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The Best Title Sequences of 2020  It’s been a year like no other. A year when so many of us turned to screens to connect or, indeed, to disconnect; when we ached for a dollop of entertainment, a moment of escape or a dose of comfort, for something familiar or something completely new.  This year, for Art of the Title’s seventh annual list of the year’s top 10 title sequences, we’re doing something new. We reached out to our community to pull in new voices and to expand the team that c...

Weve Got Hollywood Covered How ‘Lovecraft Country’ Star Jonathan Majors Accepted Atticus’ Fate TheWrap magazine: “He is now the edge of the spear for his family and for the next chapter of their legacy,” HBO star says By Jennifer Maas | December 23, 2020 @ 3:30 PM A version of this story about “Lovecraft Country” star Jonathan Majors first appeared in the December issue of TheWrap magazine. HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” threw viewers for a loop (spoiler ahead!) when ...

WWWednesday: Lovecraft Country, Book and TV Show Lovecraft Country, Original Cover Lovecraft Country. I watched Season One of HBO’s adaptation of Lovecraft Country before I read Matt Ruff’s original novel-in-stories. I liked each of them, for different reasons. I will be comparing and contrasting here. Ruff’s book came out in 2016. It embraces and honors the pulp era of speculative fiction, especially short fiction, especially the weird (the title is a clue). Ruff wanted one important di...

It was an uneven fourth season for Noah Hawleys FX anthology: The show was still driven by an unequaled ensemble, exemplary period production values and clever dialogue, but struggled to bring its two-dozen main characters and myriad thematic swings together in its tale of organized crime in 1950s Kansas City. But for one episode, written by Hawley and Lee Edward Colston II and directed by Michael Uppendahl,  Fargo was in absolute top form. "East/West" did away with the sprawling cast other t...

On the home front, Africa Magic launched telenovelas Riona and Enakhe, both streaming on Showmax, which has kept fans buzzing on social media. But that’s not all. Here are 10 series from 2020 and beyond currently streaming on Showmax you won’t find anywhere else. Power Book II: Ghost picks up shortly after the earth-shattering events of Power (binge all six seasons on Showmax) as Tariq St Patrick (BET Award nominee Michael Rainey Jr.) grapples with a new world order: his father dead and ...

It was an uneven fourth season for Noah Hawleys FX anthology: The show was still driven by an unequaled ensemble, exemplary period production values and clever dialogue, but struggled to bring its two-dozen main characters and myriad thematic swings together in its tale of organized crime in 1950s Kansas City. But for one episode, written by Hawley and Lee Edward Colston II and directed by Michael Uppendahl,  Fargo was in absolute top form. "East/West" did away with the sprawling cast other t...

It takes a brave producer to try and fuse two genres that are never naturally in the same room together and make it work, but Lovecraft Country does just that. J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele’s new HBO series is based on a book of the same name by Matt Ruff. Brilliantly steered by showrunner / producer Misha Green, this is a collision of civil rights with horror, supernatural and occasionally sci-fi. This may start out as a defiant look at 1950s oppression but it isn’t long before it veers in...

I May Destroy You follows Arabella, a carefree and up-and-coming author who struggles to remember what happened to her after a night out with friends. After Chewing Gum, Michaela has once again created a breathtaking series that gets better and better with each episode. She manages to weave together humor and drama so perfectly that its hard not to be mesmerized by both the character of Arabella and Michaelas writing. Every episode is masterfully crafted, and its a testament to Michaelas abili...

Premiered November 26 | Watch on HBO Max The Big Bang Theory and her Priceline pitchman persona in favor of something a little more daring and fun. She stars in this miniseries as Cassie, a hard-partying flight attendant who jumps into a one-night stand in Bangkok with a hunk (Michiel Huisman) and wakes up next to his freshly murdered corpse. What follows is a dark comedy that doubles as a murder mystery as Cuocos character tries to piece together what happened, evade authorities, and find the ...

I May Destroy You was "one of the most exciting of 2020." Natalie Seery / HBO It has been a momentous year for everything we consider TV. A pandemic, civil rights reckoning, streaming war and presidential election shook up the industry in a dozen different ways. It blurred lines between genres, platforms and story forms, while also encouraging us to develop our own, deep rabbit holes of favorite media. So when our team of four critics sat down to figure out what we liked most onscreen this...