A Witness’s Strange Day at the Trump Grand Jury in Georgia

[ad_1] “It’s a little weird,” George Chidi told me on Monday, hours before he headed into the Fulton County Courthouse—a day earlier than he’d been expecting—to offer witness testimony to a grand jury weighing election-interference charges against Donald Trump. “I’m uncomfortable, but I’m doing it.” Chidi is a journalist who has written over the years… Continue reading A Witness’s Strange Day at the Trump Grand Jury in Georgia

‘Strange New Worlds’ Co-Showrunner on Season 2 Cliffhanger

[ad_1] Photo: Michael Gibson/Paramount+/Michael Gibson/Paramount+ Spoilers ahead for the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season-two finale “Hegemony.” The first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, according to co-showrunner and executive producer Henry Alonso Myers, was a process of “getting the thing moving and making sure it works.” It’s not necessarily the easiest series to… Continue reading ‘Strange New Worlds’ Co-Showrunner on Season 2 Cliffhanger

Strange New Worlds’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 10

[ad_1] Photo: Michael Gibson/Paramount+/Michael Gibson/Paramount+ Here the other shoe drops. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been setting up a full-on direct conflict with the Gorn since first alluding to the brutal lizard people in the first season, then suggested that conflict was imminent in “The Broken Circle,” the second-season premiere. Since then: nothing, or at least… Continue reading Strange New Worlds’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 10

‘Strange Planet’ review: A sweet, cheerful look at humanity through aliens

[ad_1] “Strange Planet,” the popular web comic by Nathan W. Pyle, has been expanded, by Pyle and Dan Harmon, into a television series premiering Wednesday on Apple TV+. Bright, sweet and cheerful, if unusually concerned with mortality, it is, as satire, highly affectionate — keen to human frailty but understanding, hopeful, more engaged with our… Continue reading ‘Strange Planet’ review: A sweet, cheerful look at humanity through aliens

Strange Way of Life Trailer Stars Pedro Pascal, Ethan Hawke

[ad_1] The girlies are going to be sat for this one. Nearly 20 years after Pedro Almodóvar refused to direct Brokeback Mountain because he knew Hollywood wouldn’t let him make the movie explicit enough, we’re finally getting a gay western from the Spanish auteur and queer-cinema champion. Strange Way of Life has everything: sex symbol… Continue reading Strange Way of Life Trailer Stars Pedro Pascal, Ethan Hawke

Strange New Worlds’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 9

[ad_1] Photo: Paramount+/Paramount+ Hi, I’m Sophie, your guest recapper. Keith will be back to cover the season finale next week, and I’ve promised not to trash the place while he’s away. As they say, both on Broadway and in outer space, on with the show! The writers of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds did not have to… Continue reading Strange New Worlds’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 9