Dexter

Amazing TV-Inspired Nail Art

We might be going a little overboard with the pop culture fingernails over here, but last week’s collection of literary nail art hasn’t quite faded from our minds (or our cuticles). Did anyone successfully enchant their nails with Elvish script? Or fit tiny Hufflepuff crests on their pinkies? We’re still working on our Petit Prince manicures, but in the meantime, we decided to check out another source of nail-art inspiration — television. If you’ve ever wanted to deck your digits with Dexter, Donna Meagle, Doctor Who, or a handful of other TV characters that don’t fit that alliteration scheme, you’ve come to the right place! Enjoy a selection of 20 TV-inspired manicures after the jump, and hit the comments to let us know which one you’d like to handle your remote. … Read More

15 TV Kitchens We Covet

As we may have mentioned, we are pretty excited to see Absolutely Fabulous back on TV. We missed Patsy and Edina, we missed Saffy, we missed Gran, and we especially missed Bubble, Eddy’s walking acid trip of an assistant. But it wasn’t until we read Tom & Lorenzo’s great blog post about the show’s return that we realized we had been longing for more than just the characters. As they note, Eddy has one hell of a kitchen, and it feels great to watch the cast sip coffee and chug champagne in it again. The Monsoon kitchen and 14 others that we wouldn’t minding owning are after the jump. … Read More

Incredible Pencil Drawings of Pop Culture Celebrities

If artist Rick Fortson didn’t sign his pencil drawings of film and television’s biggest celebrities, you’d have no idea that they were works of art instead of film stills or publicity photos in most cases. The incredible portraits are so realistically rendered, they mimic crisp black and white snapshots. Amazingly, Fortson is a self-taught artist, and his creations take anywhere from seven to 17 hours per piece. Head past the break to be blown away by Fortson’s amazing celebrity portraits. … Read More

An Offbeat Gift Guide for TV Lovers

Do you have an older brother who speaks in Ron Swanson quotes? Or a best friend who went as Blue Man Tobias Fünke for Halloween? Or a younger sister who sings “Night Cheese” in her sleep? If yes, this gift guide is for you! Sometimes, season DVD/Blu-ray sets just won’t cut it for our favorite modern TV aficionados. Firstly, because they probably already own ‘em. And secondly? Well, they’re just not original enough. These people deserve silly, offbeat TV-related gifts that will make them chuckle and ask, “Where in the world did you find this?” Then you’ll bring them here and we’ll all high-five and eat “meat tornado” cookies. Or not. Either way, check out some TV-themed trash bags and binoculars after the jump. … Read More

The 10 All-Time Best TV Shows Adapted From Books

The recent news that Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall will be adapted into a television show doesn’t surprise us too much. We can only add it to the growing list of book-to-small-screen adaptations that we are anxiously awaiting, joining the planned HBO series based on A Visit From the Goon Squad, and the one on Eugenides’s Middlesex, which HBO seems to have optioned and then forgotten about. However, there are no promises that any book to TV adaptation, even those with great books as starting points, will be any good, and there are hundreds of shows created in this way that aren’t — but in our minds, that just makes the great ones even greater. To get ourselves pumped for the adaptation of Wolf Hall, we’ve collected a list of the ten all-time best (according to us, that is) TV shows adapted from books. Click through to see our picks, and be sure to let us know your own favorites in the comments! … Read More

Pop Culture Serial Killers We Love to Love

If you’re anything like us, you’re at the edge of your seat in anticipation for tonight’s season six premiere of Dexter. Indeed, our culture has long had a strange fascination with serial killers, with the trope popping up again and again in literature, films, television and even popular musicals. As Jeff Lindsay, the writer of the original Dexter series, wrote, ”There’s a special sense of dread that comes with that phrase, ‘serial killer.’ It represents an inhuman psychology that is beyond us, and because of that, we can’t look away.” Though often the murderers are simply evil and must be eradicated, sometimes they’re strangely compelling, or even — surprising as it may be — downright sympathetic. In honor of the sixth season of our beloved Dexter, click through to check out our list of six serial killers we can’t help but love a little bit, and let us know if we’ve missed any of your favorites in the comments. … Read More

What If Saul Bass Did the Opening Credits of ‘Dexter’?

Dexter fans know that we’re only days away from the Season 6 premiere on October 2. Hopefully this Saul Bass-inspired animated opening sequence by Ty Mattson, which references the Ice Truck Killer plot, will help tide you over until then. As the designer, who previously created a poster series tribute to the show, explains, “This is what I imagine the Dexter title sequence might look like if the show had aired in the ’60s.” Click through to check it out now, and let us know in the comments if you like it more than the show’s actual opening — which, for the record, has always been one of our favorites. … Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. A creepy new promo for season six of Dexter dropped online yesterday. Watch it here, and starting counting the days until fall. [via Pop Candy]

2. Patti Smith will make her acting debut in an upcoming episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent that’s based on all of the Spider-Man:… Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. The 2011 Golden Globes nominations have been announced, and Black Swan, Glee, The Social Network, and The Kids Are All Right all scored multiple nods, while The King’s Speech leads the pack with seven. View the full list here.

2. Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter — who play a brother… Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. Watch the first trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s documentary film about Spalding Gray, And Everything is Going Fine, which his widow asked the director to make after his tragic death. [via Slashfilm]

2. More Steve Carell news: He and David Steinberg are making a documentary that will chronicle the evolution of comedy over… Read More