Hello! Every week, our internet culture staff will discuss the world of streaming entertainment in this newsletter. In this week’s edition: HBO’s Woodstock 99 doc Ted Lasso season 2 Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox. FESTIVALS What does HBO’s Woodstock 99 doc really show us? “The ’99 Woodstock just seemed […]
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HBO Max’s Reboot Has No Secrets Worth Hearing
The original Gossip Girl, no matter its eventual identity, was first and foremost an agent of chaos. Dropping juicy details about the private lives of Manhattan’s rich and popular youth for all to see, the blog/narrator voiced by Kristen Bell was built to manufacture continuous confrontation; whether its posts were […]
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‘Hacks’ finds hilarity in the details and the build-up: HBO Max review
Hacks begins with past-her-prime Las Vegas stand-up Deborah Vance unleashing a crass sex joke about an ungenerous lover who won’t take his shirt off in bed because, in her telling, his breasts are larger than hers. That wisecrack’s real payoff happens a half hour later, though, as the second episode […]
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Like a good joke, HBO Max’s ‘Hacks’ finds hilarity in the details and the build-up
Like a good joke, HBO Max’s ‘Hacks’ finds hilarity in the details and the build-up Hacks begins with past-her-prime Las Vegas stand-up Deborah Vance unleashing a crass sex joke about an ungenerous lover who won’t take his shirt off in bed because, in her telling, his breasts are larger than […]
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The 20 best new movies to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and HBO
While release dates and production schedules may be delayed, online streaming services haven’t been affected, luckily. That said, there’s no time like the present to catch up on your movie list. To help you sort the wheat from the chaff, we’ve rounded up some of the better new releases on […]
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‘The West Wing’ Cast Will Reunite for a Voting Special on HBO Max
In today’s TV news roundup, the cast and creator of “The West Wing” will reunite for a voting special, and Syfy greenlit “The Pole,” an animated adult comedy show featuring Bobby Moynihan and Jillian Bell, with Nicole Byer and Colin Jost. DATES “Somebody Feed Phil,” a show where creator and […]
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Jude Law’s HBO Mystery Works Best as a Religious Fever Dream
“The Third Day” takes a familiar story — a lost man, a mysterious island, an eccentric group of locals — and dresses it up to the nines. With starry leads Jude Law and Naomie Harris providing committed turns and an ambitious structure that breaks its story into three “seasons” — […]