The shock news of the week was announced as HBO comedy Silicon Valley’s resident nihilist incubator Pied Piper Erlich Bachman, played by comic actor T.J. Miller, will be leaving the series after this season. Miller’s bombastic, egocentric and blessedly unaware character is a one-man classic quote machine that steals scenes. This Emmy-nominated series launched in
On last night’s HBO’s Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver saved his main argument for the practice of gerrymandering. He explained the mechanics of how politicians carve up voting districts within states for the most optimal voter results to benefit whichever party draws up the lines. Crazy right? Oliver noted during his presentation that British lawmakers
The old saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Not sure how that is going to sit as the remaining “royals” of the Westeros are seen in the latest Game of Thrones clip from HBO. The new trailer for Season 7 teases fans mercilessly for the premiere on July 16. Set to a song titled “Sit
John Oliver yesterday tackled the subject of Obamacare on Last Week Tonight — saying the GOP’s solutions put forward to replace it were flawed. Opening the segment, he joked that The Affordable Care Act was “also known as Obamacare, or in emails from your uncle as ‘FWD: FWD: FWD: The Communist takeover of American values!!!’.” He
The weird and off-putting chummy relationship Donald Trump thinks he has with Russia and especially Vladimir Putin is dangerous for our country, according to Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver. Last night, Oliver referred to Trump as the propagandist of Putin’s dreams, saying: “America and Russia are not the f****** same!” Trump’s public remarks about Russia
Big Little Lies is a dramatized vignette of very rich people’s lonely lives, where trouble is manufactured and trumped up, and the fallout of the best-laid plans is a gruesome death in picturesque Monterey, California. Nothing is quite as it seems. Perfect-looking mothers and successful people with precocious children, and insanely well-appointed homes: What cancerous
Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prison is a 90-minute special examining life in solitary confinement at a supermax prison. The Red Onion State Prison is perched on a mountaintop in Wise Country, Va., and is a supermax institution. The cells are 8’x10’ and designed to house the prisoners in isolation for 23 hours a day,
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman have revealed they both related deeply to the characters in Big Little Lies, before going on to star in HBO’s new TV adaptation of the book. The story tells the tale of three mothers whose seemingly perfect lives start to fall apart — to the point of murder. It is based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling book
Jude Law says his character in The Young Pope is “brutal”. The actor takes the lead role in HBO’s new 10-episode series, which imagines him as Pope Pius XIII, aka Lenny Belardo, the first American at the seat of power in the Catholic church. Law told the Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour: “I think I underestimated
Legendary producer Jimmy Iovine says he first delved into hip-hop after hearing Dr. Dre’s iconic album The Chronic — which eventually led to him teaming up with the music legend. Iovine was speaking at the Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour about new four-part HBO documentary series The Defiant Ones, which tells the story of