We may be living in a golden age of TV, but panning through all the dross to find that gold can be time-consuming and tedious. For every much-discussed hit like Severance, House of the Dragon, and The Bear, there are dozens of new original shows that barely tip the cultural needle. And with so many new streaming services competing with HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Disney Plus, it’s impossible to keep up with everything new to view. But The Verge’s TV section is ready to help. Our news, reviews, and interviews help you find the next Stranger Things or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in time to keep up with the cultural conversation. And our essays and analysis invite you to consider the deeper context of what you’re watching.
After hearing an AI facsimile of his voice, the famed Simpsons voice actor said it “felt like what it was, which was just a vocal version of printed text” in this New York Times video.
Voice acting requires more than talking, as he demonstrates. But he figures that as AI improves, people will “listen to and enjoy and watch what they like, and they’re not gonna care whether AI generated it...”
Disney Plus’ new animated Spider-Man series wants you to appreciate what being a community-focused hero looks like.
Apple’s mystery-packed thriller Surface returns on February 21st, and the second season’s first trailer promises — you guessed it — even more mysteries.
Joe Bennett and Steve Hely know their new Adult Swim animated series has its finger on the pulse.
While the rest of internet’s arguing over whether Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s theme song is a bop, Netflix’s Devil May Cry series is just rollin’ with Limp Bizkit.
In what kinda feels like a play to the “TV and movies have gotten too sexy” crowd, Netflix is moving forward with a Little House on the Prairie reboot from executive producer / showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys) that the streamer describes as “a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the frontier.”
Silo’s second season may be over, but if you’re not ready to engage with the outside world again, this vibey tour through the show’s sets might be right up your alley.
Mythic Quest’s fourth season still dunks on the games industry, but it’s way more invested in everyone’s emotional growth.
Questlove’s new documentary, Ladies & Gentlemen – 50 Years of SNL Music, opens with a seven minute-long montage that took nearly a year to put together.
This clip was uploaded on what appears to be a fan-run YouTube channel, so it’s not clear if it’s the actual montage — but it does make me very excited to watch this.
Something is breaking free in the latest teaser for Hulu’s Alien: Earth, which lands this summer. This looks like our first actual footage from the series, and gives us plenty to pore over: a new Xenomorph design (are those wings!?), a ship with more than a passing resemblance to the original film’s Nostromo, and a warning announcement that sounds just a little like a certain Sigourney.
And that includes the new title sequence, which is a surreal way to start each episode. You can watch it below. And for more on the new season, be sure to check out our interviews on Severance’s bizarre computers and its inspired approach to cliffhangers.
Paramount Plus’ new Star Trek film is the sound of scene chewing in space, which is to say, it’s pretty damn fun.
It looks like there will be plenty of conflict in the next season of Yellowjackets, with all kinds of bloodshed spanning both time periods. It’s been a bit of a wait — season 2 premiered in 2023 — but the show is back on February 14th.
Castlevania: Nocturne season 2 gets philosophical about what it means to be a monster who loves.
After a long hiatus, Severance has returned for its second season on Apple TV Plus. I haven’t seen it all, but the season certainly gets off to a great start. Just as important: those weird (and functional!) computers are back.
The actor was joined by the rest of the ‘innies’ from Apple TV’s ‘Severance’, plus producer Ben Stiller, in a recreation of their oppressive Lumon office to tease the show’s imminent return. This might be taking return-to-office mandates a step too far.
While Richter Belmont and his allies absolutely dogwalked Erzsebet Báthory last time they fought, the vampire messiah looks like she’s coming back with a vengeance in the latest trailer for Castlevania: Nocturne’s upcoming second season.
Though WWE Monday Night Raw’s premiere on Netflix was marked by a heartening round of boos when Hulk Hogan popped up, the show reportedly racked up 4.9 millions views between Monday and Tuesday.
That figure isn’t huge by Netflix’s standards, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, it’s more than twice the viewership that Raw drew in last year on USA Network.
[The Hollywood Reporter]
Rabbits My Melody and Kuromi have been fixtures in Hello Kitty’s life for a few decades now, and today Netflix and Sanrio announced that the pair are set to be the stars of their own stop-motion animated series due out some time this July.
Today at CES, NBCUniversal announced that Peacock is adding a curated selection of vertical video clip playlists and games to its iOS and Android apps to “drive even deeper fan engagement around its most popular titles.”
Per Slate, the first games we can expect to see on Peacock are Daily Swap (a word puzzler), Venn (a matching game), and Predictions, which will let players guess which sports team will win upcoming matches.
