Evan Peters, Niecy Nash-Betts and Richard Jenkins are all likely to land Emmy nominations for their performances on Netflix’s “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” But if members of the TV academy go all in on the first iteration of the “Monster” anthology series from co-creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, you shouldn’t be surprised if Rodney Burford Jr., the lead of the show’s most acclaimed episode, also winds up with a bid.
As Tony Hughes, one of the 17 men murdered by infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Burford appears in three of the show’s 10 installments, including the standout sixth outing, “Silenced.” Directed by two-time Emmy winner Paris Barclay, and written by David McMillan and Janet Mock, this episode centers on Hughes, a deaf and gay Black man with big ambitions whose life comes to a tragic halt after he encounters and is killed by Dahmer...
As Tony Hughes, one of the 17 men murdered by infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Burford appears in three of the show’s 10 installments, including the standout sixth outing, “Silenced.” Directed by two-time Emmy winner Paris Barclay, and written by David McMillan and Janet Mock, this episode centers on Hughes, a deaf and gay Black man with big ambitions whose life comes to a tragic halt after he encounters and is killed by Dahmer...
- 5/11/2023
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
It’s only been announced for a few hours, and it’s already controversial.
A Harry Potter TV series was greenlit by Max (formerly HBO Max) that will remake J.K. Rowling’s beloved bestselling fantasy novels into a “faithful” long-form series to roll out over a period of 10 years. The ambitious project will cast new leads and include far more detail from the seven novels, which were often rather truncated in their previous adaptations into Warner Bros. feature films, which launched with 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Except, you know, there’s the whole divisive matter of Rowling herself.
Max could not make a series without a deal with the author, who still holds considerable control over the filmic rights to her stories. Rowling will be involved with the new series as an executive producer, though she is not expected to have day-to-day control or contribute to the writing.
A Harry Potter TV series was greenlit by Max (formerly HBO Max) that will remake J.K. Rowling’s beloved bestselling fantasy novels into a “faithful” long-form series to roll out over a period of 10 years. The ambitious project will cast new leads and include far more detail from the seven novels, which were often rather truncated in their previous adaptations into Warner Bros. feature films, which launched with 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Except, you know, there’s the whole divisive matter of Rowling herself.
Max could not make a series without a deal with the author, who still holds considerable control over the filmic rights to her stories. Rowling will be involved with the new series as an executive producer, though she is not expected to have day-to-day control or contribute to the writing.
- 4/12/2023
- by James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In a letter addressed to The New York Times, celebrities and LGBTQ+ organizations are calling for an overhaul in the publication’s approach to covering transgender people, calling their current practices “dangerous.” Gabrielle Union, Judd Apatow, Tommy Dorfman, Jonathan Van Ness, Margaret Cho, Jameela Jamil, Lena Dunham, Joey Soloway, Wilson Cruz, and more are among the signees.
“The Times has repeatedly platformed cisgender (non-transgender) people spreading inaccurate and harmful misinformation about transgender people and issues,” the letter published by GLAAD reads. “This is damaging to the paper’s credibility. And...
“The Times has repeatedly platformed cisgender (non-transgender) people spreading inaccurate and harmful misinformation about transgender people and issues,” the letter published by GLAAD reads. “This is damaging to the paper’s credibility. And...
- 2/15/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
As the Rolling Stone staff stared down the task of culling decades worth of television to a list of the 100 best shows of all time, we knew we needed help — lots of it. So, we hit up Hollywood. In addition to polling our most pop culture-obsessed staffers, we reached out to a wide swath of television actors, creators, showrunners, writers, directors, producers, and critics. The instructions: Give us your top 50 shows of any genre — no restrictions — defining “best” as whatever it means to you.
The 46 ballots we got back were often surprising,...
The 46 ballots we got back were often surprising,...
- 9/26/2022
- by RS Editors
- Rollingstone.com
Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi released a stand-alone nine-minute version of “The Night King,” which appears in the third episode of the series’ eighth and final season.
The arrangement opens with a tranquil piano theme that gradually swells to incorporate sawing strings, including a haunting counterpoint melody around the five-minute mark. The piece continues to intensify and recede, peaking with a tempo acceleration in its final minute.
Several critics have praised Djawadi’s score as one of the highlights from the latest episode, “The Long Night,” written by series...
The arrangement opens with a tranquil piano theme that gradually swells to incorporate sawing strings, including a haunting counterpoint melody around the five-minute mark. The piece continues to intensify and recede, peaking with a tempo acceleration in its final minute.
Several critics have praised Djawadi’s score as one of the highlights from the latest episode, “The Long Night,” written by series...
- 5/3/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix is an entertainment conglomerate that’s also, at its heart, a tech company. As it transitioned from a mail-order DVD rental service to producer of its own streaming content, it kept preaching the Silicon Valley motto of disruption. Netflix, said Netflix, wouldn’t be beholden to the old Hollywood way of doing things: Seasons would be released all at once, rather than forcing viewers to wait a week at a time for each episode! Creative people would be given creative freedom to make the kinds of shows they couldn’t anywhere else!
- 3/25/2019
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
(This post contains full season spoilers for True Detective Season Three. On Sunday night, Sean T. Collins recapped “Now Am Found,“ the season finale.)
“You write the story, you get past the start, it’s important to know how you want it to end,” Amelia Hays declares midway through the concluding chapter of True Detective Season Three. This is perhaps the most self-conscious bit of writing about the process of writing in an episode full of it. The series’ two previous iterations each stumbled at the finish line in ways...
“You write the story, you get past the start, it’s important to know how you want it to end,” Amelia Hays declares midway through the concluding chapter of True Detective Season Three. This is perhaps the most self-conscious bit of writing about the process of writing in an episode full of it. The series’ two previous iterations each stumbled at the finish line in ways...
- 2/26/2019
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
The Terror, AMC’s first foray into the anthology-series trend, has been a big success for the network, ending its first season as the No. 2 drama on cable and earning high marks from critics like The A.V. Club’s own Sean T. Collins, who gave all but one episode a stellar “A” rating. (Episode two got an “A-.”) So,…
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- 6/22/2018
- by Katie Rife on News, shared by Katie Rife to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
This year, we've asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. First up: Sean T. Collins on Girls' "American Bitch."
When 2017 lies dead and buried in the ground, "Separate the art from the artist" will be chiseled on its tombstone. But what will we find in the grave?
If it's the idea that creators are shielded from scrutiny by the strength of their creations, then goodbye and good riddance.
When 2017 lies dead and buried in the ground, "Separate the art from the artist" will be chiseled on its tombstone. But what will we find in the grave?
If it's the idea that creators are shielded from scrutiny by the strength of their creations, then goodbye and good riddance.
- 12/11/2017
- Rollingstone.com
And so we end our first tour of Westworld, armed with the knowledge that nothing was as it seemed in that pilot episode and everything was as it seemed in breathless, allegedly "speculative" Reddit threads. To sum up: Bernard was both a host and a flesh-and-circuitry avatar of Arnold, the park's late co-founder. The mysterious Man in Black was indeed William, some 30 odd years into the future (or if you prefer, William was the park's resident repeat-visitor psychopath three decades ago; choose your own preferred parallel-timeline adventure), and the organization's majority stake holder.
- 12/5/2016
- Rollingstone.com
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of his online horror anthology Split Lip, Sam Costello has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a hardcover collection featuring 13 of the best and creepiest Split Lip stories. We also have images and details on Funko’s third wave of Sdcc 2016 exclusives—including a Doctor Strange Pop! vinyl figure—as well as preview pages from Dark Horse’s trade paperback release of the comic book series Living with the Dead.
Split Lip Kickstarter: From Kickstarter: “Split Lip is an anthology of self-contained horror comics written by Sam Costello and drawn by artists from all over the world. It is often compared to The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery. Influences include writers like Shirley Jackson and Clive Barker, comics creators like Junji Ito and Emily Carroll, ghost stories, folk tales and murder ballads.
Calling Split Lip horror is easiest, but it’s more accurate to call it weird fiction.
Split Lip Kickstarter: From Kickstarter: “Split Lip is an anthology of self-contained horror comics written by Sam Costello and drawn by artists from all over the world. It is often compared to The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery. Influences include writers like Shirley Jackson and Clive Barker, comics creators like Junji Ito and Emily Carroll, ghost stories, folk tales and murder ballads.
Calling Split Lip horror is easiest, but it’s more accurate to call it weird fiction.
- 6/20/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
This post contains spoilers.
Sunday night's Season Five finale of Game of Thrones found Valar morghulis — "All men must die" — taken to its extreme conclusion with the deaths of multiple characters. But the biggest, by far, was Jon Snow, who, as our recap noted, "fell like Caesar by the blades of his supposed brothers, slain for treason against the Night's Watch even as the largest killing machine in the world — the army of the dead — marches for their destruction."
Like many of the most beloved characters' deaths, devoted Thrones fans...
Sunday night's Season Five finale of Game of Thrones found Valar morghulis — "All men must die" — taken to its extreme conclusion with the deaths of multiple characters. But the biggest, by far, was Jon Snow, who, as our recap noted, "fell like Caesar by the blades of his supposed brothers, slain for treason against the Night's Watch even as the largest killing machine in the world — the army of the dead — marches for their destruction."
Like many of the most beloved characters' deaths, devoted Thrones fans...
- 6/15/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Sunday night's season finale of True Detective, the HBO crime drama phenomenon that has attracted nearly 11 million viewers per episode, became a (murder) victim of its own success, crashing HBO Go and launching the inevitable social media cri de coeurs.
Matthew McConaughey Reveals the Four Stages of 'True Detective' Rustin Cohle
Select fans who tried to access the show on HBO Go were greeted with the appropriately titled "Fatal Error" and a continuous revolving progress circle, causing more than one "Time is a flat circle" joke on Twitter and Facebook.
Matthew McConaughey Reveals the Four Stages of 'True Detective' Rustin Cohle
Select fans who tried to access the show on HBO Go were greeted with the appropriately titled "Fatal Error" and a continuous revolving progress circle, causing more than one "Time is a flat circle" joke on Twitter and Facebook.
- 3/10/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Welcome to “It Is Known – Season 3 Deconstructed”! Every week, you will find my extensive review of the week’s episode of Game of Thrones.
I will explore the narrative that the show weaves. And what a narrative indeed! The story is complex, the characters are manifold, the twists and turns unexpected. I will deconstruct the episodes piece by piece, moving from character to character. This is an unusual approach, I admit, and a bit cumbersome at times, but the show basically does the same. The episodes are just parts of one, epic story, and as parts we have to examine them if we hope to get everything that happens.
This Week's Episode: "The Rains of Castamere"
Catharsis. I know the term doesn’t fit exactly here, since you don’t feel purified, more soiled. But boy, the Red Wedding was a cloud that hung over the whole season for book readers like me.
I will explore the narrative that the show weaves. And what a narrative indeed! The story is complex, the characters are manifold, the twists and turns unexpected. I will deconstruct the episodes piece by piece, moving from character to character. This is an unusual approach, I admit, and a bit cumbersome at times, but the show basically does the same. The episodes are just parts of one, epic story, and as parts we have to examine them if we hope to get everything that happens.
This Week's Episode: "The Rains of Castamere"
Catharsis. I know the term doesn’t fit exactly here, since you don’t feel purified, more soiled. But boy, the Red Wedding was a cloud that hung over the whole season for book readers like me.
- 6/10/2013
- by Stefan Sasse
- Corona's Coming Attractions
We don't know who Peter Dinklage is playing in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" just yet. So let's just assume he's playing Tyrion Lannister, his brilliant award-winning character from "Game of Thrones." After all, "Days of Future Past" is already dealing with time-travel, juggling two separate eras of "X-Men" casts at once — would bringing Westeros' smallest giant into the realm of mutants and Sentinels really make things too weird?
(Yes, it would. Just roll with us.)
In fact, smart money suggests that Tyrion would actually handle himself quite well if he was put up against the X-universe. Sure, height isn't on his side, and he has no real powers to speak of beyond his razor-sharp tongue — but who needs Valyrian steel to compete with adamantium when wits are on your side?
So, let's put Tyrion to the test. We've turned to Sean T. Collins, comic book author and critic and...
(Yes, it would. Just roll with us.)
In fact, smart money suggests that Tyrion would actually handle himself quite well if he was put up against the X-universe. Sure, height isn't on his side, and he has no real powers to speak of beyond his razor-sharp tongue — but who needs Valyrian steel to compete with adamantium when wits are on your side?
So, let's put Tyrion to the test. We've turned to Sean T. Collins, comic book author and critic and...
- 2/14/2013
- by Splash Page Team
- MTV Splash Page
If you haven't yet seen the comic circulating the internet "Hottest Chick in the Game," you're missing out. It follows Drizzy, the ever unsatisfied rapper, as he attempts to get out of the hip-hop game -- which proves more difficult than expected. As if being sued by a nightclub for $16 million after his bar brawl with Chris Brown wasn't enough, now Drake has the hip-hop Illuminati on his back.
Rumors have been circulating for a while around Drake's affiliation with the Illuminati ever since he suspiciously got an owl tattoo and displayed a similar design on his "Take Care" cover. Whether or not this is the elusive Illuminati owl, symbol of the occult, remains unverified. But this comic gives us all the answers we need. The hilarious ride features cameos from all your favorite stars and possible secret society members, including Kanye, Aaliyah and even Blue Ivy Carter. To find out more,...
Rumors have been circulating for a while around Drake's affiliation with the Illuminati ever since he suspiciously got an owl tattoo and displayed a similar design on his "Take Care" cover. Whether or not this is the elusive Illuminati owl, symbol of the occult, remains unverified. But this comic gives us all the answers we need. The hilarious ride features cameos from all your favorite stars and possible secret society members, including Kanye, Aaliyah and even Blue Ivy Carter. To find out more,...
- 8/27/2012
- by Priscilla Frank
- Huffington Post
Coming off a whirlwind release day the week of Comic-Con International and supported by special events at comic book stores around the country, The Walking Dead #100 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard will receive a second printing after selling out of its record-setting first printing. At 383,612 copies, the sales of The Walking Dead #100 were the best initial orders for a single issue of a comic book since 1997. A harrowing and heart-wrenching event in the lives of Rick Grimes and his band of survivors, The Walking Dead #100 has been critically acclaimed for its examination of violence and mortality. At The Comics Journal, Sean T. Collins considered the depiction of brutality: "It's hugely graphic and gory, but more importantly it's predicated on anguish and agony, on a character begging for their life and slowly losing it anyway, in view of other characters, including children, made to watch as punishment," he...
- 7/19/2012
- ComicBookMovie.com
Child killings, incestuous colonies and poor casting decisions all highlighted in our weekly recap series, 'Watching the Thrones.'
By Josh Wigler
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in "Game of Thrones"
Photo: HBO
Well, ain't that a bastard!
Consider it official: "Game of Thrones" is back and more brutal than ever. Ned Stark's severed head can step (or roll) aside, as a new benchmark for horrific "Thrones" violence was reached with the season-two premiere Sunday night. We speak, of course, of the ruthless mass-murder of Robert Baratheon's bastards.
We covered that bloodshed and lots more in our new weekly recap series, "Watching the Thrones," which you can watch in the video below.
Keep on reading for even more of the highlights from the season premiere, "The North Remembers":
The Good
» Season two kicks off differently from the book it's based upon, "A Clash of Kings," in some key ways,...
By Josh Wigler
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in "Game of Thrones"
Photo: HBO
Well, ain't that a bastard!
Consider it official: "Game of Thrones" is back and more brutal than ever. Ned Stark's severed head can step (or roll) aside, as a new benchmark for horrific "Thrones" violence was reached with the season-two premiere Sunday night. We speak, of course, of the ruthless mass-murder of Robert Baratheon's bastards.
We covered that bloodshed and lots more in our new weekly recap series, "Watching the Thrones," which you can watch in the video below.
Keep on reading for even more of the highlights from the season premiere, "The North Remembers":
The Good
» Season two kicks off differently from the book it's based upon, "A Clash of Kings," in some key ways,...
- 4/2/2012
- MTV Movie News
Child killings, incestuous colonies and poor casting decisions all highlighted in our weekly recap series, 'Watching the Thrones.'
By Josh Wigler
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in "Game of Thrones"
Photo: HBO
Well, ain't that a bastard!
Consider it official: "Game of Thrones" is back and more brutal than ever. Ned Stark's severed head can step (or roll) aside, as a new benchmark for horrific "Thrones" violence was reached with the season-two premiere Sunday night. We speak, of course, of the ruthless mass-murder of Robert Baratheon's bastards.
We covered that bloodshed and lots more in our new weekly recap series, "Watching the Thrones," which you can watch in the video below.
Keep on reading for even more of the highlights from the season premiere, "The North Remembers":
The Good
» Season two kicks off differently from the book it's based upon, "A Clash of Kings," in some key ways,...
By Josh Wigler
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in "Game of Thrones"
Photo: HBO
Well, ain't that a bastard!
Consider it official: "Game of Thrones" is back and more brutal than ever. Ned Stark's severed head can step (or roll) aside, as a new benchmark for horrific "Thrones" violence was reached with the season-two premiere Sunday night. We speak, of course, of the ruthless mass-murder of Robert Baratheon's bastards.
We covered that bloodshed and lots more in our new weekly recap series, "Watching the Thrones," which you can watch in the video below.
Keep on reading for even more of the highlights from the season premiere, "The North Remembers":
The Good
» Season two kicks off differently from the book it's based upon, "A Clash of Kings," in some key ways,...
- 4/2/2012
- MTV Music News
Was the killing of Robert Baratheon's bastards too much, even for 'Game of Thrones'? Experts weight in.
By Josh Wigler
Peter Dinklage in "Game of Thrones"
Photo: HBO
Cripples, bastards and broken things don't last long in Westeros — especially the bastards, as seen on Sunday night's "Game of Thrones" season premiere. In what's easily one of the more disturbing scenes in recent television history, the "Thrones" premiere closed with a montage of wicked boy king Joffrey's armored dogs going around King's Landing slaughtering all of late Robert Baratheon's bastard children, a move presumably made to strengthen Joff's claim to the Iron Throne.
It was a powerful scene, one that sent a decisive message to the viewer: If Ned Stark's beheading didn't convince you that the Seven Kingdoms are a deadly, dangerous place to live in, then the merciless killing of illegitimate babies and toddlers should do the trick.
By Josh Wigler
Peter Dinklage in "Game of Thrones"
Photo: HBO
Cripples, bastards and broken things don't last long in Westeros — especially the bastards, as seen on Sunday night's "Game of Thrones" season premiere. In what's easily one of the more disturbing scenes in recent television history, the "Thrones" premiere closed with a montage of wicked boy king Joffrey's armored dogs going around King's Landing slaughtering all of late Robert Baratheon's bastard children, a move presumably made to strengthen Joff's claim to the Iron Throne.
It was a powerful scene, one that sent a decisive message to the viewer: If Ned Stark's beheading didn't convince you that the Seven Kingdoms are a deadly, dangerous place to live in, then the merciless killing of illegitimate babies and toddlers should do the trick.
- 4/2/2012
- MTV Movie News
Was the killing of Robert Baratheon's bastards too much, even for 'Game of Thrones'? Experts weight in.
By Josh Wigler
Peter Dinklage in "Game of Thrones"
Photo: HBO
Cripples, bastards and broken things don't last long in Westeros — especially the bastards, as seen on Sunday night's "Game of Thrones" season premiere. In what's easily one of the more disturbing scenes in recent television history, the "Thrones" premiere closed with a montage of wicked boy king Joffrey's armored dogs going around King's Landing slaughtering all of late Robert Baratheon's bastard children, a move presumably made to strengthen Joff's claim to the Iron Throne.
It was a powerful scene, one that sent a decisive message to the viewer: If Ned Stark's beheading didn't convince you that the Seven Kingdoms are a deadly, dangerous place to live in, then the merciless killing of illegitimate babies and toddlers should do the trick.
By Josh Wigler
Peter Dinklage in "Game of Thrones"
Photo: HBO
Cripples, bastards and broken things don't last long in Westeros — especially the bastards, as seen on Sunday night's "Game of Thrones" season premiere. In what's easily one of the more disturbing scenes in recent television history, the "Thrones" premiere closed with a montage of wicked boy king Joffrey's armored dogs going around King's Landing slaughtering all of late Robert Baratheon's bastard children, a move presumably made to strengthen Joff's claim to the Iron Throne.
It was a powerful scene, one that sent a decisive message to the viewer: If Ned Stark's beheading didn't convince you that the Seven Kingdoms are a deadly, dangerous place to live in, then the merciless killing of illegitimate babies and toddlers should do the trick.
- 4/2/2012
- MTV Music News
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