20 posts tagged ‘nathan fielder’
Monsieur Spade shows its hand, The Curse delivers an unforgettable finale, and more from the week in TV
AV Club,
It kind of goes without saying, but here we go anyway: Humphrey Bogart’s portrayal of Dashiell Hammett’s genre-defining private detective character Sam Spade in the 1941 noir classic The Maltese Falcon is one of the all-time great movie performances. Bogie’s brooding gumshoe is vulnerable and cynical at the same time,… Read more...
6 things you have to watch on TV this weekend
Welcome to the weekend edition of What’s On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, January 12 to Sunday, January 14. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What’s On publishes on Sundays.] Read more...
The Curse season 1 finale: Oh. My. God.
Let me get this out of the way first: OMG! Read more...
The Horrifying and Humanistic Ending of “The Curse”
The New Yorker,
In its surreal final episode, the Showtime series reaches great new heights.
The Curse Recap: The Scrambler
Vulture,
Relationships are deteriorating across the series, but none more so than Whitney and Asher’s marriage.
The Curse recap: How far to go in the name of "art?"
The absurdist humor of The Curse can sometimes feel like it exists in a completely different world than ours. And then, sometimes, as you watch privileged kids openly shoplift endless pairs of jeans while chatting up the shop’s employee—they know Whitney (Emma Stone) will pay for whatever goes “missing”—drives home… Read more...
The biggest snubs and surprises from the 2024 Golden Globe nominations
The Golden Globes are back, and while it’s too soon to say whether they’re better, the slate of nominations that Cedric The Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama announced Monday morning were genuinely promising. On a macro level, the Globes did a generally good job of highlighting both non-American, non-English-language… Read more...
The week in TV: Fargo roars back, and a sharp Oliver Twist spinoff
If you’re brave enough to press play on Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge, prepare to be disappointed and, even worse, bored. The reality series is an utterly dragged-out, inauthentic mess that takes all the wrong lessons from the 2021 South Korean hit that inspired it. The takeaway from Squid Game should not be… Read more...