Netflix has canceled Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj after six seasons on the air. Patriot Act debuted on Netflix in October 2018, releasing seasons 2 through 5 in 2019 with its sixth and final season airing on the streamer's YouTube in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Patriot Act was a notable venture for host Hasan Minhaj, who continued his run in the political talk show after leaving The Daily Show in 2018. Now, as Variety reports, Netflix has given the acclaimed Patriot Act the ax. Minhaj announced the news on Twitter Tuesday morning, writing, "What a …

Watching Sacha Baron Cohen troll the alt-right with a song meant to highlight dumb, crude, and racist beliefs isn't something I expected to see this weekend, but alas, here we are. The Who Is America? and Borat star is making big waves as photos and videos showing him, in multiple disguises, crashing an alt-right rally surface on social media. So, what happened exactly? According to Washington state news outlet The Olympian, Baron Cohen crashed an alt-right rally on Saturday while in disguise. The "March for Our Rights 3" rally, organized by the far-right militia group …

Progress and equality in the entertainment industry, just like in every other area of society, has moved frustratingly slow. The industry is overwhelmingly dominated by white heterosexual men, resulting in a system in which white heteronormative stories are considered “normal” and stories from any other viewpoint are considered risky or potentially offensive. Even this past year, during a time many people to be the most progressive period in the history of moviemaking, Hollywood still struggles with equal representation. (For example, the producers of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker famously made a huge deal about featuring LGBTQ characters, only to …

Created by David Simon and Ed Burns and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth, the six-part HBO limited series The Plot Against America follows a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey through an alternate American history during World War II, when aviator hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh has won the presidency and is taking the nation ever closer to fascism. As opposing political views threaten to tear families apart, the eerie parallels of how an outsider can stoke the flames of anti-Semitism and xenophobia from the highest leadership position in the …

HBO has released the first trailer for The Plot Against America, the six-episode limited series from David Simon and Ed Burns based on the Philip Roth alt-history novel of the same name. The show, which debuts March 16, boasts a great cast, including Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder, and John Turturro. The Plot Against America, told from the perspective of a working-class Jewish family living in New Jersey, takes place in an alternate-history America during World War II in which Charles Lindbergh defeated Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 U.S. presidential election. In reality, …

What did we lose when we stopped caring about space exploration? Mankind's quest into the final frontier has long been one of humanity's most ambitious and aspirational pursuits, and if there's one thing that recent space epics like Gravity and First Man make clear, it's that human beings were absolutely bonkers to strap themselves to rockets and fly into the great unknown in the first place. But that's what makes it a dazzling act of human ambition and accomplishment. In the new Apple TV+ series For All Mankind, we get a look at what might …

That Apple TV+ slate is filling up fast with some pretty legitimate-looking dramas, but this latest one might just take things all the way to the moon. For All Mankind, created by Emmy-winner Ronald D. Moore, imagines a world where the United States and NASA lost the space race to Russia. In an attempt to set some kind of record, America then pivots to putting the first woman on the moon, which I believe is called the Eowyn Loophole. It's an intriguing premise that refreshingly takes a look at an alternate timeline that doesn't immediately plunge …

That Apple TV+ slate is filling up fast with some pretty legitimate-looking dramas, but this latest one might just take things all the way to the moon. For All Mankind, created by Emmy-winner Ronald D. Moore, imagines a world where the United States and NASA lost the space race to Russia. In an attempt to set some kind of record, America then pivots to putting the first woman on the moon, which I believe is called the Eowyn Loophole. It's an intriguing premise that refreshingly takes a look at an alternate timeline that doesn't immediately plunge …

Avengers: Endgame directors rule out the possibility of Captain America and Iron Man returning to the MCU as alternate versions of themselves.

From creator/showrunner Ronald D. Moore (Outlander, Battlestar Galactica), For All Mankind will debut exclusively on the new video subscription service Apple TV+, which will feature original shows, movies and documentaries, when it launches this fall through the Apple TV app. The 10-episode, hour-long highly anticipated drama series explores what would have happened, if the USSR beat the US to the moon and the global space race never ended, placing NASA astronauts, engineers and their families at the center of a fascinating alternate history timeline. The series stars Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Sarah Jones, Shantel VanSanten, Wrenn Schmidt …

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