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This post contains spoilers for “The Sin,” episode three of The Mandalorian, which I reviewed here. Deborah Chow got to be part of Star Wars history in two ways this week — one more official than the other. By helming “The Sin,” the latest installment of Disney+‘s The Mandalorian, Chow …

The Streaming Wars are here! The Streaming Wars are here! Really, they’ve been here for years now, but the whole mess has gone to another level recently, as the rest of the TV industry has ramped up its efforts to combat Netflix by… introducing their own versions of Netflix. Apple …

The first thing to know about Four Weddings and a Funeral, the series, is that it bears virtually no resemblance to Four Weddings and a Funeral, the Oscar-nominated 1994 romantic-comedy. It takes place in London, yes. There are four weddings and one funeral, sure. There is a floppy-haired fellow who …

Ali Wong had been a working comedian for years before the 2016 release of her first special, Baby Cobra, which she performed while seven months pregnant with her first child, catapulted her to stardom. Her 2018 follow-up, Hard-Knock Wife (filmed while she was pregnant with her second), was an equally …

This week: TV fantasy epics (like, a new one)! Rom-coms! Teen angst! Pagan horror! Sequels! Threequels! A new season of Black Mirror!!! Check ’em out, your big-name trailers of the week. Always Be My Maybe She (Ali Wong) is a celebrity chef. He (Randall Park) is a musician who works …

The Red Line, a new drama premiering April 28th on CBS, explores the aftermath of a white cop shooting an unarmed black man in Chicago. Named for the North-South line of the Chicago “L” (or elevated train system), a route that connects two wildly different parts of the city, the …

When Game of Thrones airs its final episode on May 19th, George R.R. Martin will be watching. He’ll take in the televised conclusion of the story he began, and then get right back to writing his own version, with two books left to go. For our recent cover story on …

This month, it’s all about the TV power couples: FX unveils their next big prestige project, i.e. a bruising Broadway-duo relationship drama with a liberal doze of jazz hands; AMC and BBC America combine forces to give folks a match-up between a witch and a vampire, as well as bringing …

Maybe you remember what happened to Matthew McConaughey back in 1999. The actor had graduated to Hollywood A-list status by this point; he’d also developed a deserved reputation for enjoying a good time off the set. So the cops get a call from his neighbors, complaining about a loud ruckus-in-progress …

It was when half the Doom Patrol traveled through a flatulent donkey to another dimension that I realized a line had been crossed. Probably in a good way. We’re nearly seven years into the modern TV superhero-drama boom, which began with the CW’s Arrow. In those early days, when Oliver …