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Westworld Composer on the David Bowie Needle Drop In Season 4, Episode 7: “It Just Played So Perfectly”
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Westworld, Season 4 Episode 7, “Metanoia.” To read about the music of Episode 6, click here.] The most notable music featured in the penultimate episode of Westworld Season 4 wasn’t created by composer Ramin Djawadi — instead, he was a little in awe of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World,” which plays over the final minutes. “I didn’t dare to touch it,” he tells Consequence with a laugh. “It’s perfect as is.” Episode 7, “Metanoia,” delivered a new level of chaos to the good people surviving in what we’ve come to understand as a host-controlled dystopia, where the surviving humans are trapped in a system ruled over by Hale (Tessa Thompson). Of course, the balance of power changes dramatically by the end, with Hale incapacitated by a ...
Freshman Year of College Goes Sour in Trailer for Hulu’s “Tell Me Lies”: Watch
A lot can happen in eight years, but Hulu’s upcoming drama Tell Me Lies will attempt to condense it all into ten episodes. Today, you can watch the official trailer for the streamer’s upcoming drama-romance series ahead of its premiere this September. And here’s the kicker: Emma Roberts is an executive producer. Based on Carola Lovering’s bestselling 2018 novel of the same name, Tell Me Lies documents the rocky love story between Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco (Grace Van Patten and Jackson White). The pair meet during Lucy’s freshman year of college, with their relationship starting off like any other — until, as the show’s description reads, “they quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will permanently alter not only their lives, but the lives of everyone aroun...
Satanic Panic Comes for Heavy Metal in HYSTERIA! from John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Peacock has ordered the coming-of-age thriller HYSTERIA! straight to series with direction by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the duo behind Game Night and the new Dungeons & Dragons film. Set in the late 1980s, the show will tell the story of a band of heavy metal-playing misfits who seize upon an opportunity after their school’s quarterback disappears during the height of the Satanic panic. Rebranding their act as a Satanic metal band, the outcasts capitalize on their hometown’s devilish preoccupation until “a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings, and reported ‘supernatural activity’ triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads directly back to them.” Casting has yet to be announced, but the series has a a script by Matthew Scott Kane and wil...
Anne Heche Seriously Injured After Crashing Car into Los Angeles Home
Anne Heche was seriously injured in a single car crash in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles on Friday. TMZ reports that the 53-year-old actress crashed her car into a home, causing both the vehicle and the home to catch on fire. She suffered severe burns and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where she was intubated. Her current condition is unknown, but TMZ reports that she is expected to survive. Heche was reportedly involved in another accident earlier on Friday, when she crashed her car into the garage of an apartment complex. Residents of the complex told TMZ that after the crash, Heche reversed her car and sped off. Advertisement Related Video The cause of the crash is currently under investigation. This is a developing story… [flexi-common-toolbar] [flexi-form class=”...
The Sandman Review: Netflix Brings Neil Gaiman’s Dream to Life
The Pitch: What if amorphous concepts like Desire, Despair, and Death had anthropomorphic representations, and had realms over which they ruled? What if, amongst them, one of the most powerful was Dream (Tom Sturridge), who oversaw the land to which all living creatures come when their eyes slip shut and their minds take flight? That’s perhaps the simplest place to start when describing the premise for The Sandman, Netflix’s highly anticipated adaptation of the graphic novel series written by Neil Gaiman, with artists including Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel, Bryan Talbot, and Michael Zulli. Perhaps one of the most iconic examples of “sequential art” ever created, the ten-volume graphic novel series, despite many attempts over the decades by Hollywoo...
Kevin Spacey Loses Appeal to Overturn $31 Million House of Cards Damages
Last year, Kevin Spacey was ordered to pay MRC, the producer of Netflix’s House of Cards, $31 million in compensatory damages following his termination from the show. He later petitioned to have the order reversed, but at an August 4th hearing, a judge determined the actor’s appeal had no standing. Spacey was fired from House of Cards in 2017 after eight employees of the show accused him of sexual misconduct. After his termination, MRC was forced to rewrite the show’s sixth and final season to exclude Spacey from the plot, and cut the season down from 13 episodes to eight in order to meet streaming deadlines. After an internal investigation and an evidentiary hearing, a neutral arbitrator concluded Spacey had violated the show’s anti-harassment policy and ordered him to...
HBO Max and Discovery+ Will Become One Streaming Service
Following the recent merger of Warner Bros. Discovery, the company confirmed plans to re-launch its two streaming platforms, HBO Max and Discovery+, as a single service, projected to roll out in the U.S. beginning Summer 2023. Warner Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced the news during the company’s Q2 earnings call on Thursday (August 4th). By combining HBO Max, “the most acclaimed streaming service among consumers,” and Discovery+’s library of “real-life entertainment,” Warner Bros. Discovery says the new streaming service will achieve the “best of both” — acknowledging customer complaints aimed at HBO Max’s user interface and Discovery+’s catalog. Ultimately, the company said their “leading objective is growing engagement.” Once both apps are integrated, the company said, they’ll begin ...
Maturity is Scarce in Archer Season 13 Trailer: Watch
TV’s favorite narcissistic secret agent is returning for a lucky 13th season. FXX has today shared the official trailer for the upcoming Season 13 of Archer head of its premiere on August 24th. In this go around of the ever–evolving adult cartoon, Archer and The Agency have been acquired by Fabian Kingsworth and the spy conglomerate known as IIA (International Intelligence Agency), who assign odd missions to the crew. In-between jobs, the crew struggle to find their identity amid this change, fearing that they might succumb to the corporate overlords in the process. “I’m looking for one of you to take the mantle of leadership,” Fabian tells the members of The Agency in the trailer, juxtaposed with a montage of all the spies’ rather foolish recent mishaps. “Until now, I’ve been the car...
Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 Captures Unknown Horrors of the Three-Day Disaster: Review
The Pitch: The world of documentary film seems to believe in one thing: Why have just one documentary covering a disastrous music festival when you can have two? Unlike the paired Netflix and Hulu documentaries which investigated the wildness of Fyre Fest, though, Netflix’s new docuseries Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 at least has a good year or so of distance from HBO’s Woodstock ’99, while rehashing much of the same material. It’s Not a Three-Hour Movie: Trainwreck (previously known as Clusterfuck, and streaming today on Netflix), does have a distinct advantage over the HBO doc — rather than compressing the full breadth of the three-day disaster into one 110-minute film, the series consists of three episodes, structured to mirror the three days of the actual festival. While the episodic stru...
Law & Order Writer Says Alex Jones Trial Too “Dumb” for Fiction
Forget about Law & Order‘s dun-dun, this is just dumb-dumb. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is currently standing trial for a defamation lawsuit brought by the parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, but his own legal team have torpedoed the case. On Wednesday, August 3rd, it was revealed that Jones’ lawyers accidentally emailed the full contents of his phone to the attorneys representing the parents, in the process providing dozens of emails and texts that contradicted Jones’ sworn testimony and suggesting he committed perjury. The reveal was so bizarre that longtime Law & Order writer David Slack weighed in, writing that the twist was too outlandish for fiction, because “on Law & Order we wouldn’t have let a lawyer do something that dumb...
“All Hell Breaks Loose” in Official Trailer for Atlanta’s Final Season: Watch
Donald Glover’s award-winning series Atlanta will conclude with the fourth and final season, and as the new official trailer promises, “All hell breaks loose.” Season 4 debuts September 15th on FX. The trailer shows gunshots, a brief image of what may be a jail cell, burnouts in expensive cars, and little kids with big music dreams and some bottled water to sell. But at the center of it all is Glover’s characer Earn Marks, who seems to be going through a mental health crisis. “You seem frustrated today,” he’s told. “I’m not upset about anything,” he responds peevishly. “I mean, not to flex, but work is good… Then all hell breaks loose.” Check out the trailer below. Advertisement Related Video Season 3 debuted earlier this year and Consequence named it one of the best TV show...
Everybody Hates Chris Animated Reboot Greenlit at MTV Studios
Chris Rock’s busy year continues: Today, MTV Studios announced that they’ve granted a straight-to-series order for Everybody Still Hates Chris, an animated revival of Rock’s popular oughts sitcom Everybody Hates Chris. Like its predecessor, Everybody Still Hates Chris is largely inspired by Rock’s own memories of growing up as a hapless, dorky teenager from a working-class family in 1980s Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Rock will serve as executive producer of the series alongside showrunner Sanjay Shah, Michael Rotenberg, Dave Becky, and Ali LeRoi — the latter of whom co-created the original Everybody Hates Chris alongside Rock. With both adult animation and revivals of bygone series having a big moment in TV, there’s certainly a market for Everybody Still Hates Chris. Belov...
