Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman Can’t Save ‘Santa Inc.’ From Misguided Raunchiness: TV Review

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticHBO is currently airing a superlative show about the serendipity and possibility of life, and the unexpected discoveries that can emerge through conversation and openness.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticMuch like the character at its center, “MacGruber” has a surprising ability to withstand bombs.In the late-aughts series of sketches on “Saturday Night Live,” Will Forte’s character, a riff on MacGyver, would inevitably get caught up in his own neuroses while attempting to dismantle an explosive, resulting in detonation before he came back, unscathed, for the next installment.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticYears into the COVID-19 pandemic, “Station Eleven” suggests we got off easy.Both the 2014 novel by Emily St. John Mandel and its limited-series adaptation on HBO Max tell the story of a viral plague that decimates the world’s population too quickly for any response.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAna Gasteyer — a shrewd, funny comedian adept at puncturing her characters’ pretensions — has long deserved a showcase.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThis article contains spoilers for the first four episodes of “And Just Like That.”The most striking homage to the legacy of “Sex and the City” in the new series “And Just Like That” lands like a bit of bitter irony, or a joke too caustic by half.“Sex and the City” ended, in 2004, with a montage of its characters having found fulfillment through romance and, crucially, self-acceptance, all set to the 1980s single “You Got the Love.” Two movies complicated but

The stars are stepping out for the premiere of West Side Story!

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe omnipresence of Olivia Colman has been a truly happy development in recent years.Since her shock Oscar win for “The Favourite” in early 2019, Colman has appeared in films including “The Father” and “The Lost Daughter” and, among several other TV projects, one season of “Fleabag” and two of “The Crown.” And while at times in that latter series she seemed to be withholding her broad-ranging abilities towards the absurd, her willingness to go anywhere for a

Santa Inc., claiming “tens of thousands of white supremacists” are to blame for the HBO Max series’ overwhelmingly negative reception.The show’s first (and presumably only) season was released in full on Thursday (December 2), and has thus far been majorly panned by audiences. On IMDB, 90.6 per cent of 5,236 viewers rated Santa Inc.

Adele’s recent US television special.Rogan attended the event with wife Lauren Miller thinking that it would be a small, intimate show and was shocked when he turned up to find a much larger audience and a film crew.Speaking on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Rogan recounted the moment explaining that he and his wife had smoked a “tonne of weed” and got “extremely high” before the show.“I was in the front row of the Adele concert,” Rogen began.

Gallery: 'Aliens might want to destroy us!' These stars all believe in extraterrestrial life (BANG Showbiz)Recalling then being given seats 1A and 1B, he added: "‘We’re as close as you can fathomably be. I sit down there’s a camera literally pointed at my face.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticNBC’s holiday-season live-musical franchise is so proudly square that it’s surprising it took this long for them to get to “Annie.”The recent tradition, launched by the producers Neil Meron and the late Craig Zadan, of ceding a night of network primetime to a scrappy, let’s-put-on-a-show broadcast seems to have found its perfect match in “Annie.” The family-oriented musical has never had the remotest claim on coolness.

Seth Rogen did not think the Adele special was going to be a full-blown TV production.

rolling in the deep, but Seth Rogen was rolling up a joint before he attended her “One Night Only” concert last month. The “Superbad” star appeared on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday discussing how he ended up at the big gig, which took place at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles and was later broadcast on CBS.

Seth Rogen in the concert special last month, so was he! The 39-year-old comedian was a guest on Wednesday's and he spoke about sitting front and center for the famed British singer's first public concert in years, held at Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory. «I was in the front row of the Adele concert and that is as surprising to me as anyone because I had no idea I was attending the taping of an Adele television special at all,» Rogen quipped, saying he'd received an invitation and wasn't aware

Chrishell Stause held a launch party for her book,, in Los Angeles, which was catered by Italian Market and Deli, HauteMess.Amber Rose attended the Follow Your Heart MAXIM Halloween Party in Los Angeles. Devon Windsor hosted a P.volve workout in West Hollywood to celebrate the launch of her new sport collection.Clare Crawley attended the Alo Winter 2021 House in Los Angeles, where guests enjoyed yoga classes, a sound bath, ear piercings by Mejuri, facials, ice skating and more. Steve and Lori

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn April, Colton Underwood, a former professional athlete who’d been the lead of the reality franchise “The Bachelor” just two years prior, came out of the closet on “Good Morning America.” When considered in the most forgiving of lights, it seemed in the moment like a positive, potentially helpful thing.

Seth Rogen is getting candid about how he handles trolls.

When it comes to telling off trolls, Seth Rogen likes a personal touch.