Roxana Hadadi

Baltimore, Washington, D.C., United States

@vulture TV critic, iranian-american. | alum @pajiba @theavclub @crookedmarquee @ebertvoices etc. | SOUND OF METAL @criterion author | https://t.co/3ewvgEAWVy

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Review: ‘Squid Game’ Should Have Quit While It Was Ahead

1 day ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

The most fascinating moments of ‘Squid Game’s third and final season are when it engages with how peculiar it is that the series continued at all.
Nautilus’s Strange Journey to AMC Explains So Much About It

2 days ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

Nautilus is bold in its changes to Captain Nemo’s story — new monsters, new villains — but imitative to other genre series in execution. You don’t need to travel 20,000 leagues under the sea to hop aboard Nautilus, the series based on Jules Verne’s defining 1870 novel. If you have AMC or AMC+, you’re set from your couch! But: Do you want to? Is an origin story about Verne’s mysterious Captain Nemo worth your time?
Jump in, ‘The Waterfront’ Is Fine Summer TV

1 week ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

Holt McCallany brings all his expertise in playing lovably toxic daddies to Buckley family patriarch Harlan. It’s easy to list all the shows The Waterfront will remind you of. There’s the Ozark of it all, as The Waterfront’s Buckley family is drawn into drug dealing and various local and international beefs.
The Lessons Diego Luna Took From Elysium

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

Playing Rogue One and Andor hero Cassian Andor wasn’t the first time Diego Luna fought droids, dodged gunfire from spaceships, and tried to help poverty-stricken migrants crushed under the boot of authoritarian rule. Years before he joined the Star Wars universe, Luna made his sci-fi debut in director Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 film Elysium as Julio, a pigtailed, scene-stealing best friend to main character Max, played by Matt Damon.
How Diego Luna Became the Center of the ‘Andor’ Universe

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

The Andor star refuses to take credit for reshaping Star Wars. He should. Keeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. Keeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. Inside the smaller of two movie theaters at L.A. film mecca Vidiots, Diego Luna is telling me about the time he got detained at Heathrow.
In Diego Luna’s Orbit

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Roxana Hadadi

3 hours agoSo far, 2025 has been one heck of a year, in real life and on TV. Current events are churning out endless eye-popping headlines, and networks and streaming services are going from Thailand to the Arctic to a galaxy far, far away to try to capture your attention and time with new and returning TV …
Kim Dickens Treasured the Deadwood Reunion on The Better Sister

4 weeks ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

Spoilers follow for the miniseries The Better Sister, all eight episodes of which debuted on Prime Video on May 29. Over decades of playing practical, soft-hearted, no-nonsense characters throughout various time periods and apocalyptic situations, Kim Dickens has worked with, as she calls them, “all my Daves.” David Fincher on House of Cards and Gone Girl, Dave Erickson on Sons of Anarchy and Fear the Walking Dead, David Simon on Treme (and almost We Own This City; the timing didn’t work out).
Is This the End of ‘100 Foot Wave’?

4 weeks ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

There’s a wistful, nostalgic air to 100 Foot Wave’s third season that makes it feel like an ending — at least for protagonist Garrett McNamara. Spoilers follow for the third season of 100 Foot Wave, which concluded on HBO on Thursday, May 29. Throughout 100 Foot Wave’s third season, the surfers we’ve watched for years tackling the ocean and hurtling their bodies through roaring cyclone barrels talk about reaching the end of their time on the water. The word finish comes up more than once.
‘The Better Sister’s Ending Goes a Step Beyond the Book

4 weeks ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

Spoilers follow for the Prime Video miniseries The Better Sister, all eight episodes of which debuted on May 29. In the recent TV trend of female-focused crime thrillers, the women tend to get away with it — or at least, the series suggests that they should. If trapped in a situation involving domestic abuse, spousal infidelity, or romantic coercion, any action a woman takes can be justified or understood.
100 Foot Wave Crashes to Shore

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Roxana Hadadi

5 hours agoNow, she's choosing herself. Pamela Anderson has been married five times to four different husbands, including Tommy Lee, Kid Rock, Rick Salomon, and Dan Hayhurst. • Anderson and Lee share two sons, Brandon Thomas and Dylan Jagger. • Anderson has also been linked to Hollywood men Jon Peters, Scott Baio, …