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Insecure: Issa Rae Gets Awkward on HBO

October 7, 2016 Lori Acken

Issa Rae was doing just fine. Whip-smart and internet-famous as the hilariously honest star of the web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Rae parlayed its popularity into a New York Times bestseller of the same name, while partnering with Larry Wilmore on a comedy series in the same vein. Then HBO bought in and Rae reacted how she knows best: She got awkward. “When I got the news that the series got picked up, I jumped up and down by myself and did a dance for at least two minutes,” the luminous Rae grins. “Then I walked to […]

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Interview

We talk HBO’s funny, fresh Divorce with Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church!

October 6, 2016 Lori Acken

Divorce premieres Sunday, Oct. 9 at 10/9CT beginning Oct. 9 on HBO Ah, the midlife marriage crisis. Happens to a lot of us. One day you wake up and realize the kids are growing up fast, the finances aren’t quite where you hoped, your best days (and best looks) may well be behind you and your better half doesn’t seem that great after all. But you’re luckier than your single friends, anyway. Right? Er, right? The ones who can (or so you imagine) go wherever they want, whenever they want. Spend however they choose. Sleep with whomever they please. And never, ever have […]

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Interview

Evan Rachel Wood, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy Address Westworld Violence

October 3, 2016 Lori Acken

In Sunday’s premiere episode of Westworld, HBO’s series update of the 1973 Michael Crichton chiller set in a futuristic theme park, Evan Rachel Wood’s spunky, spirited animatron Dolores Abernathy suffers mightily at the hands of Ed Harris’ mysterious Man in Black. • RELATED: Westworld: HBO’s Star-Packed Series Updates Micahel Crichton’s 1973 Chiller to entertaining. unsettling effect Her fellow female “hosts” in the park, especially those who work at the beer hall, don’t fare much better. Neither do a solid number of male hosts who are the favorite targets for the park’s visitors’ — the robots call them “newcomers” — who are free to behave […]

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Drama

Westworld: HBO’s Star-Packed Series Updates Crichton’s 1973 Chiller

September 30, 2016 Lori Acken

Westworld premieres Sunday, Oct. 2 at 9/8CT on HBO What if — for a day or a week — the world was yours to control? Someone giving you grief? Waste them without consequence. That lovely lady right there at the bar? Yours for the taking, no questions asked. The drinks flow freely, you win every game and nobody cares if you’re a workaday schlub fending off a midlife meltdown. But what if you were the irritant, that pretty woman, another someone in your unfettered path? And what if, one day, you realized that your moment-by-moment existence is no more than a construct […]

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TV News & Program Updates

TCA: Your The Night Of Questions Answered

July 30, 2016 Lori Acken

On Saturday, Richard Price and Steven Zaillian, who helm HBO’s The Night Of, and their stars Riz Ahmed, John Turturro and Michael Kenneth Williams took questions from Television Critics Association reporters about the addictive new summer series. The Night Of stars Ahmed as Nasir Kahn, a doe-eyed college kid who winds up accused of murder when a night of partying goes wrong and — plied with booze and drugs before he hopped into a beautiful stranger’s bed — the inexperienced Naz has no clue if he committed the crime or not. Turturro plays the opportunistic, eczema-bedeviled New York lawyer who right-place-right-times himself […]

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5 Questions With Rob Corddry Of Ballers, Children’s Hospital

July 14, 2016 Scott Fishman

“You’re no one until you have enemies” is the tagline for Season 2 of HBO’s Ballers, which debuts Sunday. And this time, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Spencer Strasmore and Rob Corddry’s Joe Krutel have a big one to deal with in the form of Andre, played by veteran actor Andy Garcia. “He plays the biggest sports financial manager in Miami,” explains Corddry. “Spencer has a personal beef with him and wants to take him down. That’s basically the arc of the whole season. [But] I always had an admiration for this guy, no matter how sleazy he is. It becomes […]