Television

This Week’s TV: When Every Home Has An Android Servant, Things Get Weird

Summer TV is in full swing, and we’ve got a couple of new shows premiering this week. There’s the vigilante hacker thriller Mr. Robot and Humans, a series that explores the line between humans and their synthetic servants. Plus, Under the Dome and Falling Skies are both back for new seasons. Details ahead. Tonight Star…

The Wildly Inappropriate Scene You Must Watch From Penny Dreadful

As we head for the season endgame, Penny Dreadful is determined to drop the portents and start surprising us. And with Vanessa gone, everything shatters. There’s one scene, in particular, that’s jaw-droppingly nuts. And we made a clip for you! Spoilers ahead… Last season, John Logan spent the third act ratcheting up the tension and…

True Detective Returns With A Pitch-Black Shot Of California Noir

True Detective returns with a completely new setting, cast, and case, as well as a grittier, bleaker tone. In episode one, “The Western Book of the Dead,” we miss the loopy Rust Cohle, as well as the first season’s instantly compelling murder mystery. But we’re intrigued by its neo-noir sprawl so far. Spoilers follow! First…

We Know A Lot More About The New Characters In Game Of Thrones Season 6

Are we three years from a new Indiana Jones? Kenneth Branagh may return for Thor: Ragnarok. A crazy new Star Wars rumor hints that everything we thought we knew about the second Anthologies film may actually be about a new TV series. Plus Ant-Man pictures, Wolverine in X-Men Apocalypse, and more. Spoilers! Thor: Ragnarok A…

John Oliver Explains Why the Internet Sucks For Women

“Congratulations on your white penis — because if you have one of those, you probably have a very different experience of the internet,” explained Jon Oliver on last night’s Last Week Tonight. And in this 15-minute video, he explains why that’s the case. With his usual combination of brutal honestly and biting satire, he explores…

Dark Matter Wonders How Much An Unremembered Past Really Matters

With the second episode, Dark Matter does two things: finishes up the story of the miners and asks a lot of questions about who the crew of the Raza are. The second part is much more interesting than the first. Spoilers… Episode two picks up pretty much where episode one leaves off, with the revelation…

I Didn’t Think Orphan Black Could Get Any Weirder. It Just Did.

About halfway into this week’s of Orphan Black, I found myself thinking that this was a pretty straightforward season finale. Then, just a few minutes later, I suddenly gasped and screamed, “Holy fuck!” at my screen. Let’s talk about this fresh madness, shall we? I should have realized that this episode, “History Yet to be…

Killjoys Is The Space Opera We’ve Been Waiting For Since Firefly

SyFy’s latest space opera, Killjoys, began last night, and over the course of the first episode, and there’s an entire season’s worth of material packed into forty minutes. Clearly, we’re in for a treat with this show. https://gizmodo.com/killjoys-really-is-a-most-excellent-space-adventure-sho-1712643138 Spoilers ahead! There’s not much in the way of introductions here: we’re just thrown into the action.…

On Hannibal, Dr. Lecter’s Murky Past Is Even Darker Than We Realized

WHO’S HUNGRY? Seriously, after “Secondo,” I may never eat anything but peanut butter sandwiches for the rest of my life. While Hannibal cooks his way though Italy, Will travels to his dearest frenemy’s ancestral home, and another season two survivor shows his face. Spoilers await! The opening shot is blood, or wine, pouring into a…

Killjoys Really Is A Most Excellent Space Adventure Show

Do you know how long we’ve been craving new space action on television? Gorram years. That’s how long. And tonight, Syfy is premiering a brand new show called Killjoys, about space bounty hunters. We’ve seen a couple episodes, and we’re here to tell you it’s a blast. Killjoys joins Dark Matter in Syfy’s Friday night…

One Major Game Of Thrones Character May Not Be As Dead As We Thought

Channing Tatum gives a definitive answer about Gambit appearing in X-Men: Apocalypse. Ron Perlman talks Hellboy 3. Rosario Dawson teases her most anticipated part of Daredevil season 2. Plus, Gillian Anderson on returning to X-Files, Paul Rudd on Civil War, and new clips from Star Wars Rebels. To me, my Spoilers! X-Men: Apocalypse During a…

Let’s Revisit the CW’s Beauty and the Beast: Is It As Bad As I Remember?

Spoiler alert: Yes. Oh my god, yes. It’s still as full of horrible people making horrible decisions as I remember. Two years ago, we stopped recapping the CW’s Beauty and the Beast, because it was bad, no one cared about it, and I was developing a facial tick whenever it was brought up. The absolute…

Weird New Sitcom Stars An Animated Barbarian And His Live-Action Family

Yes, you read that right; Son of Zahn, a new TV series developed by Hollywood golden boys Phil Lord and Chris Miller (of The Lego Movie, 22 Jump Street and The Last Man on Earth fame), is on the way, starring a cartoon barbarian who returns to his living, breathing wife and kids after a…

First Plot Details For The All-Female Ghostbusters Reboot!

Jessica Chastain discusses some changes from the original book for The Martian. There’s already going to be sequel to The Last Witch Hunter. Dan Aykroyd talks about the need for female Ghostbusters. Plus, Rob Thomas talks up iZombie season 2 as the “Season of Dads”, and new Ant-Man footage. Spoilers Get! The Martian Matt Damon…

The BBC Is Testing Mind-Controlled iPlayer

The BBC is testing a version of the iPlayer that can be controlled WITH YOUR MIND. Seriously. In a blog post, the BBC’s Cyrus Saihan explains how the corporation has teamed up with a user-experience company called This Place to create the experimental application. The way it works is by using an EEG-brainwave reading headset,…

The First Creepy Concept Art From Starz’s American Gods

We only just got word that Starz had officially greenlit and adaption of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods with Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) running the show. And from the first art, tweeted by Fuller, it certainly seems like he’s bringing his trademark sense of style to the project. Here’s the tweet from Fuller, naming Jim Carson as…

One Actor Is A Hot Favorite To Replace Daniel Craig As James Bond

Robert Downey Jr. Wants the Hulk In Captain America: Civil War. Aquaman and The Flash may make cameos in Batman v Superman. Plus, the first clip from Terminator Genisys, Grant Bowler talks Defiance, more Fear The Walking Dead and Shadowhunters casting, and X-Files set pictures. So many Spoilers! Captain America: Civil War Mark Ruffalo says…

Showtime’s renewed Penny Dreadful for a third season. The third season will be nine episodes long. [Variety]

All The Ways Game of Thrones’s [REDACTED] Might Not Be Dead

Learning that a major character died in a Game of Thrones season finale shouldn’t surprise you. But exactly who died in last Sunday’s episode very well might. Is this character really as dead as them seem, though? Here are all the reasons viewers and book readers alike have devised that [REDACTED] may yet be around.…

Bryan Fuller’s American Gods TV Series Has Finally Been Greenlit

News about the American Gods show is rareand it feels like we’ve been hearing about the TV adaptation forever. But tStarz has just announced that they’ve greenlit Bryan Fuller’s series, and it looks like American Gods on TV finally be happening! In a press release issued today, Freemantle Media announced that Starz has given the…