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HBO Max's new dramedy Genera+ion hopes to capture a realistic Gen Z experience, right down to the way teens text and use social media. 19-year old creator Zelda Barnz—plus her fathers Daniel and Ben Barnz—share why authenticity was key for their series.

The Sleep On Halloween night, participants of a sleep experiment must “survive real-life horrors as well as the ones unlocked deep within their minds” in the trailer for The Sleep. In the trailer for The Tangle, a woman is somehow discretely murdered in a future where clouds of airborne microdrones have made personal privacy impossible. Kindred Deadline reports FX has ordered a pilot for a series based on Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred from writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Courtney Lee-Mit...

Tom Holland says making Apple TV Plus' new film Cherry opened his eyes to addiction and veterans' struggles for fair treatment.

Screenshot: Avengers: Age Of Ultron We don’t know if you were aware, but people are pretty keen on that little show that just wrapped up on Disney+. They’re also super into its music, and with very good reason—but that’s neither here nor there right now, because we’ve just been made privy to a very unsettling alternate timeline for Earth-199999: Once upon an MCU, audiences were almost subjected to The Vision’s newly fashioned android synthezoid schlong. Advertisement Apologies if ...

Watch This o ffers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Coming 2 America  now available to rent from home, we’re offering our own belated sequel to a past Watch This theme and singing the praises of more good comedy sequels.  Advertisement A Very Brady Sequel (1996) Those of a certain age will be alarmed to learn (or just sorry to be reminded) that The Brady Bunch Movie, released in 1995,...

If you’ve been reading these reviews for a while, you know that I have many thoughts about the tension between Shameless’ inherent dramatic structure and John Wells’ belief that he is in fact making an hour-long sitcom, and so I will spare you the full essay on this topic. But in case you’re new, the show has long embodied a tension between the show it is and the show Wells wants it to be, and it’s been one of the sticking points as it limps into its final season. Advertisement Howev...

(ABC, 8 p.m.): You could make an argument for any traditional episode of The Bachelor being the strangest of a given season, but normally it would be pretty difficult to beat “Fantasy Suites Week,” better known as “the one where they maybe bone.” It’s always pretty nuts, but in this particular season? There’s only one episode that could be weirder: next week’s finale. Enjoy what could be/should be/probably isn’t Chris Harrison’s last episode of The Bachelor, and send good t...

Thirty-five years ago, a new phrase first entered the pop culture lexicon: “There can be only one.” It’s from Highlander, a 1986 sci-fi fantasy from director Russell Mulcahy. The film stars Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod, a Scottish warrior who learns he’s an immortal being destined to battle across the centuries. Sean Connery co-stars along with Clancy Brown and Roxanne Hart. Advertisement Though the film—written by Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood, and Larry Ferguson—is celeb...

In the wake of WandaVision's grand finale, showrunner Jac Schaeffer has revealed that the series almost did two more very different spins on TV homages—a Mary Tyler Moore Show style episode, and even beyond comedy, a C.S.I. homage.

Alerts Delroy Lindo is an actor who goes deep. He goes deep preparing for his roles, and he goes deep talking about them—although, as he told The A.V. Club in our interview with him, he sometimes has trouble articulating what goes into his process, because in the moment he’s just trying to do right by the story and the people telling it. The deconstruction comes after. Advertisement Lindo has acted in pretty much every genre you can think of, in films and on TV, but some of his buzziest ro...