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From DreamWorks Animation, Madagascar: A Little Wild is kicking off Pride Month with a Pride-themed episode and brand new original song “Be Proud!”, featured among the series’ newest episodes premiering on Peacock and Hulu on May 27. The episode and colorful anthem features new habitat resident and nonbinary character “Odee Elliot” the Okapi and is voiced by nonbinary actor Ezra Menas (Spielberg’s West Side Story, Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill, pronouns: zie/hir/they). “If I ...

Were here, were vaxxed, and were ready to party. By Chelsea SteinerMay 22nd, 2021, 12:36 pm As the end of May quickly approaches, it’s time to pump up the jams, rips our sleeves off of our shirts, and get ready for SHOT GIRL SUMMER, BABY! Now that many of us are vaccinated, we’re ready to dive into a summer filled with BBQs, travel, parties, and more social activities. Summer is also roaring back with all sorts of blockbuster movie premieres, new series, and all sorts of pop culture activ...

One of our most anticipated shows of the summer is AMC’s Kevin Can F**K Himself, a whip-smart black comedy which upends the “sitcom wife” trope we all know and hate. You know her when you see her—the easygoing, patient, incongruously gorgeous housewife whose sole personality trait is absolute devotion to the sitcom’s schlubby male hero. Kevin Can F**K Himself blends a multi-cam sitcom—in which Annie Murphy’s Allison is a textbook sitcom wife—with a gritty drama in which she’...

Linking Glaciers on Earth to the Climate on Mars April 30, 2021• Physics 14, 62 Geophysicist Jack Holt explains how Earth’s debris-covered glaciers can teach us about the climate history of Mars. Jack Holt × As a student, Jack Holt had three loves: geology, exploring remote mountain regions, and aviation. Now, as a geophysicist at the University of Arizona, he’s merged those loves into his academic pursuits. Holt has tracked the history of Earth’s magnetic field, which required ...

The Emmy-winning actress is tapping into her dramatic side for this dark comedy. Kevin Can F**k Himself follows the story of Allison McRoberts (Murphy), a woman filling the role of a “prototypical sitcom wife,” a figure we all believed we knew growing up. Usually the butt of the joke, she’s beautiful and married to a man who is not so much her equal in that department. When Allison is outside of her husband’s domain, that veneer fades and she’ll wake up to and revolt ag...

Posted on Thursday, February 18th, 2021 by Chris Evangelista At some point, certain sitcoms adopted a formula: an oafish, kind-of-husky husband is married to the perfect wife. The perfect wife who puts up with the male lead’s constant bullshit, no matter what. Now here comes  Kevin Can F**k Himself, a series that asks: what if that perfect sitcom wife decided to murder her boorish husband?  Schitt’s Creek breakout Annie Murphy plays that wife, and you can take a gander at what the series...

Ever since the series finale of Schitt’s Creek, we’ve been dying to see what Annie Murphy will do next. And today, we finally get a sneak peek at what the erstwhile Alexis Rose has been up to. AMC has dropped the first trailer for Kevin Can F**k Himself, a dark meta comedy which stars Murphy as Allison, a prototypical sitcom wife: gorgeous, stressed, and married to Kevin (Eric Petersen) a thankless slob whom the show revolves around. The synopsis reads, “This is a story about a woman wh...

Photo: AMC “It’s about a woman who keeps playing perfect housewife. Then one day, she realizes what she wants: to kill her husband.” Advertisement Television has long progressed beyond the need for the Doting Housewife-Selfish Buffoon Husband trope that has permeated the airspace since family sitcoms were a thing. At first glance, AMC’s revenge drama,  Kevin Can F**k Himself, looks like more of the same as Alison (Emmy winner and Schitt’s Creek alum Annie Murphy) prepares a loving b...

Annie Murphy recently bid a fond farewell to her beloved character Alexis Rose with the sixth and final season of Schitts Creek. But the Emmy winner is already back with her next role, offering a totally different, yet equally intriguing performance. She taps into her dark side in the first trailer for her new AMC dramedy series Kevin Can F*** Himself, which sees her deconstruct the TV housewife with through a lens that bucks television convention. Wifey material: Annie Murphy taps into her da...

Annie Murphy Fulfills Every Sitcom Wifes Dream in New Series and Plots Her Husbands Murder 2.1K Shares If youve ever wondered what would happen if a sitcom wife finally snapped on her obnoxious, bumbling husband, Annie Murphy is happy to show you. In AMCs new metadrama, the Emmy-winning Schitts Creek actress plays Allison — the exasperated wife of Kevin McRoberts — who is tired of playing the role of the perfectly meek housewife. Playing off the tried-and-true formula used by beloved shows...