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The Janes Is a Timely, Tight-Knit Oral History of Underground Abortions: Review
The Pitch: On May 3, 2022, a draft opinion from the Supreme Court leaked to Politico detailed the Court’s majority decision to reverse Roe v. Wade. The Roe v. Wade decision, which was declared in 1973, guaranteed the constitutional right for a pregnant woman or person to receive an abortion if they choose. In the years that followed, the ruling had allowed more Americans to have greater access to birth control and other forms of pregnancy-prevention measures without the risk of them losing their lives in the process. Given how integral Roe v. Wade has been to people across the country, the fact that it could be struck down is terrifying, to say the least. This landscape makes the release of The Janes, HBO’s latest documentary directed by Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes, so much more critical. B...
Method Man To Host New Podcast ‘The Wire At 20’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Duffy-Marie Arnoult / Getty The Wire has stood the test of time regarding police and crime dramas, with many believing it is the best show of its kind. Method Man will serve as the host of a new podcast that takes a look back at the iconic series with interviews with the cast, creators, and more. The Wire Gets Another Podcast Series The Wire At 20 is a partnership between HBO and Campside Media and will look back at the genesis of the series. The show will also memorialize those actors who’ve passed away since its debut. Set in Baltimore, Md., the series at its core a police and crime drama. However, as Method Man notes in the trailer for the podcast, the inner workings of the drug trade, politics, employment, and more depict a deeper story. The original ...
Jodie Foster to Star in True Detective Season 4
Jodie Foster is set to star in season four of HBO’s True Detective. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the veteran actress will join the crime anthology as Detective Liz Danvers. Dubbed True Detective: Night Country, the fourth installment of the HBO drama takes place in the isolation of Alaska. A statement describes the season as follows: “When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.” While HBO has yet to reveal who will portray Navarro, Night Country marks a bit of a shake up for True Detective. Creator...
The Leaders of Westworld Reap What They Sow in Season 4 Trailer: Watch
HBO is about to welcome us back to Westworld, and the theme park is not looking good. In the newly released trailer for Season 4 of the sci-fi drama, officially premiering on June 26th, Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and her fellow Hosts continue to deal with their Human feelings — and as all humans know, it’s a pretty rocky ride. Perfectly set to Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day,” the cinematic Season 4 trailer begins calm enough — Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) takes a casual stroll, Caleb (Aaron Paul) drinks Sangria in the park (so to speak) — but chaos quickly ensues as the song swells. The Man in Black (Ed Harris) and Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) come closer to death, and as allegiances blur, Reed’s hex seems inevitable: the characters are all going to reap just what they sow. Watch the trailer for...
Michelle de Swarte on the Challenges of Yelling at Infants in HBO’s The Baby
Michelle de Swarte isn’t a mother, and she doesn’t play one on TV either. Instead, in the HBO horror-comedy series The Baby, she plays Natasha, a woman whose happily child-free existence gets complicated when a mysterious infant literally lands in her arms. That’d be enough for anyone to handle, but things get even more complicated when Natasha realizes that the baby might be, well, evil. Certainly people keep dying when he’s around. It’s a whole thing. De Swarte didn’t have much acting experience prior to the series — as she tells Consequence, she booked the job thanks to her work as a stand-up. “I speak about myself, my past experiences, and how it informs the decisions that I make now ultimately,” she says of her typical set. “I speak about therapy, living in the States — as I lived out...
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and More Smell the Bullshit in Trailer for George Carlin’s American Dream: Watch
As the world continues to burn in a ridiculous socio-political dumpster fire, George Carlin’s brand of cynical, no-holds-barred comedy proves all the more relevant. That means it’s the perfect time for George Carlin’s American Dream, a new documentary honoring the late comedian by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio. Watch a trailer for the two-part film below. Among the comics who sing Carlin’s praises include Stephen Colbert, Patton Oswalt, and Jon Stewart, who appear in the documentary’s trailer to spit off the legend’s seven dirty words with childlike glee. Elsewhere, Jerry Seinfeld puts Carlin’s influence simply: “I wanted to be just like him.” The documentary covers the comedian’s full life story, from his early, foul-mouthed success to his latter-day comeback and all the cocaine ...
Nicholas Braun Writing HBO Series About a Struggling 2000s Indie Band
Succession star and NYC nightlife darling Nicholas Braun is ready to put his music nerddom in the spotlight. The actor is teaming up with producer Chris Buongiorno to develop a half-hour series for HBO about an indie band in the early 2000s, Variety reports. Titled One for the Road, the series is described as a “candid and intimate story of a talented but dysfunctional band struggling to survive the rapidly changing landscape of independent music” in the aughts. “If anybody wants us to join their band for research please let us know,” Braun wrote on Instagram. Will this band embody the post-punk revivalism of The Strokes and Interpol? Will it initiate a much-needed electroclash renaissance by emulating long-forgotten greats like Fischerspooner or Ladytron? Or will ...
Anthony Carrigan Loves Surprises
Polite and cheerful Chechen mobster NoHo Hank is so singular a character that it’s easy to forget that Anthony Carrigan, the actor who portrays him on the HBO comedy Barry, actually hails from Boston. When SPIN caught up with Carrigan about what’s in store for the upbeat murderer on the series’ third season, it seems like even Carrigan loses the distinction for a second. “I almost slipped into Hank there,” he laughs as the Chechen accent slithers into a description of Hank’s complicated friendship with discharged Marine-turned-hitman Barry Berkman, played by series co-creator Bill Hader. Not that anyone can get enough of the character that, at one point, was going to be offed in the pilot. Regularly referred to as the show’s scene-stealer, NoHo Hank has become the character whose storyline...
Bill Hader Faces His Demons in Trailer for Barry Season 3: Watch
Barry is going back in for the kill. HBO has shared the official trailer for Season 3 of the Bill Hader-starring black comedy, which premieres on April 24th. During this go-around, Barry (Hader) is fully committed to ditching his former life as a hitman in order to pursue his newfound dream of professional acting. But it isn’t easy to get out of a past as dark and violent as his; while Barry has physically extricated himself from the circumstances that pushed him toward killing, he still has many psychological demons to face. In the trailer, a desperate Barry has tough conversations with major people from both his past and present, including his former handler Monroe (Stephen Root), and his former acting teacher Mr. Cousineau (Henry Winkler). Meanwhile, Barry’s girlfriend Sally (...
Solomon Hughes on Portraying Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Jazz of Basketball
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Solomon Hughes calls in to talk with Kyle Meredith about his role portraying Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. Related Video The actor tells us of the importance of showing Kareem’s backstory in the “Pieces of a Man” episode, getting inside the character, and Abdul-Jabbar being at odds with the “Showtime” atmosphere of the ’80s Los Angeles Lakers. Hughes goes on to discuss basketball’s comparison to jazz and his own favorite artists of the genre, especially John Coltrane. Advertisement Listen to Solomon Hughes discuss playing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Winning Time, his love of jazz...
Jerrod Carmichael Shares Personal Coming-Out Story on HBO Special ‘Rothaniel’
Comedian Jerrod Carmichael publicly shares that he is gay in his new HBO special Rothaniel, premiering Friday night (April 1). In Rothaniel, the comedian, who is set to host Saturday Night Live this weekend, details coming out while sharing stories about his family history, including one that recalled the moment he caught his father cheating on his mother and the feelings that came with holding on to that secret. “I don’t know if I would’ve said anything if I had the courage because I only saw this secret as something that could’ve torn our family apart,” he says, adding that he later made his father tell his mother the truth. Reflecting on the event made Carmichael share the internal conflicts he was left to confront. “Once that was done, I was...
True Detective Season 4 in Development at HBO
A fourth season of True Detective is on the way. According to a new story by The Hollywood Reporter, a new season of the prestige crime drama is currently in development at HBO, but without the involvement of creator and showrunner Nic Pizzolatto. Instead, the show’s fourth go-round, tentatively titled True Detective: Night Country, will be overseen by Oscar winner Barry Jenkins as executive producer with a script by Mexican film director Issa López. Related Video Pizzolatto exited his deal with HBO following Season 3 of True Detective in 2019, which starred Mahershala Ali, Stephen Dorff, Ray Fisher, Carmen Ejogo, Scoot NcNairy, and Mamie Gummer and time-jumped in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas over three separate time periods. Advertisement However, HBO owns the rights to True Detective...
