The last thing you want in a TV show portraying slavery is phony sensitivity. Don't let that all-encompassing historical monstrosity off the hook with a chilly, inoffensive lecture. So credit director Barry Jenkins for turning up The Underground Railroad's heat. The 10-part miniseries (streaming May 14 on Amazon Prime Video) adapts Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel with every tool in the cinematic toolkit. In a terrifying 19th century located halfway between myth and your newsfeed, the whip cracks sound like gunshots. Read More...
In November 2005 Justin Timberlake entered Timbaland’s Virginia Beach studio to begin work on his second solo album, FutureSex/LoveSounds. It was the follow-up to 2002’s Justified, the multimillion-selling smash that proved the former *NSYNC member had solo-artist swagger like that other onetime boy-bander Michael Jackson. If Justified was Timberlake’s Off the Wall, it was FutureSex/LoveSounds that would be his Thriller. Released on Sept. 12, 2006, the record sold 9.2 million copies worldwide and became Timberlake’s first No. Read More...
Since 1979, Degrassi has been “going there,” and the cast of Next Class promises the series will continue to challenge boundaries when it begins streaming on Netflix Friday. “We’re pushing the envelope and being a little more raw and genuine with the way we approach our storylines,” Ana Golja, who plays “mean girl” Zoë, tells EW. Sara Waisglass, the actress behind cheery sophomore Frankie, remembers when she felt the shift from leaving TeenNick (Degrassi ended its 14-year run on the network in July 2015). Read More...
