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In episode six of Transparent’s second season, “Bulnerable,” there’s a scene featuring a slightly disgruntled Ali (Gaby Hoffmann) sitting in an armchair across from Sid (Carrie Brownstein). She’s wearing a loose jersey with a nipple poking out, seated with her legs entirely spread out. There’s something beautiful about the shot because it’s something we associate with how a man might sit and behave (dare we say manspreading). The shot, however, was not planned that way.

Going on first impressions, it’s fairly safe to say Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s character on Game of Thrones is, well, despicable. In the first episode of the series, Ser Jamie Lannister is not only caught having sex with his twin sister (the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms) by a young Bran Stark — he also attempts to throw the boy to his death. (Unfortunately for him, Bran is either more resilient or bouncier, and just winds up paralyzed.

Game of Thrones The Dragon and the Wolf Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Game of Thrones The Dragon and the Wolf Season 7 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Someone once told me that the way you could tell you were reading a children’s story — as opposed to a story for adults — was if, at the end of it all, “home” was where the protagonist was supposed to be all along.

Garfield dealing with daddy issues wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card. The trailer for the latest adaptation of the famous comic strip arrived on November 13, teasing everything we love about the well-fed tabby who made hating Mondays a personality. In the first look, we see a kitten-age Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt) adopt his owner, Jon, after stealing the food off his plate. A montage of lavish parties and lasagna-fueled evenings shows the cat’s blissful life.

IFC announced its development slate earlier today. Included in their three pilots and eight script orders is a pilot by beloved comedy-folk duo Garfunkel and Oates (a.k.a. Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci), a script from Chris Gethard and Tom Scharpling based on Gethard’s book of personal essays, and a script order for a show written by and starring Megan Mullally. Read the full list and synopses below — it’s clear they are continuing their mission to employ all of the comedians.

‘As I look back on everything, it seems to me that having a career at all is pretty special in itself.’ Photo: Shane Brown/FX Much like Uncle Brownie, the shambling, warmhearted eccentric he played for three seasons on Sterlin Harjo’s Reservation Dogs, Gary Farmer takes the long view of things and rarely turns down the chance to be funny about it. Even when the occasion is as somber as a funeral — like the send-off for Dogs itself — Brownie’s droll one-liners and stealthy bits of wisdom, delivered via his signature stoner deadpan, pierce the gloom.

366 bits of wisdom, advice, and encouragement from the stand-up veteran. Illustration: Jason Ford Illustration: Jason Ford This whole idea was coffee induced. On December 31, 2018, I was sitting with my first cup of the day — Michael Pollan wrote that we enjoy that first coffee so much because it relieves our caffeine withdrawal, so I was on a high from that — and I said to my wife, Sadé, “What do you think people would do if I offered a comedy tip every day next year?

Klaus Mäkelä on the podium at Geffen Hall. It’s taken a few months, but the New York Philharmonic finally sounds at home in its new home. That became clear earlier this month, as soon as the ridiculously young Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä gave an almost invisible nod and started a tensely ravishing performance of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, the Pathetique. The bassoon climbed slowly out of a bog of trembling cellos and, for the next three-quarters of an hour, brass chords glowed, Anthony McGill’s clarinet solos floated exquisitely, raucous climaxes exploded without bursting eardrums, and strings sounded warm and clear and plush.

This week, Vulture is taking a look at great unproduced, unreleased, or unheralded entertainment. When talking about great movies that never got made, save a special place at the table for Michael Mann’s Gates of Fire, an epic about the Battle of Thermopylae that the filmmaker was attached to direct in the early 2000s. The film, based on Steven Pressfield’s 1998 historical novel, was to have been a realistic and intense look at the ancient warrior kingdom of Sparta and their doomed but historically momentous attempt to hold off the invading Persians at Thermopylae.