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Exclusive: Vietnamese vampire thriller Daydreamers is getting a U.S. release via Dark Star Pictures, which has set a limited theatrical run from May 2nd and a digital launch from June 3rd.

From producer-director Timothy Linh Bui (Three Seasons), the film is set 400 years ago, reimagining vampire lore in Southeast Asia. As European vampires faced extinction, they fled to Vietnam – then known as Annam – bringing with them the dark curse. The film introduces a dark supernatural world set in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Cast includes Vietnamese superstar Chi Pu, the singer and actress with more than 20 million followers who became a local sensation after her performance in the hit Chinese reality series Sisters Who Make Waves. She’s joined by rising actors Trinh Thao, Thuan Nguyen, and Tran Ngoc Vang.

The movie was nominated for six awards at the Vietnamese 2025 Ngoi Sao Xanh (New Face of the Year) Awards and won Best Director,...

I’m old enough to remember when Jacques Rivette films were the domain of dark-web networks and substandard DVD rips, a conspiratorial network worthy of his cinema. It’s still a little strange seeing that April will feature a 10-film, one-short Criterion Channel program that combines of his canonized masterpieces with decidedly lesser-seens––plus Va Savoir, which I really hope is the recently unearthed four-hour cut for which there’s no substitute. Penélope Cruz is also subject of a retrospective in April, which––more than making me pine for a Rivette collab that never was––will include both Abre Los Ojos and Vanilla Sky, some Almodóvar, and another in the Channel’s ongoing let’s-add-a-Woody-Allen-movie campaign, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

For themed series, J. Hoberman has curated a series on the dangers of ’60s and ’70s New York that runs from Michael Roemer’s recently restored The Plot Against Harry and...

Filipino director Sheron Dayoc’s The Gospel Of The Beast won the top Golden Star Award for best Southeast Asian film at the first Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival (Hiff) in Vietnam, which also saw several titles dropped from the final programme due to censorship by local authorities.

The Gospel Of The Beast marks the first feature in seven years from Dayoc and tells the story of a teenage boy who accidentally kills his classmate and runs away with an older man he barely knows, forming a unique father-son relationship. It premiered at Tokyo in October.

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The Far East Film Festival (Feff) in Italy’s Udine has unveiled the full line-up for its 26th edition, which will honour Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou with an honorary award and world premiere restored versions of his Raise The Red Lantern and To Live.

Running April 24 to May 2, the festival will open with a double bill: Chinese box office hit Yolo and South Korean action-comedy Citizen Of A Kind.

Yolo dominated this year’s Lunar New Year releases, grossing $484m in China, and is directed by Jia Ling, who stars as an unemployed woman in her 30s whose life is...

The 40th edition of Sundance Film Festival kicks off today, and notably, queer and Himalaya-themed films take over the Asian/Asian diaspora slate of the mountain festival. In previous years, Sundance has been a frontier for Asian diaspora films. Last year alone saw a full slate of Asian diaspora films, with “Past Lives” (Celine Song), “Shortcomings” (Randall Park), “The Persian Version” (Maryam Keshavarz), and more, among others – there are considerably less Asian American films in the primary competition. This year, in the US Dramatic Competition, only one film, “Didi (弟弟)” by Sean Wang stands out amid the crowd.

Films about the Himalayas have taken center-stage in the World Cinema Competitions, however, with three titles this year: “Girls will be Girls” (Shuchi Talati), “Agent of Happiness” (Arun Bhattarai), and “Nocturnes” (Anirban Dutta). Queer Asian diaspora cinema is front and center this year as well, with “Layla” (Amrou Al-Khadi) and “Desire Lines...

For four decades, Sundance has maintained a reputation as one of the most important film festivals in America for independent filmmakers from around the globe. To commemorate its 40th anniversary in 2024 and the enormity (and reciprocity) of that cultural footprint, festival leadership set a series of restoration screenings to highlight many of the most memorable films programmed throughout its history.

“When you look at the way the independent film movement has evolved and changed over the years, from the maturation of an industry and the opportunities that artists have found, to the way that an audience has been built around the work, you see a festival that has evolved alongside it,” says John Nein, senior programmer and director of strategic initiatives.

This year’s festival takes place Jan. 18-28, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles available online nationwide from Jan. 25-28. The...

Sundance is celebrating its 40th Anniversary next month and the festival has revealed more programming to highlight its cinematic legacy. Topping the list of events are new 4K restorations of “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Go Fish,” “Three Seasons,” and an extended version of “Dig!,” with over 30 minutes of new footage, retitled “Dig!Xx.” Additionally, there will be screenings of “The Babadook,” and “Pariah” as well as restorations of “Mississippi Masala” and “The Times of Harvey Milk.”

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Alumni always have a home to return to in Park City and 2024 will be no exception.

Continue reading ‘Napoleon Dynamite,’ ‘The Babadook,’ ‘Go Fish’ & More Return To Celebrate Sundance’s 40th Anniversary at The Playlist.

The 40th Edition of the Sundance Film Festival announced their 53 Short Films for the 2024 lineup in addition to a 20th anniversary 4K restored version of Napoleon Dynamite, as well as other Sundance fave re-releases.

There’s a 30th anniversary of Go Fish, 25th anniversary of Three Seasons and the 20th anniversary of Dig! (with 30 minutes of additional footage), titled Dig! Xx.

There’s also restorations of The Babadook and Pariah, and restorations of Mississippi Masala and The Times of Harvey Milk.

In addition, there’s several Sundance alum panels including Power of Story: Four Decades of Taking Chances about the legacy of independent storytelling featuring Miguel Arteta, Richard Linklater, Dawn Porter, and Christine Vachon; a screening of seminal short films from Sundance’s history hosted by Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass; and a workshop for emerging creators with Carlos López Estrada and others.

The shorts for 2024 were curated from 12,098 submissions,...

The Sundance Institute announced today the 2024 Sundance Film Festival short film lineup and the 40th Edition Celebration Screenings and Events — programming featuring alumni artists looking back on the festival’s four-decade history. The 40th Edition events will take place the second half of the festival (January 23 – 26) and will include brand-new 4K restorations of Napoleon Dynamite (20th anniversary) Go Fish (30th anniversary), Three Seasons (25th anniversary), and an extended version of Dig! (20th anniversary), featuring over 30 minutes of additional footage, titled Dig! Xx. Also showing will be The Babadook and Pariah, and restorations of Mississippi Masala […]

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The Sundance Institute announced today the 2024 Sundance Film Festival short film lineup and the 40th Edition Celebration Screenings and Events — programming featuring alumni artists looking back on the festival’s four-decade history. The 40th Edition events will take place the second half of the festival (January 23 – 26) and will include brand-new 4K restorations of Napoleon Dynamite (20th anniversary) Go Fish (30th anniversary), Three Seasons (25th anniversary), and an extended version of Dig! (20th anniversary), featuring over 30 minutes of additional footage, titled Dig! Xx. Also showing will be The Babadook and Pariah, and restorations of Mississippi Masala […]

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Anniversary screenings include Park City hits Napoleon Dynamite, Mississippi Masala, The Babadook.

Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the 53 shorts as well as the eight films celebrating the festival’s 40th edition – a list which includes Park City hits Napoleon Dynamite, Mississippi Masala, and The Babadook.

The 40th edition celebration screenings and events are set for the second half of the festival from January 23-26, 2024, with a slate of retrospective programming that will bring alumni artists together for conversations and gatherings.

Sundance Film festival runs January 18-28, 2024, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles...

The 2024 Sundance lineup is coming into fuller view, including celebrations for its 40th edition and its shorts program. The festival will take place January 18 through 28 in-person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles available online nationwide from January 25 through 28 via digital platforms.

The festival will introduce new short films for 2024 across eight curated programs, including a festival retrospective hosted by Mark and Jay Duplass. This year’s programming for new titles features 53 short films selected from 12,098 submissions, the highest number on record. Of these submissions, 5,323 were from the U.S., and 6,799 were international. The selected shorts represent 22 countries.

In addition to the shorts programming, the special 40th edition celebration screenings and events kick off on January 23, bringing Sundance alumni together for conversations and gatherings while revisiting iconic films like new 4K restorations of “Napoleon Dynamite” for its 20th anniversary, the 25th anniversary of “Three Seasons,...

Dungeons and Dragons has been the most popular tabletop role-playing game for the better part of five decades. However, for three years, it was also an animated television series. Co-produced by Marvel Productions, Tsr and Toei Animation, Dungeons & Dragons aired for 27 episodes on CBS between 1983 and 1985. But the Saturday morning cartoon was canceled before its final episode could be completed. The script for that finale, "Requiem," is available online, and has been recorded radio play-style so that fans of the '80s cartoon can have some closure.

The series followed six children who are transported to the realm of D&d via a portal in an amusement park ride. They navigated a series of adventures under the guidance of the Dungeon Master, hoping to returning home. From there, each of the characters was assigned a role. There was Bobby the Barbarian, Presto the Magician, Sheila the Thief and Diana the Acrobat.

“Basurero” marks the directorial debut of Filipino-American filmmaker Eileen Cabiling, who also penned the original short screenplay. Manila/Los Angeles-based Cabiling is a Screenwriting Fellow graduate of the prestigious American Film Institute who has worked as a writer for Disney and as a story development producer. Born to immigrant Filipino parents in the U.S., Cabiling is drawn to the subject matter by a desire to explore the psychology of her ancestral home. Currently, she is set to make her feature-length directorial debut with her original screenplay, “Manhid”, starring and produced by Rosales.”

Eileen Cabiling‘s debut film Basurero was previously selected as part of the best of our Submit Your Film initiative, having been received after a successful debut at the 24th Busan International Film Festival. With the film’s continued success on the festival circuit, and new projects on the horizon, we got a chance to speak with...

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Tuesday’s New Amsterdam. Proceed at your own risk!

The mystery of what happened to Dr. Bloom’s missing pain medication on New Amsterdam has been solved. During Tuesday’s episode, her occasional hookup buddy Dr. Ligon, whom she’d put in charge of doling out her meds, confessed that he took her pill. Although he was remorseful about what he did and distraught at the idea of losing another person in his life, Bloom still put a definitive end to their relationship.

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It’s not all diamonds and rosè for Lisa Vanderpump this season on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but it’s close.

“There was some stuff swirling around me, but I was ducking and diving,” she teases. “I didn't get myself into too much trouble.”

Lisa will seemingly be caught in the eye of the storm of season eight, but she's not the cause of said storm -- she calls the upcoming batch of episodes “tumultuous.” The trailer ends with Lisa driving away in tears, telling a shocked Kyle Richards and Dorit Kemsley that she’d rather be at home with her husband, who actually wants to spend time with her.

“Normally I have my cool, and I kind of lost it that day,” she says. “I think on Beverly Hills, you see this wonderful, glittering existence, and you also see the struggle that the women go through.”

“I was like, ‘Ok, Alexis Carrington, got it...

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for “Outlander” Season 3 Episode 13, “Eye of the Storm.”]

Unrequited, Requited Love

Three seasons in and it’s very likely that Claire and Jamie have as many lives as a cat, given the various arrests, witch hunts, and enemies they have out to do them harm. Yet every single time they seem to escape with barely a scratch, as was the case in this season-ender. Despite being dragged off by the overeager Porpoise captain and arrested at the end of last week’s penultimate episode, Jamie managed to predictably finagle himself out of being hauled back overseas thanks to a quick intervention by Lord John Grey and Fergus. As such, he was able to return to Claire and help her secure Young Ian’s safe return, and the entire Fraser clan made it out alive, albeit with a few more emotional scars than when they first entered that cave.

Since that all went down in the first half of...

Sometimes you know what you’ve got before it’s gone, and that’s certainly the case for these dearly departed shows. IndieWire watched every one, some for years at a time, others for the few short weeks they were with us. Ranging from award-winning series to one-and-dones, 2017 saw a slew of great programs come to a close.

Below, we’ve taken note of their legacies one last time. If you were a fan, here’s one more chance to gush over your favorite show. If you’ve never heard of a few of these, we’ve listed where you can watch them right now. They may be over, but that’s no reason to stay away. If anything, now you can go at your own pace from beginning to end.

Enjoy. Remember. Watch. Now then, onto the list.

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Dora is setting a course for New York City — and this time, she’s going to need a much bigger backpack.

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A live-action, feature-length film based on the Nickelodeon series Dora the Explorer is in the works at Paramount Players, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie will follow teenage Dora as she moves to the Big Apple to live with her cousin Diego, the titular character in the Dora spinoff Go, Diego, Go!

Though Dora was originally introduced as an eight-year-old girl in 2000, she was...

NCIS viewers have yet to learn much about Clayton Reeves, the MI6 Officer who was introduced two season finales ago. But in this Tuesday’s episode (CBS, 8/7c), that is about to change.

Just don’t tell series regular Duane Henry that he has been keeping a “low profile.”

“It’s not so much that, but…. I’m more what you call a ‘secret weapon,'” the affable English actor corrects with a wink and a laugh. “Pull me out when need be, because you don’t want to overwhelm people with my presence.”

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Madam Secretary‘s Elizabeth & Co. couldn’t avoid a governmental shutdown in Sunday’s episode, but that was hardly the toughest blow the hour offered up: By the end of the hour that Sec. McCord’s Chief of Staff Nadine Tolliver was ending her tenure at the State Department.

Just after the episode aired, Bebe Neuwirth announced her departure from the CBS series — which she requested —via a series of tweets.

1/3 So grateful for my time @MadamSecretary – a wonderful show where I love the cast, crew, background artists. #lifelongfriends

— Bebe Neuwirth (@BebeNeuwirth) October 23, 2017

2/3 So grateful to @CBS for accepting my...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: Who is the scariest serial killer on TV? You define “scary.” Old and current shows fair game.

Daniel Fienberg (@TheFienPrint), The Hollywood Reporter

Landry from “Friday Night Lights.”

Damian Holbrook (@damianholbrook), TV Guide Magazine

Ok, so he wasn’t necessarily a serial killer, but “Nip/Tuck’s” The Carver gave me a serious case of the scareds. After his first appearance near the end of Season 2, the porcelain-masked serial-slashing maniac who was all about slicing up hot people (because “beauty is a curse,” of course!) ran amok in Season 3 and the amount of series-regular characters he went after was kind of unprecedented. All of the leads...

Even though Netflix has started to cancel its underperforming series in earnest, that doesn’t mean it lacks for programming. In fact, its slate of offerings is fuller than ever, which makes it difficult for viewers to choose when faced with an embarrassment of bingeable riches.

Netflix’s foreign series, however, rarely get promotion amidst all of the other American shows that have been produced. Although IndieWire has previously provided handy lists of foreign-language series a couple of times, including other imports, that is only a hint of all offerings available.

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By now, you’ve already seen Brazil’s excellent dystopian series “3%” or the unforgettable “Chewing Gum” starring Michaela Coel, but what’s next? In an effort to continue helping viewers discover new or lesser-known foreign TV shows, we’ve compiled another list of those series worth bingeing below:...

To the very end, Kingdom never pulled its punches. It was a drama populated by terribly faulted people, nary a perfect role model among them. And the closest thing that the Kulinas’ inner circle had to one died in the penultimate episode, no casualty of a brutal cage fight but an utterly random shooting.

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What’s more, Kingdom had an incredible sense of place and culture, breaking away from TV’s myriad crime, medical and superhero shows to take us to a tactile, seldom-explored Venice Beach, liberally shooting on location to put on display no glittery,...

Marvel is not only dominating the film-sphere this year, but it’s also making a habit of taking over Netflix for at least a weekend for each of their TV shows. The grand tradition started back in 2015 with Daredevil, and continued on with the likes of Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. This year is especially notable because it won’t feature just two seasons of content — as Marvel and Netflix have done in the past — but Three seasons.

Of course, we’ve already seen the lukewarm Iron Fist hit the small screen, but we still have two heavy-hitters on the way. The first is The Defenders, a team-up limited series that will feature the previously-mentioned supers unite to take on a much bigger foe in New York City. Perhaps the more interesting series, however, will come in the form of The Punisher. Jon Bernthal’s take on the...

Gabriel Bergmoser Jun 20, 2017

Major spoilers in our review of Better Call Saul's season 3 finale...

This review contains spoilers.

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3.10 Lantern

The big, obvious question at the heart of Better Call Saul, one baked into its premise and indeed, its title, is what made morally flexible but kind hearted Jimmy McGill transform into the ruthless, unscrupulous Saul Goodman. Of course, asking this question demands a certain familiarity with the series that preceded this one, but considering the show is named after an alter ego who has only just appeared in Better Call Saul’s primary timeline but is prominent throughout Breaking Bad it’s safe to say that familiarity can be assumed. And it’s that familiarity that has meant, from day one, there has been a Sword of Damocles hanging over Chuck McGill. From the very first episode it was speculated that Chuck would die and that his death would be part of what pushed Jimmy to become Saul. Three seasons in that very much seems to be the case, although we’ll have to wait another year to know for sure.

This season has been replete with big steps from Jimmy towards who he will inevitably become, and last week’s episode seemed like a new low as Jimmy emotionally manipulated an old woman to make himself rich. What’s curious is that so much of tonight’s episode seems to be a return from that assumed point of no return, as Jimmy sets to work making amends. Kim’s accident, an accident he feels responsible for, has thrown things into stark perspective and so Jimmy comes running back from the brink, determined to recognise his mistakes and make things better. He even tries to make peace with Chuck, only for another devastating scene of brotherly animosity to ensue. Chuck insists that Jimmy, even if his heart is in the right place, will never change, will only continue to keep hurting people. He leaves Jimmy with the horrible sentiment ‘you just don’t matter that much to me’ but rather than take this as a trigger for more moral decay or acts of spiteful revenge, Jimmy sets about trying to prove Chuck wrong. And succeeds; Kim tells him to play to his strengths and so he does, destroying his reputation in the eyes of his elderly former clients in order to right the wrong he committed last week.

Honestly, it would feel like a huge act of back peddling on the part of the writers if it wasn’t for the final scene of the episode.

What has always been fascinating about the relationship between the McGill brothers is how neither is necessarily wrong about the other. At the risk of being slightly reductive, Chuck does the right thing for the wrong reasons while Jimmy is the opposite, however, tragically, Chuck is incorrect about Jimmy in one crucial way. He can and will change; it just won’t be for the better. And furthermore, Chuck may well have given Jimmy his biggest push yet.

But to suggest that Chuck’s suicide (more on this shortly) makes Jimmy become Saul is tantamount to suggesting that Jimmy’s actions led to Chuck’s death or that he was responsible for Kim’s accident. There is a grain of truth in the thought, but as Kim says tonight ‘I’m an adult and I made a choice’. Ultimately, we can’t blame others for the choices we make. People influence us, sure, but the decision to act always rests with us. It’s just hard to imagine Jimmy seeing things that way when he learns what happened to his brother.

Which is… what, exactly? Frustratingly the episode leaves Chuck’s fate up in the air, but from a storytelling perspective it’s hard to see this as anything other than the death of the character. If Chuck lives Jimmy will feel bad, but the chance to make amends remains. That needs to be taken away for him to sink lower again, especially after tonight’s concentrated effort to redeem himself. Furthermore, the episode just feels like a swansong for the character. We get a glimpse of Chuck reading to Jimmy as a kid, by the light of a gas lamp that takes on grim significance on a second viewing, before seeing Chuck confidently working the room at Hhm, his victory assured, prior to the rug being pulled out from under him out from under him and his complete unravelling.

Chuck, ultimately, needed to win. He was never a character who could accept defeat and his apparent decision to move on from trying to destroy Jimmy after his courtroom humiliation was an enormous moment for the character. But with that choice came his determination to focus on his career and improve his health, neither of which went the way he planned. His recovery, while present, was slow, and his obsession with defeating his brother made him unreliable and unstable in the eyes of his colleagues. Last week made it clear that Chuck was bluffing when he threatened Hhm; more a sign of his desperation than anything else, and this week Howard called that bluff by paying Chuck millions out of his own pocket in order to save the company from both a volatile element and financial ruin.

For Chuck, this was a crushing blow. Not only was he unable to manoeuvre his way out of it, but the cheque was filled out and the staff gathered to farewell him before he even made his case in that boardroom. His humiliation and defeat was complete. And while Lantern did a lot to make us feel for Chuck, it is unquestionable that his own actions brought him to this moment.

In the centrepiece of the episode Chuck’s desperate façade finally crumbles as, despite shutting off all the electricity in the house, the meter just keeps going. As increasingly ominous music grows Chuck literally tears his house apart trying to remove the electricity sources that are tormenting him; a torment he now knows is not real. Finally, sweaty, desperate and worn out he seems to find the wires he is looking for only for the meter to keep going. Cue a collision of meter and baseball bat. It’s Chuck as we’ve never seen him before; in his worst moments there was always some modicum of control, a vestige of a plan he was still enacting. But all that is gone. Chuck has nothing left except the illness that provided his brother with the ammunition to destroy him, and he burned his last bridge when Jimmy came to make amends. Chuck needed control and that control was wrested away from him in increments throughout this season as every last inch of his power was eroded. Tearing his house apart in a futile attempt to make things the way he needs them to be is basically Chuck’s entire story in microcosm and its outcome, like so much on this show, is both tragic and inevitable.

Other things did happen in Lantern, although Chuck’s story does tend to dominate the thoughts as the credits roll. It’s almost easy to forget that we finally saw the (presumed) crippling of Hector Salamanca, as Nacho’s seemingly failed scheme in fact worked, in the process putting him squarely in the sights of someone who has his own reasons for wanting Hector dead. Nacho either just made an enemy or an ally, although considering he’s nowhere to be seen when Breaking Bad begins it’s hard to imagine either state of affairs will bode well for him. And while we will doubtless see Hector again, albeit in his more iconic wheelchair bound state, it will be a shame to say goodbye to this iteration of the character. Hector has been a formidable, detestable villain and it was a welcome surprise that he managed to be just as effective while active as when mute and in a wheelchair.

Meanwhile things have not fallen apart for Kim yet; neither client seems to hold her crash against her and, like Jimmy, what she went through has put things in perspective. It’s actually something of a relief to see her get the chance to relax, even if it’s a little jarring when it’s implied that she knew about Jimmy’s scheme with Mrs Landry. It doesn’t feel like the show has yet brought Kim to a place where she could be okay with what Jimmy did last week, unless I missed something and Jimmy only told her part of the truth. Whatever the case, it was a little confusing and a misstep for what has otherwise been a phenomenal season. I had expected Kim and Jimmy to break up by the end of this run, but I’m glad that wasn’t how it panned out. Kim, for now, is in one piece and probably thinking more clearly than she has in a while. Despite losing the office, we left Kim and Jimmy in a surprisingly good place at the end of this season, in both their personal situations and their relationship.

But, of course, that final scene changed the entire preceding episode and in light of that it’s hard to see Jimmy’s feint towards redemption as anything other than the last gasp of a dying conscience. A whole new set of circumstances is about to land on him, along with guilt that will almost certainly destroy the still resilient soul of Jimmy McGill.

While never quite hitting the tremendous heights of season two, this year has been another home run for Better Call Saul, advancing the plot in leaps and bounds, deepening characters, drawing the mythology closer to that of Breaking Bad and continuing to boast writing, directing and acting in the top tier of what television is offering right now. For my money we’re well past the point where Better Call Saul has anything to prove when it comes to comparisons to its predecessor, and yet it keeps proving its quality and then some. At the time of writing season four is yet to be confirmed, but it’s difficult to imagine a world where this is the end of the story. There’s just still so much left to explore, develop, and conclude.

Assuming the next chapter arrives in a year, a year is once again seeming like a very long wait. Thanks as always for reading along; getting to examine and analyse this phenomenal show is something it’s hard not to feel very lucky about.

See you next year. Hopefully.

Read Gabriel's review of the previous episode, Fall, here.

Omari Hardwick returns next month in Starz’s Power. He discusses how this was the show for him and what it’s like to work with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. You started off in athletics.

Think of your standard YouTube character tribute videos. Three seasons of a show like “Silicon Valley” usually get you some classic one-liners, memorable character beats and a few outtakes for good measure, all wrapped up in a few minutes.

This one for Jared, Zach Woods’ character on HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” runs the length of an entire episode of the show.

Jared has always been at the center of the “Silicon Valley” story (there he is on the Season 1 poster, in full Steve Jobs pose, literally at the side of Pied Piper co-founder Richard Hendricks), but Woods has grown to be the show’s heart too. In a world of backstabbing and self-interest, Jared has remained the show’s sole, true altruist.

“I sometimes think of it as an archetypical family,” Woods said. “Erlich is the rambunctious father, Kumail is the baby boy, Gilfoyle is the cat and Richard is like the favorite son.

It’s been exactly one week since Girl Meets World aired its (makeshift) series finale, and fans of the former Disney Channel series remain glued to social media, hoping for an 11th hour save from another network or streaming service.

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The odds aren’t looking terrific at the moment — Netflix has confirmed it has no intentions of saving it, while a Hulu pick-up also seems unlikely — but much like the show itself, there’s always hope. Below, lifelong...

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DC’s Rebirth event is heading towards its second year, and one of the most exciting prospects is Steve Orlando’s Justice League of America. In the buildup to this hotly-anticipated comic, the company has been releasing a stream of Rebirth one-shots, featuring different members of Orlando’s unusual team. This time round, it’s Killer Frost’s turn!

The issue spins out of the Justice League vs. Suicide Squad event, which sees Killer Frost save the Justice League – and the world – from Max Lord. In doing so, she earns the Justice League’s admiration, and Batman vouches for her to join his newest iteration of the League. But it’s not going to be an easy journey for Killer Frost; Amanda Waller doesn’t take kindly to losing one of her pawns, and Waller launches a ruthless game to break Caitlin Snow down.

Of course,...

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Three seasons in and it’s still hard to explain the soaring achievements that Fxx’s Man Seeking Woman accomplishes in each episode (sometimes multiple times an episode; sometimes multiple times in one joke). The show’s silly shtick is very much intact in the just-launched third season, but creator Simon Rich takes an interesting detour this time around into more linear storytelling.

No longer is each episode completely disconnected from the previous, as the show takes us on the continued journey of the giddy new romance between dictionary definition of millennial slacker Josh (Jay Baruchel) and the show’s newest addition, Lucy (Katie Findlay). Man Seeking Woman is still purely and endearingly Man Seeking Woman everywhere else, thank the TV gods. With new gags, running jokes and more surreal sequences than you can shake a bottle of ranch dressing at, all of...

Disney’s spinoff from their 90s and 00s show Boy Meets World, Girl Meets World is ending after three seasons. Girl Meets World Ending After Three Seasons The official announcement came just hours before the show received a PGA Awards nomination for Outstanding Children’s Program. Boy Meets World was a much loved kids and teens show for millennials, but […]

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Three seasons in, you'd think Caroline Stanbury's friends on Ladies of London would know by now that the woman is no pushover. Apparently, that's not the case. In this sneak peek of tonight's new episode, exclusive to E! News, another weekend getaway hosted by Julie Montagu at the infamous Mapperton Estate goes south when the ladies decide dinner is the perfect time to confront queen bee Caroline over her refusal to tag along on the following day's planned boating excursion. After getting things started, Julie quickly turns to Caroline Fleming for assistance in getting her point across. What point exactly, you ask? "When you are given a choice, you are given a choice," Fleming explains....

Three seasons into its run and with a host of prestigious awards already to its name, Peaky Blinders has fast carved out an audience of its own since its bow in 2013, thanks in large part to a cracking cast and that wonderful visual style. Imagine our excitement, then, now that series creator and showrunner Steven Knight is quietly packaging a new TV series for FX by the name of Taboo.

Similar to Blinders, Knight’s latest venture is a period drama by nature, this time rolling back the years to the 19th century to focus on one James Keziah Delaney – played here by a feral Tom Hardy, who has worked with Knight before thanks to Peaky Blinders and Locke. Pitched as an eight-part miniseries, Kristoffer Nyholm (The Killing, The Enfield Haunting) is on board to direct the first half of Taboo, which will mine inspiration from a script penned by...

Last night, what was meant to be Tyrant‘s season three finale is now its series finale. After three seasons, FX has cancelled creator Gideon Raff‘s Middle East-set drama. The show could find itself a new home, but as of this moment, after a total of 32 episodes, Tyrant is done. Below, learn more about the Tyrant cancellation. Set in the […]

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Three seasons in for Empire and Cookie Lyon is as fresh as ever for Taraji P. Henson. "I just look at her like I look at myself or any human. We're always constantly learning, growing and evolving…You've got to remember, she was locked up for 17 years. She's got a lot of catching up to do," she told members of the press at the 2016 Television Critics Association summer press tour. Season three will find Cookie trying to break away from Lucious (Terrence Howard) for good. "Cookie's going to try in season 3 to leave Lucious, she's going to try and move on," executive producer Ilene Chaiken said. "Whether or not she can…" "Whether or not he...

If the season premiere played out like a suspense film, The Fosters Season 4 Episode 2 played out like a horror flick, with eerie music, a shower scene, sex, a ghost, and more than enough jump scares. 

Alas, Nick's terrorizing reign has come to an end. Well, for now. 

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Nick didn't initially come across as in interesting character. He was an arrogant, rich kid with "Daddy issues" and a bad boy edge to appeal to both the twins. There was nothing original or engaging about his presence. Until this arc. 

On one hand, his arc felt rushed. We were suddenly faced with a young man who was clearly mentally-ill and troubled, and it was a stark contrast from who we were introduced to in the not so distant  past. 

On the other hand, Louis Hunter (Nick) does such an exceptional job at playing this creepy stalker turned suicidal abuse victim,...

Viewers of “Orange Is the New Black” may not be in jail themselves, but a lot of them seem to have locked themselves inside for the weekend to binge watch the fourth season of the Netflix prison drama.

Read More: Why Netflix Renewed ‘Orange is the New Black’ for Three Seasons

According to The Wrap, Symphony Advanced Media tallied the show’s weekend viewers at 7.179 million adults. While this number blows almost every other recent streaming show out of the water, it can’t compete with Netflix’s “Fuller House,” which scored 8.793 million viewers in its first three days.

While Netflix famously keeps their streaming numbers strictly under wraps, Symphony’s numbers report that “Orange Is The New Black” handily beat every other Netflix show besides the Tanner family reboot, including Marvel’s popular “Daredevil” and “Jessica Jones” and Season 4 of “House of Cards.”

According to IndieWire’s Liz Shannon Miller,...

Showtime‘s Penny Dreadful has been sitting at the top of my “Man, I really should get around to catching up on that soon” list for longer than I’d like to admit. I watched the first season and found it to be a dark and delightful riff on classic horror icons, a gothic but humane reinterpretation of the Universal […]

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A lot of people have been talking about the big battle on “Game Of Thrones” last night, but there was also some TV news that, for some, might be much bigger than that. Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful” is often overshadowed by the happenings in Westeros (and, more recently, freshman show “Preacher”), but to its fans it’s […]

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Year by year, things keep getting worse and worse for the Litchfield Federal Penitentiary inmates, who have become the one fucked-up TV family we always look forward to visiting. It’s as much a testament to Netflix and creator Jenji Kohan, for showcasing the show’s diverse cast of incredible actors, as it is the power of television, which lets our relationships with characters, as technically one-sided as they might be, bloom and grow.

Read More: Why Netflix Renewed ‘Orange is the New Black’ for Three Seasons

Like any relationship allowed to blossom, the potential for heartbreak is real. This year, that’s more true than ever.

Season 4 begins moments after the transcendent beauty of the Season 3 finale, picking up with the creation of bunk beds in the dorms. “Orange” thus immediately takes on the issue of prison overcrowding by immediately doubling the occupancy of the prison without additionally addressing...

BBC America has announced that their critically-acclaimed sci-fi series, Orphan Black, will return for its fourth season on Thursday, April 14th. There are 10 episodes.

Here are the details and a preview:

New Night. New Time. More Clones!

BBC America'S Original Hit Drama Orphan Black Returns Thursday, April 14Th At 10/9c

Get Caught Up on All Three Seasons at Bbcamerica.Com

"Where are you going? Back to the beginning of all this sh*#t." - Sarah Manning

BBC America released today the highly-anticipated premiere date of the Peabody Award-winning clone drama, Orphan Black. On Thursday, April 14th at 10/9c, season four of the series bursts back onto the scene with more action, suspense, and even more of Emmy(R)-nominated actress, Tatiana Maslany, in her ground-breaking roles.

The new season sees Sarah (Maslany) returning...

Boasting a regular viewership of more than 100 million viewers, the Super Bowl is an ideal launching platform for primetime TV. So who gets to capitalize on the coveted post-game slot can get a bit contentious. CBS saw fit to give their spot to a first-timer — Stephen Colbert, in his first season as the helmer of "The Late Show" — in a first for the late night genre. Never before had a late night series benefitted from such a lead-in directly, as other networks chose to first show a scripted series after the game and then follow that up with some late night entertainment. Read More: Why Netflix Renewed 'Orange is the New Black' for Three Seasons So how did Colbert do? It depends on who you ask. "The Late Show" pulled in a solid 21.1 million viewers — which is just over what "Elementary" drew for CBS in its post-Super Bowl...

Our stay at Litchfield just got a lot longer. The streaming service announced today that its flagship series Orange Is the New Black has been renewed for three more seasons, ahead of its season 4 premiere on June 17. “You’ve got time,” indeed. Netflix hasn’t announced release dates for seasons five, six, and seven, but assuming Orange Is the […]

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20 seasons of The Bachelor. 11 seasons of The Bachelorette. Three seasons of Bachelor Pad. Two seasons of Bachelor in Paradise. Can you guess how many (current) marriages have come out of the total 35 seasons of TV The Bachelor franchise has gifted viewers with over the years? (We included pairings who met through their connection to the show, not necessarily a Bachelor or Bachelorette and their season's winner, by the way.) Eight...and  two of them hail from Bachelor in Paradise, the latest spinoff series which finds cast-offs from the mothershows heading to Mexico to find love. Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert, who met on Bip, got married on Sunday, Jan. 24 just four months after Tanner proposed in the season...

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Starz may have given up on Da Vinci's Demons, but there's life in the old dog yet, as season three's opening salvo shows...

This review contains spoilers.

3.1 Semper Infidelis & 1.2 Abbadon

Da Vinci's Demons hasn't been what Starz hoped it would be. They brought on David Goyer, threw a lot of money at the screen, and they haven't found that must-watch show they were looking for. Three seasons in, Starz and Goyer have decided to part ways and end the show in unremarkable fashion. Da Vinci's Demons was intended to be a replacement for Spartacus, the hyper-violent, hyper-sexualized, and hyper-popular series that reignited the star of Lucy Lawless and sucked in viewers with a blend of swordplay, nudity, and soap-opera cheese capable of landing with viewers of all stripes.

Da Vinci's Demons has struggled on all fronts. After a good debut season and a solid second, the third...

The current third season of Nickelodeon sitcom Instant Mom will be its last. The network has informed the cast and the crew of the family comedy starring Tia Mowry-Hardrict that the show won’t be renewed for a fourth season. Three seasons has been the longest a Nick at Nite original series has run, matched by the block’s first original comedy, See Dad Run, though Instant Mom produced more episodes, 65, to See Dad Run‘s 50. With Instant Mom going away and no originals in…...

Douchebag Billionaire play-boy, pre-island Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) cheated on his current girlfriend, Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy), with her younger sister, Sara Lance (Caity Lotz).  Three seasons have seen Oliver bounce between Laurel and Sara (and many other supporting characters) to apparently settle down with Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards).  However, season 4 will look to address the season one love-triangle to put it to rest once and for all, as Sara moves to DC's Legends of Tomorrow.   Arrow executive producer Wendy Mericl told TV Guide, "[Laurel's] journey this year is tied a lot to her sister.  We're excited because the series started with the whole triangle of Oliver and Sara and Laurel.  And with Sara coming back and then moving on to go on her own journey, we have the potential to change the dynamic there in a really positive way for Laurel. [We] kind of put the past to rest." In...

This week includes several brand new shows to get excited about while one cult series says goodbye.

From the premiere of Fear the Walking Dead to the finale of Hannibal, these are Digital Spy's top TV picks over the next seven days.

Monday - Fear the Walking Dead, AMC UK on BT at 9pm

The long-awaited spinoff to The Walking Dead arrives in the UK a week after the Us premiere, and the reviews have been pretty positive.

Taking place during the beginnings of the zombie outbreak, the series focuses on a new bunch of characters in Los Angeles, including a married couple played by Kim Dickens and Cliff Curtis. Expect plenty of screams.

Tuesday - Rectify, AMC UK on BT at 9pm

Hot on the heels of Fear the Walking Dead is another Us export in the form of this SundanceTV drama. Three seasons have aired in the Us...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including I Am Cait, True Detective, Humans and Mistresses!

1 | Are we 100-percent certain that Hannibal‘s Dr. Chilton is alive — and not just a figment of multiple imaginations?

2 | Did you get serious Alias vibes from True Detective‘s Ani in her party getup? And who shares TVLine reader Mike’s theory, that the kids who survived the jewel heist way back when somehow became Mayor Chessani’s son and daughter?

RelatedTrue Detective Backlash: HBO...