This post contains some spoilers for the first season of Squid Game, available now on Netflix. Red light, green light. Tug of war. Marbles. These are, as Seong Gi-hun and the other main characters of Netflix’s South Korean drama series Squid Game will repeatedly observe, games designed for children. Eventually, …
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“What’s twitching in the corner?” Cary Joji Fukunaga is slumped on a couch in a London editing facility, sipping a smoothie, stock-still except for one Birkenstock-clad foot perched, and almost imperceptibly shaking, on his knee. The 42-year-old director is running part of the opening sequence of No Time to Die, …
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This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July/August issue of the magazine. In the summer of 2018, and because life imitates art, Taylour Paige found herself trying to get a job as a stripper. Just a few weeks earlier, Paige had booked the …
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Nostalgia, Don Draper once pointed out, derives from a Greek word for “pain from an old wound.” Television is awash in nostalgic revivals, reboots, and reunions, but they’re borne out of a far more recent pain: the difficulty any program or streaming service has getting your attention in a 500-show …
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Lost in Space Season 2 The Robinson family returns, only, something’s missing: their Robot. Between clips of unending sea and the depths of space (filmed in Iceland and Vancouver), the youngest Robinson, Will, pines for their missing comrade and resolves to find him, even if seems like a hopeless quest. …
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When Mr. Robot debuted in the summer of 2015, none of its individual components were clearly new. The cyberpunk drama’s then-unknown creator, Sam Esmail, readily copped to the influences of paranoid Seventies thrillers like The Parallax View. Late in that first season, the show even played a piano version of …
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A franchise that started in 2006. A franchise that started in 2014. A 1992 film, remade. A franchise that started in 1954. A franchise that started in 2016. A franchise that started in 1997. A franchise that started in 1995. The third big-screen version of a franchise that started in …
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“We choose to go to the moon! We choose to go to the moon! We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard!” These words, part of a 1962 speech by President John F. …
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This column contains some spoilers for the fourth season of Legends of Tomorrow, now available in its entirety on Netflix. Midway through Legends of Tomorrow‘s Season Four finale, one of the show’s misfit heroes finds himself in hell, hanging out with supervillain Vandal Savage. Savage was the big bad of …
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There’s an episode of 21 Jump Street where the cops go undercover at a performing arts high school. Peter DeLuise’s Doug Penhall has to perform a scene in acting class, and opts to do something from an episode of the classic Fifties sitcom The Honeymooners rather than from a play. …
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