The Secret Lingo of the Best TV Writers Rooms

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. As a very meta example, currentA.P. Biowriter and formerSimpsonsstafferDonick Cary shared The SimpsonsDid It. Its what a lazy writer says when they dont like a joke, he explains. And then I still get argued down. Bio The ChipsMike OBrien, showrunner:We talk about What are the chips of an episode? We had a line in there where someone said, Its just about the chips, Jack?...

May 14, 2019 · 5 min · 936 words · Donald Martinez

The SouvenirIs Sometimes Formless, But Always Fascinating

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The British writer-director Joanna Hogg has the courage of her incoherence. Her scaffolding is shaky and her vantage often oblique. She cuts from foggy panoramas to tight close-ups with no evident pattern. (Maybe shell jump ahead a couple of days.) Are her actors improvising? Sometimes they seem to be fumbling along with their characters, headed down irrelevant byways....

May 14, 2019 · 2 min · 288 words · Carol Smith

13 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at Cannes

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. (NoNetflix filmsin competition! No flats on the red carpet!) It should be a black comedy … to die for. Its a brilliant fast-paced medium-length film for Gaspar Noes return. His much-anticipated follow-up, The Lighthouse, is finally premiering at Cannes. Intimacy and attraction grow between the women as the story unfolds on an isolated island in Bretagne....

May 13, 2019 · 1 min · 85 words · Lisa Johnson

Andy Daly’s Very Good Theory About a ShockingGame of ThronesDeath

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Check back here every Monday to see Dalys thoughts on the latestGOTepisode. Hello again, Throning It In readers. Come, let us process together all that we have seen. And oh Lord of Light, it was a lot.This episodedidnt fuck around. It tilted headlong into sweet, sweet death and destruction! Fans of dust (I know youre out there), this was your episode!...

May 13, 2019 · 4 min · 842 words · Patricia Aguilar

AnotherBachelorettePremiere, Another Crushing Elimination for a Goofy Chicago Joe

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Because the shows leading ladies dont care about you goofy dudes the way Vulture does! Still, this deep dish coincidence was just too uncanny for us to remain silent. Related Tags:

May 13, 2019 · 1 min · 46 words · Kevin Stanton

BH90210Trailer: No Matter Where They Go, There They Are (Specifically, in Beverly Hills)

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Is there a word that means haunted, but in a not unpleasant way? Oh yes, right, that would be nostalgia. (This new clip also really builds on thedoll scene momentumgathering in 2019. )BH90210debuts on August 7. Related Tags:

May 13, 2019 · 1 min · 53 words · Jessica Nguyen

Game of ThronesRecap: It Tolls for Thee

Game of Thrones Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. You cant say Daenerys didnt warn us that she was going to break the wheel. We were never going to be happy with the way this show ended. The very nature of narrative doesnt allow it. It has to go small, whittle things down. What once looked like strength has been a trail of bread crumbs leading to narcissism and madness, instead....

May 13, 2019 · 3 min · 569 words · Jason Valenzuela

Gentleman JackRecap: Lesbian Justice

Gentleman Jack Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This is the episode that actually made melikethis show. Yes, Anne and Ann could lose their lives for for this. Survivor isnt a personality trait. It sucks to be assaulted. In this episode,Gentleman Jackgets it right. Lesbian justice rarely works even today. Shes usually business only. Maybe love has softened her (gross). This character development is kind of fun....

May 13, 2019 · 1 min · 143 words · Anthony Gonzalez

Mary Harron Breaks Down Matt Smith’s Wild Orgy Scene inCharlie Says

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The self-obsession and superficiality of the 60s created Valerie Solanas, misandrist revolutionary and subject ofI Shot Andy Warhol. (See below.) Your films take on highly controversial figures, but always through the remove of a period piece. Ive always been interested by people in history, particularly women. Because womens lives in the 20th century changed so extraordinarily, even just in my lifetime....

May 13, 2019 · 4 min · 719 words · Andrew Brooks

Mr. Ratburn Is Out, Proud, and Married in the Season-22 Premiere ofArthuron PBS

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Looks like someone went and popped the big question! The question being, Wait,PBSis still making newArthurepisodes? (you’ve got the option to watch said wedding in fullhere. The cake is reportedly to die for.) For those wishing to send gifts, the grooms will be accepting cheese and whatever aardvarks eat. Just kidding, these guys wear suits and drive cars and stuff....

May 13, 2019 · 1 min · 83 words · Mr. Robert Vega DDS

RuPaul’s Drag RaceSeason 11, Episode 11: We Have Thoughts

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Well, all right, honey. Together they address all that season 11, episode 11 (make a wish!) What season-ten queens wouldve won easily if they were on this season? Though, is Brooke Lynn actually stronger than Aquaria, the winner of said season? Is wearing rainbow the ultimate kiss of death? Will things ever be the same now that we sawthatlip-sync?...

May 13, 2019 · 1 min · 80 words · Jessica Wilson

So You Named Your Kid Daenerys. How’s That Feel Now?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Daenerys Targaryen might be the first of her name, but she definitely isnt the last. (Daenerys didnt make the top 1,000, but 171 newborns got that name in 2018.) Up untilSunday nights episode ofGOT, it was easy to understand what parents see in the character. Oh, and have we not mentionedthe dragons? Talk about role-model material....

May 13, 2019 · 2 min · 287 words · Dylan Horton

The 6 A.M. Scramble to WatchGame of Thronesin India

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. There aredozens of New York barswhere fans gather to watchGame of Throneson Sunday nights. Going forward, few shows will have the opportunity to gather the communal momentumThronesdoes the same time each week. For most shows, this would be a major deterrent. Today, more and more Indian viewers makeGame of Thronesa part of their Monday mornings....

May 13, 2019 · 1 min · 179 words · Tara Stein