May 2016 Default Articles
- Beach House on Teen Dreams, the Class Divide of Hookup Culture, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- ‘C***gate’ and ‘Veep’s’ Relationship to Contemporary Journalism
- Watch Snoop Dogg and Ilana Glazer Get High and Laugh at a Farting Preacher
- Amazon Renews ‘Transparent’ for Fourth Season
- ‘Cleverman’ Introduces a New Kind of Superhero
- Jenji Kohan Producing ‘G.L.O.W.,’ a Series About Women in Wrestling, for Netflix
- Unicorns, Ogres, and Fart Jokes: The Madcap Cartoon World of ‘Regular Show’ is One of TV’s Most Realistic Portrayals of Emerging Adulthood
- Activism Is the New Girl Gang
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6 Episode 6 Recap: ‘Blood of My Blood’
- World Health Organization Downplays Concerns About Zika at the 2016 Olympics
- Why Do We Still Care About James Bond?
- ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Episode 8 Recap: “The Fox’s Lair”
- ‘Roots,’ Peter Thiel, Contemporary Sci-Fi, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- This Week’s Top 5 TV Moments: Well, That Took a Turn…
- Scary Thing You Only Hear in 2016: Stonehenge Threatened by Potential Rise in Mole Population Due to Global Warming
- Watch the Campaign Ads for Another Horrifying Person Running for Office: Jonah Ryan
- Preview Kate Micucci’s Adorable LA Doodle Art Gallery Show, ‘Love and Pasta’
- ‘Roots’ is a Stunning, Unflinching Portrait of American Slavery and Ancestral Pride
- Peaches Performed on ‘Orphan Black’ Last Night, Providing Blissful Queer Background Noise
- Important: Viral ‘Hey Arnold!’ Clip Does Not Contain Tossed Salad
- The Secrets of a Rock Producer, Charting M.I.A.’s Controversies, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- HBO Sets Fall Debuts for ‘Westworld,’ ‘Divorce,’ ‘High Maintenance’
- Seth Rogen Is a Tree, Rose Byrne Is Nala in James Corden’s Crosswalk Musical
- Jake Gyllenhaal and a Ferret Star in ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ ‘Catfish’ Parody
- “It’s Still Democracy Even When You Don’t Agree With It”: Jerrod Carmichael Talks Trump, the Season 2 Finale of ‘The Carmichael Show,’ and His Beef With Bruno Mars
- Psych! The ‘Nashville’ Series Finale Wasn’t Really a Finale After All
- Elaine Welteroth Can Teach Us a Thing or Two About Bossing Up
- Amazon’s Pilots for ‘The Interestings,’ ‘The Last Tycoon,’ ‘Jazz Duck’ Debuting June 17
- Chance the Rapper, Ramsay Bolton, the Britney Spears Game, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- More Like Tuck “Barely Lasting”: Broadway’s ‘Tuck Everlasting’ Closes After 39 Shows
- Staff Picks: A New Look at ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ ‘Lemonade”s Ability to Energize, and ‘Veep’
- HBO’s Valiant New Head of Programming Probably Won’t Greenlight a Third Season of ‘True Detective’
- FX to Close Out ‘The Americans’ With Two More Seasons of Exquisite Tension and Cruelty
- These 10 New Web Series Are Worth Your Time
- Surrealist, NSFW Illustrations from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Crazy New Novel
- Netflix Sets the Date for Season 3 of ‘BoJack Horseman’
- The Australian Deputy Prime Minister Accused By Johnny Depp of Being Part Tomato Creepily Rebuts
- An Ode to the Beauty Supply
- NYC Surveillance, Dating Culture, Maria Bamford on Farts, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Watch Samantha Bee Take Down Misogynist Bernie Supporters — and then Unnecessarily Take Down the Rest
- Bill Cosby to Stand Trial for Felony Indecent Assault, Judge Rules
- What Hath Peak TV Wrought?
- ‘Lady Dynamite’ Mimics the Experience of Mental Illness — And Thereby Exerts Control Over It
- Making Porn from Video Games, Why Old Folks Love YA, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Why Are We Still Talking About George Zimmerman?
- ‘Mad Men’ Alert: the Moving Box from Peggy’s Badass Moving Scene Is for Sale
- Whoopi Goldberg’s Next Project is ‘Strut,’ a Reality Series for Oxygen About Trans Models
- Reading Oscar Wilde’s Anti-Athleticism Through Contemporary Mainstream Gay Culture
- Too Many Ingredients — and Clichés — Spoil Maria Bamford’s ‘Lady Dynamite’
- John Oliver Finally Says It: America’s Democracy Is Broken
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 5 Recap: “The Door”
- A Visual Diary of Artists Who Designed for the Opera
- The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Fred Armisen
- ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Episode 7 Recap: “Faith”
- Michael Lombardo Exits as HBO’s President Of Programming
- Ariana Grande, Vetements, Superhero(in)es, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Ewan McGregor Cast as the Lead in ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Will Maybe Play Twins
- This Week’s Top 5 TV Moments: Burn It Down
- Ten Promising New Shows from the Network Upfronts
- WernerBot Is Online to Answer Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask Werner Herzog
- Donald Trump Apparently Believes That African-Americans Have “Nine Extra Bones”
- Filmmaker Andrew Jenks on the ‘Whys’ of Storytelling
- Get Into This Bad Boy Nostalgia Before the Reunion Tour
- Jimmy Fallon and Seth Rogen Perform Jokes Written by Kids, and They Kill
- Facebook’s Real News Algorithm, Justin Lin, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Watch Behind-the-Scenes Footage of Courtney Barnett and Fred Armisen Filming ‘SNL’ Promos
- Mitch Hurwitz Says a Fifth Season of ‘Arrested Development’ Will “Definitely Happen”
- Legendary ’60 Minutes’ Reporter Morley Safer Has Died at 84
- Watch Louis C.K. Win ‘Jeopardy!,’ and See Journalists Get Flustered, Too
- The First Penis Transplant: A New Frontier for Dicks, But More Than That, Too
- The Trouble with ESports Commentary, Moving a Gorilla, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Staff Picks: ‘Hadestown,’ ‘Kindred,’ and ‘Halt and Catch Fire’
- ‘Game of Thrones’: Why Dany’s Nude Scene Wasn’t “Empowering”
- ‘The Americans’: Tony-Award-Winning Ruthie Ann Miles on Young-Hee, TV’s Favorite Mary Kay Consultant
- $1,000 Records, the Battle for ‘TRL,’ and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- A Closed Primary Might Mean a Loss for Bernie Sanders in a Bernie State
- ‘Grace and Frankie”s Second Season Is Nearly Undone by the Nature of Binge-Watching
- Samantha Bee Responds Brilliantly to Sports Fanaticism-Fueled Misogynist Backlash Against Women of the Seattle City Council
- Netflix’s New Talk Show ‘Chelsea’ Is a Beautiful Disaster
- Watch Laverne Cox as Frank-N-Furter in First Trailer for Fox’s ‘Rocky Horror’ Remake
- J.K. Rowling Stands By Trump’s Right to Be “Offensive and Bigoted,” as it Ensures Her Right to Call Him “Offensive and Bigoted”
- ‘Jane the Virgin’ Finale: The 10 Best Things About Jane and Michael’s Wedding
- Proust on an Android, For-Profit Colleges, Cannes and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Has a New, Obama-Starring Trailer
- What’s With All Those Fake Facebook Events in Your Feed Of Late?
- John Oliver Invites Donald Trump’s Publicist Alter Ego to ‘Last Week Tonight’
- Flavorwire’s Big-Ass Summer TV Preview
- GOOPing on a Budget: Gwyneth Sells the Most Life Affirming Items at BJ’s Wholesale
- The Season Two Finale of ‘The Last Man on Earth’ Has Everything That Makes the Show Great
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 4 Recap: ‘Book of the Stranger’
- The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Drake
- ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Episode 6: “Best Laid Schemes”
- The ‘New York Times’ Reveals Interviews with Women About Donald Trump’s Inappropriate Behavior for Over 40 Years
- A Former Fat Kid, Farewell to ‘Nashville,’ and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Ben Stiller’s Company Producing “Racy” Comedy Anthology, ‘Bitches,’ for Hulu
- CBS Picks Up Six New Shows About Dudes — Including ‘MacGyver’
- This Week’s Top 5 TV Moments: Surprise!
- For a Masterclass in Viral Marketing, Drop What You’re Doing and Go to the ‘Mr. Robot’ Website
- Leigh Alexander: Life after Gamergate
- David Bowie Had Been Set to Appear in the New ‘Twin Peaks’ Series
- The Death of “Influencers,” Pop Culture on TV Shows, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Lupita Nyong’o in Negotiations to Star in Ryan Coogler’s ‘Black Panther’ Film
- Check Out the First Image of Laverne Cox as a Bowie/Grace Jones-esque Dr. Frank-N-Furter
- The Great Irony of Trumpism is… Donald Trump
- ‘Penny Dreadful’ Needs to Trim the Fat in Season 3
- Rachael Ray and Rachel Roy Commiserated Over Being Stamped with the Scarlet Letter B(ecky)
- “The Day After”: How ‘The Americans’ Uses ’80s Pop Culture to Reflect Its Characters’ Psyches
- The Political Radiohead, Defending Joel Schumacher, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Staff Picks: ‘Penny Dreadful,’ James Blake’s “Meet You in the Maze,” and Pet Shop Boys’ “Twenty-something” Video
- Azealia Banks Dropped as Headliner from UK Festival After Spewing Racist Tweets
- How Netflix’s ‘Marseille’ Accidentally Spoofs American Prestige Television
- ‘Underground’ Creators Misha Green and Joe Pokaski on Their Bold First Season
- History of Literary Hate Mail, ‘Broad City”s Essential Female Friendship, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Watch the Trailer for Robert Kirkman’s New Show About Demonic Possession, ‘Outcast’
- Broke-Ass Comedian Louis C.K. Is Going on Tour to Tell Jokes
- The World’s First Crowdsourced Sci-fi Novel Isn’t Good
- Watch: Chaos Is Restored at Litchfield in First Full ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 4 Trailer
- Samantha Bee and Patton Oswalt Take on Anti-Abortion Centers in ‘Full Frontal’ Clip
- Bryan Cranston to Be Stuck in Philip K. Dick Nightmares in New Anthology Series
- Real-Life ‘Americans,’ Spotlight Returns, and the Airless Ocean: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Louis C.K., Jonathan Franzen, More to Compete on ‘Jeopardy’
- Why is This Season of ‘Game of Thrones’ So Boring?
- Watch John Oliver Call Out “All the Bullshit Masquerading as Science”
- Docu-Series ‘Millennials’ Miraculously Manages to Avoid Stereotyping the Most Stereotyped Generation
- ‘The Last Man on Earth’ Season 2 Episode 17 Recap: ‘Smart and Stupid’
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 3 Recap: “Oathbreaker”
- The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Brie Larson
- ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: “Untimely Resurrection”
- Amy Schumer Goes Topless for ‘The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo’ Cover
- The Church of Coltrane, the Ecstasy of Easy-Mode Video Games, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- This Week’s Top 5 TV Moments: Awk-ward…
- On ‘Project Runway All Stars’ and Why the Franchise Still Matters After 12 Years
- It Takes a Village: Luke Ditella on his Major Key
- Flavorwire Seeks Summer 2016 Apprentices
- Fifth Harmony, Jamie Lee Curtis, ‘The Girlfriend Experience,’ and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Jessica Lange’s Joan Crawford to Battle Susan Sarandon’s Bette Davis in New Ryan Murphy Series ‘Feud’
- Netflix Orders ‘Dear White People’ Series from Film’s Creator
- Rob Reiner Bashes Trump, Calls Him a “Lunatic” on ‘Morning Joe’
- James Corden Goes Full HOV Lane with Gwen Stefani, George Clooney, and Julia Roberts in a Special “Carpool Karaoke” Segment
- Why Everyone is Freaking Out About Last Night’s ‘The Americans’
- 10 Pop-Culture Battles We’d Love to See
- Britney Spears, Donald Trump, GIFs, and Your Bank Account: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Staff Picks: ‘Episodes,’ ‘Quantico,’ and J.J. Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda Performing “Jabba Flow”
- Drake, Brie Larson, Fred Armisen to Host ‘SNL’ in Coming Weeks
- Surrounding Her Raleigh Concert, Beyoncé Posts Statement on Website About North Carolina’s HB2
- “I Treated His Death as An Honor Suicide”: ‘Underground’ Actor Johnny Ray Gill on Sam’s Tragic Arc
- 50 Cent Apologizes for Mocking Autistic Airport Janitor
- Matthew Rhys, Russian Spy/Welsh Wine Connoisseur, Tells a Wine Related Horror Story to Rachael Ray
- On ‘Maron’ and ‘Dice,’ Veteran Comics Work Through Their Neuroses — But Are They Funny?
- May TV Preview: Don’t Miss These 10 Premieres
- Chloe and Halle, Source Code Sorcery, and Chris McCandless: Today’s Recommended Reading
- Sons of Sawdust: Finding Heritage, History, and the Future in Reclaimed Wood
- Stella Gibson, Blanche DuBois, and Gillian Anderson’s Grasp on Two Poles of Femininity
- “He Wasn’t Interested in Making This Character Likeable”: ‘The Detour’s Natalie Zea on Playing the Anti-Sitcom Mom
- The 2016 Tony Noms Are Here! Underdogs ‘Hamilton’ and Ivo van Hove Dominate
- ‘Rent,’ ‘The Biggest Loser’ Alumni, and More: Today’s Recommended Reading
- World to Descend into Chaos as Johnny Weir Wears Tweet-Powered Brooch to Kentucky Derby
- Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ in Trouble, New Exec Producer Brought on to Address “Growing Pains”
- Julia Ioffe, Melania Trump, and How “The Jew” Is a Precarious Symbol in Trumpist America
- Kit Harington Would Like to Apologize for Last Night’s ‘Game of Thrones’
- John Oliver Recaps the 21st Century for the Coming Cicada Swarm
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 2 Recap: “Home”
- Watch President Obama’s Best Jokes and Mic Drop from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
- ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Episode 4: “La Dame Blanche”
