After nine episodes that kept the world on tenterhooks, the finale of HBO's The Last of Us season 1 reached respectable ratings. The following contains spoilers for last Sunday's episode. Pedro Pascal's mission as Joel to save Ellie (Bella Ramsey) turns into a one-man rampage, and just like the original material, he goes all out with the violence. It's short compared to what Joel goes through in the video game, […]
HBO Max is kicking off January 2023 with highly anticipated TV premieres and new movies’ streaming debuts. Closing out the holiday season, HBO Max’s new movie additions in December 2022 included the premiere of the original movie A Hollywood Christmas and the streaming releases of Amsterdam and Black Adam. On the TV front, December marked included the premieres of Doom Patrol season 4, His Dark Materials season 3, and Gossip Girl season 2. One of the biggest releases for HBO Max in […]
Top picksDickinson (Apple TV+, Friday, 12:01 a.m., series finale): Ted Lasso gets most of the glory for being Apple TV+’s Emmy-winning comedy, but one of the streamer’s best original series so far is Alena Smith’s Dickinson. Now, Dickinson’s insightful and inventive look at the coming-of-age of Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) comes to an end after three seasons. In its final outing, titled “This Was A Poet,” Emily tries to design […]
The world of “Game of Thrones” is returning to HBO in the new year with the prequel series “House of the Dragon,” and that’s not at all. Just this week, news broke that Steve Conrad has been hired as the writer and executive producer of a second spinoff series titled “Dunk & Egg.” There’s also reports that HBO is developing two animated series set in the “Thrones” universe. One spinoff that isn’t seeing the light of […]
HBO is heading back to Westworld after the WarnerMedia-backed broadcaster on Wednesday renewed the sci-fi Western for a fourth season. This comes after the third season launched its eight-episode run March 15. The first episode, directed by Jonathan Nolan, surpassed 9 million viewers across all platforms. The series, a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the question of free will, was created for television by Nolan and Lisa Joy. The […]
With the likes of HBO and CBS All Access beginning to offer free access to their content, here’s every movie and television show you can watch. With the likes of HBO and CBS All Access offering up their impressive libraries of movies and television shows during the coronavirus pandemic, here’s all the content you can access free of charge. The entertainment industry has undoubtedly taken a hit due to COVID-19. A […]
Americans all over the United States are being encouraged to telecommute if possible and practice social distancing, which means extra time spent at home. With bars, restaurants, gyms and theaters closing rapidly in an effort to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, more people are looking for ways to entertain themselves, which means an uptick in the demand for new content on streaming services such as Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video. Now streamers are competing […]
HBO chief Richard Plepler was in possession of the best cocktail party gossip of all on Sunday night at the cabler’s post-Golden Globes bash. But he wasn’t sharing — much. As Plepler held court in the main dining room, staying away from the light rain that fell in the outside area (the Hilton pool was covered for the occasion), he let it be known that he has seen rough cuts of all […]
HBO really, really can’t catch a break. After enduring a massive hackthat unleashed Game of Thrones scripts and early episodes of series including Curb Your Enthusiasm—and a mistake by European HBO platforms that gave fans an early glimpse of this Sunday’s Thrones—the network has endured yet another hack, this time of its Twitter and Facebook pages. Variety reports that hackers took over the accounts on Wednesday night, sending out a message just to show they had managed to get in. These […]
