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Why True Detective’s Creator Tied Seasons 1 And 3 Together HBO By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 5, 2022 9:53 am EST Early in the third season of HBO’s “True Detective,” fans and Redditors perked up at the mention of a “crooked spiral,” which the fictional true-crime documentarian Elisa Montgomery (Sarah Gadon) connected to the straw dolls found in the forest near a dead body at the end of the first episode. After Will and Julie Purcell go missing, the boy is discovered in a praying pose, and Montgomery suspects his death is part of a larger conspiracy....

Zoë Kravitz Says Big Little Lies Season 3 Won’t Happen After The Death Of Director Jean-Marc Vallée HBO By Shania Russell/Nov. 16, 2022 5:56 pm EST The first season of “Big Little Lies” was a gift. The short but effectively addictive murder-mystery saga put five women at the epicenter of a tragedy and spent seven incredible episodes unraveling exactly why it happened. It quickly became one of the most beloved series of 2017 and garnered so much buzz that HBO gave the once-limited series a second season order....

‘Freedom is a pure idea’ Disney+/Lucasfilm Nemik’s manifesto, which was given to Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) after the young Rebel’s tragic mid-mission death during the Aldhani heist, reveals itself as the best kind of Chekov’s Gun in the “Andor” season 1 finale. As Cassian pours over Nemik’s message the night before Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) funeral on Ferrix, the fallen hero’s earnest words play out in voiceover. He speaks to the odds facing the Rebel cause, yet reminds Cassian, “Freedom is a pure idea,” and all it takes is “the smallest act of insurrection [to push] our lines forward....

Angel Ending Explained: Let’s Go To Work 20th Television By Jamie Gerber/Sept. 12, 2022 3:23 pm EST Much like its parent show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel” relied heavily on metaphor. However, while “Buffy” dealt with the high school experience, only truly going dark in its later seasons, “Angel” always sought to tell more adult-oriented stories. The spin-off never quite reached the same heights of the original, but it came pretty damn close, and there are certain aspects of the series that were even stronger....

When and where to watch Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas Netflix “Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas” will span six episodes and was expected to arrive in 2022 but has yet to set a firm release date. Among the similar genre shows that premiered on the streamer in the first eight months of 2022 are “Resident Evil” and “The Sandman,” along with the most recent seasons of “The Umbrella Academy” and “Stranger Things....

Contact Had A ‘Cursed’ Production From Start To Finish Warner Bros. By Erin Brady/July 15, 2022 8:42 pm EST Depending on who you ask, Robert Zemeckis’ 1997 sci-fi drama “Contact” is either a philosophical masterpiece or a boring morality lesson. Wherever you land, though, it’s hard to separate the film from the many problems it ran into after it was released. From George Miller suing Warner Brothers over a contract dispute to a First Amendment debate brought forward by the White House, a lot of attention was heaped upon the adaptation of Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, and not a lot of it was positive....

Found Footage Horror Movies Most People Could Actually Survive Artisan Entertainment By Christian Gainey/Aug. 11, 2022 4:00 pm EST The found footage genre gained mainstream popularity when Heather Donahue stuck her snotty nose in a wobbly camera and sobbed about The Blair Witch. Today, the shaky camera work, incessant screaming, and ambiguous endings are often dismissed as cliche and derivative, but that wasn’t the case when “The Blair Witch Project” was originally released....

Blind interrogation Warner Bros. Pictures The interrogation begins about five minutes into the film and last four. Kimble is questioned by two detectives, Rossetti (Joseph Kosala) and Kelly (Ron Dean). Davis and his DP Michael Chapman shoot the scene in alternating medium close-ups, keeping the characters’ reactions centered and creating a sense of Kimble as a man cornered on both sides. Kosala and Dean both act with slightly condescending indifference; they’ve already decided that Kimble’s guilty and are setting him up to get the answer they want....

Put some respect on Henry Selick’s name Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Selick joked that he’s “won many a bar bet,” about being the true director of “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” a film that is synonymous with the aesthetic and directorial style of Burton. It makes sense that audiences make the assumptive connection, as many of Burton’s artistic touchstones like creepy kid-like stories and a Danny Elfman score are present in the film....

Hocus Pocus Creator David Kirschner Would Like To Make A Buffy-Inspired Spin-Off Disney+ By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 20, 2022 3:01 pm EST Twenty-nine years after its theatrical release in 1993, “Hocus Pocus” has gone from earning middling reviews and bombing at the box office to becoming requisite viewing for spooky season. But as much as its wry humor, sly innuendos, and memorably idiosyncratic elements have stood the test of time, the film’s outlook toward witchcraft has not....

House Of The Dragon’s Score Highlights What Separates The Series From Game Of Thrones HBO By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 1, 2022 9:16 am EST Music is one of the most powerful elements of any form of media. “I’ll Be There For You” by The Rembrandts became an infectious classic thanks to its usage as the theme song for “Friends,” and the symphonic frenzy of “The Simpsons” theme song is recognizable from the first notes....

How Atlanta And Reservation Dogs Showcase Peak TV’s Newest And Coolest Trend FX By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 3, 2022 6:00 pm EST One of the truly universal human experiences is feeling the surreal. It’s a feeling almost beyond explanation, a tingling at the back of your neck and the knowledge that something isn’t quite right. It’s uncomfortable and impossible to forget. It feels like there is a world just beyond our own that occasionally spills over, bringing the mystical and bizarre into our otherwise mundane existence....

The case for why it disappointed CBS The basic argument for why the finale was bad was because it failed to live up to what the show seemed to be promising. We were told this was a story about Ted (Josh Radnor) meeting the love of his life, but his happily ever after had him going back to Robin (Cobie Smulders). We were told Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin were great for each other, centering the entire final season around the buildup to their wedding, only for them to get divorced and go their separate ways within a single episode....

How The She-Hulk Cast Helped Ease Tim Roth Back Into The MCU Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/Aug. 1, 2022 4:51 pm EST When “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” came out, fans were excited to see a face they hadn’t spied since 2008’s “The Incredible Hulk.” During a scene in a fight club, Abomination appeared in the ring, brought there by none other than the Sorcerer Supreme Wong (Benedict Wong)....

The Backstory New Line Cinema Originally looking to finagle his way into getting a TV agent, writer Jeffrey Reddick penned a spec script titled “Flight 180,” which he planned to pitch for “The X-Files.” He got the idea after reading a People magazine article about a mother who had a premonition that her daughter’s plane would crash. He told Bloody Disgusting: “I was actually flying home to Kentucky and I read this story about a woman who was on vacation in Hawaii and her mom called her and said ‘Don’t take the flight tomorrow, I have a really bad feeling about it....

‘When Pinhead is there, people pay attention’ Hulu During an interview with Jake’s Takes, Brucker said that whenever Clayton came decked out in her full Pinhead attire, it’s almost impossible for everyone on set to not feel the weight that comes with being in the presence of the mythic character: “Sometimes she was rather intimidating to be around I think, not just for me and for the other actors but also for the crew....

Joe Cole Felt His Peaky Blinders Role Never Got ‘Out Of The Gates’ BBC By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 11, 2022 8:37 am EST This article contains spoilers for “Peaky Blinders” up to season 6. “Peaky Blinders” is a family affair — in more ways than one — but this particular crime family has a definite head, and that is Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy). Over the course of six seasons, “Peaky Blinders” juggled the comings and goings of many an ensemble cast member, including Joe Cole and his real-life brother Finn Cole, who played Johnny Shelby and his cousin Michael Gray....

Lisa Frankenstein sounds killer The CW According to the film’s official logline, “Lisa Frankenstein” is set in 1989 when an unpopular high schooler accidentally brings to life a hot Victorian dead guy during a lightning storm. Rather than freak out, she molds him into the man of her dreams. It sounds like a zombified “Weird Science,” but without the problematic 1980s sensibilities and, instead, Diablo’s absolutely dynamite wit. There are countless actors working their butts off in this industry every day, but few ever reach the superstar status reserved for Oscar winners and box office crushing darlings....

Only One Part Of The Simpsons Canon Really Matters To The Writers By Michael Boyle/Aug. 15, 2022 5:55 pm EST If you think too much about time while watching the later episodes of “The Simpsons,” you’ll go insane. A recent season 33 episode has Lisa talking to the ghost of Bleeding Gums Murphy (now voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson). Bleeding Gums tells Lisa to search a name up in the phone book, to which Lisa responds, “What’s a phone book?...

Rutherford Falls Has Been Canceled At Peacock, But There’s Still Hope For Season 3 Peacock By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 2, 2022 5:50 pm EST “Rutherford Falls” has been cancelled. The Native American-led sitcom set in a fictional small town has aired two seasons at Peacock, but today TVLine reports it won’t get a third. This is frankly heartbreaking news for anyone who was following the sweet, clever comedy, which is one of only a small handful of American TV shows ever made by and about Native American people....