If you’re confused by what’s happening on Fear The Walking Dead right now, rest assured you’re not the only one. Fear’s 180-degree change in narrative direction has been one of the more baffling moves the larger AMC franchise has made (along with killing Carl Grimes and Madison Clark, which will probably always top the list). Giving Morgan his own show wasn’t a bad decision—Lennie James is a great actor, and a leading role suits him well, though it’s a pity it happened at the same time as Frank Dillane and Kim Dickens’ exits. And lately, Morgan’s show has been spinning its wheels around forced moral themes, stiff dialogue and implausible,…
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Why Our Generation Is Hooked on ‘Failure TV’
In the first two episodes of Euphoria, Zendaya’s character, a 17-year-old addict named Rue, gets out of rehab and promptly relapses. Tortured and two-faced, she swings from being a loving big sister and sex-positive feminist to screaming at her supportive best friend and tussling with her widowed mom. It’s hard to tear your eyes away even when the show gets dark because, beyond her drug-addled dysfunction, Rue is deeply human and relatable. In many ways, young audiences have a love-hate relationship with authenticity. We religiously follow the sparkly, selective social media feeds of celebrities and influencers, yet we’re also instinctively drawn to vulnerability and straight-up failure, whether in a confessional…
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Worth Watching: Grief on ‘Pose,’ Aziz Ansari on Netflix, True Crime on HBO, ‘Bring the Funny,’ ‘Love Island’ | What’s on TV
A selective critical checklist of notable Tuesday TV: Pose (10/9c, FX): The realness is off the charts in an extravagantly emotional episode in which the ballroom world is rocked when one of its most colorful members suffers a brutal fate. Co-written and directed by Ryan Murphy, the episode illuminates the violence and prejudice the trans community facet then (and still faces), but as usual, Pose finds a way to celebrate life amid tragedy. The category is: Survival. And that includes Pray Tell (the fabulous Billy Porter) coming to terms with his own HIV treatment. Aziz Ansari: Right Now (streaming on Netflix): We’re still waiting for a third season of the…
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True-Crime Doc ‘I Love You, Now Die’ Is Compellingly Twisted – TV Insider
Review HBO What I didn’t expect was the Glee connection. This compellingly twisted true-crime documentary I Love You, Now Die recounts the 2017 trial in Massachusetts of Michelle Carter, charged with involuntary manslaughter for her alleged role in the suicide of 18-year-old Conrad Roy three years earlier. After his death, from carbon monoxide intoxication in his car, texts were discovered showing that his long-distance girlfriend Michelle, then 17, had urged him on, even ordering him back in the car. She and her family declined requests for interviews, making it a challenge for the filmmakers to discern if Michelle, as prosecutors charged, was a narcissistic teen who stage-managed the suicide to…
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Roush Review: True-Crime Doc ‘I Love You, Now Die’ Is Compellingly Twisted | What’s on TV
What I didn’t expect was the Glee connection. This compellingly twisted true-crime documentary I Love You, Now Die recounts the 2017 trial in Massachusetts of Michelle Carter, charged with involuntary manslaughter for her alleged role in the suicide of 18-year-old Conrad Roy three years earlier. After his death, from carbon monoxide intoxication in his car, texts were discovered showing that his long-distance girlfriend Michelle, then 17, had urged him on, even ordering him back in the car. She and her family declined requests for interviews, making it a challenge for the filmmakers to discern if Michelle, as prosecutors charged, was a narcissistic teen who stage-managed the suicide to help boost…
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The best anti-superhero TV shows to watch before The Boys drops
OPINION: What if superheroes were real… and just as vacuous, self-obsessed and self-indulgent as the rest of us? That’s the premise of comic-book author Garth Ennis’s early ’00s comic series The Boys, which has been turned into a TV series, starring our very own Karl Urban and Antony Starr, that’s heading to Amazon Prime Video in a couple of weeks. I’ve seen the series but I can’t tell you anything about it yet – Amazon is keeping reviews under wraps until closer to the launch date – except to say that you’d better get ready for your new favourite TV show. Here’s how: Watch all the superhero TV that plays fast and loose with the idea of…
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What’s on TV Friday: ‘Jett’ on Cinemax – Los Angeles Times
What’s on TV Friday: ‘Jett’ on Cinemax Los Angeles Times Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. As the team on Earth readies for a mission to confront the Galaxy-Hopping Hate-Beast That Eats Planets, they ask for help from all … Source link
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A TV Critic Who Has Seen the Small Screen Become Huge
For a quick and dirty summary of how TV has changed over the last couple of decades, just take a look at the slogans for HBO. Contrast the late-’90s snobbery of “It’s not TV. It’s HBO” with the current tagline, a warm and fuzzy declaration of feel-good humility: “It’s what connects us.” In “I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution,” the critic Emily Nussbaum describes how she grew to love and appreciate television when the medium was still, culturally speaking, under siege. The year was 1997; she was studying for her graduate degree in literature and started to watch a new show called “Buffy the Vampire…
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Best of TV Tonight: ‘30 for 30: The Good, The Bad, The Hungry’ and more
The Good, The Bad, The Hungry (ESPN at 8) A look at the landscape of professional competitive eaters and how they train and develop their techniques. Pictured: Takeru Kobayashi takes a selfie with a fan. (ESPN Films) (All times Eastern.) America’s Got Talent (NBC at 8) Host Terry Crews takes a look at the best moments from this season’s auditions. Good Trouble (Freeform at 8) After never having a proper quinceañera, Jazmin has a double-quince party to celebrate her 30th birthday. Animal Kingdom (TNT at 9) Betrayals continue for Smurf, while Deran and Adrian try to figure out how to best navigate a dangerous situation. Craig tries to reconcile the issues he has with Frankie. Chopped…
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‘Legion’ Creator Noah Hawley on the Final Season, a ‘Satisfying’ Ending & ‘Fargo’ Season 4 – TV Insider
As FX’s bonkers Marvel Comics-based series Legion reaches its final season, its protagonist, the powerful mutant David Haller (Dan Stevens) is not simply the messed up, misunderstood character we may have perceived him to be initially. He might actually be the villain of this story. At the end of Season 2, David’s girlfriend Syd Barrett (Rachel Keller) and the rest of the Summerland gang finally figured this out (you know, after David manipulated Syd’s mind into believing she still loved him) and attempted to force David back into treatment. But David, clinging to the mantra “I’m a good person,” couldn’t believe his friends when they told him that his actions…