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The Kurtzman Era of Star Trek Boldly Goes Into the Trashcan

July 23, 2026July 28, 2026 William Schwartz 6 Comments Alex Kurtzman, Captain Kirk, Captain Pike, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, episodic television, fandom, franchise filmmaking, Jeri Ryan, Klingons, media criticism, Michael Burnham, Mirror Universe, Paramount, Paramount Pictures, Patrick Stewart, Robert Picardo, science fiction, Section 31, serial storytelling, Spock, Star Trek, Star Trek Picard, Star Trek Prodigy, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Starfleet Academy, Streaming Television, Television, The Next Generation, TV criticism, Voyager, William Shatner

How to understand the demise of NuTrek

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‘Spider Noir’ Is the Strangest Spider-Man Yet

June 5, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments 1930s New York, alternate universe, Amazon Originals, Amazon Prime Video, art deco, black and white cinematography, Brendan Gleeson, comic book adaptations, comic book television, Crime Drama, Edward G Robinson, Electro, film noir, Genre Television, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Huston, James Cagney, Karen Rodriguez, Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Marvel adaptation, Nicolas Cage, Nicolas Cage performances, noir fiction, Pop Culture, Prime Video, private detectives, Pulp Fiction, Sam Fuller, Sandman, Spider Noir, Spider Verse, Spider-Man, Streaming Television, superhero television, superhero TV, Television Review, The Black Cat, The Lizard, TV criticism

Nicolas Cage does his best Humphrey Bogart as a webslinger who’s also a hardboiled 1930s private eye

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BFG Podcast #307: ‘Widow’s Bay’ and ‘Margot’s Got Money Troubles’

May 21, 2026May 21, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Apple originals, Apple TV, Apple TV Plus, comedy drama, David E. Kelley, Elle Fanning, Greg Kinnear, horror comedy, Kate OFlynn, Katie Dippold, Marcia Gay Harden, Margot's Got Money Troubles, Matthew Rhys, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman, Nicole Kidman, Northern Exposure, OnlyFans stories, Parks and Recreation, rufi thorpe, Stephen Root, Streaming Television, supernatural television, television podcasts, TV creators, TV criticism, TV reviews, Twin Peaks, Widow's Bay, X Files

Neal Pollack and Omar Gallaga discuss Apple TV shows

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‘Margot’s Got Money Troubles’ is Actual Money for Apple+

May 8, 2026May 8, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Apple TV, Apple TV Plus, Bodhi, character driven drama, comedy drama, contemporary TV, dramedy, Elle Fanning, Emmy buzz, entertainment, Euphoria, Family Drama, feminism, feminist television, Gen Z culture, Greg Kinnear, Hollywood, Marcia Gay Harden, Michelle Pfeiffer, millennial culture, modern sexuality, motherhood, Nick Offerman, Nicole Kidman, OnlyFans, parenting, Pop Culture, prestige TV, rufi thorpe, Sex Education, sex positivity, sex work discourse, Shyanne, single motherhood, streaming culture, Streaming Television, streaming TV, Television Review, television series, TikTok culture, TV criticism, TV review, women on television

Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman, Nicole Kidman, Marcia Gay Harden and more star in an Emmy-destined show

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‘The Testaments’ Brings Us Back to Gilead

April 15, 2026April 27, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments book adaptation, Bruce Miller, Chase McKenzie, dystopian fiction, Elisabeth Moss, feminist dystopia, Gilead, Hulu, Lucy Halliday, Margaret Atwood, Mayday, political drama, prestige TV, series sequel, streaming TV, Television Review, The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, TV criticism

In the sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ Margaret Atwood and Bruce Miller take us to finishing school

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BFG Podcast #203: ‘The Forsytes,’ ‘Age of Attraction,’ ‘Survivor,’ and, of course, ‘Fackham Hall’

April 6, 2026April 7, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Age of Attraction, BFG Podcast, Book and Film Globe, Bridgerton comparison, British TV drama, fackham hall, HBO Max, Jessica Babbitt, Masterpiece Theatre, Neal Pollack, Netflix reality TV, PBS Masterpiece, pop culture podcast, reality TV trends, Survivor, Survivor Season 50, The Forsyte Saga, The Forsytes, TikTok creators, TV criticism, TV previews

Neal Pollack talks to pop-culture savant Jessica Babbitt about what’s going on this spring

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Smoking Hot Prudes Rock for ‘One Night Only’

August 9, 2026August 12, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

Authoritarian science fiction never looked so sexy

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BFG Podcast #312: Is Spider-Man Any Good? Plus, Summer Dragon Fights for All!

August 7, 2026August 12, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0

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‘Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender’ Succeeds in Spite of Its Troubled Release

August 5, 2026August 12, 2026 J. Barnes 0

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‘The Hawk’ Scores a Triple Bogey

August 2, 2026August 5, 2026 Dan Friedman 0

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