Whenever the cast of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald gets together, Jude Law dominates the conversation — even when he’s not in the room. During a recent visit with SiriusXM’s Entertainment Weekly Radio, stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Callum Turner, and Dan Folger sat down to talk about everything Fantastic Beasts in anticipation of the Harry Potter franchise’s latest sequel, which hits theaters Nov. 16. While discussing their characters’ wands, the conversation quickly turned to Law, who plays a young Albus Dumbledore in the film. Read More...
Failure is almost a lost fact of television culture. Streaming services don’t release numbers, except when they brag about metrics you can’t trust. Meanwhile, desperate network honchos cursed with declining ratings swear fealty to post-numeric metrics: Engagement, prestige, buzz, “the fans.” Once there were cancellations. Now you see announcements about a “fourth and final season” or a “wrap-up movie,” and rumors of revivals ever after. Maybe every series really can be some kind of success in this utopia we obviously inhabit, and even the least seen Lifetime scripted drama is just a streaming deal away from popularity. Read More...
One of the great successes thus far in the second season of Fargo has been watching how the writers weave together the many story lines both narratively and thematically and seeing them doing it in a way that is more cohesive and organic than the first season. With every episode, we begin to see more emotional overlap in stories that are connected but haven’t collided at full speed yet. But this is Fargo. Read More...
