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Stranger Things Recap: Before You Watch Season 4, Here’s What Happened In Season 3
It has been three years since a new season of Stranger Things, Netflix’s blockbuster sci-fi adventure, graced our screens and we, along with the kids that the show revolves around, have grown a little older since July of 2019. We’ve learned new things, adopted new technologies, and learned more sinister things about people who propped themselves up as important leaders. (Perhaps we aren’t so different from the gang and their siblings, parents, and acquaintances.) With this in mind, it’s no wonder that the newest season of Stranger Things feels familiar but still thrilling — however, since it has still been nearly three years between seasons (the biggest gap the show has taken since it began in 2016) you might want a refresher into who these characters are, and where we will find them when ...
Love, Death, and Robots: The 15 Best Sci-Fi Shorts, Ranked
Netflix’s flagship animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots has often been a hard show to love. On the one hand, it’s a dazzling showcase for VFX artists at the top of their field, adapting some of science fiction’s most interesting short stories to a new medium (not unlike the Heavy Metal comics from which executive producers David Fincher and Tim Miller derived the premise). On the other, that same love of Heavy Metal extends to the exploitativeness of many of its stories — especially in its first season, which never met a woman it didn’t like to punish, hypersexualize, or exploit for gut-wrenching violence. Still, despite the Reddit-iness of it all, there are still quite a few gems to be found amongst the Call of Duty commercials and Starcraft cutscenes, especia...
Mandy Moore on Saying Goodbye to This Is Us and Her First Tour in 15 Years
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Mandy Moore calls in to talk with Kyle Meredith about her new album, In Real Life, as well as the series finale of This Is Us. Related Video In Real Life — the relatively quick followup to Moore’s 2020 comeback LP, Silver Landings — sees the artist one again teaming up with husband Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes as they document the big change of becoming parents. Moore discusses how motherhood is represented in the songs, the various sounds and genres that populate the record, and sharing a duet with Goldsmith. She also gives us a look into her first tour in 15 years and how she’ll be representing a few of her early p...
The Best SNL Sketches of the Last 10 Years
Because Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels has actively avoided the kinds of major cast shake-ups that the show weathered in the ’80s and ’90s, it’s become harder to define recent eras of the show. The Aykroyd/Belushi/Radner/Murray era is easy; 1975 until 1980. The Carvey/Hartman/Myers era is easy; 1986 until 1995. But Kenan Thompson has been on SNL for 19 seasons. Kate McKinnon was on for a solid decade. More than ever, large chunks of the ensemble don’t disappear; instead, casts bleed into one another. When McKinnon started on the show, Kristen Wiig was still there. At the same time, some of her other early cast members will still be around next fall when the show returns for Season 48. Well, maybe. The departure of McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, and Kyle Mooney does feel...
The Best SNL Sketches of the Last 10 Years
Because Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels has actively avoided the kinds of major cast shake-ups that the show weathered in the ’80s and ’90s, it’s become harder to define recent eras of the show. The Aykroyd/Belushi/Radner/Murray era is easy; 1975 until 1980. The Carvey/Hartman/Myers era is easy; 1986 until 1995. But Kenan Thompson has been on SNL for 19 seasons. Kate McKinnon was on for a solid decade. More than ever, large chunks of the ensemble don’t disappear; instead, casts bleed into one another. When McKinnon started on the show, Kristen Wiig was still there. At the same time, some of her other early cast members will still be around next fall when the show returns for Season 48. Well, maybe. The departure of McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, and Kyle Mooney does feel...
Seth Green Pleads for Return of Stolen Bored Ape NFT So It Can Star in His New TV Show
Seth Green fell for a phishing scam earlier this month, losing four NFTs including Fred Simian, an image from the Bored Ape Yacht Club series. The actor is desperately trying to get it back, not just because it was subsequently sold for over $200,000, but because he had cast dear old Fred in his new sitcom Whitehorse Tavern. Since someone else has the ape, Green no longer owns its commercial rights, and the series cannot move forward. Via Buzzfeed News and Motherboard, the theft took place on May 8th after Green unknowingly visited a phishing site. Besides the Bored Ape, he also lost two NFTs from the Mutant Apes series as well as a Doodle. As for Fred, this cigarette-smoking, skeleton-T wearing image was transferred to a virtual wallet called C8A090, which then sold the simian to an entit...
Sadie Sink Calls Taylor Swift an ‘Amazing’ Director, Talks Max’s ‘Emo Phase’ on ‘Stranger Things’
Sadie Sink visited The Tonight Show on Monday night (May 24) to talk about the terrifying upcoming season of Stranger Things and her origin story as a living room musical theater geek. But before she could get to any of that, avowed Swiftie host Jimmy Fallon just had to ask the 20-year-old actress what it was like to star in Taylor Swift’s short film for “All Too Well.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Taylor was saying she wasn’t going to make it if you didn’t star in it,” Fallon told Sink in recounting a chat he’d recently had with the singer. “She really wanted you to star in this film.” Shaking her head in disbelief, Sink appeared to still be gob-smacked by her good fortune, saying, “No! Like I didn’t know she knew I existed! And if...
The Better Call Saul Mid-Season Finale Was the True Beginning of the End
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Better Call Saul, Season 6, Episode 7, “Plan and Execution.”] What other show would devote a five-minute sequence to establishing its villain’s shower and nap routine? What other show would make it so captivating? That’s the special magic of Better Call Saul, which delivered a mid-season finale on Monday that redefined the concept of changing the game. For a good long portion of its runtime, so much of “Plan and Execution” fits with Better Call Saul as we’ve always known it. Central to the episode is the ultimate culmination of Jimmy and Kim’s plan to force a settlement of the Sandpiper lawsuit by ruining Howard Hamlin’s (Patrick Fabian) reputation — a combination of actual justice and petty revenge, motivations which both Jimmy (Bob Oden...
Danny Boyle Wants John Lydon to “Attack” His Sex Pistols Series
John Lydon has long been an outspoken opponent of Danny Boyle’s upcoming Sex Pistols series, but his criticisms haven’t hurt the director. In an interview with The Guardian, Boyle took the artist’s critiques in stride, proclaiming, “I don’t want him to like [Pistol] — I want him to attack it.” Last year, Lydon attempted to block Boyle from using the Sex Pistols’ music in Pistol, the six-part series detailing the band’s whirlwind rise and fall. However, his former bandmates, guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook, countersued, ultimately allowing the band’s catalog to be featured in the show. Soon after, Lydon proclaimed that the series, which is based on Jones’ memoir, Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol, would “water down” the Sex Pistols’ legacy, and complained that ...
‘I Was Not Ready To Go’: Tina Reflects On Her Game-Ending All Stars Injury
Tina sadly reached the end of the road rules yet again on All Stars. During this week’s episode, the Challenge competitor suffered a game-ending injury during the mission “Playing Dirty” (a version of musical chairs but taking place in a mud pit with players trying to grab balls). “I take my glove off and I see that I’m missing a knuckle,” the Inferno 2/Fresh Meat finalist stated in a confessional about her Round 1 heat showdown against Kellyanne. She explained that she popped her finger back into place (!) and believed she was better. But that, unfortunately, was not the case: A hospital visit confirmed that Tina broke her hand, and she was medically unable to continue on the show. Of course, she was “so sad” to be departing as her Gauntlet/...
See Ya, Siesta Key: Juliette And Sam Are Both Thinking About Moving To Miami
Seems Juliette and Sam have both moved on once and for all — but unbeknownst to each other, their paths may soon cross more often than anticipated. This week’s Siesta Key saw the two exes both in separate talks about trading Sarasota for a fresh start in Miami. And the kicker? Both of their new love interests live there. So why is Juliette considering the move? Her design partner Jaymi told her it’s time to take “the next step” regarding her growing swimwear line, JMP The Label. Not only is the brand gaining popularity across international waters, but it’s also expanding into activewear. And Siesta Key isn’t exactly the fashion capital of Florida. “I kind of want to see how you feel about Miami, like set dow...
Stranger Things Stretches Out the Upside Down For an Endearingly Familiar Season 4: Review
The Pitch: While it’s been three years (and an entire pandemic) since we last saw Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), and the rest of the denizens of Hawking, Indiana in the third season of Stranger Things, for them it’s only been six months. The Battle of Starcourt Mall kicked off a host of changes for our heroes, both young and old, with Eleven choosing to move to California with the Byerses, leaving Mike, Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and the others to struggle with the cliques and clashes of high school on their own. And growing up is hard, even for Demogorgon slayers — Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) has joined the basketball team in an attempt to shake off the nerd cred Mike and Dustin cling to, while Max (Sadie Sink) is still mourning the death of brother Billy last se...
