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Posted Monday 9/27/21 at 9:14PM EDT
Dear White People creator initially fought against including 'NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" in the 1990s musical final season
Although a catchy, chart-topping single, Justin Simien notes that “Bye Bye Bye” is also “white people singing R&B, which is...
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ABC's The Wonder Years reboot complicates our idea of nostalgia as its integrates "TV's Memory Lane"
"Nostalgia is itself a kind of time machine, and TV has generally let white characters drive it," says James Poniewozik.
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Posted Friday 9/24/21 at 2:13AM EDT
How "With a Little Help From Our Friend" went from The Beatles anthem to The Wonder Years theme song
"The Beatles have so many classic songs, and so many of them have been covered by other artists, but it’s...
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Posted Saturday 9/11/21 at 2:39AM EDT
Paula Cole's Dawson's Creek theme "I Don't Want to Wait" is the story of the modern music industry and how it stills screws over artists
Cole had to re-record her hit 1990s song for the Netflix reruns because she wasn't seeing royalties from the original...
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Posted Saturday 8/07/21 at 2:56AM EDT
The White Lotus elevates tension to an art form
"Plenty of shows and movies tease a Big Event in the beginning and then spend their runtime revealing how it...
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Gossip Girl reboot feels out of touch because overexposure isn’t just the realm of teens anymore
In 2021, it's not unusual to put your problematic behavior online, regardless of age.
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Posted Wednesday 7/07/21 at 10:04PM EDT
Seinfeld composer on coming up with the iconic theme: "I pitched Jerry the idea that Jerry's voice would be the melody of the Seinfeld theme"
Jonathan Wolff has written music for 75 shows, from Will & Grace to Married with Children to Who's the Boss?...
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Posted Thursday 7/01/21 at 3:24PM EDT
Seinfeld is finally releasing its soundtrack
WaterTower Music will release the 33-track Seinfeld soundtrack album on Friday, the first time any music from the iconic comedy has...
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Posted Saturday 6/26/21 at 2:11AM EDT
How Emmy Raver-Lampman made Central Park's Molly Tillerman her own after taking over the role from Kristen Bell
"It was important to them and it meant a lot to me that we find my version of Molly, and...
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Posted Tuesday 6/08/21 at 2:50PM EDT
Bo Burnham: Inside songs will be released as part of a streaming album
Inside (The Songs) will be available on music streaming platforms on Thursday.
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Posted Saturday 5/15/21 at 4:11AM EDT
Mare of Easttown is so compelling because it depicts the bizarre minutiae of real people
"Sure, Mare of Easttown is a grim, small-town murder show so typical to the prestige crime genre that it’s already...
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Posted Tuesday 5/11/21 at 1:15PM EDT
The Simpsons releases Morrissey spoof song "Everyone Is Horrid Except Me (And Possibly You)"
The controversial parody of Morrissey voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch has been released as an official single.
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Paula Cole’s ‘I Don’t Want to Wait’ is set to be restored as Dawson's Creek’s theme song
It's been a problem plaguing the streaming era: Classic shows like Dawson's Creek, The X-Files, Scrubs and Felicity are missing...
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Posted Saturday 4/03/21 at 3:32AM EDT
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist debuts its first original song on Sunday
"That is the first song I've ever written," Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist creator Austin Winsberg tells EW about the lyrics which...
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Posted Saturday 2/27/21 at 4:12AM EST
WandaVision has turned what could have been a one-joke spoof of sitcom nostalgia into something both chilling and relatable
"In early 2021, a streaming series about television as both escape and prison is practically a documentary," says James Poniewozik.