Poker Face on Peacock
Your fave scruffy New Yorker is back: multiple-award-winner Natasha Lyonne graces the small screen again in season two of Poker Face. This human lie detector is back on the run this spring in her Plymouth Barracuda to accidentally solve crimes, and this season she is being joined by Cynthia Erivo, Melanie Lynskey, Alia Shawkat, Awkwafina, Carol Kane, Ego Nwodim, Patti Harrison, Lili Taylor, John Mulaney, and Method Man, just to name a few.
Big Mouth on Netflix
Go take a bubble bath, because it is time to say goodbye to Connie the Hormone Monstress. After eight hilarious seasons it looks like Jessi and Nick finally made it through puberty. Voiced by Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Maya Rudolph, Ayo Edebiri, Jenny Slate, and so many more of your favorite comedians, don’t miss this final season of songs, embarrassing situations, and the perfect theme song for going through changes.
Pee-wee as Himself on HBO
Prior to his death, the former BUST Boy Du Jour and legend was interviewed for this two-part documentary about his life as both Paul Reubens and his alter ego Pee-wee. The film provides a rare glimpse of Reubens out of character, and he goes deep into how Pee-wee was created, his inspiration, his creative process, his personal struggles, and what he felt he had to hide from the world to maintain his career.
The Four Seasons on Netflix
Tina Fey co-wrote and stars in this new series that follows a group of six old friends that meet up for a relaxing getaway and find out that one of the couples in their friend group is breaking up. The series follows them throughout the year as their friend dynamic changes and old problems start coming to the surface. Also starring Will Forte, Steve Carell, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Colman Domingo, and Marco Calvani. Not as ridiculously funny as 30 Rock, but you will still get some solid laughs in this “grownups can still grow” comedy, which starts streaming May 1.
Guerrilla Girls: Making Trouble at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Celebrating their 40th anniversary, this exhibit showcases more than 30 iconic prints and other works from the group of anonymous, activist artists spanning from 1985 to 2007. Known for wearing gorilla masks to conceal their identity and their in-your-face street art campaigns—which they plastered on billboards, banners, and buildings—that used bold graphics to denounce discrimination, the Guerrilla Girls started an art revolution. Get your political art fix April 12 through September 28.
Abortion Stories
With abortion access under constant attack, it’s important to remember this is not a new fight and the battle for women’s bodily autonomy is one we must keep fighting. Abortion Stories is a collection that includes works by Shirley Chisholm, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Langston Hughes, Eugene O’Neill, and Edgar Allan Poe. The collection of essays and personal stories is edited by Karen Weingarten with an afterword by reproductive rights activist Renee Bracey Sherman. Out from Penguin Classics March 4.
SZA the Grand National Tour
It is an SOS! We all know SZA slayed at the Super Bowl with Kendrick, and now the pair are setting off on a 39-show tour starting April 19. It’s sure to sell out, so put your ass into drive and head over to szasos.com to see if she is coming to your town.
Happy Face on Paramount+
This series was inspired by the true-life story of Melissa G. Moore (played by Annaleigh Ashford), who at 15 found out her father was the prolific serial killer known as “Happy Face” (Dennis Quaid). The show follows Melissa, now an adult, whose father is serving a life sentence in prison and has found a way to force himself back into her life. Premiering March 20, this is a must-watch for true crime fans.
The Wedding Banquet
Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang, and Han Gi-Chan star in this queer rom-com. A gay man plans to marry his female friend for a green card and in exchange he will pay for her and her partner’s IVF treatment. Things get out of hand when his grandmother makes a surprise visit to meet the fiancée and insists on planning a fancy Korean wedding. They all have to play it straight but things don’t exactly go as planned. This marriage mayhem hits theaters April 18.
Forever on Netflix
Judy Blume’s 1975 novel Forever… about teenage sexuality has been attacked by censorship zealots for years. The beloved teen classic is getting an update and the small-screen treatment. Streaming May 8, the show follows Lovie Simone and Michael Cooper Jr. as two teens who try to navigate school, parents, relationships and being each other’s firsts. The show brings the 1975 classic book into the 2020s, and it is required viewing for both teens and for adults, who will also appreciate the nostalgia factor if they were raised on Blume. And maybe, just maybe, one day censors will realize these are important stories to tell and stop trying to ban the OG novel.
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