TV Tattle

TV Tattle

Man on Fire's Yahya Abdul-Mateen can’t match Denzel Washington’s cool / The Bear prequel is a reminder of when the show was good / Are high streaming prices leading to unhinged TV fandoms?

PLUS: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is departing as both an institution and anti-institutional.

Norman Weiss
May 06, 2026
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is bad-a** on
Man on Fire, but he can’t match Denzel Washington’s cool
“There aren’t a lot of actors who are both bad-a** and cool: Sam Jackson, maybe Bruce Willis at his peak, s…

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