Netflix has quite a few new movies and television shows joining its ranks this March. Some of these are exclusives or originals, such as the second season of "Shadow and Bone," while others like the "Riddick" trilogy are being acquired through licensing agreements. Needless to say, if you are subscribed to Netflix, the chances that you'll find something intriguing to watch that month are high.
Of course, when new programs are added, some have to leave. Netflix is certainly no stranger to having big-name titles come and go from their service, although the vast majority of its originals have retained their place. However, March will likely be the month where that exclusivity is tested. There aren't too many titles leaving Netflix that month, but the ones that are could set the stage for how the platform filters its so-called "content" moving forward. In the meantime, here are some of the...
Of course, when new programs are added, some have to leave. Netflix is certainly no stranger to having big-name titles come and go from their service, although the vast majority of its originals have retained their place. However, March will likely be the month where that exclusivity is tested. There aren't too many titles leaving Netflix that month, but the ones that are could set the stage for how the platform filters its so-called "content" moving forward. In the meantime, here are some of the...
- 2/22/2023
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
In Season 3 of “Community,” the study group takes a class from biology professor Dr. Marshall Kane, played by Michael K. Williams. Prof. Kane is an ex-con who earned his degree while in prison.
In other words, Kane has seen some things. But nothing prepared him for the baffling changes in the world when he got out. Specifically, “as someone who just spent the majority of his life in prison, what happened with Legos? They used to be simple. Something happened out here while I was inside. Harry Potter Legos, Star Wars Legos. Complicated kits, tiny little blocks. I’m not saying it’s bad, I just wanted to know what happened.”
Prof. Kane is honestly baffled and looking for an answer. And Williams plays this scene with complete sincerity — which is where the hilarity lies. Because the idea is absurd, but he’s absolutely right. Legos have changed.
Williams will...
In other words, Kane has seen some things. But nothing prepared him for the baffling changes in the world when he got out. Specifically, “as someone who just spent the majority of his life in prison, what happened with Legos? They used to be simple. Something happened out here while I was inside. Harry Potter Legos, Star Wars Legos. Complicated kits, tiny little blocks. I’m not saying it’s bad, I just wanted to know what happened.”
Prof. Kane is honestly baffled and looking for an answer. And Williams plays this scene with complete sincerity — which is where the hilarity lies. Because the idea is absurd, but he’s absolutely right. Legos have changed.
Williams will...
- 9/7/2021
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
When my friends and I first watched “The Wire,” we’d call each other by the characters’ names. If you said something dumb, you’d be Prezbo. If you were smart enough to guess what happened next, then you got to be Lester. And whenever someone had a few too many sips of whiskey and fell asleep before the episode ended, well, they knew they’d be McNulty until the next viewing. But one name was never shared: Omar. No one was Omar Little because, even in jest, no one could be.
So commanding and ominous, yet vulnerable and charismatic, Michael Kenneth Williams would come to imbue each of these traits into an array of inimitable characters across film and television. Few TV fans will forget his work as Chalky White on “Boardwalk Empire,” Freddy Knight in “The Night Of,” Bobby McCray in “When They See Us,” or Leonard Pine in “Hap and Leonard,...
So commanding and ominous, yet vulnerable and charismatic, Michael Kenneth Williams would come to imbue each of these traits into an array of inimitable characters across film and television. Few TV fans will forget his work as Chalky White on “Boardwalk Empire,” Freddy Knight in “The Night Of,” Bobby McCray in “When They See Us,” or Leonard Pine in “Hap and Leonard,...
- 9/7/2021
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
According to the New York Post, Michael K. Williams has passed away, possibly of an overdose.
The Post learned from Law Enforcement that the 54-year-old Lovecraft Country actor was found in his Brooklyn apartment by his nephew.
While there isn't an official cause of death, there was drug paraphernalia in the apartment, suggesting a possible overdoe.
The star had been open about his personal struggle with drugs, revealing in an interview with NPR in 2016 that he went to a church in New Jersey to get help for his addiction.
“When I came through those doors, I was broken. … This was, I would say, around the … third season of The Wire, ” Williams said.
“I was on drugs. … I was in jeopardy of destroying everything I had worked so hard for, and I came in those doors, and I met a man who had never even heard of ‘The Wire,’ much less watched it,...
The Post learned from Law Enforcement that the 54-year-old Lovecraft Country actor was found in his Brooklyn apartment by his nephew.
While there isn't an official cause of death, there was drug paraphernalia in the apartment, suggesting a possible overdoe.
The star had been open about his personal struggle with drugs, revealing in an interview with NPR in 2016 that he went to a church in New Jersey to get help for his addiction.
“When I came through those doors, I was broken. … This was, I would say, around the … third season of The Wire, ” Williams said.
“I was on drugs. … I was in jeopardy of destroying everything I had worked so hard for, and I came in those doors, and I met a man who had never even heard of ‘The Wire,’ much less watched it,...
- 9/6/2021
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
We here at Den of Geek were big fans of the Hap and Leonard TV series, sadly canceled by Sundance in 2018 after three glorious seasons. But the world and its characters live on in the book series that started it all. Joe R. Lansdale’s story of two martial arts-wielding detectives who strike up an unlikely best friendship as they work as private investigators n 1980s East Texas is filled with some good crime plotting and some interesting things to say about America, with two fascinating characters at its center. Consisting of twelve novels, four novellas, and three collections of stories and excerpts, if you’re looking for a new literary universe to dive into, this could be it.
Tachyon Publishing recently published a book of short stories from the world of Hap and Leonard and Den of Geek is giving away one copy. Of Mice and Minestrone — Hap and...
Tachyon Publishing recently published a book of short stories from the world of Hap and Leonard and Den of Geek is giving away one copy. Of Mice and Minestrone — Hap and...
- 5/19/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Jamie Andrew Jun 7, 2019
We mourn the recent passing of Z Nation, Ash vs. Evil Dead, The Last Man On Earth, and more shows that left us unfairly soon...
Some shows take their curtain calls and ascend to legendary status mere moments after arriving on the stage; series like Fawlty Towers, The Leftovers, The Office, all of which enjoyed lean and compact stints, and were capped by their makers before the atrophy that often accompanies small screen longevity could set in.
Some shows roam and lumber, shedding viewers like rotting limbs and brittle digits, until a mixture of entropy and apathy leads them shambling to the grave.
Others – lame-legged lambs, and abominations of nature alike – are taken out and shot, quickly and mercifully. Yes, The Mist, we're talking about you.
And some are taken far, far too soon; mowed down in their prime, without a chance for a proper ending. These...
We mourn the recent passing of Z Nation, Ash vs. Evil Dead, The Last Man On Earth, and more shows that left us unfairly soon...
Some shows take their curtain calls and ascend to legendary status mere moments after arriving on the stage; series like Fawlty Towers, The Leftovers, The Office, all of which enjoyed lean and compact stints, and were capped by their makers before the atrophy that often accompanies small screen longevity could set in.
Some shows roam and lumber, shedding viewers like rotting limbs and brittle digits, until a mixture of entropy and apathy leads them shambling to the grave.
Others – lame-legged lambs, and abominations of nature alike – are taken out and shot, quickly and mercifully. Yes, The Mist, we're talking about you.
And some are taken far, far too soon; mowed down in their prime, without a chance for a proper ending. These...
- 6/7/2019
- Den of Geek
Here's a storm Hap Collins and Leonard Pine can't weather. SundanceTV has cancelled the Hap and Leonard TV show after three seasons. The 1980s dark comedy-drama finished its third season last month. Since there will be no fourth season, the Hap and Leonard: Two Bear Mambo season three finale, "Monsoon Mambo" will serve as the Hap and Leonard TV series finale. A SundanceTV anthology series based on the Jon R. Lansdale novels, Hap and Leonard stars James Purefoy as Hap Collins and Michael Kenneth Williams as Leonard Pines — lifelong best friends. The cast also includes Tiffany Mack as Leonard’s lawyer, Floria Grange and Cranston Johnson as Detective Hanson. Season three, Hap and Leonard: The Two-Bear Mambo, also stars Louis Gossett Jr., Corbin Bernsen, Andrew Dice Clay, Laura Allen, and Curt. Read More…...
- 5/15/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
“Hap and Leonard” has been canceled after three seasons, Variety has confirmed.
The SundanceTV anthology series was based on the novel series of the same name written by Joe R. Lansdale, with each season based on one of the novels. It followed two lifelong best friends, Hap Collins (James Purefoy), an East Texas white boy with a weakness for Southern women, and Leonard Pine (Michael Kenneth Williams), a gay, black Vietnam vet with a hot temper. Over the three seasons, the show also featured stars like Christina Hendricks, Jimmi Simpson, Tiffany Mack, Cranston Johnson, Brian Dennehy, and Irma P. Hall.
Season 1 was based on the book “Savage Season,” while Season 2 was based on “Mucho Mojo.” Season 3 was based on “Two Bear Mambo.” “Hap and Leonard” was a wholly-owned original series produced by AMC Studios. John Wirth served as showrunner and executive producer for Season 3, and Jim Mickle, Nick Damici, Jeremy...
The SundanceTV anthology series was based on the novel series of the same name written by Joe R. Lansdale, with each season based on one of the novels. It followed two lifelong best friends, Hap Collins (James Purefoy), an East Texas white boy with a weakness for Southern women, and Leonard Pine (Michael Kenneth Williams), a gay, black Vietnam vet with a hot temper. Over the three seasons, the show also featured stars like Christina Hendricks, Jimmi Simpson, Tiffany Mack, Cranston Johnson, Brian Dennehy, and Irma P. Hall.
Season 1 was based on the book “Savage Season,” while Season 2 was based on “Mucho Mojo.” Season 3 was based on “Two Bear Mambo.” “Hap and Leonard” was a wholly-owned original series produced by AMC Studios. John Wirth served as showrunner and executive producer for Season 3, and Jim Mickle, Nick Damici, Jeremy...
- 5/15/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Sundance’s Hap and Leonard are back for another season of friendship, crime and… the Mambo?
The anthology series picked back up on Wednesday with this season drawing inspiration from the Two-Bear Mambo installment of Joe R. Lansdale’s book series.
The premiere began with Leonard Pine once again burning down the neighborhood crackhouse – on Christmas Eve of all days. The police deem it his “best one yet” as he puts his hands behind his back to be handcuffed.
When Hap and Leonard arrive at the police station, Detective Hanson approaches Hap with the task of finding Florida Grange, a...
The anthology series picked back up on Wednesday with this season drawing inspiration from the Two-Bear Mambo installment of Joe R. Lansdale’s book series.
The premiere began with Leonard Pine once again burning down the neighborhood crackhouse – on Christmas Eve of all days. The police deem it his “best one yet” as he puts his hands behind his back to be handcuffed.
When Hap and Leonard arrive at the police station, Detective Hanson approaches Hap with the task of finding Florida Grange, a...
- 3/8/2018
- TVLine.com
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