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In dark times, you can count on Doctor Who to bring the light. That’s what happened in the madcap and meta “Lux,” episode 2 of Season 2 (also known as Season 15 since showrunner Russell T Davies’ Who reboot, or season 41 if you’re classic). Not only does “Lux” manage an upbeat tone in a … Read more

Other TV shows may break the fourth wall by talking directly to the audience. Doctor Who just blew it to smithereens — and it’s been a long time coming. In “Lux,” episode 2 of Ncuti Gatwa’s second season as the Doctor, our time-traveling hero is trapped, along with companion Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu), in a … Read more

With Season 7 of Black Mirror, series superfan Jimmi Simpson returned to reprise the roles of video game billionaire James Walton and his less vicious in-game clone in “USS Callister: Into Infinity.” Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko sat down with Simpson over Zoom for an interview about what it was like to come back to … Read more

Beyond a staggering amount of journalism, there have been many true crime books written and documentaries made about British serial killers Fred and Rosemary West. Now, Netflix is set to release its own three-part series. Announced on Wednesday with a trailer, Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story comes directed by Dan Dewsbury (Louis … Read more

According to Forbes, there are currently more billionaires on Earth than ever. Over 3,000 of them, including all the billionaire tech bros who attended billionaire president Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the 13 billionaires now in the White House. So Stephen Colbert dedicated a song to those who opt for faberge eggs in a crisis during … Read more

Jon Stewart has had plenty to roast Trump and his cabinet for recently, from leaking its own military plans to tanking the stock market. On Monday’s edition of The Daily Show, though, he took a look at Trump’s overall leadership style with a segment called “How authoritarian is we?” “We already know Trump’s done a … Read more

For Jimmi Simpson, getting cast on Black Mirror back in Season 4 was a dream come true. The character actor who’s won critics’ praise on everything from the madcap sitcom It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia to the sci-fi Western WestWorld to David Fincher’s masterful true crime thriller Zodiac was a big fan of Charlie Brooker’s … Read more

Trump’s tariff policies have been all over the place since so-called “Liberation Day”, with so many pauses and changes that the only thing easy to keep track of has been the rapidly dumping stock market. In the clip above from Last Week Tonight John Oliver does his best to sum up the whole mess, talking … Read more

The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has called out SNL for a sketch about her that she described as “mean and unfunny”. Wood, who plays Chelsea in Season 3 of the HBO series, made a series of Instagram posts on Sunday directly addressing a sketch from Saturday’s SNL show. Called “The White Potus”, the … Read more

The Last of Us Season 2 introduces us to a few new faces, from surviving Firefly Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) to Joel’s (Pedro Pascal) new therapist, Gail (Catherine O’Hara). But Gail also has a husband, Eugene, who’s fairly recently died — and although we never got to meet him, it seems as though he’ll still play … Read more