One of the best, and rarest, feelings one can experience as a TV viewer is to watch a show and get the distinct feeling that its creators are getting away with something. That they're pushing buttons that someone asked them to avoid. That they're crafting imagery that's going to haunt and unsettle. That they're using a medium commonly associated with comfort and passivity to infuriate, baffle, and intrigue.
And across its four seasons, "Evil" has always felt just like that. Its first season, which aired on CBS, was a "Hannibal"-sized middle finger to decency and typical television sensibilities (that should be read as high praise). Later seasons moved to Paramount+, where the streaming wild west allowed showrunners Robert and Michelle King to really let their freak flag fly. The duo best known for "The Good Wife" were allowed to take every rule they learned while crafting a reliable network...
And across its four seasons, "Evil" has always felt just like that. Its first season, which aired on CBS, was a "Hannibal"-sized middle finger to decency and typical television sensibilities (that should be read as high praise). Later seasons moved to Paramount+, where the streaming wild west allowed showrunners Robert and Michelle King to really let their freak flag fly. The duo best known for "The Good Wife" were allowed to take every rule they learned while crafting a reliable network...
- 5/16/2024
- by Jacob Hall
- Slash Film
For decades, Stephen King has been known as the Master of Horror. By now the prolific Maine author is a household name, known to genre fans and normies alike. He’s a central pillar of American folk horror and a major contributor to the modernization of genre fiction. But fifty years ago, Stephen King was a struggling writer hoping to sell his latest story to pay grocery bills and keep the lights on. In fact, notification that Doubleday would be publishing his first novel came via telegram because the Kings had recently disconnected the phone. That novel was Carrie, a shocking story of teenage power and adolescent cruelty. Like a cannonball tearing through the status quo, King would follow this impressive debut with the horror classics Salem’s Lot (1975), The Shining (1977), and The Stand (1978) followed by more than seventy (and counting) novels, short story collections, and nonfiction works, dominating horror fiction for the next fifty years.
- 4/8/2024
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
Paramount+ has released its final trailer for Evil.
The streamer has also announced the fourth season will premiere Thursday, May 23. The streamer has ordered four additional episodes for the season, so creators Robert and Michelle King can give the drama a sense of conclusion.
The official description: “In the upcoming season, Kristen (Katja Herbers), David (Mike Colter) and Ben (Aasif Mandvi) continue to assess cases that involve wayward technology, possessed pigs, demonic oppression and infestation, a dance muse conjured by alleged witches and an evil relic. Throughout, Leland (Michael Emerson) attempts to lure Kristen into raising a baby antichrist who was conceived with her ovum. David is recruited by the Vatican’s secret service to ‘remote view’ a paranormal ability to see the unseen in order to detect evil. Ben is hit by an ion beam, causing him to see visions of a taunting jinn until he discovers an unusual solution to banish it.
The streamer has also announced the fourth season will premiere Thursday, May 23. The streamer has ordered four additional episodes for the season, so creators Robert and Michelle King can give the drama a sense of conclusion.
The official description: “In the upcoming season, Kristen (Katja Herbers), David (Mike Colter) and Ben (Aasif Mandvi) continue to assess cases that involve wayward technology, possessed pigs, demonic oppression and infestation, a dance muse conjured by alleged witches and an evil relic. Throughout, Leland (Michael Emerson) attempts to lure Kristen into raising a baby antichrist who was conceived with her ovum. David is recruited by the Vatican’s secret service to ‘remote view’ a paranormal ability to see the unseen in order to detect evil. Ben is hit by an ion beam, causing him to see visions of a taunting jinn until he discovers an unusual solution to banish it.
- 4/8/2024
- by James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tales of queer love play a central role in fictionalized stories about royal families, such as Red, White & Royal Blue and more recently Young Royals and Mary & George. However, we rarely hear about real-life royals who are out members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Of course, there are reports about Kings and Queens in the past who had same-sex relationships. Take Queen Anne of Great Britain, for instance, who inspired the Oscar-winning movie The Favourite. King James I is also rumored to have same-sex relationships. His alleged relationship with George Villiers inspired Mary & George.
We rounded up three modern-day royals who have openly discussed their sexuality. One is an extended member of the British royal family who is married to another man. Another is sometimes referred to as the first ever Prince to come out.
Scroll through the slideshow to learn more about three royals who have come out as part of the LGBTQ+ community…...
Of course, there are reports about Kings and Queens in the past who had same-sex relationships. Take Queen Anne of Great Britain, for instance, who inspired the Oscar-winning movie The Favourite. King James I is also rumored to have same-sex relationships. His alleged relationship with George Villiers inspired Mary & George.
We rounded up three modern-day royals who have openly discussed their sexuality. One is an extended member of the British royal family who is married to another man. Another is sometimes referred to as the first ever Prince to come out.
Scroll through the slideshow to learn more about three royals who have come out as part of the LGBTQ+ community…...
- 3/28/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Robert De Niro Enjoys A Net Worth Of $500 Million Despite Breaking Down During Covid-19 (Picture Credit: IMDb)
Actor Robert De Niro is one of the greatest of his time, and the actor made a lot of buzz with his recent appearance in Martin Scorsese‘s Killers Of The Flower Moon, where he played William King Hale, a convicted American crime boss who was involved in Osage Indian murders. The actor enjoys a massive net worth, and it increases every year with the huge salaries he withdraws for such classic and iconic roles.
The actor currently owns a net worth of around $500 million. Some reports even quote this number as $520 million. However, this is a major growth from his net worth from 2008 – 2018, which was reported to be somewhere between $250 – $300 million.
A 100% Increase & Break Down In Covid
Robert De Niro’s net worth increased by almost 100% in the last six years. Most...
Actor Robert De Niro is one of the greatest of his time, and the actor made a lot of buzz with his recent appearance in Martin Scorsese‘s Killers Of The Flower Moon, where he played William King Hale, a convicted American crime boss who was involved in Osage Indian murders. The actor enjoys a massive net worth, and it increases every year with the huge salaries he withdraws for such classic and iconic roles.
The actor currently owns a net worth of around $500 million. Some reports even quote this number as $520 million. However, this is a major growth from his net worth from 2008 – 2018, which was reported to be somewhere between $250 – $300 million.
A 100% Increase & Break Down In Covid
Robert De Niro’s net worth increased by almost 100% in the last six years. Most...
- 1/26/2024
- by Trisha Gaur
- KoiMoi
Melissa Moore’s autobiography Shattered Silence inspired the podcast Happy Face, and now the podcast is getting a Paramount+ streaming series adaptation! Annaleigh Ashford – whose credits include B Positive, American Crime Story, and Masters of Sex – has signed on to star in the series, with Michael Showalter on board to direct the first episode.
I mainly know Showalter from an actor in projects like The State and Wet Hot American Summer, but his TV directing credits include episodes of Search Party, Love, Grace and Frankie, In the Dark, The Shrink Next Door, The Dropout, and I Love That for You. He has also directed the feature films Spoiler Alert, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Lovebirds, The Big Sick; Hello, My Name Is Doris; and The Baxter.
Happy Face will see Ashford taking on the role of Melissa, who at age 15, discovered that her beloved father was the prolific serial killer known as “Happy Face.
I mainly know Showalter from an actor in projects like The State and Wet Hot American Summer, but his TV directing credits include episodes of Search Party, Love, Grace and Frankie, In the Dark, The Shrink Next Door, The Dropout, and I Love That for You. He has also directed the feature films Spoiler Alert, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Lovebirds, The Big Sick; Hello, My Name Is Doris; and The Baxter.
Happy Face will see Ashford taking on the role of Melissa, who at age 15, discovered that her beloved father was the prolific serial killer known as “Happy Face.
- 1/8/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Blue Beetle is blasting its way over to Max: The DC Comics superhero movie will be available to stream next Friday, Nov. 17, the streamer has announced.
Cobra Kai‘s Xolo Maridueña stars as the titular superhero, aka college grad Jaime Reyes, who’s searching for his life’s purpose when he stumbles upon an ancient relic known as the Scarab. It chooses Jaime as its new host, handing him an “incredible suit of armor capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers” and “forever changing his destiny,” per the official description.
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Cobra Kai‘s Xolo Maridueña stars as the titular superhero, aka college grad Jaime Reyes, who’s searching for his life’s purpose when he stumbles upon an ancient relic known as the Scarab. It chooses Jaime as its new host, handing him an “incredible suit of armor capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers” and “forever changing his destiny,” per the official description.
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- 11/11/2023
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
Editor’s Note: This review originally premiered at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival. Mubi will release it in theaters on March 22, 2024.
It takes flair to concoct visual-gag-after-visual-gag within episodic riffs on the raw deals suffered by the gig-economy-classes in modern day Bucharest. Radu Jude blends absurdist humor with keen social integrity, like a sharper Romanian riposte to Ruben Östlund, as the trials of a dangerously overworked production assistant named Ange builds to a 40-minute final shot in which tragicomedy is heaped upon tragicomedy to unbearably brilliant effect.
Observing a nation’s shortcomings is not typically this fun. Yet — unlike latter-day miserabilist works by the likes of Ken Loach — Jude’s “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World” and its barbs stick entirely because Jude trusts his audience to appreciate tonal scope.
Ange also trusts her audience to correctly interpret a character she performs to a growing online following.
It takes flair to concoct visual-gag-after-visual-gag within episodic riffs on the raw deals suffered by the gig-economy-classes in modern day Bucharest. Radu Jude blends absurdist humor with keen social integrity, like a sharper Romanian riposte to Ruben Östlund, as the trials of a dangerously overworked production assistant named Ange builds to a 40-minute final shot in which tragicomedy is heaped upon tragicomedy to unbearably brilliant effect.
Observing a nation’s shortcomings is not typically this fun. Yet — unlike latter-day miserabilist works by the likes of Ken Loach — Jude’s “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World” and its barbs stick entirely because Jude trusts his audience to appreciate tonal scope.
Ange also trusts her audience to correctly interpret a character she performs to a growing online following.
- 8/4/2023
- by Sophie Monks Kaufman
- Indiewire
[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for the series finale of “The Good Fight.”]
For a series that was no stranger to embracing chaos, “The Good Fight” wrapped its six-season run on a moment far more simple.
Co-showrunner Robert King, who directed the finale, remembered that the last sequence the show shot featured Marissa Gold (Sarah Steele) and Carmen Moyo (Charmaine Bingwa) sharing a farewell moment of friendship on the stairs at the Reddick and Ri’Chard law offices.
“It was a real emotional one to end on, because they were good friends. And Sarah Steele has been with us for so many years now. It’s like seeing her grow up,” King told IndieWire.
Season 6 had plenty on its mind besides a parade of goodbyes. As it has since its 2017 debut, the Paramount+ show channeled anxieties about political upheaval, erosion of constitutional rights, the deep rumblings of fascism, and the litany of individuals using their power to attack the vulnerable.
For a series that was no stranger to embracing chaos, “The Good Fight” wrapped its six-season run on a moment far more simple.
Co-showrunner Robert King, who directed the finale, remembered that the last sequence the show shot featured Marissa Gold (Sarah Steele) and Carmen Moyo (Charmaine Bingwa) sharing a farewell moment of friendship on the stairs at the Reddick and Ri’Chard law offices.
“It was a real emotional one to end on, because they were good friends. And Sarah Steele has been with us for so many years now. It’s like seeing her grow up,” King told IndieWire.
Season 6 had plenty on its mind besides a parade of goodbyes. As it has since its 2017 debut, the Paramount+ show channeled anxieties about political upheaval, erosion of constitutional rights, the deep rumblings of fascism, and the litany of individuals using their power to attack the vulnerable.
- 11/10/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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The sixth and final season of Paramount+’s The Good Fight makes a strong case that the world might be ending. Riots fill the streets, grenades are hurled into crowded elevators and suicidal birds bloody office windows during its Sept. 8 premiere. If the series’ creators, Michelle and Robert King, are feeling the same low-boil panic as the characters who populate their legal drama, they don’t show it.
The couple, who’ve been delivering their darkly comic social commentary since predecessor series The Good Wife made them two of the most sought-after TV writer-producers in 2009, remained droll during a late-August Zoom from the Manhattan home they share blocks from Central Park — even when the conversation leaned into concerning shifts in the TV industry and their own inherent differences. (The secular Michelle was among the hundreds of female showrunners who signed a July letter...
The sixth and final season of Paramount+’s The Good Fight makes a strong case that the world might be ending. Riots fill the streets, grenades are hurled into crowded elevators and suicidal birds bloody office windows during its Sept. 8 premiere. If the series’ creators, Michelle and Robert King, are feeling the same low-boil panic as the characters who populate their legal drama, they don’t show it.
The couple, who’ve been delivering their darkly comic social commentary since predecessor series The Good Wife made them two of the most sought-after TV writer-producers in 2009, remained droll during a late-August Zoom from the Manhattan home they share blocks from Central Park — even when the conversation leaned into concerning shifts in the TV industry and their own inherent differences. (The secular Michelle was among the hundreds of female showrunners who signed a July letter...
- 9/7/2022
- by Mikey O'Connell
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One of the most delightfully villainous characters on TV right now also had one of the most delightfully musical numbers in a recent season finale — on Evil! The Paramount+ thriller capped off its third season with an episode that included a baby reveal (Michael Emerson’s Leland used the egg Katja Herbers’ Kristen was missing), a homecoming (Kristen’s husband Andy returned home but something’s off with him), and a whole lot of demons. Plus, to make it even better, Leland and Edward (Tim Matheson) took a page out of Bye Bye Birdie after getting thwarted by Kristen’s daughters. Here, Emerson discusses Leland’s recent actions and what he’d like to see in Season 4. The Kings said the scene with Leland and the monsignor’s blood is part of showing the evil side of Leland again. With that and what he did with Kristen’s egg, does...
- 8/23/2022
- TV Insider
Warning: This post contains spoilers from Evil‘s Season 3 finale.
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At the end of Evil‘s Season 3 finale, Kristen uses new intel to track her missing egg to a mysterious address… and winds up at Df Global Solutions. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the company whose stock caused people to be pursued by a shadowy, malevolent form in the previous episode.
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At the end of Evil‘s Season 3 finale, Kristen uses new intel to track her missing egg to a mysterious address… and winds up at Df Global Solutions. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the company whose stock caused people to be pursued by a shadowy, malevolent form in the previous episode.
- 8/14/2022
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
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