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‘Everybody Gets Slaphappy and Feels Insane’

On location for the night shoots, blizzard conditions, and allergic reactions that went into making Primetime. By Jackson McHenry and Sinna Nasseri

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Luca Guadagnino Saw This Coming

The director’s alarming new film, Artificial, holds a mirror to our AI overlords. podcast By E. Alex Jung

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With Behemoth!, Pedro Pascal Gets the Movie He Deserves

Pascal is somehow a movie star still waiting for his breakout. With Tony Gilroy’s clever and intimate new film, he’s finally found it. By Bilge Ebiri

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A New Clown Comes to Town

British theater-maker Elf Lyons brings her buzzy one-woman show to New York, complete with spaceships, operatic flourishes, and a Pagliacci. By Georgie McKeon

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Robert Kelker-Kelly, Soap Opera Star, Dead at 62 He starred in General Hospital and Days of Our Lives.
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The Satellite-Radio Drama Tearing Comedians Apart Performers are urging Sebastian Maniscalco and SiriusXM to reconsider a recent programming pivot.
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Let’s Talk About the Last Dab in Verity Anne Hathaway is doomed for being unlikable. Again.
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Slayyyter’s Breakout Album Gets an Evil Twin Wor$t Man in America is out right in time for the holidays.
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What’s So Funny ’Bout Elvis Costello Being Stephen Colbert’s Bandleader? “I saw what the Roots had achieved across town,” recalls our bespectacled king. “Lots of really great people have done that gig.”
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Michael Douglas Knows How to Do a Memoir In both the book and the press, he’s shared harrowing details about his famous father, talked about his marriage, and revealed an old affair.
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Sam Altman Is Going to Try to Play Artificial Cool The OpenAI CEO confirmed that Andrew Garfield’s Sam Altman walk is accurate, even if the rest of what we see onscreen isn’t.
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The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Season-Finale Recap: Making Nice New and ancient feuds are put to rest (for now) as the cast honors the Housewife who started it all.
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Lanterns Season-Finale Recap: In Brightest Day An emotional finale full of deep introspection and difficult truths caps off a strong entry into the superhero TV canon.
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Saturday Night Live Recap: Dakota Johnson’s 3rd Time Isn’t a Charm Dakota Johnson’s subdued performance does little to liven up what feels like a sleepy start to the season.
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The Great British Baking Show Recap: The Cookie Crumbles It might be Biscuit Week, but the use of the word “cookie” puts a distinctly American flavor across the episode.
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Dark Matter Recap: The Shadow of Quantum Entanglement The Dessens continue to try to assimilate to the analog world, but Daniela is finding it difficult to safely settle in this universe.
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Outlander: Blood of My Blood Recap: The Woman of the House It’s so satisfying to see Ellen MacKenzie really let it rip in defense of Castle Leoch.
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War Series-Premiere Recap: The Tipping Point A tech mogul and movie star’s marriage comes to an acrimonious end, kicking off HBO’s delicious legal drama.
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The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Blasts From the Past It takes a drove of ex-Housewives to descend on the OC cast to breathe the slightest bit of life into the season.
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East of Eden Series-Finale Recap: A Good Life The East of Eden finale has everything: the return of Mike Faist, winter-melon soup, a gorgeous ending — what else could you want?
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East of Eden Recap: Hungry People East of Eden’s penultimate episode introduces the teen versions of Cal and Aron, and wonders what it means to be good.
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East of Eden Recap: Thou Mayest East of Eden’s only episode with a co-writer follows Lee as he breaks away from the Trasks.
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East of Eden Recap: Almost by Happenstance Cathy Ames is remade as Kate Albey, and her ascension to madam status pushes her closer toward irredeemability.
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East of Eden Recap: The Story of Mankind Adam and Cathy reach California in a sprawling episode that reveals her discontentment and pushes the story into its next phase.
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East of Eden Recap: A Girl Like That Cathy Ames gets the complicated backstory John Steinbeck never imagined.

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With Behemoth!, Pedro Pascal Gets the Movie He Deserves Pascal is somehow a movie star still waiting for his breakout. With Tony Gilroy’s clever and intimate new film, he’s finally found it.
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The Best TV of the Year So Far 2026’s highlights include a coming-of-middle-age gem, a maturing Gen-Z sitcom, and a timeless intergenerational saga.
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Barbara Kingsolver Has a Grudge Against the Coastal Elites Her recent work, including her latest, Partita, is overly concerned with defending the South instead of writing for it.
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‘Kramer/Fauci’ Walks Out of the Archives and Into Our Heads A ripped-from-the-headlines play … except those headlines are 40 years old and freshly relevant.
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Deep in an Irony Spiral, Slam Frank Struggles to Show Its Center It’s hard to say with certainty just where its creators’ beliefs finally land, if they land anywhere at all.
theater review 10/4/2026

Still Stoking the Class Struggle: O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape A swift, sturdy production, fresh after a century, at the Irish Rep.
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Let’s Dig In to Digger Nothing in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s anti-satire satire is what it initially seems.
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Nathan Fielder Has Made the Movie of the Year You Can See Everything, co-directed with Lance Oppenheim, is an astounding, funny, ingenious work about what it means to seek the truth.
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Yes, It’s Tough to Be a Playwright: creation stories Mfoniso Udofia’s play spends a lot of its time agonizing over whether it should be one—which doesn’t make for great theater.
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Ayad Akhtar’s Campus Problem The author’s portrayal of Gen-Z college students in The Radiance is too familiar. But when he writes about the body, it gets brilliantly weird.
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East of Eden’s Ambition Wins Out Netflix’s miniseries is the sort of sweeping intergenerational saga contemporary TV rarely attempts and even more rarely achieves.
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Anne Hathaway Deserves a Better End to Her Big Year Than Verity The new Colleen Hoover adaptation is ridiculous, but no one involved can get on the same page about how ridiculous it is.
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War Knows Exactly What It Is Both familiar and more lurid than expected, the HBO-Sky legal drama injects glamour into a middlebrow courtroom potboiler.
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Godzilla Minus Zero Delivers on the Monster Mayhem But the sequel to 2023’s Godzilla Minus One also overdelivers on the melodrama.

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The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip (S5/E9)

Making Nice New and ancient feuds are put to rest (for now) as the cast honors the Housewife who started it all.
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In Brightest Day An emotional finale full of deep introspection and difficult truths caps off a strong entry into the superhero TV canon.
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Dakota Johnson’s 3rd Time Isn’t a Charm Dakota Johnson’s subdued performance does little to liven up what feels like a sleepy start to the season.
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The Cookie Crumbles It might be Biscuit Week, but the use of the word “cookie” puts a distinctly American flavor across the episode.
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The Shadow of Quantum Entanglement The Dessens continue to try to assimilate to the analog world, but Daniela is finding it difficult to safely settle in this universe.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood (S2/E3)

The Woman of the House It’s so satisfying to see Ellen MacKenzie really let it rip in defense of Castle Leoch.
War (S1/E1)

The Tipping Point A tech mogul and movie star’s marriage comes to an acrimonious end, kicking off HBO’s delicious legal drama.
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Blasts From the Past It takes a drove of ex-Housewives to descend on the OC cast to breathe the slightest bit of life into the season.
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A Good Life The East of Eden finale has everything: the return of Mike Faist, winter-melon soup, a gorgeous ending — what else could you want?
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the streaming wars Disney’s B-Team Comes to Netflix The Ice Age films and Percy Jackson and the Olympians are heading to the service this weekend, with more to come soon. By Jason P. Frank
now streaming The 11 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Pack your earplugs for Digger. By Savannah Salazar
the industry Good-bye to Para Bros., Warnermount, and Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery Say hello to the new name of David Ellison’s post-merger company. By Eric Vilas-Boas
streaming Netflix Hosts Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Final Season of Chicken Shop Date You can now watch that Andrew Garfield interview on your TV. By Alejandra Gularte

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at the box office Digger Is Officially the Flop of the Year It caps off a calamitous box-office year for Warner Bros., just as Skydance is set to take over the studio Tuesday. By Chris Lee
best of 2026 The Best TV of the Year So Far 2026’s highlights include a coming-of-middle-age gem, a maturing Gen-Z sitcom, and a timeless intergenerational saga.
book review Barbara Kingsolver Has a Grudge Against the Coastal Elites Her recent work, including her latest, Partita, is overly concerned with defending the South instead of writing for it. By Sam Worley

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Let’s Talk About the Last Dab in Verity

Anne Hathaway is doomed for being unlikable. Again. By Bethy Squires

walk this way Sam Altman Is Going to Try to Play Artificial Cool The OpenAI CEO confirmed that Andrew Garfield’s Sam Altman walk is accurate, even if the rest of what we see onscreen isn’t. By Fran Hoepfner
at the box office Digger Is Officially the Flop of the Year It caps off a calamitous box-office year for Warner Bros., just as Skydance is set to take over the studio Tuesday. By Chris Lee
big swings Alejandro G. Iñárritu Stands by Digger “It’s a provoking film. That’s the role of a film for me — let’s start the conversation.” By Jason P. Frank

box office report card Digger’s Grave Is Dug The film debuted to $8 million at the domestic box office. By Bethy Squires
vulture politics The Daily Wire’s Pro-ICE Movie Got Shut Down for Being Disruptive A pro-law-enforcement film shut down for failing to respect law and order. How ironic. By Bethy Squires
her web connects them all The Complete History of Dakota Johnson: Agent of Chaos Johnson seemingly confirmed multiple dating rumors with her SNL monologue. By Bethy Squires
movies NAZA Is Selling Out Theaters. Can It Influence The Hague? Whether the film can advance the case for genocide may be more complicated than convincing viewers. By Rachel Corbett
the critics Is Digger the Most Annoying Movie of the Year? Our critics discuss the new Alejandro González Iñárritu climate-change film starring Tom Cruise. By Jasmine Vojdani

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Robert Kelker-Kelly, Soap Opera Star, Dead at 62

He starred in General Hospital and Days of Our Lives. By Alejandra Gularte

another model What’s So Funny ’Bout Elvis Costello Being Stephen Colbert’s Bandleader? “I saw what the Roots had achieved across town,” recalls our bespectacled king. “Lots of really great people have done that gig.” By Devon Ivie
best of 2026 The Best TV of the Year So Far 2026’s highlights include a coming-of-middle-age gem, a maturing Gen-Z sitcom, and a timeless intergenerational saga.
happy birthday dakota Taylor Swift Is Not Dakota Johnson’s Therapist But she is her director. By Bethy Squires
celebrity health updates Alison Hammond Hospitalized After On-Air Health Event Hammond walked off This Morning after experiencing either a heart palpitation or a panic attack. By Bethy Squires

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Zoe Kazan’s Ghost Story Adapting East of Eden required her to confront the family legacy she’d always tried to avoid. By Allison P. Davis

the streaming wars Disney’s B-Team Comes to Netflix The Ice Age films and Percy Jackson and the Olympians are heading to the service this weekend, with more to come soon. By Jason P. Frank
stand-up 9 New Comedy Specials You Should Definitely Watch (When You Have a Moment) Looking for some stand-up recommendations? Here are some recent releases that are worth your attention. By Hershal Pandya
now streaming The 11 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Pack your earplugs for Digger. By Savannah Salazar
this week in late night Billie Lourd’s Australian Accent Won Late Night This Week Plus Matt Damon’s “your mom” joke on Kimmel and Ms. Pat on Late Night With Seth Meyers. By Bethy Squires

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Slayyyter’s Breakout Album Gets an Evil Twin

Wor$t Man in America is out right in time for the holidays. By Jason P. Frank

loop tour Isaac Slade Enters the Fray That Is Ed Sheeran’s Tour Sheeran found a new opener for his Atlanta show this past weekend. By Isabella Albaig
crime Rapper Lucki Suffers Injury at ComplexCon Playboi Carti was seen watching the fight in a nearby car. By Bethy Squires
patient zero So That’s What Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell Were Fighting About Who knew the “Tolerate It” fight could be about Brendan Fraser? By Alejandra Gularte

politics Zach Bryan Wore a ‘Free Palestine’ Shirt at Gillette Stadium Concert Macklemore seemed to appreciate the support. By Alejandra Gularte
celeb beefs Miranda Lambert Says She Never Punched Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger She did throw moonshine on him, and it “wrecked” his hair. By Bethy Squires
sleeping beauties Why Do Good Ideas Scare Us? Ahead of his new book, David Byrne talks about his obsession with artistic breakthroughs that took time to come to light. By Emma Alpern
quality time What Tom and Roman Morello Watch (and Listen to) Together Turns out shredding is genetic. By Tom Morello, Roman Morello, and Marah Eakin
neighborhood news Act Natural, Ringo Is Back in Queens Sixty-two years after the Beatles caused a ruckus there, everyone’s favorite drummer gets an encore in the people’s borough. By Devon Ivie

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The Satellite-Radio Drama Tearing Comedians Apart

Performers are urging Sebastian Maniscalco and SiriusXM to reconsider a recent programming pivot. By Hershal Pandya

bri’ish news Saturday Night Live U.K. Gets Exciting Hosts, Innit? Danny Dyer, James Norton, and Cynthia Erivo are next on the docket. By Jason P. Frank
last week on late night This Makes About As Much Sense As ‘Hootie Frutti’ “Newton’s Cradle (Come and Get It)” is the song of the fall. By Bethy Squires
last night on late night SNL U.K. Has Not Let Up on Ed Sheeran Or Benjamin Netanyahu. By Bethy Squires

this week in late night This Week in Late Night: Seth Is Back! It’s like Ben Is Back, but way less sad. By Bethy Squires
new hires SNL Hires Two New Writers for Season 52 Bam Alston and Chase Rosenberg join a staff that, with a couple of exceptions, remains mostly unchanged from last year. By Hershal Pandya
last night on late night Jimmy Kimmel Live! Is Bringing a Few Friends to Brooklyn All while Guillermo is still in the ballroom on Dancing with the Stars. By Alejandra Gularte
tv review Don’t Overthink Brothers Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson’s deeply meta brodown is far more pedestrian than its premise suggests. By Nicholas Quah
comics to watch The Comedians You Should and Will Know of 2026 We surveyed more than 200 industry insiders to determine these 19 comedy stars of tomorrow.

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Theater

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‘Kramer/Fauci’ Walks Out of the Archives and Into Our Heads

A ripped-from-the-headlines play … except those headlines are 40 years old and freshly relevant. By Sara Holdren

theater review Deep in an Irony Spiral, Slam Frank Struggles to Show Its Center It’s hard to say with certainty just where its creators’ beliefs finally land, if they land anywhere at all. By Jackson McHenry
theater review Still Stoking the Class Struggle: O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape A swift, sturdy production, fresh after a century, at the Irish Rep. By Sara Holdren
theater review Yes, It’s Tough to Be a Playwright: creation stories Mfoniso Udofia’s play spends a lot of its time agonizing over whether it should be one—which doesn’t make for great theater. By Sara Holdren
theater Jocelyn Bioh Goes Back to School Girls The playwright reflects on reviving her 2017 play on Broadway: “People are more educated now about what colorism is.” By Jason P. Frank

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My Play, Myself: How Shakespeare Saved My Life and Arias With a Twist How much true life does a life story owe us onstage? By Sara Holdren

x-mas Celebrate Christmas on Broadway With Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin They’ll star in a radio-play version of It’s a Wonderful Life alongside Andrew Rannells, Megan Hilty, and Tituss Burgess. By Jason P. Frank
the maria bamford questionnaire Gardening Is Audra McDonald’s Anti-Anxiety Medication “I love it, and I’m terrible at it, and I don’t know what I’m doing.” By Hershal Pandya
theater review Theatrical Performancemaxxing at Degenerates Else and Emma Rosa Went’s production is a super-intense dive into the darkness of the incel life. By Sara Holdren
theater review Beauty Is Unbecoming: Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls Jocelyn Bioh’s 2017 play is partly about the urge to chase celebrity and fame—and, up on Broadway, that gives it extra depth and richness. By Sara Holdren

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Books

remember that Michael Douglas Knows How to Do a Memoir In both the book and the press, he’s shared harrowing details about his famous father, talked about his marriage, and revealed an old affair. By Jason P. Frank
book review Barbara Kingsolver Has a Grudge Against the Coastal Elites Her recent work, including her latest, Partita, is overly concerned with defending the South instead of writing for it. By Sam Worley
objet d’art Can You Believe It? Tilda Swinton’s Memoir Will Be Unconventional. Material Evidence will eschew linear narrative in favor of something freakier. By Bethy Squires
must reads 7 New Books to Read This October David Byrne’s treatise on creativity, new novels from two Pulitzer winners, and Chad Harbach’s return. By Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani
book review Ayad Akhtar’s Campus Problem The author’s portrayal of Gen-Z college students in The Radiance is too familiar. But when he writes about the body, it gets brilliantly weird. By Zain Khalid

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obits Psychedelic-Poster Pioneer Peter Max Dies at 88 He made the iconic poster for New York City’s second “be-in.” By Bethy Squires
first person A Funny Thing About 9/11 My father will always struggle with his harrowing memories as a first responder. His only positive one got us talking again. By Jesse McLaren
fall preview 2026 10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Fall Brancusi at MoMA, Arthur Jafa at the New Museum, Jordan Wolfson at Gagosian, and more. By Jerry Saltz
art What We Lost in Kusamaland The Infinity Rooms made Yayoi Kusama world-famous and upstaged the radical work that came before. By Jerry Saltz
vulture fashion John Galliano Backs Out of the Met Gala “I understand that meaningful atonement is not achieved through an exhibition, institutional recognition or a single public gesture.” By Jason P. Frank