Comedy

What We Do in the Shadows’ Scariest Vampire Is Still Giving Us Nightmares

While FX’s vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows is across-the-board delightful, we have a special affection for the show’s “energy vampire,” a character who’s both totally original and instantly recognizable. He’s also pretty terrifying—especially when he gets a sudden power boost. Last night’s “Colin’s Promotion” shifted the focus onto Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch)…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Rick and Morty‘s 22 Best Celebrity Guest Stars (So Far)

Rick and Morty is back (for the next few Sundays at least, until the show burns through the rest of season four)! To celebrate, we’re counting down our all-time favorite famous guest stars who’ve dropped by the show, giving voice to characters as varied as the Devil and a gaseous musical alien named Fart. This…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Newcomers Is a Star Wars Podcast for the Rest of Us

Even if you aren’t exposed to Star Wars at a tender age when the franchise can burn itself onto your brain matter and become an integral part of your identity, there’s no real way that you can escape the galaxy far, far away. Whether we like it or not, Star Wars is a part of…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

FX’s New Animated Series From Dan Harmon, Aubrey Plaza, Danny DeVito, and Satan Sounds Like Magic

You can never really call a show that doesn’t exist yet a sure thing, but FX Network’s devilish animated series Little Demon, which just got a pilot order, sounds like it has some major potential. Deadline shared the news that the network has greenlit a pilot for Little Demon, a half-hour animated comedy produced by…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

What We Do in the Shadows Starts Season 2 Off With a Zombie and Some Major Blasts From the Past

We’d be excited for the return of What We Do in the Shadows no matter what. But given the bleak state of the world, getting reacquainted with the show’s awkwardly hilarious vampire roommates felt like an especially welcome distraction. Last night’s two-episode season two premiere reminded us of everything we love about the show. What’s…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

The Solar Opposites Aliens Get a Crash Course in Earth Culture in the Latest Trailer

We were already incredibly excited for Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland’s new Hulu series, Solar Opposites—but this hilarious new trailer confirms we were correct in calibrating our anticipation sky-high. This rapid-fire peek at the upcoming show gives us a good look at what to expect from its family of aliens (Korvo, voiced by Roiland,…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

A New Beetlejuice Documentary Will Go Behind the Scenes of the Horror Cult Classic

If you love Beetlejuice as much as we do, you might think you know everything about the movie—but as the new trailer for Documentary for the Recently Deceased reveals, there are still plenty of fun secrets to be shared about the making of Tim Burton’s 1988 horror-comedy classic. We’re excited to debut it today on…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

Our First Look at Space Force, That Comedy About the Joke That Is the Real Space Force

Real life: Sometimes it’s stranger than science fiction. Even though we’re in the middle of a pandemic, Trump’s attempt to create a new branch of the military seems to still be underway. But until there are boots on the ground (of the moon), legitimacy is still a long way off. That is, unless you turn…

io9 Beth Elderkin

10 Apocalypse Movies to Watch With Happy (or at Least Not Totally Depressing) Endings

Current events notwithstanding, Hollywood rather adores imagining the apocalypse on the big screen. Many doomsday movies end with total destruction; that rogue planet is just gonna go ahead and vaporize Earth, or those zombies are just gonna take over forever. But sometimes, filmmakers do find little rays of sunshine in the chaos. Here are 10…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Red Dwarf Is Paying Off a Story Line After Three Decades

Thirty-two years after Red Dwarf premiered on BBC Two, the show is paying off a joke made in the pilot. At least that seems to be the plan in the trailer for a new feature-length special. Red Dwarf is kind of the prototype for shows like Futurama and Avenue 5: A sometimes dark, sometimes super…

io9 Alex Cranz

Shaun of the Dead Gets a Coronavirus Update Thanks to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

…Right. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the latest celebrities to take to social media with a clever coronavirus-themed video, but theirs has way more going on than most of the others. If you remember, back in the pair’s 2004 film Shaun of the Dead, directed by Edgar Wright, Shaun (Pegg) and Ed (Frost) discuss…

Movies Germain Lussier

5 Things We Want From Avenue 5 Season 2

HBO’s big draw last night was the Westworld season three premiere—but fans of absurd space comedy also tuned in for the season one finale of Armando Iannucci’s Avenue 5. We already know there’s a season two on the way, so here are five things we’re hoping to see when the show returns. 1) Pick up…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Courteney Cox to Star in Pilot For Starz Haunted House Comedy Shining Vale

Okay, this seems fun: Starz is in the midst of producing a new horror-comedy called Shining Vale, about a tortured author taking up residence in a haunted house. And Courteney Cox of Friends fame has been tapped to star. As reported by Collider, the series will star Cox as Patricia “Pat” Phelps, a recovering addict…

io9 Julie Muncy

Greg Berlanti Wants Chris Evans in His Little Shop of Horrors

Honestly, who wouldn’t? According to the Hollywood Reporter, if Warner Bros. has its way, Chris Evans is set to join the cast of its upcoming cinematic adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors, the cult classic film turned musical telling the story of a unique, sentient plant that develops a taste for human flesh. The studio’s…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Alan Tudyk’s Syfy Series Resident Alien Looks Like a Goofy Good Time

There’s something a little…off about the new guy in town (played by Alan Tudyk of Firefly, Rogue One, and Doom Patrol fame) in Syfy’s Resident Alien. But as the first teaser for the sci-fi comedy series suggests, most of his neighbors aren’t too terribly weirded out. Everyone’s got their quirks, right? Resident Alien, which is…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Avenue 5 Contains All the Absurd Chaos We Hope to Never Encounter in Deep Space

One of sci-fi’s go-to plots is “disaster in the depths of space,” where a catastrophe endangers the mission and, ultimately, human lives. HBO’s new series Avenue 5 takes that well-worn idea and dunks it into a mix of biting wit, cruise-ship cheese, and unlikable characters you somehow can’t get enough of. The comedy style that…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

io9 Roundtable: The Good Place Was a Good Show

The Good Place—NBC’s poignant, brilliant, and hilarious afterlife comedy—has ended, and last night’s series finale showed us the fates of all the characters we’d come to forking adore over the past four seasons. Dive into the chowder fountain with us while we celebrate (and mourn) one of our favorite shows. Cheryl Eddy: Based on “Patty,”…

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Open Channel: What Was The Best Arc of The Good Place?

I can’t believe that The Good Place is ending. After four stunning seasons, Michael Schur’s grand sitcom experiment is coming to an end next week, with an extra-long finale that will see our heroes find one conclusion or another. It’s been a personal show for me, one I’ve watched faithfully with my wife and discussed…

io9 Julie Muncy

The Always Sunny Team Has Made Silicon Valley for the World of Video Games

What happens when the team behind It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia makes a show about behind-the-scenes drama on the (fake) biggest multiplayer video game in the world? That’s the question that’ll be answered by Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, a new comedy coming to Apple TV+ on February 7. Rob McElhenney both stars and executive produces…

Trailers Germain Lussier

Daniel Radcliffe Heads Way Back in Time for Anthology Comedy Miracle Workers‘ Second Season

Remember Miracle Workers, the clever TBS limited comedy that imagined Heaven as a cubicle farm, but instead of pushing pencils, the worker bees were frantically trying to prevent the boss (Steve Buscemi, as a slacker God) from tipping off the apocalypse? It’s coming back, with a twist! A dark twist. Dark Ages, actually. Miracle Workers:…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

What We Do in the Shadows’ Scariest Vampire Is Still Giving Us Nightmares

Rick and Morty‘s 22 Best Celebrity Guest Stars (So Far)

Newcomers Is a Star Wars Podcast for the Rest of Us

FX’s New Animated Series From Dan Harmon, Aubrey Plaza, Danny DeVito, and Satan Sounds Like Magic

What We Do in the Shadows Starts Season 2 Off With a Zombie and Some Major Blasts From the Past

The Solar Opposites Aliens Get a Crash Course in Earth Culture in the Latest Trailer

A New Beetlejuice Documentary Will Go Behind the Scenes of the Horror Cult Classic

Our First Look at Space Force, That Comedy About the Joke That Is the Real Space Force

10 Apocalypse Movies to Watch With Happy (or at Least Not Totally Depressing) Endings

Red Dwarf Is Paying Off a Story Line After Three Decades

Shaun of the Dead Gets a Coronavirus Update Thanks to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

5 Things We Want From Avenue 5 Season 2

Courteney Cox to Star in Pilot For Starz Haunted House Comedy Shining Vale

Greg Berlanti Wants Chris Evans in His Little Shop of Horrors

Alan Tudyk’s Syfy Series Resident Alien Looks Like a Goofy Good Time

Avenue 5 Contains All the Absurd Chaos We Hope to Never Encounter in Deep Space

io9 Roundtable: The Good Place Was a Good Show

Open Channel: What Was The Best Arc of The Good Place?

The Always Sunny Team Has Made Silicon Valley for the World of Video Games

Daniel Radcliffe Heads Way Back in Time for Anthology Comedy Miracle Workers‘ Second Season

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