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The Brady Bunch is one of the strangest success stories in the history of television, running five modestly-rated and poorly-reviewed seasons from 1969 to 1974, then becoming a (sometimes ironic) hit via its seemingly endless reruns - resulting in…

And, like that, it’s all there. Tuesday brought the launch of Disney+, the cultural behemoth’s long-promised, much-hyped streaming service – delivering, well, most of the feature films, TV movies, and shows from the company’s decades-long reign.…

Since the fortune reaped by George Lucas following the release of Star Wars, the official action figure has become a standby of any commercial-friendly blockbuster movie or television show, launching entire subsets of geekdom (and lucrative revenue…

Dave Quiggle's "Icons of Affection" is borne of an ingenious idea: since so many of us treat pop culture as a religion anyway, why not pay tribute to the characters of film and television with the visual langage of religious iconography? And thus we…

The Internet celebrated "Batman Day" over the weekend, and what a relief it was to finally, at long last, talk about Batman online! Anyway, now that all of you Bat-fans have gone back into your Bat-caves to secretly adore the Caped Crusader until…

Usually, when we sing the praises and share the images of Los Angeles' Gallery1988, they're from one of the gallery's shows of full-sized, pop culture-inspired artwork. But if you've got a little less wall space - or a few fewer dollars in your…

We never really outgrow our toys – we just turn them into collector’s items, major motion pictures, and works of art. For the latter, we now turn to our friends at Gallery 1988, whose latest pop culture-obsessed exhibition focuses on the tiny toys…

Jason Bailey: All right, Lucy, what movie did we go see? Lucille Dryden Bailey: We went to go and see Dora and Boots. JB: And what did you think of the movie? LDB: I thought it was amazing, JB: You thought it was amazing! Why did you think it was…

Last year at the Sundance Film Festival, critics and audiences were wowed by the timely drama The Tale – which was then acquired by HBO and, sadly, mostly forgotten. This week, we’ll see if this year’s Share will meet with a similar fate. Among the…

Much has been written about how we see New York City on the big screen (here’s a recent example), and for good reason – the city has, for decades, been defined in the public consciousness by the gritty crime dramas and sunny rom-coms that used…

The current, final season of Game of Thrones has certainly provoked its fair share of conversation – about everything from story turns and battle tactics to Starbucks cups – but one thing everyone can still agree on is that the show looks amazing.…

The first two images of Lorena, Joshua Rofé’s new documentary series (debuting tomorrow on Amazon Prime) are tight shots of objects outside a home. The first is an American flag; the second is a satellite television dish. They are, in essence, what…

On January 10, 1999, HBO debuted The Sopranos — and kicked off a cultural revolution. The series, created by David Chase, sprung from the one-joke concept of “gangster goes to therapy” (there was apparently something in the air; two months later,…

We’re kicking off the new year with a nice, strong new release Tuesday, featuring two engaging bio-documentaries and two fall features that should’ve made more noise than they did. Oh, and one of 2016’s Best Picture nominees is back on the Netflix.…

During a year that felt as if it spanned 10 years and produced about a billion television shows, trying to narrow down the best of the best is a nearly-impossible task. Frankly, it’s nearly impossible just to remember all the programs that aired —…

Holiday shopping season is upon us, and we suggested some good gift ideas earlier this week. But if you really wanna go that extra mile — or maybe treat yo self to something especially special — then you might want to log on to Prop Store tomorrow…

Modern online media is all about the signal boost, so every Friday here at Flavorwire, we take a moment to spotlight some of the best stuff we’ve read online this week. Today, some pressing concerns ahead of Tuesday’s elections, along with a…

Modern online media is all about the signal boost, so every Friday here at Flavorwire, we take a moment to spotlight some of the best stuff we’ve read online this week. Today, the history of an SNL classic, a great comedian’s favorite comedy albums,…

There’s so, so, so much good TV right now, it’s impossible to watch all of it – so imagine trying to make the time to turn great TV into great art. Luckily, our friends at the pop culture-savvy Gallery1988 in Los Angeles have a whole team of artists…

While the world waits with bated breath for season eight of HBO’s Game of Thrones (more like panicked withdrawal, if we’re being honest), we’re thankful to have the new Game of Thrones Tarot to pass the time. George R. R. Martin’s fantastical world…

Although the first Addams Family TV series only ran for two seasons in the 1960s, our gloomy friends at 0001 Cemetery Lane left an indelible mark on our hearts. They later became ’90s icons after Raúl Juliá, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, and…

You don’t even have to watch the Marvel shows on Netflix to have an opinion on them, since the consensus has been so clearly stated, so often: Iron Fist is garbage, Daredevil and Luke Cage and The Punisher are varying degrees of fine but they drag…

In what could best be described as “the only streaming service available in the burning fetid bowels of Hell,” Fox News has announced plans to launch Fox Nation, a streaming service for super-fans who aren’t getting quite enough disinformation,…

Ryan Murphy is gettin’ some of that Netflix money. The writer/producer/director behind Glee, American Horror Story, American Crime Story, and Feud has inked a (deep breath) $300 million, five-year deal to produce new series and films exclusively for…

When it was first floated a couple of weeks back, ABC’s new remake of The Greatest American Hero sounded like yet another desperate network play for fading nostalgia affection, as Hero was a mediocre-at-best show that ran like three seasons and is…

Get Out, Call Me By Your Name, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Veep were the big winners at last night’s Writers Guild Awards, the yearly honors by scribes, for scribes. The Handmaid’s Tale won awards for both Dramatic Series and New Series, adding to a…

In a turn of events arguably more dramatic and interesting than anything that ever happened on their hit show, Sex and the City stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall have made their private tensions very, very public. Rumors abound for years…

After spending a few years appearing in everything from movies and sitcoms to cartoons and video games, Joel McHale is going back to his first love: pointing and laughing at things. His new Netflix series, The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale,…

Thankfully, SNL had Trump take a backseat on last night’s episode, letting #MeToo have a bigger moment. Fresh from host Natalie Portman’s incredible speech at the recent Women’s March where she detailed the “sexual terrorism” she dealt with as a…

Oh hi, if you need us we’ll be performing some kind of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids/Downsizing type of black magic to check out this badass miniature video store, up close and personal. It was created by FX designer Andrew Glazebrook — better known as…

If we’ve learned one thing over the past couple of years, it’s that there’s literally nothing that Donald Trump won’t lie about. And before that, we discovered that few things were more important to him than TV ratings. So it probably shouldn’t come…

A decade and a half after his death, Mr. Rogers is suddenly a hot commodity. Fred Rogers, the dulcet-toned host of PBS’s Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, is the subject of the new documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, which premiered last week at the…

SNL is getting close to wrapping its 43rd season with two of the show’s most beloved stars — longtime player Will Ferrell and, next week, guest Natalie Portman (never forget). Ferrell opened last night’s show with his good old G-dubs impression,…

Everything old is new again, and again, and again, so CBS has announced a revival season of its hit sitcom Murphy Brown. The series, which ran from 1988-1998, is set at a 60 Minutes-style TV news magazine show called FYI. Candice Bergen stars as the…

The Screen Actors Guild awards were handed out last night, further locking in the front runners for an Oscar race that had, before a couple weeks back, seemed refreshingly wide open. But with the four main prizes matching right up with the Golden…

While we twiddle our thumbs waiting for Jessica Chastain to play Tammy Wynette in Taylor Hackford’s upcoming biopic (after seeing the star in Molly’s Game), we settled in for an evening with the actress on the Studio 8H stage. Chastain got to dig…

People in love with movies love actor Sam Rockwell. Our personal favorite is his trippy role in Duncan Jones’ 2009 film Moon, in which Rockwell plays an astronaut doing a solitary stint on a lunar facility where his character slowly unravels. It’s a…

David Letterman’s Netflix series debuts on the streaming service this Friday, and while we’d love to tell you how great it is, they’re not letting critics screen it in advance. (That’s not as distressing in television as it is in movies; Netflix and…

Kiernan Shipka, best known for playing the surly (and awesome) Sally Draper on Mad Men, has been cast as Sabrina Spellman, aka Sabrina the Teenage Witch, in Netflix’s untitled show (developed under the title The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) based…

Last night, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (a tiny group with little influence past this single event) handed out its 75th annual Golden Globe awards (a prize that, traditionally, has a negligible influence on the awards race), in between…

We haven’t heard a True Detective update lately, but Variety has a late holiday gift if you’re still feeling the Nic Pizzolatto HBO crime drama that last aired in August 2015. The trade reports that Somewhere and Blade star Stephen Dorff will star…

Hoda Kotb, a longtime member of the NBC News team and co-host of the Today show’s fourth hour, has stepped into the full-show co-host slot vacated by accused sexual harasser Matt Lauer late last year. The announcement was made at the beginning of…

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. There’s so much to like about Netflix – the original shows, the revivals,…

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. Like many conscious culture consumers, I’ve been dividing up my diet of…

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. The second season finale of Comedy Central’s Review ended with Forrest…

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. The immediate pleasure of HBO’s Big Little Lies came from its chorus of…

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. Halfway through the second season of The Detour, which premiered on…

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. The following is all spoilers. The Leftovers ended on Sunday with a…

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. The Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles have been ablaze for days. It’s the…

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. In their current forms, MTV and Fiona Apple occupy such distant spheres…

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. If you’ve been on the internet in the past week, you might have caught…

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. A lot of shows these days have been exploring alternate worlds as they…

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. With every season, The Leftovers gets weirder and weirder. But at the…

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. “There should be more horses, more soldiers, more crying, more cameras,”…

As 2017 crashes to its conclusion, we find ourselves growing cautiously optimistic about that Roseanne revival set for next spring – and the show’s creators are starting to share some compelling details. Entertainment Weekly has the lowdown on how…

Jim Henson‘s Muppets characters are loved by people of all ages, which is why this new video (via Kottke) from the gang at Sesame Street is a gem. If you’ve ever wondered how the puppeteers behind the series bring the show’s famous characters to…

Over the weekend, The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration is prohibiting the Centers for Disease Control from using certain words and phrases in documents they’re preparing for next year’s budget. The list of seven words – and…

One of our favorite television holiday traditions was Darlene Love’s annual visit to David Letterman’s show – first Late Night on NBC, then The Late Show on CBS – to sing her Phil Spector-produced Christmas classic, “Christmas (Baby Please Come…

The holiday season is upon us, and SNL is here to deliver your dose of holiday cheer. An extremely enthusiastic Kevin Hart hosts the final episode of 2017 before we break until January 13 with Sam Rockwell hosting the first spot in the new year.…

The Walt Disney Company will reportedly spend $52.4 billion to acquire a substantial portion of the 20th Century Fox media empire. According to Variety, the purchase will include the film studio (and its subsidiaries); a cable package that includes…

Jimmy Kimmel’s pointed monologues about the failures of the American health care system have transformed his late night show from a frat-boy hang-out to a vital voice of commentary and indignation, and he shows no signs of stopping. Last night, he…

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced it nominees for the 75th Golden Globe Awards this morning in Beverly Hills. The Golden Globes, which are often considered (with questionable accuracy) to be an important bellwether for the Oscars,…

James Franco’s new film The Disaster Artist chronicles the making of Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 cult film The Room. While we’d rather be watching The Deuce, and not necessarily for Franco’s contributions, the actor hosted SNL last night to promote the…

“How long can happiness realistically last anyhow?” So goes one of the many pointed questions asked in the new season of Black Mirror, Netflix’s creepy and haunting, tech-obsessed anthology series. We previously got a peek specifically at…

Netflix has dismissed Danny Masterson from the cast of its comedy series The Ranch in light of multiple accusations of rape against the actor. “As a result of ongoing discussions, Netflix and the producers have written Danny Masterson out of The…

Trump, the tax bill, and sexual assault/harassment were the star topics of this week’s SNL. Such horrid talking points could only be softened by the appearance of actress Saoirse Ronan, who brought a lively energy and cheeriness to the series.…

We’re still recovering from Cameron Britton’s portrayal of Lurch-sized serial killer Edmund Kemper in the David Fincher and Charlize Theron-produced Mindhunter TV series that debuted on Netflix in October. The show has just been renewed for a second…

Last night, Jimmy Kimmel Live! presented its annual (RED) (Shopathon) episode, promoting the HIV/AIDS fund-raising organization’s efforts year-round. As per usual, face of (RED) Bono guested, along with such luminaries as Kristen Bell, Bryan…

Matt Lauer, who has co-anchored NBC’s Today Show since 1997 (and appeared as its news anchor for three years before that) has been dismissed from the network amid charges of sexual harassment. In a memo to staff Wednesday morning, NBC News president…

If you’re still thinking about that Bryce Dallas Howard-starring episode of Black Mirror every time you peep your Instagram account, then you’ll be thrilled to know that a teaser for season four of Charlie Brooker’s Netflix anthology series has…

Chance the Rapper nailed it as host on last night’s SNL, even if the spotty-as-hell episode didn’t give him much material to go on. From confused sports announcer and porn star, to high school nerd in love with his dad and more, Chance was up for…

The important thing to remember about The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story is that it sounded, and initially even looked, kind of terrible. The discrepancy between those initial impressions and the final product is a helpful guide when…

“Even before I had picked this subject, how it was initially sold to Netflix was as ‘the everything bagel’,” Errol Morris explained. It was late on a Friday night, and he was speaking in front of a DOC NYC crowd that had just – for lack of a less…

After another horrible week of media headlines about sexual predators in our government and rapists who make movies, actress Tiffany Haddish was a welcome presence to the Studio 8H stage. The Girls Trip star had energy to spare and jumped right into…