‘Countdown’: The Year’s Most Insufferable TV Show Is Now Here
Streaming services were supposed to offer a unique alternative to network TV, but the older they grow, the more they resemble that which they sought to replace. Just as Netflix ...
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The ‘Poop Cruise’ That Stranded Thousands on a Ship With No Plumbing
When they say poop deck they mean it!Netflix’s Trainwreck documentary project, which began in 2022 as a three-parter about Woodstock ’99, has returned. This second run for the series is ...
TV’s Silliest Show ‘The Gilded Age’ Is Finally Getting Dramatic
In the current season of HBO’s Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That…, Carrie Bradshaw is fixated on the past.More specifically, she can’t stop thinking about the generations ...
‘28 Years Later’ Proves This Is Modern Horror’s Best Zombie Franchise
The undead refuse to rest. In 28 Years Later, they’ve lost none of the fleet ferocity they first displayed in 2003’s harrowing 28 Days Later and its first-rate 2007 follow-up ...
What If Prince George Was Gay and Into Kinky S&M Sex?
A member of staff at New York theater Playwrights Horizons asked what play a friend and I had come to see. “Prince F****t,” I said, making the “f****t” sound as ...
Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ Movie Is His Own ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
Just as Tony Scott segued from the unforgettable Top Gun skies to the middling Days of Thunder racetrack, Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski transitions from Tom Cruise aerial heroics ...
‘Hacks’ Star Jean Smart Takes Her Act to the Broadway Stage
If Call Me Izzy had a signature color, it would be the entire spectrum of blue. This becomes evident in the opening scene of Jamie Wax’s play—a 90-minute, one-woman showcase ...
There’s Finally a Good Zombie TV Show Again
Like its monsters, zombie fiction refuses to die.Revival is the latest TV series to imagine a world in which the deceased rise from the grave to complicate the lives of ...
Live-Action ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Is a Fire-Breathing Cash Grab
We have How To Train Your Dragon at home.It’s hard not to think something along those lines while watching the new live-action adaptation of Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois’ beloved ...
John Krasinski Gets Red-Pilled by the Men’s Rights Movement in New Play
The tension within Penelope Skinner’s play Angry Alan (Studio Seaview, booking to Aug. 3) is down to the well-known, puppyish, regular-guy charm of John Krasinski, and the dark forces that ...
