Witney Seibold

6 days ago | slashfilm.com | Witney Seibold

The great Angela Lansbury, winner of five Tony Awards and an honorary Oscar, and nominee for three Oscars and 18 Primetime Emmys besides — passed away in 2022 at the age of 96, leaving a legacy so large, it cannot be measured by other mortals in the acting sphere. Lansbury was one of the more versatile actresses of her generation, playing innocent girls, scheming villainesses and murderers, heroes, crones, and loving matrons all with equal aplomb.

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Witney Seibold

On Dan Erickson's hit sci-fi series "Severance," the lead characters have all had specialized computer chips implanted in their brains that can manipulate their memories. When they're in the office, they have no memories of their outside lives, unsure if they even have families or last names. On the outside, they have no memories of being in the office. This bifurcation of their memories means that the "innies" lack certain basic experiences.

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Witney Seibold

In the "Rick and Morty" episode "Meeseeks and Destroy" (January 20, 2014) — a fan favorite, although maybe not one of the best — Rick reveals a miraculous widget called the Meeseeks Box, a device that can manifest a helpful blue alien named Mr. Meeseeks. The eager extra-terrestrial serves as a temporary personal helper, tasked with aiding their summoner in a single, simple task. Once the task has been completed, Mr. Meeseeks breathes a sigh of relief and promptly ceases to exist.

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Witney Seibold

Gene Roddenberry was working as a Los Angeles cop in the mid-1950s when he began his writing career. He flew planes in the army during WWII, and famously survived three plane crashes. He was a commercial airline pilot for a spell before joining the LAPD. This is a wild backstory for a TV writer who would become best known for utopian science fiction. By the time he was a cop, "Star Trek" was still about a decade away.

1 week ago | slashfilm.com | Witney Seibold

In the "Severance" episode "The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design," Mark (Adam Scott) joins his sister Devon (Jen Tullock) at a special birthing retreat where she aims to give birth to her daughter. The retreat is a distant cabin built to encourage a nurturing, relaxed atmosphere, and both Mark and Devon kind of scoff at the hippy-dippiness of it all. The retreat was mostly the idea of Devon's self-help author husband, Ricken (Michael Chernus).