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The animated sitcom as it exists today — The Great North, Krapopolis, Rick and Morty, the list goes on — enjoys a level of quality that animators might have sold their drafting tables for in the 1990s. Fluidity and fidelity are the first two qualities you'll notice about these types of shows, regardless of how offbeat their character design is or how extravagant their vocal cast might be. Even South Park has finessed its famously crappy house style well beyond anything we could have imagined. The animated sitcom is now so polished with hypercompetence and homogeneity that it makes older series like Home Movies feel anarchic by comparison.

The Animated Sitcom Was Rarely More Subversive Than in Home Movies Season 1

The summer solstice is still a couple weeks away, but awards season is in full bloom — the Television Critics Association just announced the nominees for its 40th annual awards, a milestone for the organization. If you've been paying attention to the zeitgeist, you won't be surprised by the...

Shōgun, The Bear, and Baby Reindeer Lead TCA 2024 Nominations

It’s pride month, and what better way to kick off the celebration than to watch Dakota Johnson star as an awkward but adorable lesbian in Am I OK?. Directed by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, the comedy-drama film — which first premiered at Sundance in 2022 and debuted on Max on June 6 — centers on 32-year-old Lucy (Johnson), who realizes her dates with men aren’t working out because she’s actually a lesbian. With encouragement from her best friend Jane (Sonoya Mizuno), she comes out and tries to start dating women, but finds the process to be messier and more complicated than she’d hoped.

Am I OK? Lets Molly Gordon Be Spectacularly Annoying

Central Perk isn’t reopening its doors any time soon. At the Banff World Media Festival on Monday, Warner Bros. TV Group chairman Channing Dungey explained why a Friends reboot still remains highly unlikely even as Hollywood continues to lean into established I.P. “I think it would be very difficult...

Established IP Is All the Rage, But a Friends Reboot Is Still Off the Table

The game’s not over yet — The CW has renewed All American for a seventh season. The catch? Viewers will have to wait until next year to see football star Spencer James (Daniel Ezra) and his teammates back on TV. The series, which has showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll at the helm, will return in 2025 for an abbreviated 13-episode season. The news comes after Season 6, which is currently airing, was expanded from 13 to 15 episodes in a rare move for the network.

Going Into Overtime: The CW Renews All American for Season 7

[Note: This article contains major spoilers for the Pretty Little Liars: Summer School finale, "Chapter Eight: Final Exam.”]. Pencils down, everyone! After eight bloody episodes, Max’s Pretty Little Liars: Summer School wrapped up its sophomore season on Thursday with a killer finale. The teen drama slasher picks up directly after the events of Original Sin and follows Imogen (Bailee Madison), Tabby (Chandler Kinney), Faran (Zaria), Mouse (Malia Pyles), and Noa (Maia Reficco) as they’re tormented by a mysterious new villain, Bloody Rose.

Even the Pretty Little Liars: Summer School Cast Couldn't Crack the Killer's Identity

Next year, Black Mirror will not-so-boldly go where it’s gone before. News recently broke that the seventh season of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian sci-fi anthology series, set to premiere on Netflix sometime in 2025, will include a sequel — more specifically, a return to the virtual final frontier of "USS Callister," a.k.a. the Star Trek-themed episode from Season 4.

Black Mirror's Best Episode Transcends Timeliness, Even as It Gets More Timely By the Day

With few exceptions, every show (and movie) about The Transformers has the same basic premise: Autobots wage their battles to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons. Transformers: Earthspark, Paramount+’s kid-oriented take on the iconic brand, very explicitly set itself up to be one of those exceptions, breaking every aspect of that original premise in one way or another.

The Real War in Transformers: Earthspark Is Between the Franchise and Its Future

Relatively early in the pilot episode of Orphan Black: Echoes, the spin-off and kinda-sorta sequel to the much beloved sci-fi drama about a disparate sorority of clones, our main character Lucy (Krysten Ritter) stands in her kitchen eating Spaghetti-O’s out of the can while swaying to Neko Case’s barn-burning track “Star Witness.”

Orphan Black: Echoes May Have Sealed Its Fate With Its Title

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The first time my family walked into a Ponderosa Steakhouse was in the late 1960s. It was new and the experience was great. Like other new restaurants, if the management doesn't stay on top, the quality of service can decline. The location we went to did change through the years, but in the beginning, it was great.

The 1960s: the Ponderosa and Bonanza Steakhouses are still around in some states

Star Wars has always drawn very clear lines between the good guys and the bad guys, but The Acolyte dares to ask who actually gets to define the difference between the Light Side and the Dark. It’s a question that fits well with the series’s anti-colonial and imperialist themes, but that bit of introspection is largely buried in the first four episodes of the Disney+ series under a parade of more familiar Star Wars touchstones.

The Acolyte Hovers On the Brink of the Star Wars Nostalgia Trap

Season 2 of the critically acclaimed series Interview With the Vampire is not without its more explosive, imminently meme-worthy moments, such as the forever teen queen vampire Claudia (Delainey Hayles) telling her father-brother-rather hapless companion Louis (Jacob Anderson) that love makes him stupid; the numerous incarnations of “Dreamstat,” aka Louis’ guilty conscience conjuring of Lestat (Sam Reid), the lover he grieves, though he believes he killed him; or the rightfully ballyhooed barnburner of a fifth episode. Yet one of the more potent, telling moments in the entire show — a moment that will usher in tragedy — comes as a silent look in a crowded theater.

All Hail Assad Zaman, Interview With a Vampire's Stealth Power Player

At a glance, there doesn’t seem to be much to feel optimistic about on the world stage this year. The simmering decades-long Israel-Palestine conflict has exploded into hot war again, with conservatively thousands dead. Afghanistan fell back under control of a repressive theocracy almost immediately after the end of a 20-year occupation ostensibly to prevent such a thing. A devastating civil war has racked Sudan and Haiti, a country that has struggled to catch a break since it gained independence, is in the third year of a crisis that began with the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

A Throwaway Star Trek: The Next Generation Line Inspired 2024's Most Optimistic Meme

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What makes a zodiac sign high maintenance? Needing extra attention can make someone high maintenance. Uncontrollable emotional roller coasters can make someone high maintenance. Demanding others more than they can give can make someone high maintenance. Needing all of the attention all or most of the time can make someone high maintenance.

5 Zodiac Signs That Are High Maintenance

Conflicts are inevitable in life as we have different opinions. Some zodiac signs are good at arguing while others strive to create harmony and avoid arguments. Yet, conflict resolution is a crucial skill at home and work. It helps people live peacefully and in unity.

5 Zodiac Signs Who Are Most Likely to Win Arguments

According to Shakey's website, this pizza parlor is only in California, North Carolina, and Washington state in the U.S. now. This was my family's go-to pizza joint when my father was stationed with the Air Force outside of Omaha, Nebraska. We liked it so much, that when we were transferred again, it was hopeful we'd find another one.

Shakey's Pizza Parlor and nostalgia: the first franchised pizza restaurant also landed in Missouri

Every restaurant needs a Marcus. And considering the popularity of the subreddit r/antiwork (which has 2.8 million members), perhaps every job needs a Marcus. Marcus Brooks (Lionel Boyce) is the pastry chef of the titular fine dining establishment in FX’s The Bear, and has proven to be a huge part of why both the restaurant and the show have so much heart and subdued sweetness, and frankly, why the back of house staff haven’t all murdered each other by now.

Marcus Holds The Bear Down

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Even one of TV’s most fearsome hosts can’t help but get a little antsy when surrounded by bees. In a new episode of his Nat Geo series Uncharted, Gordon Ramsay, he of countless Kitchen Nightmares and profanity-laden tirades, travels to Cuba to learn more about the island nation’s “hidden cuisine,” including sampling the absolute freshest of honey. To find it, he has to go straight to the source — and that’s when things have the potential to get prickly.

Gordon Ramsay Meets Something Even More Prickly Than He Is in This Exclusive Clip

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Etiquette and Miss Emily Post once frowned upon females who sat gap-legged in public. In Virginia, books in school libraries, teen magazines, and older females often suggested that young ladies cross their legs at the ankle while seated.

"Cross your legs at the ankle young lady" is not totally forgotten today

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Former teacher Jeffrey Clayton, convicted of lewd behavior with a student at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, walked briskly up to the Duval County Courthouse on Friday carrying a small backpack.

Former Douglas Anderson teacher sentenced to 10 years

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Lodge 49 Was a Hangout Comedy Like No Other

In The Late Great, Primetimer staffers and contributors revisit shows that were cut short but still cast a long shadow over the TV landscape. The trend...

Lodge 49 Was a Hangout Comedy Like No Other

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