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When Ari Graynor first read “Monsters” Episode 5, her first reaction was to put the script away for as long as possible.

“I was sort of like shaking for 48 hours,” said the actor who plays Leslie Abramson in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s series about Lyle and Erik Menendez. “I… felt nauseous, and was like, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to do this,’ and put it down for a really long time. I knew how special it was and I just felt intimidated by the weight of it, the responsibility of it.”

Episode 5, “The Hurt Man” is one unbroken take of Erik (Cooper Koch) describing the physical and sexual abuse he endured at the hands of his father, José (Javier Bardem). The episode was written by Brennan and directed by Michael Uppendahl, and the focus of a recent conversation with IndieWire at the SAG-AFTRA foundation in New York.

Despite American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez losing focus in the story and the fiction of the drama taking over facts, you can’t deny that the series has been brilliantly acted since the start. Episode 9 saw Josh Andres Rivera’s (who portrays Aaron) talents shine and we can’t wait to see his performance in the upcoming finale.

Spoiler alert! Go stream all nine episodes of Sports Story on Hulu before reading ahead as we will be discussing the final episode of the series.

The sports drama American Sports Story started on a great note. Clever writing and a focused story were presented in the first two episodes, at least in my opinion. Unfortunately, that changed in the third episode, and audiences watched the story drag on. Slowly but surely, more fiction than fact began to present itself in the story.

Still, I kept on watching for the performances,...

After spending four episodes unpacking the troubled lives of Lyle and Erik Menendez, Netflix’s “Monsters” undergoes an intense shift in style in its fifth episode.

Titled “The Hurt Man,” the 33-minute installment plays out in a single take as Erik (Cooper Koch) gives a detailed, emotional account of the childhood abuse that he suffered. Erik’s speech comes after he and his brother have been detained for the murder of their parents Jose and Kitty (Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny), during a conversation with his lawyer Leslie Abramson (Ari Graynor).

It’s a striking divergence for the series, bifurcating its nine-episode season with a conspicuously shorter episode that gives Erik an uninterrupted spotlight to articulate the darkness at the heart of the story — but also strands him from the support of his older brother, Lyle (Nicholas Chavez). In her review of the series, Variety TV critic Aramide Tinubu called...

Remarkably, Cooper Koch held back any emotion when Ryan Murphy first told him that he got the part as Erik Menendez in Netflix’s Monsters.

But when Murphy revealed that Koch would have an entire episode to himself that would involve 34 pages of dialogue and one continuous shot, that’s when the actor said he broke down in tears.

“I grew up doing theater and I love plays. The fact that I was getting the opportunity to do a play in television form was just so full circle for me,” Koch tells Deadline. “I was so excited and happy that [my character] was going to get that amount of time to unveil his truth and his perspective and on what happened to him. I just felt so grateful.”

Here, Koch — whose previous experience includes small roles in Power Book II: Ghost and the 2019 TV Movie Less Than Zero — talks about what it...

Before “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” even started shooting, Cooper Koch already had the script for “The Hurt Man” memorized. That’s how vital the Netflix star knew Episode 5 was to Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s drama.

“I read it every day leading up to [filming]. I had this groove for a long time, I read it before I went to bed,” Koch, who plays Erik Menendez, told TheWrap of Episode 5 of the show. “I really tried to get all of those memories to be so real and specific for me, so that when I recounted them, they would evoke an emotional response.”

Unlike the rest of Season 2’s hourlong episodes, “The Hurt Man” clocks in at only 34 minutes. Over the course of one continuous shot, Koch’s Erik details to his attorney Leslie Abrahamson (Ari Graynor) all of the mental, physical and sexual abuse he experienced at...

Last year, Netflix’s true-crime limited series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” received 13 Emmy nominations and scored a major win for supporting actress Niecy Nash-Betts. That came after the victories for lead actor Evan Peters at the Golden Globes and Nash-Betts at the Critics Choice Awards. Flash-forward to 2024, and the second installment of the franchise, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” now hopes to follow in the award-winning footsteps of its predecessor.

This project tells the story of how and why Lyle Menendez (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik Menendez (Cooper Koch) killed their parents, José Menendez (Javier Bardem) and Kitty Menendez (Chloë Sevigny), in their affluent Beverly Hills home in 1989. Other main cast members include Ari Graynor as Erik’s lawyer Leslie Abramson and Nathan Lane as journalist Dominick Dunne.

A notable highlight is Episode 5, “The Hurt Man,” which is told in a single 33-minute camera take as an...

“Monsters” Episode 5, “The Hurt Man,” is dedicated solely to Erik Menendez’s point of view. Sitting in a prison meeting room, talking to his attorney Leslie Abramson (Ari Graynor), Erik (Cooper Koch) recounts “all of that” — everything in his life that led he and his brother, Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez), to murder their parents, José (Javier Bardem) and Kitty Menendez (Chloë Sevigny). And he does. Erik remembers the four different ways his father raped him as an 8 year old. He remembers the childlike names he gave each version — simple, evocative labels like “knees” and “mouth massage.” He remembers the “real torture” of his years spent being sexually, physically, and emotionally abused by his dad: “to still love him.” He remembers how their mother allowed it to happen, even sensing she was jealous of her husband’s obscene relationship with their son. Near the end, Erik remembers when he realized what...

For 35 minutes in the middle of its nine-episode run, Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story does something special.

The fifth chapter, titled “The Hurt Man,” was written by series co-creator Ian Brennan and directed by Michael Uppendahl. It’s a single-shot conversation between Erik Menendez (Cooper Koch) and his attorney Leslie Abramson (Ari Graynor). The camera begins several feet behind Abramson and inches imperceptibly closer to Erik as he recalls his history of sexual abuse at the hands of his tyrannical father, José (Javier Bardem).

It’s a stunt, but the entire show is a stunt, so why quibble? The writing is precise, uncomfortably explicit and haunting. The formal simplicity serves its purpose, building breathless tension and putting a spotlight on Koch, who strips himself emotionally bare. We see the impact that the expurgation of these memories is having on Erik and, because we cannot see Abramson’s face,...

Plot: The limited series charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez and explores the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide and their legacy in sports and American culture.

Review: The fourth series in Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s American Story franchise, American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez blends a tale focused on a famous athlete with the criminal angle of related series like American Crime Story. The nineteenth volume in the ongoing franchise, Aaron Hernandez is a story that fits right at home alongside Murphy and Falchuk’s subject matter. There are mental illness, murder, celebrity, and queer storylines in abundance, with a new angle that intends to be something of an indictment of the world of college and professional football. However, rather than make a decisive commentary about how the NCAA and NFL have failed to protect players both medically and socially,...

The ten-episode series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (read our review Here) was such a huge success for the Netflix streaming service back in 2022 that Netflix ordered two more seasons of the show from its creators, Ian Brennan and American Horror Story co-creator Ryan Murphy. Last year, it was announced that the second season would be titled Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, and we’re now just a couple of days away from the premiere date! Monsters is set to start streaming on September 19th… and in the build-up to the season’s premiere, Murphy has gone ahead and revealed that season 3 is going to star Sons of Anarchy‘s Charlie Hunnam as murderer and graverobber Ed Gein.

Variety reports that Murphy made this announcement onstage during a Monsters promotional event in Los Angeles.

Variety also reminds us that Ed Gein, who also hailed from Wisconsin like Dahmer,...

Charlie Hunnam will star in “Monster” Season 3 at Netflix as notorious serial killer Ed Gein.

Series co-creator Ryan Murphy made the announcement onstage during a promotional event in Los Angeles for “Monster” Season 2, which focuses on the Menendez brothers and the murder of their parents. The first season of the anthology series focused on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Gein, who also hailed from Wisconsin like Dahmer, became infamous in the 1950s when authorities discovered that he not only had killed multiple people, but had dug up graves from a cemetery near his home and fashioned all manner of household items and clothing from human remains. Gein’s case served as an inspiration for several major pop culture characters later on, including Norman Bates in “Psycho” and Buffalo Bill in “Silence of the Lambs.”

This marks the latest newly announced TV role for Hunnam. It was reported in May that he...

José and Kitty Menendez make their Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story debut in the final trailer for the Netflix anthology series, unmasking the now-deceased parents of the real-life brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez.

Following a teaser trailer that hinted at cracks in the family, and the first official trailer focusing on the Menendez brothers after their parents were killed, the new nearly three-minute look at Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s latest Monsters installment brings José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez into a dark spotlight. The 10-episode season releases Sept. 19 on Netflix.

The trailer opens with a tension-building conversation between Barden’s José and son Lyle, portrayed by Nicholas Chavez, where José compares his son to a disobeying dog. “I think that I didn’t hit you hard enough,” says José, before slapping his son across the face. “So as a father, that is my fault. And I’m sorry.

Netflix has released the official trailer for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, which will be available on the streaming service on September 19, 2024, at midnight Pt.

Following the massive success of Dahmer, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s true-crime anthology series returns on Netflix with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

The new series chronicles the case of the real-life brothers who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez.

While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed – and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without the possibility of parole – that their actions stemmed out of fear from a lifetime of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of their parents.

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story dives into the historic case that took the world by storm...

The ten-episode series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (read our review Here) was such a huge success for the Netflix streaming service back in 2022 that Netflix ordered two more seasons of the show from creators Ian Brennan and American Horror Story co-creator Ryan Murphy. Last year, it was announced that the second season would be titled Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story – and we’re now just a few weeks away from the premiere date! Monsters is set to start streaming on September 19th, and today, a trailer has arrived online. The trailer can be seen in the embed above, depicting the brothers’ warped mentality as they celebrate their cold-blooded crime.

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story will chronicle the case of the real-life brothers who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez. While the prosecution argued they...

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is ready to dive into the trial that became a sensation with its new trailer.

The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan follows the well-known case of real-life brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez. The first teaser trailer for the limited Netflix series had focused on a portrait of the “perfect” family, with cracks appearing to establish a dark tone, and hinted at the claims made by Lyle and Erik that they were subjected to years of sexual abuse at the hands of their father, José.

The first full trailer now released on Wednesday (below), dives much deeper, showing José (played by Javier Bardem) getting physical with his sons, with the preview alluding to more. The footage begins with the brothers (played by...

Ryan Murphy is putting Chloë Sevigny and Javier Bardem in the forefront for his latest true-crime anthology installment “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.”

Murphy may no longer be under his Netflix overall deal — he’s at Disney now — but the Menendez “Monsters” will be on Netflix as the anthology series pre-dates the move. The Jeffrey Dahmer “Monster” is Netflix’s third-most-watched season of (English-language) television in its recorded history.

This second installment captures the murders of couple Mary Louise “Kitty” (Sevigny) and José Menendez (Bardem), who were killed by their sons Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (Cooper Koch). The boys were convicted in 1996 after arguing that they killed their parents over abuse.

The official synopsis for the series reads: “While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed — and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without the...

Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for Season 2 of its political thriller “The Diplomat.”

The trailer gives us our first look at Allison Janney as Vice President Grace Penn and answers one of the biggest questions fans had at the end of Season 1.

“A deadly explosion in the heart of London shatters U.S. Ambassador Kate Wyler’s world (Keri Russell). Struggling to rebuild the lives that broke and the team that split apart, Kate’s worst fears unfold: The attack that brought her to the U.K. didn’t come from a rival nation, it came from inside the British government,” reads the series’ log line.

“As Kate chases the truth, her only real ally is her almost ex-husband Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), who is very much alive and very much involved. She faces a fraught marriage, a complex dynamic with British Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison (David Gyasi), and...

Netflix on Tuesday dropped an unsettling new teaser trailer promoting “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” – the second true-crime anthology from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan – that premieres on September 19. The nine-part limited series follows the Emmy-winning 2022 saga “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” that earned a statuette for Niecy Nash-Betts. The streamer released the nearly minute-long teaser that serves to drum up interest in a story that became the stuff of tabloid legend. Watch the new trailer above.

“Monsters” chronicles the real-life case of brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who on August 20, 1989 murdered their wealthy parents Jose and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez in the den of their Beverly Hills home. They were convicted of the ghastly crime in 1996. However, the logline for the series reads, “While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed – and remain adamant to this day, as they serve...

Following the massive success of Dahmer, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s true-crime anthology series returns on Netflix with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story on September 19, 2024.

The new series chronicles the case of the real-life brothers who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez.

While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed – and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without the possibility of parole – that their actions stemmed out of fear from a lifetime of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of their parents.

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story dives into the historic case that took the world by storm and paved the way for audiences’ modern-day fascination with true crime. In return, it asks those audiences: Who are the real monsters?

The regular cast...

Chloë Sevigny and Javier Bardem are the opposite of one happy family.

The duo star as the ill-fated couple Mary Louise “Kitty” and José Menendez, who were both brutally murdered by their sons Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (Cooper Koch). Their sons were convicted in 1996 after alleging they killed their parents over abuse. The infamous case is fictionalized in the latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” anthology series at Netflix with “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” following Emmy-winning “Dahmer — Monster.”

The official synopsis reads: “While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed — and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without the possibility of parole — that their actions stemmed out of fear from a lifetime of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of their parents. ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’ dives into...

Netflix has dropped the first teaser for “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” which will debut on Sept. 19.

“The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” is the second installment of Ryan Murphy’s true crime anthology series, “Monsters,” which debuted in 2022 with the chilling story of serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, starring Evan Peters.

Season 2 will follow the 1996 conviction of the Menendez brothers for the murders of their parents. Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch lead the series as Lyle and Erik Menendez, while Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny will play José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez.

The cast also includes Nathan Lane as Dominick Dunne, Ari Graynor as Leslie Abramson, Leslie Grossman as Judalon Smyth, Dallas Roberts as Dr. Jerome Oziel, Paul Adelstein as David Conn, Jason Butler Harner as detective Les Zoeller, Enrique Murciano as Carlos Baralt, Michael Gladis as Tim Rutten, Drew Powell as detective Tom Linehan, Charlie Hall as Craig Cignarelli,...

Netflix has dropped the first look of its upcoming series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.” All episodes of the drama will premiere on the streamer globally Sept. 19.

The teaser starts with a family photo of José (Javier Bardem), Kitty (Chloë Sevigny), Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (Cooper Koch) Menendez. After the seemingly perfect portrait is taken, all of their faces fall.

“I need to know what’s going on with you and the boys,” Kitty says in a voiceover as the camera continues to click.

“What do you mean?” her husband José responds.

“I need to know. I don’t want there to be anymore lies between us,” Kitty insists. “I won’t tell anyone.”

“It is over. Stop. I’m going to fix this family,” José says. At that point, José and Kitty walk out of frame. As Lyle and Erik watch them leave,...

Netflix announced Tuesday morning that it’s rolling out “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” – the second true-crime anthology from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan – on September 19. The nine-part limited series follows the Emmy-winning 2022 saga “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” that earned a statuette for Niecy Nash-Betts. The streamer concurrently released a 48-second teaser trailer that serves to drum up interest in a story that became the stuff of tabloid legend. Watch the trailer above.

“Monsters” chronicles the real-life case of brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who on August 20, 1989 murdered their wealthy parents Jose and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez in the den of their Beverly Hills home. They were convicted of the ghastly crime in 1996. However, the logline for the series reads, “While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed – and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without...

The ten episode series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (read our review Here) was such a huge success for the Netflix streaming service back in 2022, Netflix ordered two more seasons of the show from creators Ian Brennan and American Horror Story co-creator Ryan Murphy. Last year, it was announced that the second season will be titled Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story – and now we’re only one month away from the premiere date! Netflix has announced that Monsters is set to start streaming on September 19th, and along with that announcement comes the unveiling of a teaser video, which can be seen in the embed above.

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story will chronicle the case of the real-life brothers who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez. While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune,...

Javier Bardem is making his Ryan Murphy debut with the highly-anticipated follow-up to “Dahmer — Monster.” Yet this time, Murphy is bringing another harrowing ’90s true crime story to the screen with the Menendez murders.

Bardem stars alongside longtime Murphy collaborator Chloë Sevigny as José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, who were both brutally murdered by their sons Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (Cooper Koch). The duo were convicted in 1996. Their case will be the latest installment of the “Monster” anthology series at Netflix with “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.”

The official synopsis reads: “While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed — and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without the possibility of parole — that their actions stemmed out of fear from a lifetime of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of their parents. ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story...

Two years after the release of “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan are returning to Netflix with their latest harrowing saga. “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” will premiere globally on Netflix Sept. 19.

The first teaser for the series sticks to the facts of this chilling case. Bight white text reads “On August 20, 1989 Lyla and Erik Menendez murdered their parents.” the teaser then shows the two brothers entering José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez’s Beverly Hills mansion, shotguns in tow.

No words are spoken as the brothers enter the mansion and cock their weapons. The only other sound that can be heard is the fearful panting of an unknown person. Watch the full teaser below:

Following the success of “The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” Netflix expanded Murphy’s “Monster” saga into an anthology series — a common practice for the executive producer known for...

The second season of Ryan Murphy’s Monsters series has a launch date: Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story will release on Netflix on Sept. 19.

This next installment in Murphy and Ian Brennan’s true-crime anthology series follows Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the miniseries about Jeffrey Dahmer, played by Evan Peters, that launched in 2022. After that series became a monster hit for the streamer, Netflix ordered two more installments and turned the series into an anthology that will tell “stories of other monstrous figures who have impacted society.”

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story will follow the well-known case of real-life brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, Jose and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez.

The synopsis reads: “While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed — and remain adamant to this day,...

As Netflix’s The Decameron begins, nearly all of our characters are retreating. They might not put it in quite those terms, but it’s exactly what these characters are doing: flocking to the “beautiful, not-infected countryside,” as one character puts it, in hopes of waiting out the Black Plague currently tearing through the continent.

But it doesn’t matter how hard they try to get into “the holiday state of mind,” or how desperately some of them might hope to reorient their fortunes while away. It almost doesn’t even matter how insistently real life intrudes on their getaway. The Decameron is a fitfully funny, occasionally poignant testament to the truism that no matter the circumstances, people will always find a way to be people, in all our petty or horny or heroic glory.

From the moment The Decameron‘s nobles and attendants arrive at the Villa Santa, at...

"The Decameron" is a new 8-episode sex-comedy TV series, set in the 14th century, created by Kathleen Jordan and directed by Michael Uppendahl, starring Tony Hale and Zosia Mamet, streaming July 25, 2024 on Netflix:

“…in the year 1348, the ‘Black Death’ strikes hard in the city of Florence…

“…as a handful of nobles retreat with their servants…

“…to a grand villa to wait out the plague with a lavish holiday of debauchery.

“But as social rules wear thin, a scramble for survival ensues, brought to life…

“…by a cast of over-sexed characters both cunning and outrageous…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

Netflix has revealed the official full trailer for the soapy dark comedy series ‘The Decameron.’

You are cordially invited to a wine-soaked sex romp set in the Italian countryside. The Decameron is a soapy dark comedy that examines the all-too-timely theme of class struggles in the season of a pandemic. In the year 1348, the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence, and a handful of nobles retreat with their servants to a grand villa to wait out the plague with a lavish holiday. But as social rules wear thin, a scramble for survival ensues, brought to life by a cast of characters both cunning and outrageous.

Created by Kathleen Jordan, who was very loosely inspired by the 14-century story collection The Decameron, the eight-episode series is through Jenji Kohan’s Tilted Productions. Kohan serves as an executive producer, alongside Jordan, director Michael Uppendahl, and Tilted’s Blake McCormick and Tara Herrmann.

Netflix has revealed the trailer and key art for the dark comedy series The Decameron, starring Tony Hale, Zosia Mamet, and Saoirse-Monica Jackson. The eight-episode series will launch on July 25, 2024.

You are cordially invited to a wine-soaked sex romp set in the Italian countryside. The Decameron is a soapy, dark comedy that examines the all-too-timely theme of class struggles in the season of a pandemic.

In the year 1348, the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence, and a handful of nobles retreat with their servants to a grand villa to wait out the plague with a lavish holiday. But as social rules wear thin, a scramble for survival ensues, brought to life by a cast of characters both cunning and outrageous.

Created by Kathleen Jordan, who was very loosely inspired by the 14-century story collection The Decameron, the series is brought to you by Jenji Kohan’s Tilted Productions.

The deadliest pandemic in history has a saucy bunch of nobles in medieval Italy entangled in a countryside sex romp in the official trailer for Netflix’s The Decameron.

“I’ve been having sinful thoughts,” Lou Gala, who plays Neifile, a God-fearing and highly sexual young guest at a countryside villa during the Black Death pandemic, says at one point in the trailer for the series. (Think Love Island, with people also infiltrating a villa for temptation, but taking place in the hills of Tuscany in 1348.)

Social rules among the nobility and their servants eventually wear thin during this soapy dramedy from creator/showrunner Kathleen Jordan and executive producer Jenji Kohan as a wine-soaked sex romp ensues. People then begin to die but more from an orgy of riches and wine that has everyone scrambling for survival.

Inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century literary tale The Decameron, the Netflix eight-parter...

Fans of “Bridgerton,” get ready for a different kind of period piece.

Netflix’s latest soap series “The Decameron” centers on the “wine-soaked sex romp” that was paramount to 14th century Florence, apparently. Per the official synopsis, “The Decameron” is a soapy dark comedy that examines the all-too-timely theme of class struggles in the season of a pandemic. In the year 1348, the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence, and a handful of nobles retreat with their servants to a grand villa to wait out the plague with a lavish holiday. But as social rules wear thin, a scramble for survival ensues, brought to life by a cast of characters both cunning and outrageous.

The eight-episode series is created by Kathleen Jordan, who was very loosely inspired by the 14-century story collection “The Decameron.” The show is produced through Jenji Kohan’s Tilted Productions, with Kohan serving as...

Updated with full trailer: After the initial sensual teaser set to New Order’s “Blue Monday,” Netflix has now released a full-length trailer for The Decameron, its dark comedy starring Tony Hale, Zosia Mamet and Saoirse-Monica Jackson.

Set in the year 1348 when the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence, it follows a handful of nobles who retreat with their servants to a grand villa to wait out the plague with a lavish holiday. But as social rules wear thin, a scramble for survival ensues, brought to life by a cast of characters both cunning and outrageous. The trailer, which you can watch above, provides a glimpse into that.

The Decameron premieres July 25 on Netflix. See additional series details below.

Previous, July 10: Ready for a wine-soaked sex romp in the Italian countryside? Netflix has set July 25 for the premiere of The Decameron, Netflix‘s soapy period dramedy...

Netflix has pulled back the velvet curtain on the teaser trailer for the upcoming series ‘The Decameron.’

The Decameron is a soapy dark comedy that examines the all-too-timely theme of class struggles in the season of a pandemic. In the year 1348, the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence, and a handful of nobles retreat with their servants to a grand villa to wait out the plague with a lavish holiday. But as social rules wear thin, a scramble for survival ensues, brought to life by a cast of characters both cunning and outrageous.

The cast includes Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad, Lou Gala, Karan Gill, Tony Hale, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Zosia Mamet, Douggie McMeekin, Jessica Plummer, Tanya Reynolds

Created by Kathleen Jordan, who was very loosely inspired by the 14-century story collection The Decameron, the eight-episode series is through Jenji Kohan’s Tilted Productions. Kohan serves as an executive producer,...

Period comedy The Decameron is coming to Netflix, and here’s the trailer for the brand new eight episode show.

It seems that period comedies are coming back into vogue. A few months ago we got Andy Riley’s fun Dark Ages romp Seize Them!, with Derry Girls star Nicola Coghlan, Aimee Lou Wood and Nick Frost.

Another Derry Girls alumnus, Saoirse Monica-Jackson, stars in The Decameron, which is coming to Netflix next month.

A prescient comedy, the show examines how people of that generation dealt with a worldwide pandemic, and the chasm between the rich and the poor.

The synopsis reads as follows:

You are cordially invited to a wine-soaked sex romp set in the Italian countryside… The Decameron is a soapy dark comedy that examines the all-too-timely theme of class struggles in the season of a pandemic. In the year 1348, the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence,...

"The Decameron" is a new 8-episode comedy TV series, created by Kathleen Jordan and set in the 14th Century, directed by Michael Uppendahl, starring Tony Hale and Zosia Mamet, streaming July 25, 2024 on Netflix:

“…in the year 1348, the ‘Black Death’ strikes hard in the city of Florence and a handful of nobles…

“…retreat with their servants to a grand villa to wait out the plague with a lavish holiday of debauchery.

“But as social rules wear thin, a scramble for survival ensues, brought to life by a cast of over-sexed characters both cunning and outrageous…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

Netflix has just released the teaser trailer for the upcoming dark comedy The Decameron. The show is a limited series that is set to run for eight episodes and is slated to hit the streamer on July 25. The cast includes an ensemble of actors, which features names like Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad, Lou Gala, Karan Gill, Tony Hale, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Zosia Mamet, Douggie McMeekin, Jessica Plummer and Tanya Reynolds. The teaser cheekily calls the subject of the show “The Party of the 14th Century” with New Order’s “Blue Monday” providing background for the madness.

The official synopsis reads,

“You are cordially invited to a wine-soaked sex romp set in the Italian countryside. The Decameron is a soapy dark comedy that examines the all-too-timely theme of class struggles in the season of a pandemic. In the year 1348, the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence, and a handful...

Exclusive: Industry Entertainment co-founder Keith Addis and former Industry colleague Michael Abrams are set to launch Constellation Media Group.

Addis co-founded Addis-Wechsler in 1989 and has been at the firm throughout its evolution into Industry Entertainment. Abrams joined the company in 2009 following two years at The Endeavor Agency in New York.

Their client list includes Jeff Goldblum, Ted Danson, Dylan McDermott, Jayne Atkinson, Griffin Dunne, Jennifer Beals, Sam Waterston, Drew Tarver, Ed Begley Jr, Harry Hamlin, Dean Norris, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Dave Foley, Anthony Lapaglia, Michel Gill, Eion Bailey, Margot Bingham and director/producer Michael Uppendahl. Their new office is located in the Beverly Hills triangle.

Addis and Abrams recently Executive Produced 2 seasons of the Emmy nominated series The World According to Jeff Goldblum for Nat Geo / Disney+.

“After 34 years at Industry, Michael and I felt it was the right time to start something new and nimble to better navigate through these exciting and challenging times.

Warning: contains spoilers for Mad Men season four.

Everything about Ida Blankenship is a punchline. From the spilt Scrabble tiles clatter of her name, to her gravelly voice and chewed-on Brooklyn vowels, to the old lady wig and post-cataract lenses used to age up and disguise the glamour of actor Randee Heller, the Mad Men character exists purely as a gag. A relatively rare one, in a show mostly fixated on existential emptiness.

The point of Miss Blankenship when she finally appears as comic relief in season four is that she’s not sexually desirable. Ad company office manager Joan billets her at Don Draper’s desk after he’s used up and discarded another in a long line of nubile young secretaries. The braying old woman’s a failsafe; she’s the bromide in Don’s coffee.

Miss Blankenship’s lack of allure is exactly what makes her reputation...

Italy’s Cinecittà studios have returned to profit one year ahead of the schedule set in its 2022 to 2026 industrial plan, aimed at returning the facility to its former glory as a major international filming hub.

It is the first time the complex’s results have been in the black since it was taken back under state control in 2017, after being run into the ground under private ownership for more than two decades.

Parent body Cinecittà S.p.A announced a $1.9 million (1.8 million euros) net profit for 2022, and a doubling of turnover to $42.3 million (39 million euros) against 2021, mainly on the back of a raft of bookings for the facilities.

The company said the complex had been booked to above 75% capacity in 2022, against 31% in 2021, a trend that has continued into 2023.

Detailing the $42 million turnover, Cinecittà S.p.A said $37.4 million (34.5 million euros) was related to the soundstages, venues, and set designs, with...

The long and storied history of Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches will continue to be told at AMC.

The cabler announced Friday that a second season of the Alexandra Daddario-led series has been ordered.

The series has outperformed Interview With the Vampire, which exists in the same universe as Mayfair Witches.

Mayfair Witches launched to record numbers for AMC+, and based on the first 30 days of viewership, the series is delivering the most-viewed season of any series on AMC+.

Yes, it even beats out the final season of The Walking Dead.

"We are thrilled with the reaction to this series, especially in the wake of the incredibly strong reception to Interview, and can't wait to bring the fans second seasons of both series in this rich, vibrant and expanding universe based on the works of Anne Rice," said AMC Networks entertainment president and AMC Studios head Dan McDermott.

"In...

AMC Networks will remain under the spell of the Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, renewing the supernatural drama for a second season, TVLine has learned.

Mayfair Witches stars Alexandra Daddario as Rowan Fielding, a neurosurgeon who discovers that she’s actually a powerful witch, one whose family has been haunted by a sinister figure for generations.

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“Mayfair Witches” has been renewed for Season 2 at AMC.

The drama, which serves as the second series in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe on AMC and AMC+, opened to a solid .11 rating in adults 18-49 on linear for its Jan. 8 premiere. Per AMC, the series bested “Interview with the Vampire” as the No. 1 new series premiere on AMC+ is currently the most-viewed season of any series ever on AMC+ based on the first 30 days of viewership.

Production on season two is expected to begin later this year in New Orleans.

“We are thrilled with the reaction to this series, especially in the wake of the incredibly strong reception to Interview, and can’t wait to bring the fans second seasons of both series in this rich, vibrant and expanding universe based on the works of Anne Rice,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks. “In...

The Anne Rice universe at AMC will continue to grow.

The cable outlet has picked up a second season of Mayfair Witches, based on Rice’s trio of novels about a doctor (Alexandra Daddario) who discovers she is the heir to a family of witches. The renewal comes midway through the show’s first season and follows that of Interview With the Vampire, which was picked up ahead of its series debut in October.

“We are thrilled with the reaction to this series, especially in the wake of the incredibly strong reception to Interview, and can’t wait to bring the fans second seasons of both series in this rich, vibrant and expanding universe based on the works of Anne Rice,” said Dan McDermott, AMC Networks entertainment president and AMC Studios head. “In a business in which ‘nobody knows anything,’ we knew what we were hoping for in terms of...

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches is set to fly again after being renewed for a second season at AMC.

The cable network is bringing back the series, which along with Interview with a Vampire is part of its extended Anne Rice universe, after becoming its number one new series premiere on its streaming service AMC+.

This comes despite a plethora of recent cancelations at AMC Networks. The company pulled Demascus and Invitation to a Bonfire as well as second seasons of Pantheon, Moonhaven and 61st Street, which were in various stages of completion and production, as part of a major cost-cutting drive.

Mayfair Witches, which is based on Rice’s trilogy of books, focuses on an intuitive young neurosurgeon, Rowan Fielding, played by Alexandra Daddario, who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a...

Shooting on Netflix’s “The Decameron” has kicked off at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, where the lavish period soap will be based for the next six months.

The U.S. show, which is being made entirely in Italy, marks one of the biggest international productions lured by the storied studios in recent years.

Hailing from executive producer Jenji Kohan and creator/showrunner Kathleen Jordan (“Teenage Bounty Hunters”), the eight-episode drama takes place in 1348, as the Black Death pandemic strikes hard in the city of Florence. A handful of nobles are invited to retreat with their servants to a grand villa in the Italian countryside and wait out the pestilence with a lavish holiday. But as social rules wear thin, what starts as a wine-soaked sex romp in the hills of Tuscany descends into an all out scramble for survival.

Michael Uppendahl (“Mad Men”) is directing four of the eight episodes,...

Season one of AMC’s Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches continues with episode three, “Second Line.” Episode three finds Rowan continuing her quest to discover more about her family. “Second Line” will air on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 9pm Et/Pt.

Alexandra Daddario leads the cast as Rowan Fielding. Season one also stars Jack Huston (Fargo) as Lasher, Tongayi Chirisa (Another Life) as Ciprien Grieve, and Harry Hamlin (Mad Men) as Cortland Mayfair. Beth Grant plays Carlotta, Hannah Alline is Suzanne, and Jen Richards is Jojo.

Esta Spalding (Masters of Sex) is the showrunner, writer, and executive producer. In addition, Michelle Ashford writes and executive produces along with director Michael Uppendahl, Jeff Freilich, and Mark Johnson.

“Second Line” Plot: In the aftermath of Deirdre’s grisly death, Rowan searches for safety in a strange city; Sip provides Rowan with a safe house while he investigates Deirdre’s murder; Lasher makes contact...

Second Series in AMC’s Growing Anne Rice Immortal Universe Delivers 1.7 Million Viewers Within Three Days on Linear Networks, Strong Social Buzz

New York, NY, January 13, 2023 – The series premiere of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches dethroned last year’s Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire to become the #1 new series premiere in the history of AMC+, based on the first five days of viewership on the streaming platform. This second series in a growing Anne Rice Immortal Universe on AMC and AMC+ also delivered 1.7 million viewers on the company’s linear networks in Nielsen live+3 ratings. The linear performance makes Mayfair a top 10 cable drama for the 2022/23 television season in both the adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 demos.

Mayfair also dominated social media on premiere night. It was the #1 most social entertainment show on Sunday night, with hundreds of thousands of interactions, and drove the most social activity of...

AMC’s Anne Rice TV universe is proving to be worth the investment, with the latest show in the lineup, “Mayfair Witches,” dethroning the first title, “Interview With the Vampire,” as AMC+’s biggest ever new series premiere.

Debuting at 9 p.m. Jan. 8 on AMC and AMC+, along with a multi-network simulcast across AMC Networks’ BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV and We TV, the first episode of the Alexandra Daddario-led “Mayfair Witches” garnered more viewers during its first five days of availability on the streaming platform than “Interview,” the previous record holder, had over that same window after its Oct. 2 premiere.

Looking at linear ratings alone, the “Mayfair Witches” premiere drew 1.7 million viewers, per Nielsen’s Live + 3 day data. Those returns make “Mayfair” a top 10 cable drama among adults 18-49 and 25-54 for the 2022-2023 TV season.

AMC notes “Mayfair” stirred up quite the conversation on premiere night, counting as...