TV news
Daniel Okafor
November 12, 2026 2:17 pm
The SNL episode Variety branded a whiteface scandal just drew the show's biggest audience in two years
Trade headlines spent the weekend on the makeup. Nielsen spent it counting 5.6 million people who didn't care.
Crush of the day
Hannah Whitlock
November 12, 2026 12:16 pm
Does Maeve die in MobLand? There's a body in Conrad's lake and two episodes left
MobLand season 2 just sank a body behind the Harrigans' house, and Maeve Harrigan is still smiling. With two episodes to go, fans want to know whose turn it is.
Hannah Whitlock
November 12, 2026 11:02 am
The Gilded Age timeline, season by season: four seasons in, the show has covered four years
Julian Fellowes' New York moves slower than its gossip. Four seasons in, the clock has only just reached 1885.
Hannah Whitlock
November 12, 2026 9:43 am
Two Mountain Men guys died seven years apart, and the same thing took both
Mountain Men has spent 14 seasons watching people survive blizzards, grizzlies and Alaskan winters. The two cast members it lost were never taken by any of those.
Hannah Whitlock
November 12, 2026 9:07 am
Why did Sam kill the priest in Black Doves? The show saves that answer for his last walk with Reed
Sam once found peace in an Italian village where everyone loved a priest he'd shot. Black Doves season 2 makes him wait almost the entire season to find out why the priest had to die.
Daniel Okafor
November 12, 2026 8:47 am
'Morbid curiosity': the internet hate-watched Emily in Paris all the way to season 6
The final-season teaser dropped this week. The show everyone spent six years mocking is ending on its own terms — a privilege Netflix denied almost every show people actually loved.
Daniel Okafor
November 12, 2026 7:34 am
The best thing about Rings of Power season 3 is what Amazon cut
Season 3 arrived with Sauron forging the One Ring, Gandalf in play, and a Stranger Things star as Celeborn. The loudest fan celebration is for two characters who aren't there.
Tatiana Santos
November 11, 2026 3:49 pm
Is The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins based on a true story? Its model was banned from baseball for life
Tracy Morgan plays a football star who bet on his own games and got thrown out of the league. The real story behind it happened in baseball, and it ended much less funny.
Tatiana Santos
November 11, 2026 2:34 pm
MobLand: is Bella's death real, or was Frankie's "Bang" a bluff?
MobLand ended its second episode on one word, and viewers had a full week to decide whether it was a gunshot or a joke.
Hannah Whitlock
November 11, 2026 1:51 pm
VisionQuest's Paladin death fake-out hides who the finale actually kills
For a week, Marvel fans held a funeral for the wrong character.