Новости за 07.12.2020

In these Troubled Times, much divides us. But every once in awhile, something happens that brings us together. We can come together as one to, say, dunk on the celebs. We can jointly love the giant Home Depot skeletons, all year round. And once a year, we unite to celebrate this, the mots festive and joyous of annual…

Nearly a year ago, Planters snuffed Mr. Peanut from the face of the Earth only to introduce us to a hideous imposter known as Baby Nut. Not long afterwards, this “Baby Nut” then mutated into a drunkard calling itself Peanut Jr., giving an exhausted, isolated populace a target for its collective rage.

To The Ends Of The Earth is the sort of film that’s too easily tagged as a “departure” for its veteran director. Still best known in the U.S. for Cure and Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa continues to be received as a prodigious horror stylist—an accurate if limited designation that has to do with selective Stateside…

After nine months in lockdown, the words “Zoom reunion” come with a certain exhaustion. The charm of charitable table reads and Q&As has faded, especially since many of these gatherings are, even in lockdown, missing key players. Not so with Josh Gad’s Reunited Apart series, the gold standard in this strange new…

Although he has never been convicted of a crime, Mike Africa Jr. has served significant time. Debbie Africa, at the outset of her prison sentence, gave birth to Mike Jr. at Philadelphia’s House of Corrections, while his father, Michael Africa Sr., served a concurrent sentence. Africa Jr. wouldn’t know of the existence…

It’s been 26 years since Mariah Carey proved you could still create a Christmas staple—kicking off decades of copycats and wannabes trying to recreate her holiday hit, “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” But while no one has toppled that track in terms of chart performance, these 18 original songs from the past decade…

Even though this six-part docucast is billed as the origin story of new jack swing, that late ’80s/early ’90s meshing of soulful vocals and hip-hop beats, this is really a chronicle of the group that started it all: Guy. Hardcore new-jack fans may be shocked to learn how integral former member Timmy Gatling was to the…

Lifetime and KFC have tried their very best to deliver an entirely unexpected and novel collaboration: A “mini-movie” about a hunky Colonel Sanders, played by Mario Lopez. Joke’s on these dumb-dumbs because our capacity to be shocked by literally anything has been completely evaporated by this haunted house of a year.…

It was roughly two years ago that Logan Paul announced his intention to get his ass kicked real good. It was roughly one year ago that the YouTube superstar announced it was “the beginning of the end.” And it was roughly one day ago that Paul’s prophesied end received a proper date. On February 20, the up-and-coming…

This Halloween’s hottest decoration was “Home Accents Holiday 12 ft. Giant-Sized Skeleton With LifeEyes-5124738,” a big bony harbinger of autumnal fun that delighted the world by virtue of being both very tall and a cool skeleton. For anyone worried that our ol’ pal HAF12FTG-SSWLE-5124738 would simply sink back into…

No one cares about Green Book anymore. Not even the people who liked Green Book care about Green Book at this point. We’ve all moved on with our lives, which have become increasingly burdened in various ways by a global pandemic, but not Viggo Mortensen. The actor, whom you may remember as the co-star of Green Book,…

House Of Ho is HBO Max’s entry into the rapidly growing genre of culturally specific reality series following extremely wealthy Asian multigenerational families. Similar to the Bravo series Family Karma, centered around wealthy multigenerational Indian families in Miami, and Netflix’s Fabulous Lives Of Bollywood Wives…

Even Charlie Brooker thinks that 2020 is so batshit bananas awful that he couldn’t have dreamed it up for Black Mirror himself. But maybe he can make the end of our Hell Year a teensy bit less dismal with his new Netflix comedy event Death To 2020, a mock-doc-style special that takes a look back at this dumb fucking…

Family is everything in Netflix’s new Selena bio-series. In the show, which launched last week, Selena is constantly surrounded by her Quintanilla clan, members of whom comprise both her band and her management team.

In 1992, David Sedaris first read “Santaland Diaries,” the tale of the horrible time he had working as a Macy’s elf. The story includes him recounting an awful customer threatening to have him fired, which he imagines responding to by saying, “I’m going to have you killed.” That was the ‘90s, though, and Sedaris is no…

We all needed something to look forward to in 2020. That’s what movie trailers provide, isn’t it? They’re a glimpse at the fun you’ll have down the road, a save-the-date card, a circle to draw on your calendar. In a year almost entirely devoid of blockbusters, we had to make do with trailers: They offered scraps of…

Almost as quickly as it arrived, Netflix’s critically heralded comedy-drama Feel Good is ready to say goodbye. Netflix announced on Monday morning that the show has been renewed for a second and final season. The news arrived in the form of a video from the show’s star, co-writer co-creator, Mae Martin, who was…

Warning: Spoilers for season two of Harley Quinn and season four of 3% are below.

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, December 7. All times are Eastern.

I’ve enjoyed the slow drift of Moonbase 8, the way its episodes don’t lock together so much as overlap. The improvisatory nature of its ensemble benefits from the show’s decision to foreground character over plot, but their weekly misadventures don’t come without consequence. In the season’s final two episodes, Cap’s…

Based on the Israeli limited series Kvodo, the introductory installment of Showtime’s ten-episode Your Honor is a slow burn for what promises to be ten episodes of gradually bubbling prestige pulp. The setup sees Adam, the sensitive, vulnerable son of Bryan Cranston’s grieving New Orleans judge Michael Desiato,…

The opening scene of the Shameless pilot, which debuted almost a decade ago in 2011, introduces us to the Gallagher family gathered around a bonfire—okay, it’s a car on fire, but that technically counts—in their South Side neighborhood. But if you haven’t revisited the pilot in a while, you may have forgotten that it…

According to the Associated Press, sentient glob of discarded Nickelodeon slime Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for COVID-19, despite the fact that he travels around the country constantly, takes absolutely zero precautions, and just generally seems like the kind of guy that people wouldn’t mind sneezing on—so,…

Today in news that might be taken as a bit of a bother by exclusively one fancy family and the people who care too much about them, Netflix has released a statement saying that it will not be adding a disclaimer in front of episodes of The Crown to make it explicitly clear that the show is, in fact, a fictionalized…