NBC’s ‘Kenan’ Gives Kenan Thompson a Smart, Bittersweet Leading Role: TV Review

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticEvery new teen drama wants to be the one that actually, finally Gets It.

Maya Rudolph and Kenan Thompson are bringing the laughs to the 2021 Golden Globes!

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticHalfway through the pilot of “Debris,” I realized I had no idea what might be going on, both because of the show’s deliberately opaque design and its tendency to lapse into the kind of corporate conspiracy jargon that binds too many network procedurals. And yet, by the end of the pilot of “Debris,” I realized that was basically fine by me.

Thursday’s episode of “Hot Ones,” in which host Sean Evans asks celebrities questions as they consume increasingly spicy chicken wings. For a recurring segment on the show called “Explain That Gram,” Evans pulled a photo from Thompson’s Instagram feed that “needs more context.” The picture showed Trebek and Thompson backstage together at the 2019 National Hockey League Awards.“Was he aware of ‘Black Jeopardy!’?” Evans, 34, asked Thompson, referring to the recurring sketch, which first debuted in

Kenan Thompson became the latest celebrity to take on the wings of death during Thursday’s episode of “Hot Ones”.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticIn trying to explain the man and phenomenon that is Tekashi 6ix9ine, Showtime’s new docuseries does its best to embody him.“Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine,” directed by Karam Gill, alternates between self-consciously shaggy found footage and slick, stylized interludes. Like its subject, “Supervillain” depends on social media to build itself up.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticHaving already plumbed the depths of the Superman well for “Smallville,” which survived the demise of the WB network to run for a full decade, The CW’s gone back to its Kansan/Kryptonian roots for “Superman and Lois,” a strangely grim take on one of comics’ brightest heroes.From Greg Berlanti and Todd Helbing (“The Flash”), “Superman and Lois” dispenses with the Superman story that’s been told a million times before in an efficient opening voiceover, as Superman

 Khloé Kardashian’s  relationship with  Tristan Thompson  for years now, wondering if they ever got back together following his bouts of infidelity while Khloé was pregnant. While the pair claimed to only be co-parenting, they seemed to get closer and closer, and during the pandemic, the couple quarantined together.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you haven’t watched (or at least plan to watch) all six episodes of “Behind Her Eyes,” now streaming on Netflix.Pressing play on the first episode of “Behind Her Eyes,” all I knew was that there was going to be a capital-t Twist that may or may not cause me to lose what’s left of my mind.

Kenan Thompson fans who have waited some 20 years to see the comedian nude, wait a little longer.

Caroline Framke Chief TV Critic“Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy” opens with the actor striding down a bustling Naples street in a perfectly tailored summer suit, dodging Italians on Vespas and scanning the sidewalks for his next delicious meal.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThe first time we meet Nadiya Hussain in the “Great British Baking Show” tent, she’s trying to convince the judges that making a cake with green cardamom is a good idea. “Is that the only flavor?” Mary Berry asks, delicately but with enough of a point to convey her skepticism.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThis Valentine’s Day, Fox is expanding its Animation Domination Sunday block with a show that immediately seems familiar enough to qualify as comfort TV from its very opening minutes.“The Great North” follows a family of lovable, scrappy weirdos — headed up by gruff but sweet dad Beef (Nick Offerman) — who stumble into strange adventures so often that every episode is called some variation of the “[X Event] Adventure” (i.e.

Kenan Thompson has an idea of when he thinks he'll step away from. The beloved comic has been with the show for 18 seasons, and with a new sitcom premiering, it seems like Thompson is looking toward his future.«I have a certain number [of seasons] I would love to get to,» Thompson recently told , in a cover profile story.

Kenan Thompson has a lot of people to thank for preparing him for the debut of “Kenan”.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticIn its fourth and final episode, “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” finally gets to its point.After three episodes of unpacking the mysterious disappearance of Elisa Lam, the infamous Cecil Hotel in which she was last seen, the fraught history of downtown Los Angeles, and even several truly confusing “web sleuth” theories about what might have happened, the new Netflix series reaches a perhaps unsatisfying conclusion: that the simplest explanation is

Will Ferrell punches a world globe after learning a little tidbit about Norway in General Motors’ Super Bowl LV Commercial.