April Neale BET’s Ms. Pat Show is a poignant family-centric comedy series based on comic Patricia Williams’ real life. Executive produced by director Lee Daniels, The Ms. Pat Show features Patricia “Ms. Pat” Williams as the main character who reigns in a fictionalized version of her life’s journey. The stories come from reality, a succession of unfiltered
Netflix’s new film Purple Hearts is a grown-up love affair film, a touching, genuinely sweet, and more realistic love story than served by the likely suspects of this genre, such as Hallmark. The premise centers around two unlikely people who find out they eventually rely upon and love each other despite the crushing odds against them.
Light spoilers Jeremiah Bitsui is having a big moment. First, the actor leaped to the forefront in the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul universe as Victor, a heavy who Gus Fring dispatched in the first series. Then, he got another chance to flesh out his backstory in the Breaking Bad prequel. Bitsui stars in
Warning: There are light spoilers in this article. One of the more primal dating competitions on television is Love In The Jungle, where people have animal names and grunt with animal noises in group settings in an eco-reserve in Colombia. In this coming episode of discovery+’s Love in the Jungle, Monsters and Critics has a
There are few spinoffs as deeply personal as Deadliest Catch: Bloodline. First, the star of that Discovery series, Josh Harris, is a real-life working fisherman with overhead and financial stress. On top of all of that, he must relive the shocking 2010 death of his late father, Captain Phil Harris, a larger than life Deadliest
This coming Earth Day, learn why the Tepuis—like the Amazon and the Galapagos—are a treasure trove of biodiversity worth saving. The Disney+ Earth Day special, Explorer: The Last Tepui, from National Geographic, features elite climber Alex Honnold and a world-class climbing team led by National Geographic Explorer and climber Mark Synnott on a death-defying mission deep in
A rare incident in reality TV is when a spinoff elicits a more enthusiastic response than its progenitor. So goes it for the affable workaholic, Freddy Dodge, and his partner, Juan Ibarra, stars of Gold Rush: Freddy Dodge’s Mine Rescue on Discovery and discovery+. Perhaps the reason is that Dodge is tight with the core
The series From on Epix is a chilling horror thriller set in a town held hostage by mysterious night creatures. One new family has inadvertently found themselves trapped inside the city limits. Monsters & Critics’ exclusive preview below shows that Boyd Stevens (Harold Perrineau) and Sara Myers (Avery Konrad) are in the woods as Sara
Anaplastologist Allison Vest is in the restoration business. Her skilled work gives people back confidence and happiness who have lost a crucial part of their anatomy by trauma, birth, or disease. Vest’s work is a mix of artistry and medicine, as she sculpts and forms new noses, ears, hands, and more to restore people to
If you watch Gold Rush, you know Juan Ibarra. The master mechanic began his Discovery journey in Season 5, hired by Todd Hoffman to keep washplant Monster Red working and fix other significant pieces of equipment. Then Ibarra became the go-to mechanical guru, and Tony Beets scooped him up for a spell until a fortuitous