Cal and I are very similar in that we know what it's like to lead a double life. I've had experience with that with my battle with drugs and alcohol. I know what it is like to not have my insides match my outside.
Strip Law centers on Lincoln Gumb (Adam Scott), a down-on-his-luck lawyer who was recently fired from his family firm by his dead mother's former law partner, Steve Nichols (Keith David). Gumb's new firm, which is staffed by his wayward teenage niece Irene Gumb (Aimee Garcia) and a disbarred old eccentric named Glem Blorchman (Stephen Root), is on the verge of going out of business because Gumb's unflashy lawyering style can't keep the attention of Vegas's overstimulated judges and juries.
In the fourth season of Industry, everyone has a story to sell: a neutered fund or loveless marriage, shamed husbands, a life aimless after retirement, a payment-processing firm hampered by its ties to porn and sex work. These labels seem to indicate mistaken priorities or misplaced trust. But they are just narratives to be refined or redefined. Everything is up for grabs if you tell the right story.
Whereas other characters are cold and sharklike, Yas feels her way through the world-and uses her vulnerability to manipulate others. Being born into wealth taught her that none of us is in command of our fate, so we had better cheat for whatever control we can. She's the statuesque girlboss for the new gilded age.
There are few shows that leave me hungry - no, starving - for more like Pluribus did. The hit Vince Gilligan Apple TV show, starring Rhea Seehorn as one of the few survivors of a virus that turns the entire world into happy, one-minded, sentient beings, is so damn smart and funny and bold. Seehorn, already winning awards for her role as writer Carol Sturka, is a vulnerable, generous actor who never seems to hold back - and I think we're all desperate for more.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, pickup order to lack of renewal. Here we bid farewell to the canceled shows of 2026. Less than a month into the year (and last lunar year not even over) and shows are already starting to drop. This post will serve as living tribute to the TV we're going to miss in 2027. Don't cry because they're over, smile because hopefully there are some sort of residuals in place for the workers.
Charlie Brooker's dystopian anthology series Black Mirror has been making us face the dark side of technology for 15 years now. In 2011, that meant live TV ransoms and capitalist reality shows. But last year, in Season 7, we saw memories brought to life, emotions run on subscription models, and the Hollywood remake machine going very literal. In the age of AI popping up everywhere, Black Mirror isn't going to stop reflecting real life any time soon - but what could possibly be next?
In many serialized dramas, the climax of a given season lands in the penultimate episode; think of the dramatic battles and major character deaths of Game of Thrones or, further back, The Sopranos and The Wire. But Landman isn't like most dramas. Tonight's penultimate episode of season two feels like an anti-climax - not just a letdown generally, but the diametric opposite of a climax.
There's so much going on in the world, in our country, and hell, in our own work and family lives. Just because the headlines are straight out of a dystopian novel doesn't mean your kids stopped needing you to help with their homework. When our days are full of so many demands, no wonder we feel hyped up and anxious by the time the kids are in bed.
To everything, there is a season, and for a long time in television history, every show had its own season. Some were fall shows, some were spring shows, and either way, you could count on a brand-new batch of episodes every year. But with the larger budgets and production values of streaming, years between seasons (and no particular rhythm to their releases) has become the norm.
Idris Elba returns as professional negotiator Sam Nelson in Hijack season 2. But this time, things may have taken an unexpected turn. On January 14, the second season of Hijack premieres on Apple TV. Elba once again plays Sam Nelson, whose exploits on Kingdom Twenty-Nine have become legend. Now, Sam finds himself at the center of a totally different hijack in the London Underground, with a train transporting 200 commuters under immediate threat.