Before his death last September, comedian Norm Macdonald filmed one final stand-up routine alone in his living room. Streaming giant Netflix will release the posthumous special, titled Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special — a moniker the comedian chose himself — on May 30. “Norm worked so hard on a new hour …
Read More »The Upside Down Is Waiting: 'Stranger Things' Confirms Season Four Premiere
Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer announced when the hit sci-fi series will be back for its fourth, and penultimate, season. The new season will be split into two parts, with volume one arriving May 27 and volume two dropping five weeks later, July 1. The Duffer Brothers added …
Read More »Who Owns Selena's Legacy?
The subculture of Selena Quintanilla Pérez super-fandom, or Selenidad, was born out of grief. After the Queen of Tejano music was murdered on March 31st, 1995 — shot once in the back by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar — her Mexican American fans mourned her. For some …
Read More »How 'Indigenous Nancy Drew' Novel 'Firekeeper's Daughter' Caught the Eye of the Obamas
When Angeline Boulley was working on her young adult fiction debut, Firekeeper’s Daughter, she decided she needed to know how to make meth. “I learned how to make meth from the State Police Academy,” she tells Rolling Stone. “I was able to take a workshop at the Academy and it …
Read More »Netflix's 'Bling Empire' Is a Celebration of Culture — Clad in Couture
There’s a throwaway scene a couple episodes into Netflix’s new reality series, Bling Empire, where three of the cast members meet up to confer about recent events, while shopping for soup ingredients at a Chinese health food store. As the guys work their way through bins of deer antlers, sea …
Read More »More 'Unsolved Mysteries' Await in Trailer for Volume Two of Netflix Series
More unexplainable deaths, strange disappearances and supernatural occurrences await in the new trailer for Volume 2 of Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries. After the first half of the rebooted series debuted this summer, Unsolved Mysteries returns with six more episodes, premiering October 19th. The upcoming season includes episodes focused on the bizarre …
Read More »Hilary Swank Leaves Her Family Behind to Lead Mission to Mars in 'Away' Trailer
Hilary Swank plays an astronaut on the first mission to Mars in the new trailer for Away, set to premiere September 4th on Netflix. The show will mix tense outer space adventure and fraught family drama, as Swank’s character, Emma Green, grapples with the decision to embark on a three-year …
Read More »'Unsolved Mysteries': The O.G. of True Crime Returns With Gritty Netflix Reboot
The O.G. of TV true crime has returned. Before there was Making a Murderer, Tiger King, The Jinx, and Serial, the nation’s fix for real-life murder tales came in weekly doses courtesy of Unsolved Mysteries, which ran interrupted from 1987 to 2002. Since the series left airwaves, the genre has …
Read More »Steve Carell Brings Chaos to the Moon in New 'Space Force' Trailer
Steve Carell is tasked with militarizing space in the new Netflix original series Space Force, and as you can imagine, hijinks ensue. In the latest trailer for the show, which premieres May 29th on the streaming platform, Carell is a four-star general given the assignment to lead the newly launched …
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Brave New World “You are an essential part of a perfect social body,” says an overhead voice. “Everybody in their place. Everybody happy now.” This perfect society is New London, where life is free of pain and there is no such thing as monogamy, privacy, money, or family. But just …
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