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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Netflix has announced that Seinfeld will finally arrive on the streaming platform October 1st. The news was accompanied by a cheeky trailer that urged viewers to prepare themselves for “2021’s hottest new show — well, not actually new but never seen before… on Netflix.” Amidst a montage of classic Seinfeld …
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When You author Caroline Kepnes sat down to write the third book in the series, You Love Me, she made like main character Joe Goldberg: She stalked the living daylights out of random residents of Bainbridge Island to get a sense of the place — a.k.a. Joe’s new home. Joe …
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Back in 2018, actor Evan Peters said he was done with the dark characters of Ryan Murphy‘s television universe — having played everyone from a school shooter to a serial killer to a Trumpian cult leader on the latter’s American Horror Story series. That decision was apparently short-lived, as Deadline …
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At first glance, Netflix‘s Ginny & Georgia seems like it was created by a streaming-service algorithm. The story of a single mom (Brianne Howey’s Georgia) and the precocious teenage daughter (Antonia Gentry’s Ginny) she had when she was a teen herself, it not only mimics the central premise of Gilmore …
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Behind Her Eyes, a bestselling thriller written by Sarah Pinborough, was marketed with its own hashtag, #WTFThatEnding, that can be interpreted two ways: as a lure convincing potential readers that they’ll be delighted by an unexpected conclusion, or as a warning that they’ll want to hurl the book across the …
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Well, we made it through 2020 though it’s easy to forget that awful year is behind us. It’s cold outside, the vaccine is still making a slow rollout, and movie theaters remain closed in much of the country. Change is coming but it’s not here yet, so the only sensible …
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Bridgerton It’s the social season in Regency-era London, and all is fair in love and war. In the latest teaser for Shonda Rhimes‘ new drama, the mysterious Lady Whistledown (voiced by Julie Andrews) promises to share every scandal of the season in her gossip pamphlet. It appears that Lady Whisltedown …
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Netflix announced on Friday that comedy writer and performer Ayo Edebiri has joined the cast ofBig Mouth as Missy, replacing Jenny Slate, who has voiced the character since the animated show’s first season. Edebiri will first be introduced as Missy in the penultimate episode of Season 4, premiering in fall …
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John Malkovich appears in our latest installment of The First Time, timed to the May 29th premiere of the new Greg Daniels/Steve Carell series Space Force, in which hestars alongside Carell. The legendarily droll actor discusses his first Zoom happy hour, his first time singing folk gospel, teaching himself to …
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