Bartlett, who plays Armond on the HBO series, reflects on his character’s fate and the show’s complicated class satire. By Matthew Jacobs August 15, 2021 This story contains spoilers for the series finale of The White Lotus. HBO’s The White Lotus began with a tease: By the end of the series, someone would wind up
A deliberately frustrating finale drove home the core themes of Mike White’s terrific series. By Richard Lawson August 15, 2021 Though it opened with a mystery-box setup—who’s in the coffin getting loaded onto the airplane?—The White Lotus was far from a whodunit, or a who-died. It was, instead, a pretty matter-of-fact show, plain and harrowing
For a very, very long time now, Teen Mom fans have been concerned about that whole thing where Farrah Abraham is solely responsible for another human life. Like this has been an issue since her reality television debut on 16 and Pregnant, and it just keeps getting scarier. We’re sure you know that Farrah has
The case against Josh Duggar is starting to come into focus. And the picture we can now see doesn’t look especially positive for the former 19 Kids and Counting cast member. Let’s delve into the latest update, shall we? Duggar, as you very likely know by now, was arrested in late April on two counts of
The High Roller’s Room is open for business, but it might just be one of the worst twists in the history of the series. Before we got to all of those antics, we had to crown a new Head of Household, and it was a knockout style competition. Britini and Claire kicked off the competition,
Disney+’s first TV series launch, the nine-episode WandaVision combined a wholly original premise that somehow felt familiar by its blatant homage to classic sitcoms that the witch Wanda conjured to mask her grief in losing her soulmate, Vision, to a brutal death we all saw in Avengers: Infinity War. Having Wanda mask her grief by
The upcoming sixth and final season of Disney Television Studios’ mega-hit This Is Us is sure to see some emotionally stirring storylines. In fact, during Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees event, series creator Dan Fogelman said he brought studio execs to tears during a Season 6 story pitch meeting on Zoom. “People were crying to
Though The Descendants’ animated special, Descendants: The Royal Wedding, last Friday celebrated the marriage of main characters Mal and Ben, the episode also honored their late actor Cameron Boyce, who played Carlos in the Disney Channel franchise. The television special acknowledged the absence of Carlos early on when Mal receives a wedding present of a
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the Season 1 finale of HBO’s The White Lotus. “Now, we are starting down a very dark road,” Shane Patton (Jake Lacy) says in tonight’s episode of The White Lotus, “and you’d better be sure you really want to go there.” While the wealthy man-child’s comments are directed
When the new Starz wrestling drama Heels began production last fall, the pandemic posed challenges that were both very new to the industry and also costly. And when dealing with a high contact sport, the stakes are even higher. “Everybody had to be very disciplined,” executive producer and showrunner Mike O’Malley told Deadline. “We started
John Oliver isn’t too pleased about the new host of Jeopardy! either. The HBO Max host noted his disgruntlement on today’s episode of Last Week Tonight while discussing school mask mandates. Early in the episode, Oliver played a clip of an angry mob accosting a school board member over mask mandates with a man screaming,
One night while trying something other than endlessly doomscrolling for stories about Donald Trump, climate change, and the pandemic, I chanced upon an ad for an odd scented candle. We’ve become accustomed to these sorts of things (thanks, Gwyneth!), but I’d never imagine I’d find a candle that smells like a record store. DW Home’s
Remedy reports that not only has their superb sci-fi thriller Control reached over 10 million users, but they’ve begun work on that new game with Epic Games doing the publishing duties that may be another Alan Wake title. All of this comes from the developer’s latest financial report, which has seen their revenue increased from
Nightdive have finally taken the wraps off of their upcoming remaster of Powerslave with a brand-new trailer. Revealed during the Realms Deep 2021 event, the cult shooter originally created by Lobotomy Software was originally announced last year. Combining the PlayStation and Saturn versions of the game to create the definitive experience, Powerslave: Exhumed will be
3D Realms and developer Jasozz Games have revealed CULTIC, a new horror FPS that pays homage to 90s shooters with plenty of plasma. The game will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam in 2022. Created by sole developer Jason Smith, CULTIC sees you dying. A lot.
3D Realms and developer Jasozz Games have revealed CULTIC, a new horror FPS that pays homage to 90s shooters with plenty of plasma. The game will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam in 2022. Created by sole developer Jason Smith, CULTIC sees you dying. A lot.
Structured like a play and filmed in inky black and white, actor Mark O’Brien’s feature directorial debut The Righteous is a dialogue-driven examination of grief, responsibility and penance. The film follows Frederic Mason (Henry Czerny), a former priest who left the brotherhood to marry Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk) and raise a little girl. Ethel is devout
Structured like a play and filmed in inky black and white, actor Mark O’Brien’s feature directorial debut The Righteous is a dialogue-driven examination of grief, responsibility and penance. The film follows Frederic Mason (Henry Czerny), a former priest who left the brotherhood to marry Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk) and raise a little girl. Ethel is devout
Play video content TMZ.com Michael B. Jordan was recently compared to Denzel Washington — and after much internet debate … the man himself has weighed in himself to us on camera. We got the movie star Friday night while leaving Catch in WeHo, and asked him what he made of people suggesting he’s the next
The star of Marvel’s new superhero movie took offense to Disney calling it an “experiment” — and now, his anger has roped in “Black Panther” comparisons … and a larger convo on race. Actor Simu Liu fired off a scorching tweet Saturday AM that seemed to be in direct response to what CEO, Bob Chapek,
Johnny Depp has addressed the elephant in the room — which is that he’s seen as a pariah in Hollywood now … something that isn’t lost on him, and which he seems to think is BS. The embattled actor sat for an interview with the Sunday Times — to promote his new movie, “Minamata” —
4:03 PM PT — Jennifer Lopez wasn’t entirely off the radar Sunday while her boo, Ben, enjoyed some personal time with his children — she, too, was out and about with her own young ones … grabbing a bite in Beverly Hills as if it were any other day in the year. TMZ has obtained
Vincent Kartheiser has been a television mainstay for over a decade. The actor, who played the title character’s antagonistic and bitter son Connor on Angel, went on to star in AMC’s Mad Men as petulant man-baby Pete Campbell. Now, he joins the third season of HBO Max’s Titans as Jonathan Crane, better known as the
[embedded content] It’s nearly impossible to stand out among the wildly talented cast of The Suicide Squad. I mean, you’re competing with superstars Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, and John Cena, not to mention sentient weasels and shark royalty. So it was surprising to say the least that Daniela Melchior’s Cleo Cazo aka Ratcatcher 2 emerged
Shang-Chi star Simu Liu has fired back at Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s comments, who recently described the release of the next Marvel film as an “interesting experiment.” Unlike recent Disney releases, which premiered simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ for Premier Access, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will play exclusively in theaters
Amazon has made the shocking decision to move the production of their untitled “Lord of the Rings” series from New Zealand to the U.K. The highly anticipated prequel is also one of the most expensive television series ever, with Amazon spending a whopping $465 million on the first season alone. “We want to thank the
Is The Suicide Squad James Gunn’s best movie ever? It is, at the very least, the most “Gunn-iest”, proudly wearing its Troma-inspired gory heart on its sleeve. With its over-the-top violence, humor, and style, The Suicide Squad has quickly amassed a devoted fan base, with many proclaiming that the film is the best offering yet
[embedded content] Few shows on television are funnier than FX’s delightful What We Do in the Shadows. A spinoff of the 2014 New Zealand mockumentary written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, WWDITS the series expands on the world built in the film to hilarious effect. With season 3 debuting in just a
It would be fair to say that there’s a lot of opinion out there on digital birth control app Natural Cycles, which recently received FDA approval to launch ‘wearable’ contraceptives. The platform, which itself has had FDA approval since 2018, works by users taking their temperature daily and inputting their results into the app –
The Lambda Coronavirus variant is believed to have come from Peru, where cases seem to be subsiding, but the UK is playing close attention to the strain since it’s hitting South America hard, and could potentially be more transmissible than the Delta variant. Here’s everything you need to know. What is the Lambda Covid variant?