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After years of maintaining its title as the world’s leading streaming service, Netflix will face some new, formidable competition with the arrival of Apple TV Plus and Disney+ later this year. The company’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, seems unfazed by an increasingly crowded field, telling the audience at SeriesFest in Denver, Colorado on Friday night that “it’s very likely” customers would welcome more options and […]
A Christian group took a big ol’ L this week, after launching a petition that called on Netflix to cancel Good Omens. The problem? The six-part series airs on Amazon Prime. “The Netflix series ‘Good Omens,’ based on a book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, portrays the agents of Good and Evil as fighters in an […]
Netflix has a reputation for concealing its streaming numbers—unless those stats are notably positive. On Tuesday, the streaming giant announced its Murder Mystery flick garnered more than 30 million views in a three-day span, marking the biggest opening weekend for a Netflix original film. The Kyle Newacheck-directed comedy was written by James Vanderbilt and stars Jennifer Aniston […]
After dropping our Best TV Shows of 2019 (So Far) list earlier this week, you’d think we’d be given some downtime from fire television (and films). Nope. NOPE! Sure, Men In Black International and Shaft are in theaters, but this week? The real heat is on the small screen. It’s funny because usually the summer has been seen as kind […]
We don’t know if the upcoming season of Stranger Things will be weirder than years past—newly released episode titles like “The Battle of Starcourt” and “The Sauna Test” are promising—but we can say that the folks at Netflix are taking the “things” part of the name very seriously. The streaming giant has gone merch-mad, dropping […]
The lead prosecutor of the Central Park Jogger case has resigned from Columbia Law School, amid renewed scrutiny over her involvement in the 1989 case. Elizabeth Lederer announced her decision in a statement shared by Columbia Law School Dean Law Gillian Lester. Lederer worked part-time at the university as an adjunct faculty member and lecturer in law. “I’ve enjoyed my years […]
Ava DuVernay’s powerful Netflix miniseries When They See Us chronicles the wrongful conviction of the Central Park Five in 1989, and the actions taken by prosecutors and local figureheads to frame the five black and brown teens for a crime they didn’t commit. In a recent interview with Shadow and Act, three of the five men—Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, […]
Linda Fairstein, the now infamous prosecutor in the Central Park Five case, didn’t want to participate in the Netflix series When They See Us if the five accused men—Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, and Kharey Wise—were also being consulted, one of the show’s producers alleges. When They See Us executive producer Jane Rosenthal claims her team and Fairstein exchanged a […]
While I hope everyone has gotten a chance to watch Ava DuVernay‘s powerful miniseries on the Central Park Five, When They See Us, I can understand if you haven’t. In the week since it’s dropped, many have tried to watch and found it to be too intense to take in one sitting. The fact that this […]
If you’re terrified of the future and the increasingly invasive ways that technology degrades our lives and magnifies our problems, the science fiction television series Black Mirror, now streaming on Netflix, will do you no favors. This is a dark satire that’s rarely ‘ha-ha’ funny, even when it jokes. The show, created by Charlie Brooker, […]
