Bridget Everett is processing the end of “Somebody Somewhere,” the HBO series loosely inspired by her life, in a very Bridget Everett way. “I’m just not ready,” she says about potential roles to come. “It’s like you just had the best sex of your life, and now someone wants to hold your hand.” That’s the […]

As networks and streamers adjust to this current moment of belt-tightening and post-election uncertainty, creators and actors are still delivering a dizzying breadth of quality television. Once again, Variety TV critics Alison Herman and Aramide Tinubu have overlapped with a single series in their picks for the year’s best shows, speaking to the deep pool from which […]

It is entirely to the credit of “Creature Commandos” that the animated series doesn’t feel like some momentous event, even though it technically is. Officially, the show’s debut on Max marks the kickoff of filmmaker James Gunn and producer Peter Safran’s reboot of the DC Universe, symbolized by a new opening sting of Superman busting […]

“Star Wars” has always been, on some level, for children. That’s neither condescension nor criticism: George Lucas created a swashbuckling fairy tale set in space, and its mantle has been taken up by successive generations of filmmakers who encountered it at a formative age. But, with the exception of “The Phantom Menace,” “Star Wars” stories […]

A project like “The Madness” ought to be a feather in the cap of someone like Colman Domingo. Though the performer has been working steadily for decades, a few years’ worth of increasingly prominent roles — in “Euphoria,” “Zola” and “If Beale Street Could Talk,” among others — has culminated in milestone moments like an Oscar […]