TheSeinfeldwriting team apparently had a strict rule: “No hugging, no lessons.” Now, take that same rule and have it huff some paint, get blacked out on poorly poured booze, inject it with bootleg collagen you bought in Mexico and you have the wonderfully depraved debauchery ofIt’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. A pitch-black comedy set in the divest dive bar in the City of Brotherly Love, the brainchild ofRob McElhenneyandGlenn Howertonhas, for 12 seasons now (and counting!...

At the beginning of this episode ofThe Midnight Club, Ilonka (Iman Benson), still trapped in the dark basement, hears the elevator returning. Kevin (Igby Rigney) has come back for her, and she has once again escaped the creepy old lady. They leave and come back with the rest of the Midnight Club to investigate the secret basement; there is safety in numbers, after all. The walls and ceiling are covered with paintings, and the bed suggests that someone lived down there at some point....

When a long-time character on a TV series passes away, it causes one to remember what they gave to the show and to cherish who is left behind. Just recently, one such character,Larry the Barfly, passed away on an episodeof the long-running seriesThe Simpsons. What he gave to the show is immeasurable, mainly becausehe didn’t give much. Still, his death affected fans, not surprising given he was present from the very beginning, and did serve to remind people of the ones left behind....

Unlike any other Netflix series or Marvel TV series to date,The Punisherexists because of the fandom’s love of one character: Frank Castle.Jon Bernthal’s portrayal of the iconic comic creation in Season 2 ofDaredevilwas so embraced by fans that it created a spinoff dedicated to more of Castle’s story. The upcomingPunishermay be Netflix’s most anticipated Marvel season yet, and Bernthal feels that pressure. “I want to honor him and the fans to whom he means so much,” he said toEW....

Mad MencreatorMatthew Weiner’s Amazon anthology seriesThe Romanoffsis “a contemporary anthology series, set around the globe, featuring eight separate stories about people who believe themselves to be descendants of the Russian royal family.The Romanoffswas shot on location in three continents and seven countries collaborating with local productions and creative talent across Europe, the Americas, and the Far East.” It sounds complicated, and a little crazy, and those feelings are augmented by the fact that the cast list is out of control (in the best of ways)....

By the timeM. Night ShyamalanreleasedThe Village, he’d been fully anointed by Hollywood — the next Hitchcock, the next Spielberg, a skillful manipulator of audiences and the great savior of mainstream thrills. Of course, with the back to back success ofThe Sixth Sense,Unbreakable,andSigns, he’d also attracted a mild backlash as viewers became acclimated to the tricks he used to tell his engrossing stories, twists, and surprises that are part of any filmmaker’s arsenal, but when employed repeatedly, start to seem like crutches or shortcuts....

Spoilers appear below for those of you who aren’t caught up onThe Walking Dead. We’re about one month away from the return of AMC’sThe Walking Deadand answers as to the fate of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his fellow survivors. Things weren’t looking too good when last we left them, but that’s not really a surprise on this show. But if you just can’t wait another month to see how things shake out, comic book series creatorRobert Kirkmanhas some behind-the-scenes intel that should tide you over....

Few TV shows have managed to build a character arc as complex and satisfying as the one Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam) had inSons of Anarchy. Throughout seven seasons, we followed Jax as he turned from a misunderstood criminal to a full-blown villain. And yet, this change was so gradual that some fans kept defending Jaxuntil the bitter end. While it’s hard to pinpoint precisely when Jax became irredeemable, inSeason 5, Episode 12, he does something so vile that we stopped rooting for him....

Known for his quick wit and idiosyncratic delivery,Vince Vaughnjumps into the comedic detective space in this new Apple TV+ show,Bad Monkey. He plays police-officer-turned-health-inspector Andrew Yancy, who tries to attain his former glory by solving a case where a tourist finds a severed arm. With strange locals and a meddling monkey to deal with, Yancy tumbles into a whirlwind investigation that is also adapted from a novel byChris Hiassenof the same name....

A new kind of film festival intended to bring the many and varied visions of animation into the spotlight kicks off tonight in Los Angeles and runs throughout the weekend. Dubbed “Animation Is Film”, this showcase of world-class animation from yesteryear classics to contemporary, cutting-edge films aims to bring the powerful medium into focus for a whole new generation of fans, young and old and everything in between. We’re thrilled to host the exclusive premiere of the trailer forVirus Tropical, a black-and-white animated film from directorSantiago Caicedothat adapts the graphic novel memoir of Colombian-Ecuadorian cartoonistPowerPaola....

In an interview toThe Hollywood Reporter, the duo revealed why they decided to center the series around Wednesday, and, more importantly, why they wanted to take her away from her family’s surroundings. Gough explained that it’s all about allowing themselves to be curious: “It was a character that we all really loved, and nobody had spent a lot of time with. And it’s a character we’d only seen really as a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old, who is part of a family and would have a funny line in the scene, but we didn’t know much about her....

Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude as well as the book. It’s nothing short of a miracle that Netflix has madesuch a perfect adaptationofOne Hundred Years of Solitude, but it did have to split the story into two parts. TheGabriel García Márquezclassic was considered impossible to adapt, thanks to its long and complex story, sodividing it up is reasonable and even prudent. It does make us curious to see how the series will go on, however, seeing as the Buendía family endsPart Onedivided thanks to Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s (Claudio Cataño) leading his army to take Macondo from the Conservative Party, and how José Arcadio Buendía’s (Diego Vásquez) subsequentlybrings the town together....

Breaking Badmay have ended more than a decade ago. However, the very mention of Walter White’s (Bryan Cranston) underground meth empire still brings up memories of the modern-day television drama. A drug-fueled epic crime saga,Breaking Badhas the makings of a Shakespearean tragedy. A high school chemistry teacher by profession, Walter slaves through his days to make ends meet. But the real kicker was when he was diagnosed with Stage III lung cancer,serving as the catalyst to Walter’s illegal methamphetamine businessto ensure financial security and a questionable partnership with his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul)....