Anna Govert

Photo Courtesy of HBO TV Features HBO Max 0 Let them think what they must. I am at last myself, with no ambition greater than to walk where I please, to breathe the open air, to die unremarked, unnoticed, and be free. Throughout House of the Dragon’s…

Photo Courtesy of HBO TV Features HBO Max It’s finally official: Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) is queer. The revelation, which came in the final minutes of Episode 6 of House of the Dragon’s second season, is not all that shocking—especially for…

Series stars Chandler Kinney, Bailee Madison, Malia Pyles, Maia Reficco, and Zaria break down the relationships and teenage trauma that ground Summer School's campy horror. Photo Courtesy of Max TV Features HBO Max In any good horror story, it’s…

Photo Courtesy of Max TV Features HBO Max Since the advent of the genre, horror has had a shaky track record when it comes to handling storylines surrounding rape and sexual assault. The entire subgenre of rape revenge horror flicks is littered with…

Editor’s Note: TV moves on, but we haven’t. In our feature series It Still Stings, we relive emotional TV moments that we just can’t get over. You know the ones, where months, years, or even decades later, it still provokes a reaction? We’re here for…

In 2012, during the final episode of BBC’s Merlin, Morgana Pendragon (Katie McGrath) took her final shuddering breath after being stabbed by her once-friend Merlin (Colin Morgan), ran through with a dragon-kissed sword. But prior to her untimely…

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our TV Rewind column! The Paste writers are diving into the streaming catalogue to discuss some of our favorite classic series as well as great shows we’re watching for the first time. Come relive your TV past with us, or…

If you told me at the end of 2023 that one of my favorite shows at the beginning of the new year would be Peacock’s raunchy Ted prequel, I would not have believed you. But seven episodes and a slightly belated binge later, I am a Ted convert.…

We conduct a nationwide manhunt for you and you’re boning the suspect? Did you think this was a joke? “Let’s direct federal resources and man hours so I can have my collegiate lesbian fling in style!” When D.E.B.S. premiered at Sundance Film Festival…

In the short, fraught life of the now-ended DCEU, the successful films within the franchise can be counted on a single hand, and an even smaller pool amongst those successful outings are those that actually did well at the box office. A rare movie in…

The teen drama has, over the past decade or so, slowly but surely crawled to its sad, pitiful demise. From the shuttering of MTV’s scripted programming sector after the end of Teen Wolf in 2017 to the short seasons (and lives) of teen and YA…

I would love for Marvel to just confirm her sexuality already, but there is something special about Carol Danvers' ability to live within two worlds. Brie Larson as Captain Marvel in The Marvels.Photo: Disney (Other) Entertainment Captain Marvel…

Gen V, The Boys’ college-set spinoff series, just solidified itself as not only an important arm of this universe, but as a series that could even eclipse its predecessor in terms of quality. The finale, Episode 8 titled “Guardians of Godolkin,”…

In Mike Flanagan's last Netflix series, it was never really about justice Photo Courtesy of Netflix TV Features Netflix “What do you want?” Rodrick Usher (Bruce Greenwood) asks C. Auguste Dupin (Carl Lumbly) in The Fall of the House of Usher’s final…

We are currently over halfway through the first season of Prime Video’s college-set The Boys spinoff Gen V, and it’s been a wild ride so far, to say the least. Featuring everything from exploding genitalia to a (quite literal) underground conspiracy…

Photo Courtesy of 20th Television TV Features Buffy the Vampire Slayer Editor’s Note: Welcome to our TV Rewind column! The Paste writers are diving into the streaming catalogue to discuss some of our favorite classic series as well as great shows…

Photos Courtesy of Audible Books Features Audible The Buffyverse, the collective universe of WB shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, is seemingly as immortal as its bumpy-faced vampires. Even 20 years after the original series’ finale, these…

Grief has been portrayed endlessly on television—and for good reason. As one of the most ubiquitous emotions, we will all grieve something or someone at some point in our lives, and that pain reaches across borders, languages, and belief barriers in…

Over the course of its seven-season run, The CW’s Riverdale has been many things to many people. For some, it’s simply a punching bag; a never-ending mine of meme-able content ranging from the epic highs and lows of high school football to the…

It’s already been said a million times, but Greta Gerwig’s record-breaking, earth- shattering, glittery Barbie is basically a masterpiece. It’s heartfelt and charming, while being laugh-out-loud funny and earnest at the same time, all wrapped in a…