Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The band on the Titanic played as the ship went down. And Dua Lipa will have us dancing until the world ends. Dance-pop and the apocalypse are frequent bedfellows. It’s as if they’re horny for each other. Even the phrase “dance until the world ends” is cribbed from a Britney Spears dystopia banger. Maybe it’s because the idea of the dance floor […]
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This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. Was There Even Life Before Joe Exotic? Hey, all you cool cats and kittens. If you, too, have spent every waking moment this past week thinking about whether Carole Baskin fed […]
Ed Asner would very much like Betty White to live. Also Carl Reiner, William Shatner, Mel Brooks, and Cloris Leachman. Oh, and himself. On Tuesday afternoon, the Emmy-winning TV legend (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant) directed a tweet at Donald Trump in response to the president’s comments which insinuated that he plans to reopen the country in weeks. Doing so would defy the pleas […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. All the Crap I Keep Watching on TV On Sunday night, I gazed out my window and saw what surely must have been a mirage, some sort of apparition born out […]
Ryan Murphy, Shonda Rhimes, and Greg Berlanti are among the Hollywood heavyweights who have donated major sums to a relief fund for the assistants and support staff who are out of jobs and out of paychecks in the wake of the industry’s coronavirus shutdown. As of Wednesday afternoon, nearly $500,000 had been raised for the Relief Fund for Hollywood Support Staff. Hollywood, like many industries across […]
It’s a helluva time to be watching a worst-case scenario TV series about the bleak state of our country. Then again, The Plot Against America is incredible, if harrowing—and it’s not like many of us have the option of much else to do besides stay in our self-quarantines and watch it. The HBO limited series from David Simon and Ed Burns (The Wire), premiering Monday night, […]
The dictionary definition of quack is “an ignorant, misinformed, or dishonest practitioner of medicine.” “In the eyes of conventional, strict science, I could be considered a quack,” veterinarian Dr. Martin Goldstein readily admits. That’s entirely the point. Dr. Marty, as he’s become known to his legions of fawning, loyal patients—well, technically to their owners—was one of the first holistic veterinarians to come out publicly in the […]
I, like, know that I watched the second season of Westworld. I’m positive I did. Every episode, in fact. Just in case, I double-checked. Yep, wrote thousands and thousands of words about it. Confirmed. Westworld season two? Watched it. Yessiree. So why don’t I remember a damned thing that happened? Part of the reason is circumstance. The season two finale aired all the way back in […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. ‘Better Things’ Is the Loveliest Show on TV Sam Fox likes it when it rains in Los Angeles. It takes not even 10 seconds for you to pivot from assuming she’s […]
“Can I call you Hillary?” Hillary Clinton’s appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen was never going to be the typical interview with the former secretary of state and presidential candidate, what with the talk show’s penchant for getting guests liquored up and loose enough to swan dive into rumor pools they ordinarily would never even dip a toe into. It was never […]
There’s been a question to grapple with in recent years, as certain TV shows spike a rare, rabid mass popularity: Is the series that everyone is obsessed with actually good, or is it just on Netflix? Love Is Blind, the deranged reality TV dating series that launched at the end of February and has since inspired a flurry of binges, memes, group texts, and social media […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. This week: Move over, Chris Evans. Fawning over The Good Place finale. Important J. Lo updates. The surprising Jessica Simpson moment. A dog! Kristen Bell Is So Good in The Good […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. Congratulations to the Best Chris, Chris Messina The committee responsible for the Iowa Caucus has finally delivered its results, and they are surprising. Coming out of nowhere, it is Chris Messina […]
There is a pivotal moment in the Apple TV+ anthology series Little America that so many of us can relate to—a character is weeping to a Kelly Clarkson song. The circumstances in this case are incredibly specific. A gay man from Syria named Rafiq (Haaz Sleiman) is fleeing violent persecution from his family, seeking asylum in the United States at the encouragement of a Kelly Clarkson-loving […]