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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Matthew Rhys Jolts Christie’s ‘Towards Zero’ to Life

1 week ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

Britbox’s miniseries adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero is familiarly digestible, but also a little stale — until Rhys’s Inspector Leach shuffles into Gull’s Point. How does one update an Agatha Christie story? Kenneth Branagh has his increasingly elaborate Poirot mustache. Rian Johnson uses his Christie pastiche to swipe at the Trump-coded megarich.
How ‘Universal Language’ Found Poetry in Meaningless Spaces

1 week ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

Spoilers follow for Universal Language, released in theaters February 14 and available for digital rental as of April 8. In the movie Universal Language, Winnipeg becomes a sort of alternate-reality version of Tehran. When filmmaker Matthew Rankin and his co-writers, Ila Firouzabadi and Pirouz Nemati, screened their moviein those cities, the Iranians who saw the film thought it had been made just for them and so did the Canadians.
'Warfare' aims for accuracy : Pop Culture Happy Hour

1 week ago | npr.org | Glen Weldon |Neda Ulaby |Roxana Hadadi |Liz Metzger |Jessica Reedy |Mike Katzif

'Warfare' aims for accuracy Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1245273506/1269082080" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Will Poulter in Warfare. A24 hide caption toggle caption A24 Will Poulter in Warfare. A24 The new film Warfare dispenses with a lot of things you've come to expect from Hollywood war movies.
'Warfare' aims for accuracy : Pop Culture Happy Hour

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Glen Weldon |Neda Ulaby |Roxana Hadadi |Liz Metzger |Jessica Reedy |Mike Katzif

3 hours agoAimee Lou Wood calls SNL parody 'mean and unfunny'The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has called a Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch that impersonated her using exaggerated prosthetic teeth "mean and unfunny". The British actress said the US comedy programme "punched down" on her and suggested the sketch was misogynistic.
‘Yellowjackets’ ’s Real Villain Was Hiding in Plain Sight

1 week ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

The Antler Queen’s ascendancy was the backbone of Yellowjackets’s third season, pushing the show toward a new and necessary phase in both timelines.
The Pitt’s Shawn Hatosy Loved Abbot at First Sight (of the Blood Bag)

1 week ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

“It’s really important to find something to love about every character you play. With Abbot, it was pretty easy — the blood bag, when I read it, I just knew I loved him.” Spoilers follow for the first season of The Pitt through finale episode “9:00 P.M.,” which debuted on Max on April 10.
Will Everyone in the Cast Be Back for Season 2?

1 week ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

We can safely assume senior attendings like Robby (Noah Wyle) and Abbot (Shawn Hatosy) will still be around following season two’s ten-month time jump, but what about the rest of the Pitt crew? Spoilers follow for the first season of The Pitt through season finale “9:00 P.M.,” which premiered on Max on April 10.
World Got You Down? Head North of North.

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

To be frank, things aren’t going great right now. You know, broadly. It’s a bleak time! Within that reality, today’s Netflix premiere of Black Mirror’s seventh season feels redundant. A series that offers dark reflections of how the intersections between big business, government overreach, malevolent technology, and late-stage capitalism grind us all into dust and/or turn us into selfish monsters — we get it, don’t we? There’s not much comfort there.
Walton Goggins Explains Rick & Chelsea ‘White Lotus’ Deaths

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

With Rick Hatchett, The White Lotus actor retraced a journey taken two decades prior. “I understood, intimately, Rick’s frame of mind. I don’t think he’s alone in the world.” “I understood, intimately, Rick’s frame of mind. I don’t think he’s alone in the world.” Spoilers follow for The White Lotus season three finale “Amor Fati.” Rick Hatchett got everything he ever wanted. He found someone who loves and accepts him and makes a vow to value her.
‘Common Side Effects’ Creators on Finale ‘Raid’, Season Two

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Roxana Hadadi

“If anyone takes psilocybin mushrooms, there’s always a feeling of another presence there, or something watching you,” explains co-creator Joe Bennett. “It’s neither good nor evil; it’s just there, and there’s some kind of balance.” Spoilers follow for the first season of Common Side Effects through finale episode “Raid,” which premiered on Adult Swim on March 30.

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11 Apr 25

corny on main: I love TV as a communal experience, I love something we can go through together, I love all your takes, I love the Vibe and the Function and the Form

F♯A♯∞, fka ☕️ @coopercooperco

Watching the timeline become The Pitt pilled over the last few months a real joy btw. Reminded me of a twitter long since gone.

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11 Apr 25

folks, I'm doing my best to get more shawn hatosy on our screens -- we talk about the potential for a #ThePitt NIGHT SHIFT spinoff, the moment hatosy knew he was going to love dr. abbot, and filming that final roof scene with noah wyle under the tutelage of mentor john wells.