If you love your horror in television form, Rotten Tomatoes has made your life a little easier by compiling “The Best Horror TV Shows of All Time.” Here are five titles from that list worth checking out, complete with vampires, witches, mysterious murders, and much more.
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When The X-Files returned to Fox in January 2016, fans were apprehensive. Would the revival hold up over time? Could it make up for the original iteration’s lackluster ninth season?
Luckily, they had nothing to worry about. Season 10 received a Fresh 65% Tomatometer score as well as stellar ratings, and season 11 was Certified Fresh with a 79% Tomatometer score.
Alas, not all reboots and revivals are created equal. While NBC’s season 9 revival of Will & Grace is Certified Fresh at 86% on the Tomatometer, the CW’s new take on Dynasty fell flat with a 53% Tomatometer score.
On the flip side, some titles like streaming series Cobra Kai, a sequel to the famous Karate Kid films, become big hits. The YouTube Red show premiered May 2 and has maintained a 100% score to land in the top spot of our scorecard of shows based on previous titles that returned from the dead.
ABC’s Roseanne and American Idol revivals also recently joined our list. Find out how all of the titles fared in their first new season (or TV-movie revival!) by Tomatometer.
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The 75th Golden Globe Awards, hosted by Seth Meyers, were held on January 7, 2018 in Los Angeles. Top honors went to Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird for film, and to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Big Little Lies for television. Read on for the full list of winners in all categories.
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The horror! The horror! The top five series in this category for 2017 share a certain bloodlust, though each in its own peculiar or fantastical way. Game of Thrones, meanwhile, finds itself locked out of the category’s top spots for the first time since RT began awarding TV Golden Tomato prizes in 2013.
The order of the rank below reflects the Adjusted Score as of December 31, 2017. Scores might change over time.
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The past year gave us some superb Certified Fresh fare: Big Little Lies, Legion, American Gods, Better Call Saul, GLOW, Narcos, The Deuce, The Crown, Master of None, Stranger Things, Game of Thrones, and so much more — all of which you could binge, of course. But this isn’t that list. (See all of 2017’s Certified Fresh TV.)
Rotten Tomatoes’ staff chose 13 of our personal favorite series of 2017 that you should get to binging before the 2018 midseason premieres and returns are full swing.
What It Is: A workplace comedy set in a big-box chain store.
Why You Should Watch It: Superstore is the rare comedy where the majority of the characters are working class and the brunt of the humor thankfully doesn’t come from mocking them for being working class. It’s a workplace comedy grounded in reality that deals with real issues, like immigration, divorce, gun laws, and workers’ rights, but isn’t afraid to veer into the surreal. (Why does Amy’s dad paint those creepy portraits of famous people? What happens to all the unclaimed lost and found items?) Superstore is a funny, weird, and thoughtful look at the lives of people behind your shopping experience. Catch up soon, because season 3 begins on January 4.
Where to Watch: Amazon, FandangoNow, Google Play, Hulu, Microsoft, YouTube, Vudu
Commitment: about 7.5 hours
Picked By: Sara Ataiiyan, Review Curator
What It Is: The Star Trek universe returns to small screens, but on an epic, big-screen scale. Discovery tells the story of exemplary First Officer Michael Burnham whose brash choice in one conflict is blamed for kicking off the Federation-Klingon war and ultimately lands her under the leadership of mercurial cowboy Captain Gabriel Lorca.
Why You Should Watch It: The Certified Fresh series is set in a turbulent, but intriguing time of war about a decade before James T. Kirk is to take the helm of the legendary Starship Enterprise in the 1960s original series created by Gene Roddenberry. The new, streaming-only series features a stellar regular cast, including The Walking Dead’s Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham and the Harry Potter franchise’s Jason Isaacs as Lorca, as well as The Shape of Water’s Doug Jones, stage and screen actor Anthony Rapp, and newcomer Mary Wiseman. Its guest stars include Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), James Frain (Gotham), Wilson Cruz (My So-Called Life), Jayne Brook (Chicago Hope), and Rainn Wilson (The Office). Plus, binging Part 1 (nine episodes) of season 1 now gets you caught up in time for the premiere of Part 2, coming January 7.
Where to Watch: CBS All Access
Commitment: about 7 hours
Picked By: Debbie Day, TV Features Editor
What It Is: In 1969, Sister Catherine Cesnick, a beloved Maryland teacher, was found murdered. The cold case haunted her former students for decades, and this series chronicles their passionate investigation and search for answers.
Why You Should Watch It: I began watching this series thinking that I was watching another murder mystery. Within its expertly crafted episodes, The Keepers focuses on much more than just the initial cold case, involving not only sexual abuse allegations in the Catholic school Cesnick taught at, but also an incredible triumph of the human spirit among her students. The women who were greatly moved by Cesnick, now mostly retirees, never stopped seeking justice for the woman who shaped their lives. Their passion united them with each other and the Cesnick family many years later — and brought them that much closer to getting justice for Sister Cathy and the children affected by abuse. The series manages to be both heartbreaking and heartwarming, and with cliffhangers at the end of every episode that will keep you watching (and crying).
Where to Watch: Netflix
Commitment: About 7.5 hours
Picked By: Grae Drake, Senior Editor
What It Is: A follow-up to the BBC’s groundbreaking 2006 nature documentary series, Planet Earth II similarly utilizes pristine high definition footage to shed light on the lives of wild creatures in exotic locales as they employ remarkable strategies to survive.
Why You Should Watch It: At some point over the past year, you might have come across a short video of a young iguana on the Galapagos Islands scrambling across the sand to escape hundreds of snakes, eluding certain death by mere inches. That remarkable clip came from the first episode of Planet Earth II, and it’s just a small sample of what the series has to offer. Plenty of nature shows are educational — Planet Earth II shines because it’s also beautifully shot in ultra high definition, impeccably edited, and narrated by the peerless David Attenborough. Not only will you see rare species in disparate environments all over the world, but you’ll also see some familiar creatures behaving in ways never before documented on camera. It’s all fascinating stuff, and if you weren’t a nature junkie before, this might be the show to change you.
Where to Watch: Amazon, Google Play, Microsoft, Netflix, YouTube
Commitment: about 6.5 hours
Picked by: Ryan Fujitani, Editor
What It Is: Imagine waking up in a brightly lit office lobby and being told you’ve died and gone to “the good place” — then discovering that there’s been a mistake and you were really supposed to end up in the other place. What would you do? For Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), the answer’s simple: lie through your teeth and rope your helplessly conflicted, mis-assigned soulmate (William Jackson Harper), an ethics professor, into helping you learn to be a better person. It’s a pretty high concept setup for a sitcom, but it’s really just the beginning for The Good Place, which has spiraled off into all sorts of smart, unpredictable, and above all hilarious directions over the course of its one and a half seasons.
Why You Should Watch It: Part goofball comedy about an afterlife filled with frozen yogurt and fraught with bureaucratic mixups, part surprisingly deep examination of ethics and basic human responsibility, The Good Place deftly balances gut-busting lowbrow humor against complex, thought-provoking themes — no surprise given that it comes to us courtesy of producer Michael Schur (30 Rock, Brooklyn Nine-Nine). It also benefits from one of the most talented ensembles on TV; aside from Bell and Harper, you’ve got the dramatic range and crack timing of Ted Danson, Jameela Jamil, and Manny Jacinto — plus the show’s increasingly indispensable secret weapon, D’Arcy Carden. The second season picks back up on January 4 — get yourself caught up now.
Where to watch: Amazon, FandangoNow, Google Play, Hulu (five most recent episodes of season 2), iTunes NBC.com, Netflix (season 1), on demand through your cable provider
Commitment: about 11 hours
Picked By: Jeff Giles, Curation Editor
What It Is: A noir-tinged murder mystery. Surrealist art. A magnifying glass held on small-town America. Electricity. 27 years ago, Twin Peaks redefined primetime TV, and continued to build a cult legacy over the ensuing years. As high as anticipation was for The Return, the resulting series was impossible to predict: an enthralling, immersive experience that shattered its own history along with the boundaries of peak TV.
Why You Should Watch It: While the original series took place primarily in the Pacific Northwest, Twin Peaks: The Return widens its scope, stretching cross country with new locations and characters, but also upends the show’s trademark tone and style. The initial result is jarring: in early episodes, Lynch rejects the beloved quirky humor of the original series (but brings it back — stick with it!) in favor of a rabbit hole narrative reflective of Inland Empire and Mulholland Dr., a spiral that is infectious in its confounding plot lines and infinite mysteries. While his approach shuns a nostalgic view, tenderness is visible in Lynch’s treatment of familiar faces. Bobby, Norma, Hawk, the Log Lady, Cooper, and perhaps most poignant of all, Laura, have aged before our eyes, a reminder that at its core, Twin Peaks was and continues to be a meditation on the pain inherent with the passage of time and in unresolved grief.
Where to Watch: Showtime Anytime, on demand through your cable provider with a Showtime subscription
Commitment: 18 hours (with recommended prerequisite Fire Walk with Me, roughly 20 hours)
Picked by: Jenny Jediny, Critic Relations Manager
What It Is: An animated series inspired by the classic vampire-hunting video game of the same name.
Why You Should Watch It: It’s the easiest binge on the planet, with only four episodes clocking in at under two hours. The animation is lush, with gothic castles and crypts and caverns to boot. It’s also about an all-powerful vampire on a revenge quest, so there are floods of blood and violence galore. But there is also a vampire hunter and plenty of humor that follows him as he tries to help the townsfolk he encounters stay out of the vampire’s way. This show will have you swinging between LOL and OMG moments through its four rollercoaster-like episodes that go down like blood-red candy.
Where to Watch: Netflix
Commitment: Only two bloody hours
Picked by: Beki Lane, Associate TV Editor
What It Is: A true-crime mockumentary that doesn’t shy away from asking the important questions — in particular, who drew dicks on 27 faculty cars in the high school parking lot?
Why You Should Watch It: Don’t let the crass premise fool you, American Vandal is a brilliant send-up of society’s ongoing obsession with entertainment offerings like the Serial podcast and Netflix’s own Making a Murderer. It employs tricks of the investigative journalism trade and applies them to an ensemble high school cast. What begins as an attempt to clear one hopeless student’s name (Dylan Maxwell, who is brilliantly played by Jimmy Tatro) evolves into a complex web of reputations and intentions. By the end of the first episode, I was already swept up in the mystery and emotionally invested in Dylan’s defense. Throw in the show’s hilarious writing scene-to-scene, and you have one of 2017’s most delightful new series.
Commitment: About 4.5 hours
Where to Watch: Netflix
Picked by: J.S. Lewis, Media Coordinator
What It Is: ER doctor Mary Harris (Caroline Dhavernas) partners with a former plastic surgeon (Richard Short) to moonlight as a team of underground euthanizers for terminal patients in need while eluding a detective and potential love interest (Jay Ryan).
Why You Should Watch It: Brave and honest, Mary Kills People is one of the more emotionally intelligent shows currently running. While other amazeballs female star–led dramas like Good Behavior, The Girlfriend Experience, and Claws, too, stand out from the crowd, Mary is noteworthy for its truthful — with some added heightened antics for entertainment value, sure — portrayal of a topic still not easily discussed. These newer female-centric shows tend to outshine much of the male-lead opposition, rather than merely compete. Mary has a unique, evocative tone, with painfully empathetic characterizations in situations each of us hopes we never have to face.
Where to Watch: Amazon, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu
Commitment: About 4.5 hours
Picked By: Kerr Lordygan, Associate TV Editor
What It Is: If Tracey Gordon had a £1,000, she would buy hair like Beyoncé, a lip reduction, red velvet cupcakes, and a dustpan and broom for her shop, probably. She’s 24, living in government housing with her well-meaning, but devoutly religious mother and sister, and she’s a virgin. But she’s going to change all of that with a little help from her friends, whether they mean to lend a hand or not.
Why You Should Watch It: Chewing Gum is on another level. Within the first five minutes you’ll laugh just as often as you squirm in your seat. The show captures the feeling of every awkward conversation you’ve ever replayed in your head a thousand times, only it’s not you, it’s the brilliant and whimsical Michaela Cole. You know, the girl from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, who turns around, eyes big and mouth gaping, to warn her fellow rebels of their impending doom? No? Well, you should. Her turn as Tracey earned her the 2016 BAFTA award for Best Female Comedy Performance, and for good reason. Cole is a singular comedic force. She’s so willing to explore the most uncomfortable of places with such endearingly horrific candor, it’s impossible to take your eyes off of her, though you’ll want to to catch the absurd, captivating performances of her very-game ensemble. Especially her religious zealot of a sister, played by the equally but differently brilliant Susie Wokoma. I’m not going to lie, Chewing Gum can be painful. Like, I need to hide under my bed for three years before I can ever talk to you again, painful. But Cole and company take on these cringe-worthy moments with fearless fervor that is more than worth the mere 6-hour binge time. For two seasons! Brilliant, init?
Where to Watch: Netflix
Commitment: 6 hours
Picked By: Hañalina Lucero-Colin, Review Curator
What It Is: The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the Margret Atwood novel of the same name, is a dystopian thriller about what happens when women lose autonomy over their own bodies. Set in the not-so-distant future, in a not-so-far-fetched U.S., we follow Offred (Elisabeth Moss), a handmaid who’s been ripped away from her husband and daughter and placed into the home of a high-ranking commander and his wife to serve as their birthing chattel. This is, more than anything, a story of survival and one woman’s journey to be reunited with her family by any means necessary.
Why You Should Watch It: Aside from this show being beautifully shot and incredibly well acted, The Handmaid’s Tale is a deep drama from which you rarely find a moment to come up for air. It is stressful, thrilling, complex, and heartbreaking. The currency of the show’s politics, Offred’s situation, and how women are treated from the beginning should not be taken lightly. It’s not hard to picture a world where birthrates have fallen and politicians are calling for women to have more children, which makes the show all the more compelling to watch. The series returns for its second season in April.
Where to Watch: Hulu
Commitment: About 10 hours
Picked by: Zoey Moore, Production Coordinator
What It Is: PBS series tells the story of young Victoria, who inherits the British throne after King William IV passes away and must forge her own path.
Why You Should Watch It: I almost chose The Crown or Outlander, because I’m obsessed with period dramas, and one historical drama you may have missed is Victoria starring Jenna Coleman. The acting and cinematography of the show is first rate, and you’ll be surprised what you learn about the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign. How an 18-year-old became a monarch, became a mother, and ruled during a time when women were not even able to vote, is fascinating to watch. I am personally drawn to the marital love and struggles between Victoria and her husband Prince Albert (Tom Hughes). There’s even a little Upstairs, Downstairs–type story telling (not as compelling as Downton Abbey), enough to give you an assortment of characters to root for. Season 2 debuts on PBS in the United States on January 14.
Where to watch: Amazon
Commitment: nearly 7 hours
Picked By: Eileen Rivera, Sr. Director of Production
What It Is: A town. A community. But it’s not all pom-poms, milkshakes, and maple syrup for the good people of Riverdale. Last season, Archie (KJ Apa), Betty (Lili Reinhart), Jughead (Cole Sprouse), and Veronica (Camila Mendes) were caught up in the whirlwind surrounding the murder of Jason Blossom. This time out, our heroes’ bonds are severely tested as a serial killer runs amuck in their town.
Why You Should Watch It: Stranger Things might get all the love for its expert pastiche of 1980s sci-fi films (no complaint here), but Riverdale’s scope is far wider: an omnivorous mixing-and-matching of 70 years of teenage popular culture. Sure, it sometimes veers into preposterousness (Archie’s vigilante group, Jughead’s always-hilarious noir prose), but mostly, Riverdale works because it’s aware of its campy trappings and is unafraid to revel in them. It’s also stylistically audacious, with its visual references to Zodiac, Pulp Fiction, and bathed in a neon glow that would do Wong Kar-wai proud. Even at its darkest, however, Riverdale is offering a sense of community — that of shared experience and an idealized past — that feels especially comforting in these divided times. Riverdale season 2 returns on January 17.
Where to watch: Amazon, FandangoNow, The CW, Google Play, iTunes, on demand through your cable provider
Commitment: About 7 hours
Picked by: Tim Ryan, Senior Editor
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The nominations for the 75th Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning in Los Angeles. The winners will be revealed in a ceremony airing live on NBC, Sunday, January 7. Read through for the full list of nominees.
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It’s your last chance to pick up a holiday gift for the movie lover in your life, and conveniently enough, there are a number of big titles hitting the home video market in December. Pick up the penultimate season of HBO’s global hit Game of Thrones, Christopher Nolan’s World War II film Dunkirk, or catch up on Showtime’s return to Twin Peaks, among other choices, though if you’re looking for a last minute Christmas gift, there are a few titles that won’t release in time. Read on for the entire December list.
This Certified Fresh comedy from Israel centers on a group of women who fight against their synagogue’s new rabbi and his ultra-traditionalist message. Information on special features is currently unavailable.
Cult auteur Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surreal autobiographical film focuses on the years he spent during the 1940s as an aspiring poet in Chile against his families wishes that he attend medical school. Information on special features is currently unavailable.
Justin Chon’s unflinching drama traces the relationship between a pair of Korean-American brothers and an 11-year-old black girl in South Central Los Angeles against the backdrop of the Rodney King trial and the 1992 L.A. riots. Information on special features is currently unavailable.
Olivia DeJonge and Levi Miller star in this Christmas-set thriller about a babysitter locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a home invader. It comes with a making-of featurette.
Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig return to lend their voices to the third installment of the Despicable Me franchise, which finds Gru facing off against a former child star and reuniting with his long-lost twin brother Dru. Extras include an extra animated short, a making-of doc, character and location profiles, a deleted scene, and more.
Dylan O’Brien and Michael Keaton star in this spy thriller about a CIA recruit whose thirst for revenge against the terrorists who killed his fiancée helps fuel a preternatural potential that his trainer seeks to mold. Bonus features include a making-of doc, a profile of O’Brien’s character, an inside look at the training and stunt work, and more.
The seventh season of HBO’s massive fantasy series based on George R.R. Martin’s novels was shorter by a few episodes but delivered a number of moments fans have been waiting for, all leading up to the epic battle between humanity and the White Walkers. Available in a few different packages, the Blu-ray comes with a two-part featurette detailing the production design, a behind-the-scenes featurette one of the season’s key moments, and audio commentary tracks.
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon take another road trip — this time through Spain — during which the pair sample delicious food and engage in their trademark deadpan banter. Information on special features is currently unavailable.
John Boyega and Will Poulter lead an ensemble cast in Kathryn Bigelow’s harrowing account of one of the events that took place during the 1967 race riots in the titular city. It comes with a profile of the true story behind the film, a look at the cast, a comparison of the city’s past and present, and more.
Taron Egerton and Channing Tatum lead an all-star cast in this sequel about British super-spy Eggsy Unwin, who must team up with his American counterparts, the Statesmen, to unravel a conspiracy that left the Kingsmen decimated. Extras include a multi-part making-of documentary, a breakdown of one of the car chases, and multiple image galleries of concept art and stills from the set.
Reese Witherspoon stars in this romantic comedy as a single mom whose life is upended when she decides to house a trio of younger men. It comes with a commentary track featuring writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer and producer Nancy Meyers.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Tatiana Maslany star in David Gordon Green’s inspirational true story about Jeff Bauman, a man who lost his legs during the Boston Marathan bombing in 2013 and became a symbol of hope. It includes a making-of featurette.
Christopher Nolan’s ensemble World War II film depicts the incredible evacuation of Allied forces from the French beaches of Dunkirk from three different perspectives. It comes with a slew of featurettes covering everything from the story behind the film to the production design, the use of tension, and various other aspects of the film.
Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem star in Darren Aronofsky’s controversial drama/thriller about a woman who begins to believe she’s losing her mind when her poet husband allows a pair of uninvited guests to stay with them. Bonus features include a look at the makeup effects and an examination of the film’s central theme.
Judi Dench and Ali Fazal star in Stephen Frears’ drama centering on the unlikely friendship that developed between Queen Victoria and a young clerk from India. Extras include a cast profile of Dench and Fazal and a featurette on the look of the film.
This third entry in the LEGO franchise features the voices of Dave Franco, Jackie Chan, and Olivia Munn in a story about a young Master Builder who must join with his ninja friends to battle The Worst Guy Ever for the fate of Ninjago City. It comes with a wealth of special features, including several music videos and animated shorts, PSAs, making-of featurettes, and more.
Stephen Dorff and Lili Taylor star in this prequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise looking back at the origin story of the infamous killer of the title. It comes with a making-of featurette, six deleted scenes, and an alternate ending.
Vince Vaughn stars in S. Craig Zahler’s (Bone Tomahawk) crime thriller about a former boxer who is sent to prison and forced to embark on a violent quest to murder an inmate in a far more violent facility. Extras include a making-of featurette and a Q&A from Beyond Fest.
Paul Bettany and Sam Worthington star in this Discovery Channel limited series that recreates the FBI search for Ted Kaczynski. The season set comes with featurettes on criminal profiling, Kaczynski himself, and Kaczyinski’s infamous manifesto.
Steven Yeun and Samara Weaving star in this action thriller about a fired employee who discovers he’s trapped in the office with former co-workers who’ve been infected with a deadly virus. Special features include an audio commentary track and a making-of featurette.
Kate Winslet and Idris Elba star in this survival thriller about two strangers who must rely on each other to survive when their small plane crashes in the mountains of a remote part of Utah. It comes with a look at the chemistry between Winslet and Elba, the shooting location, and the stunts, as well as a photo gallery and deleted scenes.
Ellen Page and Diego Luna star in this remake of the 1990 supernatural thriller about medical students who induce near-death experiences in order to discover whether or not anything exists on the other side. Bonus features include deleted and extended scenes and a handful of making-of featurettes.
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Eager for warm weather already? Here’s an early look at spring/summer TV that might argue for you to stay indoors.
March | April | May | June | July | August | NEW! Fall 2017
Wednesday, Mar. 1
National Treasure: Season 1 ()
100%
Hulu
Chicago Justice: Season 1 ()
73%
10 p.m., NBC (preview)
Thursday, Mar. 2
60 Days In: Atlanta ()
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9 p.m., A&E
Friday, Mar. 3
Annedroids: Season 4 ()
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Amazon
Sunday, Mar. 5
Once Upon a Time: Season 6 ()
89%
8 p.m., ABC (returning)
Making History: Season 1 ()
92%
8:30 p.m., FOX
Chicago Justice: Season 1 ()
73%
9 p.m., NBC
The Last Man on Earth: Season 3 ()
78%
9:30 p.m., FOX (returning)
The Arrangement: Season 1 ()
62%
10 p.m., E!
Feud: Bette and Joan: Bette and Joan ()
95%
10 p.m., FX
Shades of Blue: Season 2 ()
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10 p.m., NBC
Time After Time: Season 1 ()
67%
10 pm., ABC
Breaking Free (2015)
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11 p.m., WGN
Trial & Error
Tuesday, Mar. 7
The Americans: Season 5 ()
94%
10 p.m., FX
Wednesday, Mar. 8
Designated Survivor: Season 1 ()
87%
10 p.m., ABC (returning)
Underground: Season 2 ()
100%
10 p.m., WGN
Ripper Street: Season 5 ()
100%
11 p.m., BBC America
Thursday, Mar. 9
Kicking & Screaming: Season 1 ()
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9 p.m., FOX
The Catch: Season 2 ()
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10 p.m., ABC
Friday, Mar. 10
Buddy Thunderstruck: Season 1 ()
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Hand of God: Season 2 ()
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Amazon
Love: Season 2 ()
96%
Netflix
Saturday, Mar. 11
Samurai Jack: Season 5 ()
100%
11:30 p.m., Cartoon Network
Sunday, Mar. 12
Top Gear: Season 24 ()
86%
8 p.m., BBC America
American Crime: Season 3 ()
100%
10 p.m., ABC
Monday, Mar. 13
Young & Hungry: Season 5 ()
- -
8 p.m., Freeform
Baby Daddy: Season 6 ()
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8:30 p.m., Freeform
Tuesday, Mar. 14
Trial & Error: Season 1 ()
86%
9:30 p.m., NBC
Wednesday, Mar. 15
Greenleaf: Season 2 ()
- -
10 p.m., OWN
Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo ()
- -
10 p.m., Sundance
Thursday, Mar. 16
Shrink: Season 1 ()
- -
Seeso
Snatch: Season 1 ()
39%
Crackle
Review: Season 3 ()
100%
10 p.m., Comedy Central
Marvel’s Iron Fist
Friday, Mar. 17
The Originals: Season 4 ()
100%
8 p.m., The CW
Marvel's Iron Fist: Season 1 ()
20%
8 p.m., Netflix
Animals.: Season 2 ()
100%
11:30 p.m., HBO
Sunday, Mar. 19
The Circus: Inside the Biggest Story on Earth: Season 2 ()
- -
8 p.m., Showtime
Into the Badlands: Season 2 ()
100%
10 p.m., AMC
Tuesday, Mar. 21
Cosplay Melee: Season 1 ()
- -
10 p.m., SyFy
Upscale With Prentice Penny: Season 1 ()
- -
10 p.m., TruTV
Wednesday, Mar. 22
Shots Fired: Season 1 ()
84%
8 p.m., FOX
Empire: Season 3 ()
87%
9 p.m., FOX (returning)
Rogue: Season 3 ()
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9 p.m., DirecTV
Ingobernable
Friday, Mar. 24
Grace and Frankie: Season 3 ()
100%
Netflix
Ingobernable: Season 1 ()
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Netflix (US premiere)
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7:30 p.m., DIS
Tuesday, Mar. 28
Rebel: Season 1 ()
38%
10 p.m., BET
Wednesday, Mar. 29
Harlots: Season 1 ()
92%
Hulu
Imaginary Mary: Season 1 ()
27%
8:30 p.m., ABC (sneak preview)
Nobodies: Season 1 ()
73%
10 p.m., TV Land
Lopez: Season 2 ()
- -
10:30 p.m., TV Land
Friday, Mar. 31
13 Reasons Why: Season 1 ()
77%
Netflix
Five Came Back: Miniseries ()
98%
Netflix
Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg (2016)
100%
10 p.m., Starz
Sunday, Apr. 2
Call the Midwife: Season 6 ()
- -
8 p.m., PBS
Home Fires: Season 2 ()
- -
9 p.m., PBS
Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell: Season 3 ()
- -
11:30 p.m., Cartoon Network (returning)
Tuesday, Apr. 4
Dimension 404: Season 1 ()
80%
Hulu
iZombie: Season 3 ()
100%
8 p.m., CW
Prison Break: Season 5 ()
56%
9 p.m., FOX
Imaginary Mary: Season 1 ()
27%
9:30 p.m., ABC
Wednesday, Apr. 5
Archer: Dreamland ()
86%
10 p.m., FXX
Brockmire: Season 1 ()
94%
10 p.m., IFC
Thursday, Apr, 6
Dark Net: Season 2 ()
- -
10 p.m., Showtime
Friday, Apr. 7
American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story: Season 1 ()
50%
Amazon
The Get Down: Season 1 ()
77%
Netflix (returning)
The Son
Saturday, Apr. 8
The Son: Season 1 ()
52%
9 p.m., AMC
Monday, Apr. 10
Better Call Saul: Season 3 ()
98%
10 p.m., AMC
Angie Tribeca: Season 3 ()
100%
10:30 p.m., TBS
Tuesday, Apr. 11
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Stitchers: Season 3 ()
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Queen of the South: Season 2 ()
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Dark Matter: Season 3 ()
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The Tunnel: Season 2 (2017) 9 p.m., PBS
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Glow
Friday, June 23
Free Reign: Season 1 (2017) Netflix
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Playing House: Season 3 ()
100%
11 p.m., USA
Sunday, June 25
Power: Season 4 (2017) Starz
Preacher: Season 2 ()
91%
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Zoo: Season 3 ()
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(Photo by Patrick Wymore/SHOWTIME)
Twin Peaks: The Return’s premiere a week ago was chock full of wonderfully strange and unusual moments, but was outdone by episodes 3 and 4, which were available online immediately following the premiere and aired together on Showtime on Sunday, May 28.
People unfamiliar with the original series may be put off by David Lynch‘s signature oddities, but diehard fans are eating it up.
SPOILER WARNING: THE FOLLOWING INCLUDES PLOT DETAILS FROM EPISODES 3 AND 4 OF TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
Episode 3 kicked off with what is the Lynch-iest of all scenes so far, when Good Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) finds himself in a bizarre purple world populated by a woman with melted eyes, Major Briggs’ (Don S. Davis) disembodied head, and Ronette Pulaski (Phoebe Augustine), BOB’s (Frank Silva) would-be third victim from the original series who managed to escape.
As with all the truly great Lynchian sequences, it was as beautiful as it was unsettling.
https://twitter.com/mrandrewhawkins/status/868681490736881664
https://twitter.com/ericsperano/status/867146111550664704
https://twitter.com/risajb/status/866790287879921664
https://twitter.com/Joseph_EHerrera/status/866551281112010752
But everyone agreed it was cool to see Major Briggs again in any capacity, since Davis passed away in 2008.
https://twitter.com/thedorkmite/status/868859606856073218
https://twitter.com/steph_c_byrne/status/867820542216126466
Luckily, the episode mellows out a bit (for a Lynch production) when we meet Evil Cooper’s (MacLachlan) plan for avoiding the Black Lodge. He “manufactured” a second doppelganger, Dougie Jones (MacLachlan), and it’s poor Dougie who gets sucked back into the Black Lodge and disappears in a cloud of smoke.
https://twitter.com/ladidadupy/status/868616809397850114
Good Cooper takes his place and yields one of the funniest sequences of the show yet, winning 30 slot machine jackpots at a casino as the pit bosses get angrier and angrier.
Let's get the #twinpeaks memes going pic.twitter.com/CfVTRCljRW
— Dougie Jones (@IAmDougiesCoffe) May 27, 2017
Hell-ooo-ooooooooo owl decoration in Dougie Jones's house.
The owl is not what it seems.#twinpeaks #TeachMeHowToDougie pic.twitter.com/0MGPWJoPhE— Something New (@SomethnNew25) May 28, 2017
The title for #TwinPeaks S3E4 should have been "Teach Me How to Dougie" pic.twitter.com/TE3NIQJ0Lb
— Dr. McNellis (@Dr_McNellis) May 23, 2017
Note: Eagle-eyed fans of the original series should recognize the ring Dougie left behind when he vanished. It was the ring Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) was warned not to wear in Fire Walk With Me. That must be how Evil Cooper made his Dougie doppelganger.
Despite avoiding the Black Lodge, Evil Cooper can’t avoid getting arrested after crashing his car during the struggle to pull Dougie back into the Black Lodge. The cops run his prints and everyone’s favorite G-men, Gordon Cole (Lynch) and Albert Rosenfield (Miguel Ferrer), are alerted that Cooper has reappeared after 25 years missing.
So it’s off to South Dakota they go.
Albert. Just as good as he always been. #twinpeaks #TwinPeaks2017 pic.twitter.com/FkerTj5YaU
— Ann K (@Froot_Girl) May 23, 2017
But, first, FBI Deputy Director Cole stops for a chat with FBI Chief of Staff Denise Bryson (David Duchovny).
Seeing Denise tonight gave me chills, so did seeing Bobby too 😉#TwinPeaks2017 #twinpeaks @davidduchovny pic.twitter.com/idcinRezp6
— Erika (@erikachicky) May 29, 2017
"When you became Denise, I told all of your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die" #TwinPeaks #TwinPeaksSundays pic.twitter.com/uHA6CfCyLq
— Steven Miller (@samhowzit) May 29, 2017
But after seeing Cooper, who claims he was undercover with Phillip Jeffries all these years, Gordon and Albert know something is severely wrong. (Jeffries, dedicated fans will remember, is a character who had been played by David Bowie, who died this year.)
https://twitter.com/TheBlueRoseBlog/status/867385354143313926
https://twitter.com/GhostwoodDesign/status/868499913025441795
-Agent Preston gets carsick.
+Albert… we're in South Dakota. Cossacks are in Russia.
-Carsick!#TwinPeaks pic.twitter.com/W7PCYSJPQd— 𝙸𝚜𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚕 (@Isabelmbx) May 28, 2017
If you’re confused about Jeffries and “blue rose,” perhaps a rewatch of Fire Walk With Me is in order.
https://twitter.com/marykevanb/status/868334813123497984
https://twitter.com/Lautaroart/status/868573845283901440
Scumbag Phillip Jeffries. We miss you David Bowie 😢 #TwinPeaks is missing a little bit of his intergalactic weirdness right now. pic.twitter.com/wmBBLQXjKS
— Arch Ally (@justinwells) May 24, 2017
One of the great (maybe greatest) thing about new #TwinPeaks so far is that through Phillip Jeffries, David Bowie is still alive ⚡️☕️️
— Dan Rivkin (@rivkin) May 23, 2017
The short story: Jeffries is another FBI agent who hasn’t been seen since 1989. The show is making it sound like he’s still alive and is the one who asked Darya (Nicole LaLiberte) and Ray (George Griffith) to kill Evil Cooper.
Blue rose might simply refer to a case with supernatural elements, which is a popular Twin Peaks fan theory, but there is also Lil the Dancer (Kimberly Ann Cole) from Fire Walk With Me who wore a blue rose on her red suit.
https://twitter.com/AlanMorlock/status/866194193026338816
Either way, Gordon and Albert have a woman in mind they need to see Cooper to determine what exactly is going on. Any guesses who she is? Fans have a guess that frankly sounds spot-on.
Laura Dern and she better be Diane #TwinPeaks
— Jeff (@jdj9930) May 27, 2017
I have two theories regarding future characters.
Laura Dern is Diane and Shelly and Bobby's daughter is Amanda Seyfried. #TwinPeaks— Jeff (@jdj9930) May 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/clovrmay_7/status/866727283066884096
Meanwhile, back in the actual town of Twin Peaks — likely to be the meeting ground for a Good Cooper/Evil Cooper showdown — Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) is a sheriff’s deputy, which is as awesome as it is surprising.
Deputy Bobby Briggs! #twinpeaks pic.twitter.com/NzFxyPJz1z
— LampfraudBall (@Lampfraud) May 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/sharqd/status/867293267238440960
What is not a surprise and was pure vintage Twin Peaks is that Bobby is still really broken up over what happened to Laura.
https://twitter.com/piercexforbes/status/868404643822546945
https://twitter.com/jakezorz/status/868567476191322112
https://twitter.com/bellalitsa/status/866847548954345472
Viewers also get to meet Lucy (Kimmy Robertson) and Andy’s (Harry Goaz) son Wally Brando (Michael Cera), which is another moment that is pure Lynch.
I don't care to admit how many times I've rewatched the Wally Brando scene…#twinpeaks pic.twitter.com/VJ9XIExSqp
— The Vlog Lady (@thevloglady) May 28, 2017
When I grow up I want to be as cool as Wally Brando #twinpeaks pic.twitter.com/WxVccBW6eB
— Sam WilkINson (@swilko1) May 28, 2017
#TwinPeaks
MICHAEL CERA: THE MOST BADASS BIKER IN THE WORLD pic.twitter.com/0Ujh7Isy8j— ⚔️ Dungeon GF 🎹 (@TheLoserOf08) May 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/TheXXIIV/status/866934401745141760
Hopefully this is not the last time we see weird Wally, just the latest in a string of odd new characters and occurrences on the revival. But despite how weird it is, fans seem to be all in with Twin Peaks: The Return.
Twin Peaks is making more sense than anything else going on in the world at the moment #twinpeaks
— Keith Hynes (@khynesoz) May 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/TheBlueRoseBlog/status/866667877490982912
https://twitter.com/roguewonder/status/866734273432354817
https://twitter.com/bobby_snacks/status/868303573179826176
It’s definitely a slow burn, but that’s typically how David Lynch rolls. It does seem clear, though, that he’s dropping in dozens of breadcrumbs for the over-arching mystery, even if their meaning isn’t clear yet to the viewers.
What do you think, fans? Are you still on board with this trippy continuation of Twin Peaks? Let us know your feelings in the revival.
Twin Peaks airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. on Showtime
This week at the movies, we have Jack Sparrow’s latest voyage (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, starring Johnny Depp and Javier Bardem) and some hardbodies at the beach (Baywatch, starring Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron). What do the critics have to say?
Also Opening This Week In Limited Release
The revival of Twin Peaks, the ’90s cultural phenomenon created by David Lynch, was announced years ago. There was plenty of time for anyone who missed the show’s original two seasons and movie, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, to catch up. But life gets busy and Netflix drops a new season of some show every week —Master of None and Kimmy Schmidt aren’t going to watch themselves! — so viewers who never found the time to catch up on Twin Peaks probably aren’t alone.
https://twitter.com/rheinwaldjones/status/866498200122703872
There were plenty of fans on Twitter sharing theories to help fill in the gaps — or not.
https://twitter.com/BenKuchera/status/866730619098857473
A Twin Peaks newb wasn’t that far behind the fanboys when Showtime aired the first two hours of Twin Peaks: The Return on Sunday. Episodes 3 and 4 went up on Showtime Anytime right after, but the first two already provide a lot to unpack, so let’s start there.
Anyone alive in the ‘90s already knows the basics even if they never watched it: Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) went to Twin Peaks to solve the murder of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). The kooky town had a Log Lady (Catherine E. Coulson), who shares messages from her log; owls; a pale horse; and some damn fine coffee and cherry pie.
SPOILER WARNING: THE FOLLOWING INCLUDES PLOT DETAILS FROM EPISODES 1 and 2 OF TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
After 25 years, Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost upended even the few basic things Twin Peaks thought they could count on. The Agent Cooper we first meet (after a brief intro in the Black Lodge, that weird red-curtained place with stripey floors), now has hair like Nicolas Cage in Con Air — and a temper like Nicolas Cage in everything else!
https://twitter.com/fuzzybritches/status/866735649944203265
https://twitter.com/chrisomicron/status/866478252008886272
https://twitter.com/deadcon8/status/866464677596942337
https://twitter.com/ethicspro/status/866464665211027456
https://twitter.com/lauriecrosswell/status/866464781959671809
https://twitter.com/bengreenman/status/866465969476165636
It soon became clear that this had something to do with BOB, an evil spirit from the Black Lodge who possessed Leland Palmer (Ray Wise) in the original series. By the end of part 2, long-haired Cooper was refusing to go back to the Black Lodge, where mysterious callers were trying to get back to BOB. Some fans were onto BOB much earlier.
https://twitter.com/AY4WEB/status/866482020893032448
https://twitter.com/mikebeauvais/status/866465065771446273
Fortunately, good old clean-cut Cooper was still there in the Black Lodge. That doesn’t look like a fun place to spend 25 years. Somebody get that man some coffee and pie!
https://twitter.com/leoinwait/status/866477782632714240
At least he got to see Laura Palmer again.
https://twitter.com/doncheadlefan1/status/866479698041331713
https://twitter.com/buckupcamper/status/866478428941197313
https://twitter.com/glamourgirl1970/status/866481157201960960
So in the Black Lodge, a dead person can age 25 years. Or at least some bright white light can wear a Laura Palmer face!
https://twitter.com/itsmerieck/status/866478437317345281
The horse appears briefly too.
https://twitter.com/acelukeskywalkr/status/866479087291961349
And a talking tree. So this gets complicated. The tree says he is the arm. The arm was played by Michael J. Anderson in the original series. You know what they say: When Michael J. Anderson isn’t available, get a tree.
https://twitter.com/afroxvx/status/866483540824928256
https://twitter.com/justin_hocking/status/866479953700724738
https://twitter.com/cherryblossblog/status/866481202743660544
So yes, for double Kyle MacLachlan, and just to see how these trippy visuals develop, whether they’re explained or not, keep watching Twin Peaks.
I totally know the log lady! It’s still Catherine E. Coulson, who passed away in 2015, so she must have filmed scenes before she died. She’s got breathing tubes in her nose, which could have been her reality near the end of life, but it was very touching that Lynch was able to include her.
https://twitter.com/enterpriseextra/status/866472971317030912
https://twitter.com/mad__cheddar/status/866470572095655936
https://twitter.com/seecrano/status/866470568211742720
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Hawk (Michael Horse) was still there to follow the Log’s guidance.
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There were plenty of other Twin Peaks regulars a newcomer would be excited to meet for the first time. Lucy (Kimmy Robertson) is still the sheriff’s receptionist, and she filled everyone in that Cooper’s been missing for at least 24 years.
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It wasn’t until the last scene in The Bang Bang Bar that Shelly (Madchen Amick) shows up. She’s out with her girlfriends and notices James (James Marshall) eyeing one of her friends.
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James, I had to look up, but he was on the original show too. Shelly says he had a motorcycle accident so he’s quiet now, but if the fans are happy to see him again, so am I.
Jerry (David Patrick Kelly) is clearly a fan favorite, so can’t wait to see more of him.
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Leland Palmer and Phillip Michael Gerard (Al Strobel) are also in the Black Lodge with Cooper. The Giant (Carel Struycken) is now officially credited as “???????,” so people we thought we knew are getting more vague!
Of course there are totally new characters and bizarre scenarios, so everyone is in the same boat watching the new storylines unfold. That science experiment in New York City where a college student (Ben Rosenfield) is watching a glass box to see if anything appears becomes the second most graphic scene in the show when a figure appears in the box, then busts out and kills both the college student and the flirtatious Tracy (Madeline Zima).
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By the end of the second hour, Cooper has appeared in the glass box, but it was while the observer was out in the hall with Tracy. So did Cooper come back and kill them, or was that BOB? Or something else? Definitely going to have to watch the series to find out.
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We met a lot of new characters, some briefly like Beverly (Ashley Judd) and Chantal Hutchens (Jennifer Jason Leigh). It looks like Bill Hastings (Mathew Lillard) is the main suspect in a new murder. A body was found in an apartment in Buckhorn, South Dakota, in what was the most graphic scene.
Since she was missing an eye, some fans thought she was someone familiar, but they were wrong.
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The body was Ruth Davenport, a librarian. Bill’s fingerprints are all over her apartment and his only alibi is an affair he was having. But his wife Phyllis (Cornelia Guest) is cheating on him too. Phyllis is letting Bill go down for this, but Evil Cooper kills her before we got much of a chance to know her.
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And then, two cells over from Bill, a black figure dematerializes from the cell. If Lillard’s unhinged performance and the murder mystery werent’ enough (they were), you’ve got to keep watching to find out what that was.This sure ain’t Law & Order.
Low-fi visual effects punctuate the twisted nature of the Twin Peaks story, and there are trails of breadcrumbs dropped that we’ll also have to follow, like Evil Cooper’s Ace of Not Quite Spades. What’s that about?
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And there are plenty of cast members who have not yet appeared. So we can look forward to finding out who Robert Knepper, Jim Belushi, David Koechner, Trent Reznor, and Amanda Seyfried are going to play. One guess is that Seyfried’s character is Shelly’s daughter.
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So yes, here’s one viewer who got sucked into David Lynch’s trippy world tonight and who’s going to watch to the end, and maybe even go back and catch up on the original finally.
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Twin Peaks airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. on Showtime.
Director David Lynch’s early ’90s cultural phenomenon is about to come back into style when Twin Peaks returns to Showtime on May 21. Not much is known about the revival aside from the mammoth list of cast members — nearly everyone from the original series, plus myriad new faces — but fans can be sure it will be full of strange and scary David Lynch moments like the ones from the original series that are forever burned into our brains.
In preparation for the show’s return, Rotten Tomatoes has compiled a list of the 15 most iconic, bizarre and terrifying moments from the first two seasons, so take a walk down memory with lane with us — and try not to let BOB get you.
Is there a Twin Peaks moment you found particularly disturbing? Tell us in the comments!
Twin Peaks‘ new season airs Sunday, May 21 at 9 ET/PT on Showtime
Rotten Tomatoes looks at 24 unresolved TV cliffhangers, ranging from poisoned presidents to adrift interstellar spaceships. We couldn’t possibly solve these mysteries. Can YOU?
After an on-again, off-again pre-production process, Showtime’s continuation of Twin Peaks – written and produced by original creators David Lynch and Mark Frost – finally has its first teaser trailer. Watch the appropriately esoteric trailer below.
Airing sometime in 2017, every episode of the limited series will be directed by David Lynch.
This week in TV news, San Diego Comic Con revealed early glimpses of the Sherlock Christmas special and Fargo‘s version of Ronald Reagan. Plus, it looks like Twin Peaks is delayed until 2017, and winter is coming to a board game near you this August!
The BBC tweeted the first picture for their upcoming Sherlock Christmas special, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. The photo was posted ahead of Thursday’s Sherlock panel at San Diego Comic Con, and reveals a Victorian style of clothing, in keeping with executive producer Stephen Moffat’s tease back in March that the special would be set in 19th century London. “It’s Victorian,” Moffat revealed.”[Co-creator] Mark Gatiss and me, we wanted to do this, but it had to be a special; it had to be a separate entity on its own. It’s kind of in its own little bubble.” The one-off 90-minute special will debut in England on Dec. 25, but it’s still a mystery as to when we will see it stateside. Watch the first clip here.
Revealed this week on Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog, the strategic board game Risk will get the Seven Kingdoms treatment in a special Game of Thrones edition coming this August. Created by USAopoly (which also released a GoT version of Monopoly earlier this year), Risk: Game of Thrones Edition features more than 650 pieces, two custom game boards, armies and player boards for the seven Noble Houses, 28 character cards, and 75 gold dragon coins — all for the suggested retail price of $74.95. Now, you just have to figure out how to play Risk.
After getting fans’ hopes up for a 2016 premiere of Twin Peaks, Showtime will not likely air the reboot until 2017. Series co-creator Mark Frost revealed this tidbit of information while visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in June (though the news only just surfaced this week). “The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time,” Frost said. “We’re coming back with season three of Twin Peaks after a 25-year absence. We’ve finished the scripts, we start production in September, and that will be coming out on Showtime sometime in 2017.” The road to Twin Peaks — Showtime’s follow-up to ABC’s two seasons of the bizarre ’90s cult detective drama — has been a twisty one, with director David Lynch having quit and rejoined the project in April. Season three was originally expected to premiere on Showtime in early 2016.
In January, FX shared that Ronald Reagan would figure as a character in the upcoming second season of its acclaimed series Fargo; then in March, the network announced that Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead) would be playing Reagan as he rolls through Minnesota on the 1979 campaign trail. Now, a new marketing stunt at San Diego Comic Con Thursday shows just how Campbell, who is attending the Con to promote Ash vs. Evil Dead, will look as the Gipper — in the form of a campaign button. According to Entertainment Weekly, Reagan, while on a whistle-stop campaign tour, will hire state cop Lou Solverson (played in season two by Patrick Wilson, and previously by Keith Carradine in season one) to protect him. Season two of Fargo will also star Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Ted Danson and airs this fall on FX.
This week in TV news, David Lynch tweeted his departure from Twin Peaks while Eddie Huang tweeted his disappointment in Fresh Off the Boat. Plus Marvel’s Daredevil promises tons of Easter eggs, Fox renews The Last Man on Earth, and the internet goes crazy for Golden Girls LEGOS!
Your Easter basket may be out of eggs by now, but Marvel’s Daredevil showrunner Steven S. DeKnight promises plenty in tomorrow’s new Netflix series. “There are a ton of Easter eggs in this series,” DeKnight told Collider this week. “Some will be very obvious — a reference to the Battle of New York — and there are Easter eggs that are so obscure that I didn’t know what they were. Often times we need a sign in the background, and we always try to use those opportunities to dig into the Marvel universe.” Fans should not expect, however, that Daredevil will have Easter eggs for upcoming Marvel/Netflix series, AKA Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. “We were the first one and running and gunning to get it shot and didn’t have any scripts for the other ones,” DeKnight said. “No one had been cast for the other ones, so we had to exist in this bit of a bubble.” Marvel’s Daredevil will drop on Netflix on Friday, Apr. 10. Read season one reviews here.
The first season of The Last Man on Earth will not be its last. Fox, touting Last Man‘s ratings as the highest for a new comedy with adults 18-34 and men 18-49 since its March premiere, is giving the show another season of 13 half-hour episodes. Early criticism of the post-apocalyptic series asked how long it could go, given the premise (that in which Will Forte plays the titular last man on earth). But an ever-evolving cast that now includes Kristen Schaal (Bob’s Burgers), January Jones (Mad Men), and Mel Rodriguez (Better Call Saul) has kept things interesting. “We knew we had something special with The Last Man on Earth,” said Fox Broadcasting Company entertainment president David Madden. “It’s one of those rare shows that continues to add depth and dimension to its unique premise, week after week.” Fox will air two new back-to-back episodes of The Last Man on Earth on Sunday, Apr. 12 at 9 p.m. Season one is Certified Fresh at 84 percent; see reviews here.
The Twin Peaks revival that has had fans in a tizzy since October when Showtime announced the news, is now in peril. On Sunday, David Lynch, who created the cult favorite ABC mystery in the ’90s and who was set to direct the reboot, fired off a bunch of tweets on Sunday, announcing his departure from the project. “After 1 year and 4 months of negotiations, I left because not enough money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be done,” Lynch said. Since then, Twin Peaks cast members started an online campaign known as #SaveTwinPeaks with Madchen Amick, who starred as Shelly in the series, posting a video to her Facebook page
on Tuesday. Cast members including Dana Ashbrook, Sherilyn Fenn, and Sheryl Lee, along with co-creator Mark Frost, spoke on the video about what Twin Peaks would be like without David Lynch, using many Lynchian references, including a doughnut without a hole and a pie without cherries. Still no word on whether or not Lynch and Showtime can work out the contracts, but Variety reports that David Nevins of Showtime has reached out to Lynch to discuss the series budget.
After an online campaign for a Golden Girls-themed LEGO set went viral this week, the proposed idea had no problem reaching its necessary 10,000 supporters goal in order to be presented to LEGO executives for review. The playset, called “The Golden Girls Living Room and Kitchen Modular Set with Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, Sophia, and Stan” and pitched by a designer known as LostSleep on the LEGO ideas site, is described as “built like a TV set, with one wall removed and a full view into the space.” The Golden Girls mini figures include Dorothy, Rose, Sophia, Blanche, and Stanley, and LostSleep wrote in the original pitch that he or she also recreated classic moments from the show, including “a visit from Burt Reynolds, Rose shooting Blanche’s Vase, Dorothy Playing ‘Grab That Dough’ and Rose rescuing her Teddy Bear from a mean little girl.” With 5,000 more supporters, LostSleep plans to also pitch a design for the lanai so that the girls have a place to play cards.
Fresh of the Boat author Eddie Huang has made it clear multiple times
that he is not happy with the ABC sitcom based on his memoirs about growing up as a Taiwanese-American kid obsessed with hip-hop music. His most recent rant came in the form of a series of tweets this week, in which he said that he doesn’t watch Fresh Off the Boat because, after the pilot, the series strayed too far from his life. “My relationship to hip-hop & black culture rose from being the victim of domestic violence. It’s not a game. That music meant something to me,” Huang tweeted. He also said that he was happy people of color are “able to see a reflection of themselves in the show,” but that he didn’t recognize it. “My only goal was to represent my Taiwanese-Chinese-American experience and I did that. We also proved viewers want diverse content so make it!” Season one of Fresh Off the Boat, starring Randall Park, Constance Wu, and Hudson Yang, is Certified Fresh at 90 percent.
Warning: season one spoilers within! For people who thought that the two versions of the Cole-Noah showdown in The Affair‘s season finale diverged too widely, you were onto something. After the airing of episode 10 in December, critics and recappers alike were perplexed by how to interpret the scene in which Cole pulls a gun on Noah. Even for a show whose whole hook is to tell a story through two unreliable points of view, the difference in characters and location raised a lot of questions for viewers. Turns out, it wasn’t thought out very well. According to Zap2it.com, The Affair creator Sarah Treem was trying to accommodate actors’ schedules and weather conditions when shooting the gun scene, resulting in a jarring divergence in the narrative. “I personally didn’t think hard enough about the choices we were making and how different the scenes were going to appear on screen,” Treem told a group of reporters at the winter TV press tour. “… So there were some things that happened in those final scenes — they weren’t understood as so different.” Treem went on to say that the writing team has yet to decide if they will address the discrepancy in season two.
As previously reported, IMAX will exhibit two episodes of Game of Thrones on its massive screens this month (plus an exclusive season five trailer), but will push back the date a week to add 50 more theaters to the list. Now, the final episodes of season four — “The Watchers on the Wall” and “The Children” — will hit the giant screen starting Jan. 29. The delay was “prompted by extraordinary consumer response that drove online mentions for IMAX to record heights,” said IMAX, which has made available the full list of theaters here. Tickets go on sale Friday, Jan. 16, and apparently IMAX’s website has already partly crashed due to heavy traffic.
The same day that Comedy Central premiered season two of Broad City, they announced that Ilana and Abbi will return in 2016 for 10 new episodes in season three. “We’ve got some dope-ass news,” the network tweeted. “#BroadCity has been renewed for a third season.” The jokes from Comedy Central continued with a statement that included the following from the network’s Kent Alterman: “It has just been brought to my attention that Broad City is a female-centric show, but we’re going to do more anyway.” For season three, the show’s stars and creators Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer will be back, as will executive producer Amy Poehler. See season two reviews here.
Showtime had a big surprise at their TCA winter press tour presentation this week. Kyle MacLachlan, who played Special Agent Dale Cooper in ABC’s cult hit Twin Peaks in the early ’90s, will return as the same character 25 years later. Showtime’s Twin Peaks, which will air sometime in 2016, is neither a re-boot nor a spin-off — it’s a continuation of the mystery that left so many viewers perplexed all those years ago. (“Where’s Annie?”) Until then, you have plenty of time to catch up, so grab some damn fine coffee (and hot!) and get to it!
Hot off its two Golden Globe wins this week for Transparent, Amazon Studios announced that Woody Allen, 79, is going to make a show for the company’s Prime Instant Video service. For now, the project is known simply as Untitled Woody Allen Project (just like so many of his films in their early stages). Not only is there no title, however — there’s no concept. “I don’t know how I got into this,” Allen, who has never made a TV show before, said in an Amazon press release. “I have no ideas and I’m not sure where to begin.” Greenlighting the series is a departure from Amazon’s current model in which they test a slate of pilots and weigh user reviews into their decision to produce a series. But then, those pilots aren’t made by Woody Allen. So, with no information other than that the Untitled Woody Allen Project series will feature half-hour episodes sometime next year, this new comedy remains a mystery.
As Rotten Tomatoes continues to track critic reviews for the new and returning TV shows this fall, two series have earned a Certified Fresh rating this week: Homeland and The Flash. In season four of Homeland, Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) finds herself stationed in Kabul, with her first mission sending her to Islamabad. New episodes of Homeland air Sundays on Showtime at 9 p.m. Season four is currently Certified Fresh at 83 percent (stream the first two episodes of season four on Rotten Tomatoes for free now). In The Flash, Grant Gustin plays a forensics assistant who develops super-speed after a mishap at S.T.A.R. labs and becomes (of course) the DC superhero. Season one of The Flash is currently Certified Fresh at 96 percent and airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW.
It might be one of the longest TV hiatuses ever, but after 25 years, Twin Peaks is coming back to TV. The bizarre small-town mystery from David Lynch and Mark Frost will have a season three on Showtime in 2016. Lynch and Frost confirmed their involvement in a statement on Monday, saying “The mysterious and special world of Twin Peaks is pulling us back. We’re very excited. May the forest be with you.” Season three will not be a remake, although no casting details have been revealed yet. For many critics, Twin Peaks was a trailblazer for non-traditional series — though after two seasons, low ratings caused ABC to cancel the show. Twenty-five years later, Twin Peaks has established a cult following. To catch up for the new season, consult our Weekly Binge guide for where to see seasons one and two.
Amazon Studios’ dramedy Transparent has only been available for streaming for two weeks, but Amazon is committing to a second season as of Thursday on account of positive user ratings and overwhelmingly positive critcs’ reviews. Certified Fresh at 98 percent, Jill Soloway’s Transparent stars Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development) as Mort Pfefferman, who decides to come out to his adult children as Moira Pfefferman. According to Deadline.com, Amazon said that the comedy has “smashed Prime Instant Video records,” raking as the top-ranking series since its premiere on Sept. 26. All 10 episodes of season one are available to stream now exclusively on Amazon Prime.
ABC set a date for its primetime airing of Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion, the animated film featuring back-stories of some of the rebel characters from the Star Wars universe. Star Wars Rebels has already aired across several Disney platforms including Disney Channel and Disney XD, but the upcoming primetime special will have a bonus scene, featuring a cameo by none other than Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones), which will provide context to the show’s villain, the Inquisitor. Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion airs on ABC on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. The weekly series, which begins its run on Disney XD Oct. 13, has been picked up for a second season.
