Cut the Crap - The Verge

Every week, Noel Murray’s Cut the Crap column recommends a single film or show to stream and provides a pocket education on one director, subgenre, movement, or moment in pop culture history. From evil doll movies to alternate-reality stories to Game of Thrones pre-history, the extensive Cut the Crap archives will teach you new things about culture’s past while cutting through the mountain of new releases to find one relevant thing that’s worth watching.

A classic Mary Tyler Moore Show episode mirrors Apple TV Plus’ Morning Show series

Nov 1, 2019|

Before HBO’s Watchmen, stream V for Vendetta, the best Alan Moore adaptation

Oct 18, 2019|

Here’s the best Joker episode of Batman: The Animated Series to stream this weekend

Oct 4, 2019|

This weekend, stream two David Fincher crime thrillers: Mindhunter season 2 and Zodiac

Aug 16, 2019|

Why Netflix’s Derry Girls is the perfect show to stream this weekend

Aug 2, 2019|

This weekend, compare the TV and film versions of DC Comics’ Swamp Thing

May 31, 2019|

Before Netflix’s Dead to Me, watch Christina Applegate in Samantha Who?

May 3, 2019|

This weekend, watch Game of Thrones’ Lena Headey fight Terminators

Apr 19, 2019|

This weekend, watch the Game of Thrones showrunners’ only other collaboration

Apr 12, 2019|

Stream the Twilight Zone episode that helped inspire Jordan Peele’s Us

Mar 22, 2019|

For the original take on love, death, and robots, stream Robot Carnival for free online

Mar 15, 2019|

Arrested Development undercuts its own legacy with a sad end to season 5

Mar 13, 2019|

This weekend, stream the original version of Cold Pursuit on Netflix

Feb 8, 2019|

With Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt ending, Great News might be your next go-to

Jan 25, 2019|

Celebrate Star Trek: Discovery’s return with one of the best episodes of the most neglected Trek series

Jan 18, 2019|

This weekend, stream a different version of Aquaman from home

Dec 21, 2018|

The first film by Roma director Alfonso Cuarón is streaming on Netflix

Nov 23, 2018|

Netflix’s Godless delivers everything the Coen brothers’ new project once promised

Nov 16, 2018|

This weekend, stream some ‘Nordic noir’ on Netflix, starting with Deadwind

Nov 9, 2018|

For the real Bohemian Rhapsody, stream the best recorded Queen concert this weekend

Nov 2, 2018|

This weekend, stream two very different TV versions of Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Oct 26, 2018|

Netflix’s Last Man on the Moon is a perfect bookend for First Man

Oct 12, 2018|

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