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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Final Season Is a Very Mixed Bag

It’s a running gag in the 12th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm that people keep mentioning that Larry David didn’t work on the last two seasons of Seinfeld, but then returned for the finale. Every time, Larry greets the observation with stony silence, because he knows the audience hated that finale, and assumes he is being given another thinly-veiled complaint about it. David already gave himself a mulligan on that back in 2009, when Curb Season Seven revolved around the fictionalized Larry producing a Seinfeld…

‘True Detective: Night Country’ Episode 3: The Monster Awakens

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of True Detective: Night Country, which is now streaming on Max. The third chapter of Night Country begins and ends with women screaming. The late Annie K is there for both scenes — the first a flashback, the second a shaky cell phone video. But in the flashback, Annie and her friends are helping women through labor at a birthing center, and the screams are part of the natural, often happy, circle of life. And in the selfie video, Annie’s screams appear to be…

Jon Stewart’s Long Strange Trip Back to ‘The Daily Show’

After an exhaustive yearlong search to find the show’s next host, Jon Stewart is returning to The Daily Show on a part-time basis, just in time for the 2024 election season. But he won’t be doing it alone. He’ll host Monday night’s broadcast beginning Feb. 12, with a roster of rotating correspondents from Tuesday to Thursday. For some, his return speaks to the dire state of late-night TV. Stewart left the chair of the satirical news program in 2015, and ever since his absence, the show has taken a dive. The Daily…

Watch: Mahindra Thar’s Makeover With ‘Game Of Thrones’ Theme Is One-Of-A-Kind

Mahindra Thar's Makeover With 'Game Of Thrones' Theme Is One-Of-A-Kind. (Photo: Cartoq)The video featured the vehicle with a wrap that proudly displayed the phrase 'Winter is coming' from the acclaimed television series.A Game of Thrones enthusiast has given a Mahindra Thar lifestyle off-roader a unique makeover, showcasing a distinct wrap featuring the iconic show line- ‘Winter is coming’.Shared online through a short video, the customised vehicle has garnered attention from the automotive community, standing out as a…

‘True Detective: Night Country’ Episode 2: Supernatural Murders?

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of True Detective: Night Country, now available on HBO and Max. When the first True Detective season concluded 11 years ago, a lot of the finale discourse revolved around the lack of any supernatural elements after the previous episodes had been laced with references to Robert W. Chambers’ horror stories about the King in Yellow. That the killer was an ordinary, if evil, human being disappointed some viewers who had spent weeks theorizing, while True Detective…

George Carlin AI comedy special is ‘ghoulish’ and ‘creepy,’ his daughter says

As It Happens6:44AI used to create comedy special of dead comedian George CarlinA new comedy special starts with the quote, "I'm sorry it took me so long to come out with new material, but I do have a pretty good excuse. I was dead."The voice sounds like comedian George Carlin, but that would be impossible, as Carlin died in 2008. The voice in the special is actually generated by an artificial intelligence (AI). "This is not my father. It's so ghoulish. It's so creepy," Carlin's daughter, Kelly Carlin-McCall, told As It…

Pedro Pascal Still Doesn’t Know How Much Last of Us Season 2 Will Change From the Game

Even before The Last of Us became one of HBO’s biggest hits in recent memory, fans of the source material all wondered the same thing: would a potential second season follow the plot of the game? It seems like an obvious question with an obvious answer... unless you know the story’s spoiler-y, inciting event. Once you do, things get much less clear—and the show’s star claims it’s still unclear.Thanks, Last of Us. Thanks a Lot. | The Last of Us Episode 7 ReviewPedro Pascal, who plays Joel on The Last of Us, is currently at…

Thankfully, Game of Thrones’ Creators Are in No Hurry to Return to Game of Thrones

David Benioff and Dan Weiss are currently promoting their upcoming sci-fi series for Netflix, 3 Body Problem, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped asking them about Game of Thrones. It’s been five years since it ended, and though they say they miss working on the HBO hit, they’re also in no hurry to return—ever.Spoilers of the Week Feb 14-18In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Benioff and Weiss were asked if they’d ever return to the world of Game of Thrones, perhaps via that Jon Snow spin-off, one of…

Oral history of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ HBO: 9 iconic moments

Interviewing Larry David at his Santa Monica production offices comes with photographic documentation of the entrance and a note to pull in and park as straight as possible in order to be courteous to the building’s other residents.But when I arrived on a recent Wednesday morning, someone had taken up two spots.“Oh, that’s Larry,” laughs Laura Streicher, co-executive producer of creator and star David’s famously cringe-inducing chronicle of social transgression, “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” “He’s a pig parker.”The…

Everything We Know About ‘The White Lotus’ Season Three

If you watched the Season Two finale of The White Lotus, you know what happened to Jennifer Coolidge’s frazzled, impossibly wealthy Tanya. As she accepted her second Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Monday, she gave audiences a reminder of her laugh-out-loud death scene: “He says I’m definitely dead, so I’m going along with it.” After thanking creator Mike White, she gave a shout-out to “all the evil gays” before getting the boot by Anthony Anderson’s mother. (At the last Emmys, the…