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‘Solos’ Review: One Is the Loneliest Number in Bland Sci-Fi Look at Trauma

Not sure if you knew this, but 2020 sucked. Filled with loneliness, isolation, and a lot of time to think about our lives… sounds like the makings of a television series, right? Well, creator Charlie Weil ran with everything we felt as a country last year and turned it into “Solos,” a series of seven […]

‘Solos’: A Corny, Pandemic-Influenced Melodrama That Feels Like Tone-Deaf Celebrities Singing “Imagine” [Review]

Producer/creator David Weil (the writer behind the controversial “Hunters”) returns to Amazon Prime with this week’s “Solos,” a pandemic production filmed in late 2020 that wastes so much talent that it can be almost hard to comprehend how this many award winners fell victim to its thin ideas and manipulative melodrama. They must have been […]

TV Bits: ‘Queer as Folk’ Remake, ‘Friends’ Reunion, ‘Powerpuff Girls,’ ‘Hunters’ Season 2, and More

In this edition of TV Bits: Peacock orders Queer as Folk series reboot Friends reunion special for HBO Max finally sets production date The CW’s Powerpuff Girls live-action series finds its Mojo Jojo Jennifer Jason Leigh joins Hunters season 2 MacGyver canceled at CBS after 5 seasons And more. Peacock announced that it gave a […]

Mahershala Ali Was Directly Involved in Hiring Marvel’s First Black Female Writer for ‘Blade’

Marvel Studios’ upcoming “Blade, the Vampire Slayer” has found a writer in Stacy Osei-Kuffour. That’s in huge part thanks to star Mahershala Ali who, according to The Hollywood Reporter, was directly involved in bringing Osei-Kuffour aboard. A 2019 Primetime Emmy nominee for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for “PEN15,” the playwright turned TV writer […]

‘Blade’: Marvel Studios Hires ‘Watchmen’ & ‘Hunters’ Writer Stacy Osei-Kuffour To Pen Their Vampire Hunter Movie

Marvel‘s “Blade” reboot finally has a screenwriter after their six-month search has concluded. Today, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Marvel has chosen Stacy Osei-Kuffour to write the script for their upcoming feature film that will have two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali in the role of Eric Brooks, aka Blade. Stacy was an editor and […]

Camerimage Winner Frederick Elmes Talks ‘Hunters,’ Capturing New York in the 1970s

Cinematographer Frederick Elmes, who was named as the winner of EnergaCamerimage Film Festival’s First Look – TV Pilots Competition on Saturday for his work on the Amazon series “Hunters,” spoke about the show’s first episode “In the Belly of the Whale” during an online Q&a earlier this week. Elmes explained that the story – following […]

Greg Austin on ‘Hunters’ and Why He Wanted to Play a Psychopath

From co-showrunners David Weil (who also created the series) and Nikki Toscano, the Amazon Prime Video original series Hunters follows a diverse band of Nazi hunters, lead by Meyer Offerman (Al Pacino), living in 1977 New York City, who have discovered that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are living among the population as they work […]

‘Hunters’ Season 2: Creator David Weil Says He Has Five Seasons Planned Out

When it comes to Hunters Season 2, there’s plenty more where that first season came from. The Amazon Prime Video original series launched in February with significant buzz for its story of Nazi hunters working together to track down Nazis living in 1970s America. A cast anchored by Al Pacino also certainly helped matters, and […]

Long Episodes Are Making the ‘Too Much TV’ Era Even Worse — TV Podcast

I remember when extra-long TV episodes were a selling point. If “The X-Files” was airing a two-hour “television event,” Fox would lead its promos with the upped runtime. Finales were given extra gravitas with extended episodes, and sweeps week was filled with mega entries of each network’s highest-rated shows. “Longer” was meant to equal “better,” […]

‘Hunters’ Creator David Weil Responds to Auschwitz Memorial’s Criticism of Historical Inaccuracy in the Series

Being in a disagreement with the official Auschwitz Memorial is not an ideal position for anyone, but given the circumstances, Hunters creator and co-showrunner David Weil seems to be doing it about as respectfully and thoughtfully as possible. Over the weekend, the official Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account criticized the new Amazon series, which stars Al […]

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