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Salon talks to the show's usual suspect Kayvan Novak and Kristen Schaal about saying goodbye and the show's legacy
Top award races nod at originality, but the Globes' newest category shows we're still hooked on reboots and sequels
Maybe the real gift of the bad Wookiee and Ewok specials were the memories we made along the way
Arguing whether action movies can be Christmas movies is mainly for fun. This show further legitimizes the subgenre
"Come back in a couple of weeks, and we'll talk then," the woman at the animal rescue chirped. The short version of this story is my husband and...
The “Wicked” nation is still relatively young, like the musical itself. This year marks its 21st anniversary on Broadway, and the touring version...
Awards season always brings a parade of Very Important Cinema to theaters, most of which have the appeal of roughage. They may be good for us, but...
Mike Schur devised a mostly foolproof formula for the perfect modern workplace sitcom that began with “The Office” and steadily evolved through...
What “Dune: Prophecy” offers on its face is bound to appeal to women who are sick of everything. Given the present circumstances, who wouldn’t...
“Say Nothing” begins in a state of knotted tension: an introductory voiceover by Lola Petticrew’s resolute Dolours Price lets us know we’re...
Although the troubles of our world never bled into “What We Do in the Shadows,” the story never shied away from politics within its own musty,...
Throughout this election cycle, Don Lemon has been taking the pulse of the election person by person in cities across the country. During his...
For a little while on Tuesday evening “Election Night with Brian Williams” was the breaking political news equivalent of a meditation app. As...
This may be challenging to consider at a time when clipped-out segments have become the primary delivery system for headlines, information and...
While hosting MSNBC's "The Last Word," Lawrence O’Donnell has never held back about the danger Donald Trump poses to our democracy, or how he...
Those who know how reality TV works may take issue with Chris Coelen viewing “Love Is Blind” as a documentary. "We just want to know what's the...
“Grotesquerie” may have been inscrutable to most of us when it began, but its star and executive producer, Niecy Nash-Betts, knew exactly where...
Tim Bagley had no idea what St. Louis sushi was before he joined “Somebody Somewhere.” The oddball appetizer — pickle slathered in cream cheese...
“What is happening with the whales? I've read about this.” Over the years, Joe Rogan has welcomed an array of accredited scientists and nature...
Gauging Sofia Falcone’s situational anger at any moment in “The Penguin” isn’t tough. Just look at her eyes — not simply the emotions...
The second episode of the Washington D.C. “Love Is Blind” season is named for a game a few women play to pass the time: “Perfect Husband,...
Salon chats with Mark Proksch about Colin Robinson's final flight and how he'd fare in our world right now
In an alternate universe, Vice President Kamala Harris’ first Fox News interview probably would have been conducted by Chris Wallace. A veteran of...
Therapy rarely begins smoothly. Initial sessions tend to be colored by weeping, hesitancy and half-truths as the clinician and client get a feel for...
PBS could not have wanted for better organic, coincidental advertising for its four-part series “Citizen Nation” than Oakland University student...
We expect stories of first kisses to be singular and unforgettable because that’s what movies and books taught us to expect. “Three Women”...
Over the weekend, a gaggle of media establishment figures lost their collective crackers at the news that Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with...
If all horror is metaphor, then of course “Grotesquerie” would feature a turducken. The hedonistic holiday feast occasions Det. Lois Tryon (Niecy...
A past CBS boss likened political debates to campaign ads. Tuesday's moderators didn't do much to disprove him
John Landis knew exactly what he was doing in casting John Amos opposite James Earl Jones in 1988’s “Coming to America.” The audience related to...
Dame is a term that shifts dramatically in the cross-Atlantic translation between Britain and the United States. Here it’s considered archaic, a...
The last step that “One Person, One Vote” director Maximina Juson needed to complete her documentary on the Electoral College was to film the...
All great stories can be dragged down by fan service. No matter how lofty the concept, regardless of how successfully it launches, the gravitational...
Natasha Rothwell’s life would be unrecognizable, compared to what we know of her today, if she hadn’t stopped still at a crossroads and changed...
Days before I sat down for my conversation with John Lithgow, and purely by coincidence, I watched “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th...
One would think “The Choice 2024” would have been, if not easier for “Frontline” producer and director Michael Kirk, perhaps a slightly easier...
Television is never quite perfect, even in its remarkable seasons. Awards shows celebrating TV have a long history of being far worse, somehow, than...
Earlier this year, CNN made good on its pledge to inject topical comedy into its Saturday lineup by re-airing “Real Time with Bill Maher” in that...
“How to Die Alone” existed long before JD Vance mounted his campaign against childless women, but the timing of its debut landing smack in the...
James Earl Jones introduced me to August Wilson by way of his play “Fences.” Our acquaintance was forged indirectly and vicariously, I should say,...
Armchair quarterbacks typically weigh in the morning after a game’s been lost. Regarding the debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former...
Dan Partland ended our recent conversation by referencing the paradox of tolerance: To maintain a tolerant society, it holds, tolerant citizens must...
Shaun Peterson hadn’t thought much about Abraham Lincoln’s love life until around 15 years ago. That changed when he read Gore Vidal’s 2005...
Since the Clinton era, the Democratic Party has claimed the concept of political rock stars. Following 12 years of Democratic candidates and two...
Late in Season 2 of “Pachinko” waits a frame that's as flawless as it is simple, in that it holds two people. By then we've watched their yearning...
If you have ovaries and a uterus, and are somewhere in your late 40s or beyond, you will have a body-informed epiphany. It might be barely noticeable....
“Things are getting kind of strange” is what you’d expect someone in a docuseries called “Chimp Crazy” to say. By the time someone drops...
Forty-five years after “Alien” launched horror into space, little hasn’t been analyzed about its hissing xenomorphs, face-huggers or the...
Eddie the Eagle. The Jamaican bobsledding team. Great underdog stories are part of the Olympics’ fabric, giving TV audiences supplemental heroes to...
Just like comedy fans replay their favorite routines every so often, I often find myself returning to a few journalistic pieces written about comedy...