April Neale The curveball you never saw coming on FX’s breakout hit noir comedy Baskets is the guileless and loyal friend Martha, described by her maternal pal Christine Baskets (Louie Anderson) as “the total package”. This compliment was bestowed upon Martha for her steady gig at Christine’s favorite store Costco, and also because Martha has little if
One of the most memorable mothers of late on the smallscreen is played by a man — Louie Anderson. Another Louis, Mr. C.K., urged fellow Baskets producers Zach Galifianakis and Jonathan Krisel to contact Anderson for the role of Christine Baskets based on Louie’s lifetime of stand-up and published memoirs. Louie’s character Christine of FX’s
John Oliver covered all the high “low” notes of Trump’s past week in office on Last Week Tonight — including his draconian “skinny budget” proposals. The show saw Oliver dissect what was an eyebrow-raising week for the former reality TV star and real estate mogul, who he described as “consistently monstrous”. It included insulting the British Intelligence
This week’s Black Sails episode, XXXVI, was the expected turning point between Flint and Silver as seeded by Mr. Billy Bones. The show opens with a cloaked Woodes Rogers who rides anonymously in the night, as he reveals himself in what appears to be his search for something valuable and enters the room where Billy
“What draws me to Vodou is that there’s no division between the body and spirit…there is no boundary between them,” says Reza Aslan of this week’s trip to Haiti on CNN’s Believer with Reza Aslan. In a gruesome moment a little bit later in the episode, sensitive viewers need to be forewarned that there is
This week’s Baskets episode, titled Yard Sale, made us laugh and cry within 30 minutes. Esther Roosevelt is officially dead and buried and her children Christine and Jim have wrapped up her Earthly affairs. But with all deaths in families, there are complications when it comes time to figure out who gets what. This week, the
Swamp People has a new legend to crow about: Big Boy McCoy, the primary reptilian trophy of this week’s spiritual and solemn episode that saw Chase and cousin Holden Landry follow up a hot lead of reported bubble trails, Robert “Frenchy” Crochet and Gerard “Gee” Singleton turn the other cheek and the Edgar clan further descend
For two seasons on HBO’s Rome, James Purefoy melted hearts and solidified his English hunk status as the fated Mark Antony in white-hot scenes opposite another fierce English actor, Polly Walker. American audiences became hooked on Purefoy and the people who watched the series lived for the fiery and compelling scenes between these two actors.
Get ready for this week’s Swamp People on History with our exclusive clip — which shows captain Chase Landry and his young cousin Holden stalking a bonafide monster on the bayou. A few days before the footage is shot, Holden’s friend spotted a massive bubble trail and filmed it on his smartphone. These bubbles are a
Preparations for the epic Street Outlaws vs. Fast N’ Loud Mega Race rev up on Discovery tonight — as tensions ahead of the showdown build big-style. The ultimate head-to-head, to be screened on the network on March 27, will see Gas Monkey’s Richard Rawlings taking on the Okie Street Outlaws’ Big Chief and Murder Nova in a drag race. Meanwhile, recently departed