When Desus & Mero left the Vice Media repertory for Showtime, a nightly-talk-show-sized hole was left in our hearts. Enter, Vice Live. Starring four eclectic hosts and a slew of guests, Vice Live is the quotidian news show for millennials by millennials that we didn’t know we needed. Hosted live every night from the lobby…
The Gleaming Brilliance of ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Finally Comes to TV
The latest offering from FX, a self-aware mockumentary following the lives of four ancient vampires living in Staten Island, may be one of the best things I have seen on television. As a lifelong fan of Jemaine Clement’s work and his original 2014 film by the same name, What We Do in the Shadows is…
‘Happy!’ Returns to Put the ‘Graphic’ in ‘Graphic Novel’
Somewhere in the ether between paranoid fever dream and schizophrenic anthology lies Happy!, back with a bang for its sophomore season (and, no, I don’t just mean that it has exploding nuns…but it does) at 10pm ET Wednesday on SYFY. Leaving the Yuletide massacre of Season 1’s evil Santas and deranged mafiosos behind, our heroes…
There Are Few ‘Better Things’ on TV Than Pamela Adlon’s FX Tour de Force
Pamela Adlon is doing something rather extraordinary with her FX half-hour, Better Things, which returns for its third season Thursday at 10 p.m. ET — and I don’t mean the eye-popping fact that in addition to appearing in every scene, she also directs all 12 episodes, writes or co-writes almost all of them, and is…
‘Boomerang’ Comes Back on BET
The 1992 romantic comedy Boomerang, featuring a peak-of-his-powers Eddie Murphy, was so titled because it concerned Murphy’s womanizing karma coming back on him: he meets a woman (Robin Givens) who is basically a male version of himself, who breaks his heart and eventually drives him into the arms of a warmer, less flashy colleague (Halle…
Seven Light Spoilers for the Final Season of ‘Broad City’
Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson return for the fifth and final season of Broad City this week, and as usual, we know nothing about what to expect, other than a lot of boundary-pushing laughs and a lot of New York City. Correction: we know next to nothing. Abbi and Ilana have been making the press…
Showtime’s ‘Black Monday’ is a Blue Chip Investment
When a show opens with with Rolexes, gemstones, a Limbo (yes that’s the correct spelling of a stretch Lamborghini) and skyscraper jumps, you’d expect that you are starting from the pinnacle of 1980s excess — and you’d soon be proven wrong, as Showtime’s Black Monday is just getting started in its mission to detail the…
‘You’re The Worst’ is At Its Best in its Final Season
It’s been a bumpy ride for the star-crossed a-holes who found each other while heckling a doomed wedding, had a hilariously sloppy one-night stand, and turned it into an on-again, off-again long-term relationship. As we rejoin misanthropic British novelist Jimmy Shive-Overly (Chris Geere) and catastrophically selfish music publicist Gretchen Cutler (Aya Cash) in the fifth…