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Neither Marvel nor Taylor Swift wants anything to do with the ongoing Baldoni-Lively case. By Fran Hoepfner

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‘I Had No Clue What I Was Doing’

How David Foster composed the complicated cartoon music for Boop! The Musical. By Devon Ivie

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Enemy of My Enemy This season has been preparing us for this kind of treachery, and yet I was dumbstruck to see it happen.
Below Deck Down Under (S3/E14)

The Calm Before the Storm And now it’s become impossible to defend Lara’s controlling behavior.
The Rehearsal (S2/E2)

Rejection Nathan finds the connection between contestants in a fake singing competition, a censored comedy show, and a pilot banned from five dating apps.
The Righteous Gemstones (S4/E8)

Miracles The Gemstones find a way through the chaos yet again, but why does it feel like the other shoe is about to drop?
Dark Winds (S3/E8)

The One That Got Away The various cases get closed, but the investigations’ aftermath and violent ends won’t soon be forgotten.
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Into the West The Jackson community wants to rebuild in the aftermath of the attack, but Ellie and Dina can’t move on.
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Messy Boots and Porsha’s Truth Finally, we have an ensemble cast working together to put on a damn show.
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Sign of the Times A sequel to an unsettling, fan-favorite episode makes for a satisfying adventure.
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Which Chilly Bobbed Blonde Would Win in a Fight?

Stair Wars. By Rebecca Alter

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jury duty Jeremy Strong Gets Opportunity to Take Something Very Seriously On the Cannes Film Festival jury, led by president Juliette Binoche and alongside Halle Berry and Payal Kapadia. By Jason P. Frank
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Krysta Rodriguez Is Smash’s TV Holdover

“I always describe it to fans of the show as Smash fan fiction.” By Tom Smyth

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shhhh Walton Goggins Blesses Us With a Teenjus Banger The actor’s Instagram clip of him rapping during a recording session for The Righteous Gemstones is meme fodder for the ages. By Hershal Pandya
father figures What Is Up, Daddy Gang? It’s Your Call Her Daddy TV Show. Call Her Alex, Alex Cooper’s Hulu docuseries, will be directed by Ry Russo-Young. By Jason P. Frank
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close read Dark Winds Draws New Border Lines Season three’s ending for Bernadette limits her individual ambition while broadening her — and the series’ — perspective on Native justice. By Roxana Hadadi
saymo(re) Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney Again On this week’s episode: Molly Shannon, Marc Maron, anesthesiologist Dr. Emily Methangkool, Ronny Chieng, and music from John Cale and Maggie Rogers. By Hershal Pandya
dramatic of a change What’s Going On With Jojo Siwa and Chris Hughes? Hughes says they are “platonic soul mates.” By Alejandra Gularte
international affairs Nathan Fielder Turns Paramount+ Into Nazi Germany On The Rehearsal, he calls out the streamer for censoring the Summit Ice episode of his Comedy Central show. By Hershal Pandya

Music

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Beyoncé Brings Both Her Daughters to the Cowboy Carter Tour

We swear, it’s déjà vu. By Justin Curto

the uptown girl Christie Brinkley Gave Billy Joel One Too Many Chances In her new memoir, the model recounts her ex-husband’s drunken outbursts, including a chaise longue thrown through patio doors. By Devon Ivie
giddy up! Everything Beyoncé Does at the Cowboy Carter Tour And subsequently, everything Blue Ivy does as she’s making her sophomore appearance on tour. By Alejandra Gularte
court appearances A Complete Guide to Diddy’s Sex-Trafficking Trial Including whether or not it will be televised. By Victoria Bekiempis

controversy Kehlani Dropped From Cornell University Concert for Supporting Palestine Kehlani made a statement reaffirming that they are anti-genocide, not antisemitic. By Justin Curto
the festival circuit How to Stream the Stagecoach Stages from Home Including performances from Lana Del Rey, Zach Bryan, T-Pain, and more. By Jennifer Zhan
trial run Cassie Assault Video Will Be Shown During Diddy Trial Diddy’s attorneys claimed the video had been leaked and was edited to be “deceptive.” By Justin Curto
coachella 2025 Kneecap Decry ‘Smear Campaign’ Over Palestine Support at Coachella “Those attacking us want to silence criticism of a mass slaughter,” the Irish rap group said. By Justin Curto
it’s a katy’s world Katy Perry’s Lifetimes Tour Launches Into Infamy Every out-of-this-world moment from her concert. By Jason P. Frank

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Bravo Will Get Las Culturistas in Los Angeles

For the first televised broadcast of Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’s Culture Awards. By Jennifer Zhan

gold rush Inside the Emmys Race to Take Down the ‘Big 4’ Comedies Some of these contenders have a real shot at toppling Hacks, The Bear, Abbott, and Only Murders. By Joe Reid
hahas and uhohs Bill Maher Says Larry David ‘Lost the Argument’ by Playing ‘the Hitler Card’ Claiming David’s op-ed parodying Maher’s dinner with Trump was “kind of insulting to 6 million dead Jews.” By Jason P. Frank
close read #1 Happy Family USA Keeps Swinging Ramy Youssef’s post-9/11 animated series throws punches in every direction on its way to an absurd, sneakily tragic cliffhanger. By Roxana Hadadi

snl 50 Saturday Night Live Goes Goo-goo for Goggins The final three shows of the season will be hosted by Quinta Brunson, Walton Goggins, and Scarlett Johansson. By Jason P. Frank
encounter Whitney Cummings Finds Her People The comedian’s politics has changed. So has her audience. By Kerry Howley
oh yeah! Kool-Aid, the Series, Is Happening Apparently, Bill Hader has been watching The Studio. By Hershal Pandya
please remain seated A Scaredy-Cat’s Guide to The Rehearsal Season-Two Premiere Don’t let your flight anxiety stop you from watching Nathan Fielder’s show. By Anne Victoria Clark
careers Carol Leifer’s Many Comedy Lives She wrote on SNL’s weirdest season, dozens of Seinfeld episodes, and the Conan-hosted Oscars. She’s got stories. By Andy Hoglund

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Bright and Bold in Undocumented L.A.: Real Women Have Curves

“It’s got plenty of bubbly, cheeky joy and big-dreaming sincerity, but it pulls back before crossing the line into either treacle or fluff.” By Sara Holdren

theater review In Dead Outlaw, Elmer McCurdy Gets One More Turn in the Spotlight An antihero takes an exceptionally long, exceptionally strange, exceptionally American voyage through the West. By Jackson McHenry
theater review Just in Time Will Teach You About Bobby Darin and Even More About Jonathan Groff A dual psychological portrait of subject and star in the form of a bio-musical. By Jackson McHenry
the greatest star(s) of all She’s Hot? He’s Hot? They’re Hot. Jonathan Groff and Nicole Scherzinger’s “Actors on Actors” devolves into balls jokes and earnestness. By Fran Hoepfner
theater review Pirates! Is the Very Model of a Modern Major Debacle The ever-delightful David Hyde Pierce can’t disguise that Gilbert and Sullivan’s confectionery operetta has been keelhauled. By Sara Holdren

theater review
Floyd Collins Is Beautiful But Can’t Break Free A few crucial staging choices kneecap this production from the start, undermining its epic tragedy. By Sara Holdren

hey i just met you Carly Rae Jepsen and Lena Dunham Are Making a 10 Things I Hate About You Musical The year 2012 remains a powerful force in modern culture. By Jason P. Frank
theater review High School, Dramatically: Stranger Things: The First Shadow and Grief Camp The great American unifier, put onstage at two vastly different scales. By Sara Holdren
notes Patti LuPone Still Has ‘Quibbles’ With Sunset Blvd. Hey, it’s a step up. By Jason P. Frank
cheat sheet How to Tell This Year’s Doppelgängers, Evil Twins, and Alter Egos Apart From Sinners to Severance to Vanya, here’s a cheat sheet to the many multiples. By Fran Hoepfner

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coming soon Sunrise on the Reaping Casts Its Plutarch Heavensbee Jesse Plemons has joined the Hunger Games prequel, out November 2026. By Bethy Squires
shameless ‘It’s Cynical, Manipulative, and Cruel’ Booksellers are not happy about the tech giant’s decision to hold its big annual book sale during Independent Bookstore Day. By Emma Alpern
coming soon Belly Faces the Battle of the Brothers One final decision for the last season of The Summer I Turned Pretty. By Alejandra Gularte
azkaban for all The Harry Potter TV Show Casting Is Getting Messy Book fans are spamming HBO’s socials begging the channel to recast Snape. By Fran Hoepfner

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Art

art review Rashid Johnson’s Visual Feast The new Rashid Johnson survey at the Guggenheim is sprawling and stunning. By Yinka Elujoba
art The Billionaires Are Battling Over a Giacometti Sculpture David Geffen, lion of the old-guard art world, is up against Justin Sun, tech provocateur. By Rachel Corbett
art Critics Are Fuming About the New MoMA Head “What a disappointing and unsurprising choice.” By Rachel Corbett
art review The Wary Gaze of Amy Sherald A majestic new show at the Whitney features the artist’s gift for portraiture that seethes with subtleties. By Jerry Saltz
art review Behold the Frick The newly renovated museum is bigger and better than ever. By Jerry Saltz