — a surly, idealistic investor — has been holding bankers' feet to the...

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The Expanse's season 2 trailer is a reminder: you should be watching this show

by Andrew Liptak

The Syfy Channel dropped a new trailer for the next season of The Expanse, as well as a new release date for when we get to catch up with the crew of the spaceship Rocinante. The footage is a solid reminder that you really should be watching this...

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Planet Earth II’s 360-degree videos are a great escape

by Sean O'Kane

And a good example of spherical video done well

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The West Wing provides much-needed optimism after a hard election

by Andrew Liptak

When I graduated from college in 2007, the country was preparing for a major election. President George W. Bush had reached the end of his two terms. The Great Recession had begun to unfurl. It was in this environment that a colleague recommended...

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I voted Kodos: relishing the presidential politics of science fiction

by Kwame Opam, Andrew Liptak, and Chaim Gartenberg

Are you stressed? We are. It’s Election Day here in the states, and American citizens are casting their ballots right now to determine the future of the country. The decisions will influence the future of business, science, foreign affairs, and...

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PlayStation Vue will lose all of Viacom’s channels on November 11th

by Chris Welch

Streaming TV services are running into the exact same obstacles as cable TV providers. And Sony just encountered a huge one. The company has announced in an Election Day blog post that as of November 11th at 12:01AM, PlayStation Vue customers will...

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AT&T will give away free Apple TVs to some DirecTV Now subscribers

by Micah Singleton

In an attempt to make a big splash with its upcoming DirecTV Now service, AT&T will reportedly give away Apple TVs to customers who agree to pay for three months of the service, according to a report from Variety. According to customer support...

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Predicting Westworld: the bots are humans

by Chris Plante

Every week, I swing for the fences with one massive theory about the future of Westworld. Am I wrong? Am I right? We probably won’t know for sure for years, so why not enjoy the present? For weeks, our Westworld predictions have been safe, quite...

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The Walking Dead is finally taking some steps in the right direction

by Nick Statt

This week Daryl Dixon gets some depth

Westworld’s latest Easter egg is a nod to a certain killer robot

by Chris Plante

The sixth episode of Westworld was a throwback to pulpy network dramas. Abandoning the philosophical debates and chronological confusion that have leadened recent episodes, the hour of television focused on its characters. Ford has a family! Maeve...

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Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin break character to urge people to vote

by Andrew Liptak

In its last show before the 2016 presidential election, Saturday Night Live checked in with Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton one final time before Tuesday, with both actors breaking character to urge voters to head...

11 new trailers you should watch this week

by Jacob Kastrenakes

What a good few weeks for movies — I feel like there are a ton of interesting and exciting things out right now. Last Saturday night, I went to go see Moonlight, which is as amazing as everyone’s been saying. It’s so so well done, with such care...

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Adapting Stranger Things into a catchy musical number was like solving a puzzle

by Andrew Liptak

A couple of years ago, John Boswell made a splash when he began to autotune scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Carl Sagan in a series called Symphony of Science. He’s since shifted his focus to pop culture, and his latest work is a fantastic...

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Blazing Saddles does a better Westworld impression than Westworld

by Chaim Gartenberg

Stop me if you’ve seen this one already: it's a Western, set in a small town with strange visitors, plagued by the machinations of a ruthless businessman and his cronies, and ultimately brings up questions of existential crisis wherein everyone...

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It’s halftime in Westworld: now we need answers

by Tasha Robinson and Chris Plante

Where Westworld should go from here

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Vimeo is planning to launch a subscription streaming service

by Lizzie Plaugic

Vimeo is apparently getting ready to compete against Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu with the launch of its own subscription streaming service. As The Hollywood Reporter points out, interim CEO Joey Levin recently discussed the plans in a letter to...

TV has more LGBTQ characters than ever, GLAAD reports

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

GLAAD’s annual “Where We Are on TV” report has just been released, and there are more LGBTQ characters on TV than there have been at any point in history. LGBTQ characters make up 4 percent of series regulars for scripted broadcast shows — a...

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Westworld is a cautionary tale about photorealism and video game murder

by Nick Statt

In the debut episode of HBO’s Westworld, narrative director Lee Sizemore makes a case that the futuristic theme park’s team should stop working toward increasingly lifelike androids. “Does anyone truly want that?” he asks. “Do you really want to...

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Dear HBO Go, I love you, but fix your interface

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

HBO is home to many programs that I watch and appreciate and like to dish about with my friends. I love to blog about Game of Thrones. I have deeply enjoyed what I’ve seen so far of Insecure and Divorce, even though the latter is incredibly...

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Hulu will have ABC, Disney, ESPN, and Fox on its live TV service

by Jacob Kastrenakes

Two big partners have signed onto Hulu’s internet TV service: The Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox, whose support means that Hulu will be able to offer channels including ESPN, ABC, and Fox. Hulu announced its intention to launch a...

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Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in November

by Bryan Bishop

Usually in this post I try to design some (not-so) clever competitive framework that allows the various streaming services to compete against one another based upon what shows they add or lose in a given month. The kind of thing where I say that...

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Stranger Things video gives a news update on Barb

by Kwame Opam

Netflix seems to be making good on the promise to provide some justice for Barb. In this Stranger Things promotional video, an ‘80s-era newscaster finally acknowledges the fan favorite’s mysterious disappearance, something the series never made...

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Predicting Westworld: Dolores’ timeline is in the distant future

by Chris Plante

Every week, I swing for the fences with one massive theory about the future of Westworld. Am I wrong? Am I right? We probably won’t know for sure for years, so why not enjoy the present? As we hit the midpoint of Westworld’s first season, it’s...

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Can The Walking Dead redeem itself?

by Nick Statt

Last week our ongoing series The Walking Dead Quitter’s Club came to an end, with the show’s season premiere going so far that club co-founder Bryan Bishop swore off the series entirely. Starting this week, Nick Statt tries to bring him back. D...

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7 new trailers you should watch this week

by Jacob Kastrenakes

It's getting into that time of year when smaller, quieter dramas come out, and I got to see one I was pretty excited about last weekend: Certain Women, the new Kelly Reichardt film starring Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Kristen Stewart. I'm a...

Black Mirror's Hated in the Nation creates a world where everyone is at fault

by Lizzie Plaugic

The third season of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, a Twilight Zone-esque anthology TV series about technological anxieties and possible futures, was released on Netflix on October 21st. It’s the first season of the show produced by Netflix, after...

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