This new Roku-Google fight has big divorced parent energy
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Across many years of covering our increasingly fractured media landscape, there’s really just one thing that’s given us some true hope for the triumph of the human spirit over the rampant rise of cold corporate logic: The continued existence of the petty-ass “Just
LOOK what your father is making me do!” energy that pervades any big conflict between content studios and the service providers who carry their work to the masses. Once upon a time, you would have seen this fight play out between the networks and the cable providers, with the likes of DirecTV and Viacom running massive ad buys to pull guilt trips on each other via their audience, with all the subtlety of two parents navigating to get the kids at
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Sprock yeah! It turns out all it took to kick this season into high gear was a time travel trip back to 2009. “Prom Night!” is an absolute pleasure to watch an hour that delivers all the zippy, big-scale, open-air fun this more dour, claustrophobic season has been missing. And it’s also an episode that really rewards long-time
Supergirl fans. Particularly those with a lengthy memory of the show’s many dangling plot threads. Brainy taking off his personality inhibitors in season five? Nia’s fractured family drama from season four? Kenny Li’s deeply upsetting death from the season three Midvale flashback episode? It all gets addressed here, and all for the better.
Chad tries to explain K-Pop to his family in this exclusive clip
Screenshot: Chad
In her new TBS comedy
Chad, Nasim Pedrad steps into the shoes of a 14-year-old boy, Ferydoon Amani, who changes his name to Chad in an effort to sound more American. Chad distances himself from his Iranian heritage in an attempt to appear more likable and relatable to his school peers, even though his identity bothers no one but him. In fact, Chad would rather embrace other cultures before his own, including his newfound interest in Korean popular music.
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As seen in this exclusive clip from episode four, titled “K-Pop,” Chad sits for dinner with his mother Naz (Saba Homayoon), sister Niki (Ella Mika), and uncle Hamid (the delightful Paul Chahidi). While clumsily slurping down spaghetti, he tries to explain to them what K-Pop is even though it’s “literally one of the most famous things on Earth” as Niki correctly points out and how “it was made for him.” Niki teases him
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