Apple TV+ review: 'Ted Lasso' stays charming in season 2
The new season of Apple's signature series keeps up its positive ethos — and is also much funnier.
An Apple user since the mid-1980s, around the time Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium (MECC) was providing computers to elementary schools, Stephen has concentrated his journalism work on technology, movies, television, politics, culture, sports, religion, and the various intersections thereof.
He worked for the Consumer Technology Publishing Group, the publisher of Dealerscope magazine and TechnologyTell, between 2007 and 2015. In 2018 he joined AppleInsider, where he writes about the shows, movies and business of Apple TV+, while also authoring the Apple crime blotter column.
Stephen is a Rotten Tomatoes-listed film critic, a co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, and a member of the Online Film Critics Society and the Pen & Pencil Club. His work has appeared in New York Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Tablet Magazine, RogerEbert.com, Philadelphia Weekly, The National Interest, and The Jerusalem Post.
In January of 2009, he became the first American journalist to interview both a sitting FCC chairman (Kevin Martin) and a sitting host of Jeopardy! (Alex Trebek) on the same day.
A native of Minnesota who has also lived in such other cold places as Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey, Stephen now lives in the Philadelphia area, where he has worked as a professional journalist since 2005.
The new season of Apple's signature series keeps up its positive ethos — and is also much funnier.
In this week's roundup, dozens of Capitol riot defendants wiped devices, a Five Guys employee's Apple Watch was stolen, and a Kenyan woman's iPhone is "double-stolen."
The new Apple TV+ miniseries stars Keegan-Michael Key, Cecily Strong, and a cavalcade of Broadway veterans. While entertaining, it will likely appeal to the theater crowd only.
Following a panel with company executives and Ashton Kutcher, the telecom giant unveiled a series of partnerships featuring the likes of Harry Potter and the Looney Tunes characters.
Apple has many production partners, including A24, Skydance, Oprah, Martin Scorsese, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and other big entertainment names. Here are the most notable names that have signed deals for Apple TV+ programming.
The South African president says his iPad was stolen, another iCloud-assisted Capitol riot arrest, and Find My iPhone solves another car theft, on this week's roundup of Apple-related crime.
Fans of Charlie Brown and his friends will love the nostalgia factor in the new Apple TV+ documentary, but it could have easily been hours longer and still not covered everything.
"Fathom", a feature film about whales and the scientists studying their language, lands on Apple TV+ on June 25 — and we spoke to director Drew Xanthopolous about the film, his experience making it, and what it was like to work on a movie with Apple.
iPhone evidence catches a mail fraud conspiracy, a police department recommends AirTags in cars, and Apple device orders replaced with fruit.
The new dark comedy "Physical," starring Rose Byrne is a punishing, unfocused slog with nothing to say.
At the 2021 WWDC, Apple unveiled new features for the App Stores, called the App Product Page and In-App Events intended to help discovery, and boost interactivity.
At WWDC, Apple's Katie Skinner and Erik Neuenschwander looked at new privacy features across the Apple ecosystem.
At WWDC, Craig Federighi announced SharePlay, a new feature that will allow sharing streaming content on FaceTime calls across Apple's entire ecosystem.
Shots fired near a Pittsburgh Apple Store, Find My iPhone solves Akon's car theft, and several iPhones were seized from a Capitol riot defendant.
Julianne Moore and Clive Owen lead a top-flight cast in spooky drama series "Lisey's Story," but the storytelling is often too convoluted.
Rudy Giuliani seeks to block iPhone evidence following the raid on his home, a convict wants out of jail for an Apple Store visit, and iPhone searches lead to a murder arrest in Florida.
The "other" cheerful London-set comedy on Apple TV+ keeps on doing what it did well in its first season: A lot of comedy and even more sweetness.
The ambitious eight-part series utilizes a wealth of archival footage, and lots of great music, to tell the stories of the songs of 50 years ago.
Rudy Giuliani's continuing Apple troubles, an iPad counterfeit money sting in Canada, and a serial fake Walmart employee is accused of taking iPhones.
Just as funny as its first season, the new episodes of Apple TV+ sitcom "Mythic Quest" further explore the relationships between co-workers at a gaming company.
Strong performances from Justin Theroux and Melissa George can't save "The Mosquito Coast," that's trying too hard to become Apple's "Breaking Bad."
The Australian actress stars on the new Apple TV+ show, which debuts on April 30.
Matt Gaetz's iPhone seized, iPad stolen from the Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, and the producer of the "Steve Jobs" movie is accused of throwing an Apple monitor.
"CODA," which Apple grabbed at the Sundance Film Festival for a reported $25 million, will head to Apple TV+ in August, with a theatrical release the same day.
Director Drew Xanthopoulos' film about whales, headed to Apple TV+ June 25, is in the competition at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier that month.
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