Time moves in crazy ways, especially in the world of an entertainment journalist. It feels like yesterday that we were all learning about the shock cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. We were all in different places at that point; myself doubly so - as I was at a different outlet.
This week marks the end of an era in late night television. After an emotional finale, CBS’ The Late Show no longer exists - with its host Stephen Colbert exiting the chat show sphere. It feels like a shadowy time, but to quote The Lord of the Rings franchise, “even darkness must pass.”
If there’s anyone that could qualify as a superfan of all things Middle-Earth, it’s talk show host/elder statesnerd Stephen Colbert. As the CBS late night host is wrapping his final months at The Late Show, his post-cancellation fate has been a subject of intense fascination. Well now it appears
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely