Michael Boyle
Expertise
The Scream Franchise, HBO Dramas, Saturday Night Live
- Michael spent a few years working as an editor specializing in Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels, work that translates surprisingly well to writing about TV and film.
- Michael has interviewed screenwriters and actors such as Elegance Bratton, Sarah Chalke, and Gabrielle Union.
- If a movie or show is based off a book, Michael's read the book already.
Experience
Michael has always loved to read critical pieces about TV and film, and then one day he realized he could write them as well. He started off writing for various entertainment outlets about shows like "Saturday Night Live," "Euphoria" and "Rick and Morty," before finally getting a writing position at /Film. Now you can regularly find him here, passionately defending controversial TV finales and providing in-depth explanations for why certain sequel films are unfairly maligned.
Education
Michael has bachelor's degree in English from SUNY Binghamton.
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Stories By Michael Boyle
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Rod Serling had some regrets about the Twilight Zone episode Walking Distance, in which a man accidentally time travels back to his childhood.
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Danny DeVito has done a lot of weird things on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and falling out of a window was one of his favorites.
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Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat returns with a new standalone episode, 'Boom,' and brings some of his worst habits back with him.
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Alfred Hitchcock felt that his classic mystery-thriller Vertigo had a big plot hole, but he needn't have worried about it.
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Stilgar's awed reactions to the Lisan al Gaib in Dune: Part Two became a viral meme, and director Denis Villeneuve is pleased people saw the humor.
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'The Devil's Chord' is Doctor Who's first proper musical episode, but it lacks the character-driven crooning that made Buffy's 'Once More With Feeling' great.
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Mr. Burns' unnamed Blue-Haired Lawyer from The Simpsons is based on someone who once represented Donald Trump.
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Doctor Who is playing with Disney's house money now, but when the Beatles episode came along, the show still didn't have the budget to clear the band's songs.
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Krusty the Clown might not be spinoff material, but that hasn't stopped The Simpsons' creatives from trying to make one.
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The Disney+ Doctor Who premiere unleashes a truly gross monster, which seems to be a theme for showrunner Russell T Davies.
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Don't expect a cameo from Kyle Maclachlan in any future Dune movies. This Paul Atreides was one and done.
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The new season of Doctor Who on Disney+ is a bold, lively, kindhearted show. Here's our review.
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Saturday Night Live host Dua Lipa wants a sexy homerotic love triangle just like in Challengers, and she wants her Sonny Angel to be part of it.
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The It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia gang have been responsible for a lot of deaths, but there are two characters Glenn Howerton really regrets killing off.
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With its complex love triangle where all the sides connect, Challengers shares a lot of DNA with Alfonso Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien.
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Join us as we recount the highs and the (very low) lows of the Gallaghers. Here are all 11 seasons of Shameless ranked.
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Dune Messiah won't be an easy book to adapt to the screen, but here's an advantage Dune 3 has already.
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The Shōgun finale is an intentional anti-climax that works thanks to one key character.
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Christopher Nolan explained the last lines in Inception, spoken by the son of Leonardo DiCaprio's character, and the thematic significance they might have.
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Dune director Denis Villeneuve believes the prophecies: it was Timothée Chalamet's destiny to play the Lisan al Gaib.
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It's hard to let the summer of Barbenheimer go, so Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt use the power of song to work through their feelings.
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Ryan Gosling transforms into a man who looks oddly similar to Beavis from Beavis and Butt-Head in a hilarious Saturday Night Live sketch.
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Some of The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror segments were even better than the episodes of The Twilight Zone they were parodying.
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George Miller and Chris Hemsworth teamed up to shape the character of Dementus, his larger-than-life villain in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
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The Curb Your Enthusiasm finale presents Seinfeld's infamous finale as a mistake to be atoned for when Larry David should've gone in the opposite direction.
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Dune 3 will have to deal with a book problem involving Rebecca Ferguson's character Jessica.
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The Terminator is one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's most famous roles, and yet he originally didn't want to play the character.