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Nocturne Is a Slow-Burning Crime Drama That Struggles to Stay Lit Original
Daily · The day's top stories, summarized for you. Something went wrong. Try again. Thank you for signing up! Narrated by TIME AI. Nocturne is everything you would expect from a 21st century prestige crime drama. Adapted from a series of best-selling Scandinavian mystery novels, the Apple TV thriller, premiering with two episodes on Oct. 30, casts a genuine movie star (Liev Schreiber) as a brilliant yet broken detective immersed in a case that has become an all-consuming obsession.
The One About Matthew Perry Is More Than the Typical Saga of Fame and Addiction Original
Daily · The day's top stories, summarized for you. Something went wrong. Try again. Thank you for signing up! Narrated by TIME AI. When it comes to representing the famous and addicted, Hollywood seems to know only two stories. Both begin with a passionate talent who longs to make an impact on the world. Then, as no less an expert on this subject than Courtney Love memorably put it, they get what they want and they never want it again.
The One About Matthew Perry Is More Than the Typical Saga of Fame and Addiction
In 1977, Freddie Mercury wrote a song that didn’t fit Queen, unaware it would become a worldwide anthem There are two very different sides to the famous Queen sound. On the one side, there is the elaborate experimentation of their rock opera. Best seen …
What Is Nobody Wants This ’ Sasha-Morgan Endgame? Original
Daily · The day's top stories, summarized for you. Something went wrong. Try again. Thank you for signing up! Narrated by TIME AI. This article discusses the full third season of Nobody Wants This. Joanne and Noah are going to make it. Two seasons of so many highs and lows, will-theys and won’t-theys, makeups and breakupshad gotten a bit repetitive.
The Baffling Gender Politics of Netflix’s New Stanford Prison Experiment
Narrated by TIME AI. This article discusses all six episodes of Netflix’s The New Stanford Prison Experiment. For decades now, scholars have argued over what—if anything—we should have gleaned from the Stanford Prison Experiment.
The Baffling Gender Politics of Netflix’s New Stanford Prison Experiment
This article discusses all six episodes of Netflix’s The New Stanford Prison Experiment. For decades now, scholars have argued over what—if anything—we should have gleaned from the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Offbeat Thriller Phony Is Something Genuinely New on TV Original
Daily · The day's top stories, summarized for you. Something went wrong. Try again. Thank you for signing up! Narrated by TIME AI. The protagonist of Phony, a delightfully genre-defying Hulu series best miscategorized as a thriller, is the kind of teenage boy any mother would brag about. Played by Sam Nivola, who’s best known for portraying gentle sons of privilege in The White Lotusand The Perfect Couple, Sonny Cooke is that one kid everyone in school knows and likes.
VisionQuest Puts a Frustratingly Conventional End to Marvel’s WandaVision Trilogy
Daily · The day's top stories, summarized for you. Something went wrong. Try again. Thank you for signing up! The marriage of Disney+ and the Marvel Cinematic Universe seemed, at first, to be a perfect match.
VisionQuest Puts a Frustratingly Conventional End to Marvel’s WandaVision Trilogy
VisionQuest Puts a Frustratingly Conventional End to Marvel’s WandaVision Trilogy Wed, 14 October 2026 at 6:00 am GMT-4 Paul Bettany in VisionQuest —Marvel The marriage of Disney+ and the Marvel Cinematic Universe seemed, at first, to be a perfect match.
VisionQuest Puts a Frustratingly Conventional End to Marvel’s WandaVision Trilogy
The series that finishes off Disney+'s 'WandaVision' trilogy lacks the style and energy of its two predecessors The marriage of Disney+ and the Marvel Cinematic Universe seemed, at first, to be a perfect match.
VisionQuest Puts a Frustratingly Conventional End to Marvel’s WandaVision Trilogy
VisionQuest Puts a Frustratingly Conventional End to Marvel’s WandaVision Trilogy Wed, 14 October 2026 at 10:00 am UTC Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Bettany in VisionQuest —Marvel The marriage of Disney+ and the Marvel Cinematic Universe seemed, at first, to be a perfect match.
Friday the 13th Series Crystal Lake Is Everything Wrong With Film-to-TV Adaptations Original
Daily · The day's top stories, summarized for you. Something went wrong. Try again. Thank you for signing up! Friday the 13th is proof that a movie need not be a cinematic masterpiece to become a franchise-fueling horror classic. Sean S. Cunningham’s low-budget 1980 film brought the teen-slasher thrills of Halloween to a summer camp preparing to reopen years after two counselors were murdered there. Its plot was skeletal and its performances workmanlike.
Cupertino Is More Fun Than a Tech-Dystopian Legal Drama Has Any Right to Be Original
Daily · The day's top stories, summarized for you. Something went wrong. Try again. Thank you for signing up! Now is the autumn of our tech-dystopia content. Oscar season is awash in prestige based-on-a-true-story films like Aaron Sorkin’s Social Networksequel The Social Reckoning and Artificial, a Sam Altman biopic from Luca Guadagnino.
Netflix’s East of Eden Brilliantly Reinterprets ‘Evil’ Cathy—Without Betraying Steinbeck Original
This article discusses all seven episodes of Netflix's East of Eden. When John Steinbeck published East of Eden, a top contender for Great American Novel, in 1952, the response to its primary female character, Cathy Ames, was effectively unanimous. Whether they admired or deplored Steinbeck’s portrayal of her, midcentury critics judged Cathy to be pure evil, a veritable Satan in stockings.
Tip Toe Is a Harrowing Melodrama of Queerness and Masculinity in a World Gone Mad Original
Tip Toe refuses to be misunderstood. Premiering Oct. 2 on Starz, the British miniseries from Queer as Folkcreator and Doctor Whoreviver Russell T Davies set its stakes as high as the lamppost from which Alan Cumming’s character is seen hanging, dead, just outside his home, in the very first scene.
Mike Flanagan's Timely Carrie Is the First Worthwhile Adaptation in 50 Years Original
Everyone knows what happens in Carrie. Fifty-two years after its publication, the novel that ignited Stephen King’s career has so thoroughly engulfed the culture, you’d have to be almost as sheltered as Carietta White herself not to have absorbed its most indelible images. The locker-room tampon gauntlet and “Plug it up!” chant. Carrie’s smothering holy-roller mom, locking her up in prayer-closet solitary confinement. The eerily unlikely prom date.
HBO’s Billionaire Divorce Drama War Doesn’t Know What It’s Trying to Say Original
In the third episode of War, a legal drama from HBO and Britain’s Sky TV, a tech billionaire played by Dominic West makes a generous and degrading offer. He’ll give Steven (Robert Daws), one of many hirelings advising him in a nasty divorce, a wristwatch worth a million dollars if he disrobes “down to your socks, right now.” Steven’s initial response is a nervous giggle. Then he’s frantically unbuttoning his shirt.
Netflix’s A Different World Revival Has Less Spark But Loads of Heart Original
Hillman College might be the most vividly realized institution of higher learning that never cashed an actual tuition check. The fictional historically Black college at the heart of A Different World, the generation-defining NBC sitcom that ran for six seasons beginning in 1987, has school colors (maroon and white) and a Latin motto (“Deus nondum te confecit,” or “God is not done with you yet”). It has sports teams, Greek organizations, homecoming traditions.
Netflix’s A Different World Revival Has Less Spark But Loads of Heart
22 hours ago Bake Off contestant shocks Paul Hollywood and Nigella Lawson by telling them she is bored The Independent - Holly Patrick • 22h A Great British Bake Off contestant shocked Paul Hollywood and Nigella Lawson by telling them she was bored during the first challenge. The bakers were tasked with making a stout cake in the first episode of the 2026 series. Danni, from Dorset, was baking a stout and port cake when the judges approached their station.
A Different World (2026) season 1 Reviews
SummaryDeborah Wayne (Maleah Joi Moon), Whitley (Jasmine Guy) and Dwayne's (Kadeem Hardison) youngest daughter, is part of the newest class of students at Hillman College in the sequel to the NBC comedy series of the same name that ran from 1987 to 1993. Available after 4 ratings Maleah Joi MoonDeborah Wayne Cornell Young IVShaquille Johnson Jordan Aaron HallAmir Rodale Chibuikem UcheKojo Achebe Jasmine GuyWhitley Gilbert Kadeem HardisonDwayne Wayne Darryl M.
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson’s Disjointed But Endearing Brothers Coasts on Charm Original
As a nation still mourning Dolly Parton is all too aware, there aren’t many entertainers left who are embraced by Americans across demographics and ideologies. Among the few A-listers with bipartisan appeal are Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, separately but especially as longtime best friends and occasional co-workers—two sons of Texas who, as you’ve probably heard, might also be sons of the same biological father.
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson’s Disjointed But Endearing Brothers Coasts on Charm
As a nation still mourning Dolly Parton is all too aware, there aren’t many entertainers left who are embraced by Americans across demographics and ideologies. Among the few A-listers with bipartisan appeal are Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, separately but especially as longtime best friends and occasional co-workers—two sons of Texas who, as you’ve probably heard, might also be sons of the same biological father.
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story Has Nothing New to Say About Female Rage Original
This article discusses the full season of Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is about female rage and repression. That isn’t my personal interpretation of the latest installment of Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy’s Netflix true-crime anthology. It’s the talking point that the show’s makers have been leading with, in publicity materials and in multiple interviews.
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story Has Nothing New to Say About Female Rage
This article discusses the full season of Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is about female rage and repression. That isn’t my personal interpretation of the latest installment of Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy’s Netflix true-crime anthology. It’s the talking point that the show’s makers have been leading with, in publicity materials and in multipleinterviews.
In the Hilarious Youth, Sharon Horgan Nails the Precarity of Middle Age
There are plenty of shows that could have been titled Youth. Most have casts in their teens and 20s. One of these is called Adults, the joke being that its postcollegiate characters are more like children—playful at best, feckless at worst. HBO’s Youth, a comedy premiering Sept. 20 about a divorced 50-year-old sandwiched between her college-aged son and declining parents, sounds like it might be similarly ironic. It isn’t, really.
In PBS's Heartrending Trespasses, Love Defies War in '70s Belfast
In an early scene of the exquisitely devastating miniseries Trespasses, two strangers in a pub ruminate on the relationship between art and pain. Cushla (Lola Petticrew), a schoolteacher taking a shift behind her family’s bar, admits she couldn’t finish reading A Clockwork Orange; the knowledge that the novel’s author, Anthony Burgess, was inspired by soldiers’ savage attack on his wife disturbed her too much. “He turned his suffering into art,” protests her customer, Michael (Tom Cullen).
The Emmys Squandered Beloved First-Time Host Mariska Hargitay Original
A day before Monday’s 78th Primetime Emmys, giddy headlines proclaimed that reigning king of basketball Jalen Brunson would be joining host Mariska Hargitay for a pre-taped intro bit. Well, it happened. We got a few seconds of the real-life pals steaming work outfits together, of all things.
The Emmys Squandered Beloved First-Time Host Mariska Hargitay
A day before Monday’s 78th Primetime Emmys, giddy headlines proclaimed that reigning king of basketball Jalen Brunson would be joining host Mariska Hargitay for a pre-taped intro bit. Well, it happened. We got a few seconds of the real-life pals steaming work outfits together, of all things.
In Gen Z Romance Shows Like Crew Girl, Sports Are the New Sex
In the Netflix teen dramaCrew Girl, 16-year-old solo rowing champ Teagan Tao has her life uprooted when her hotel-magnate dad gets a tip that he’s about to be arrested for financial crimes and disappears. Suddenly, Teagan (Miku Martineau) and her flighty mom, Ella (Jessica Paré), are broke and moving across the country to the crumbling New England house where Ella grew up.
In the Hilarious Youth , Sharon Horgan Nails the Precarity of Middle Age Original
There are plenty of shows that could have been titled Youth. Most have casts in their teens and 20s. One of these is called Adults, the joke being that its postcollegiate characters are more like children—playful at best, feckless at worst. HBO’s Youth, a comedy premiering Sept. 20 about a divorced 50-year-old sandwiched between her college-aged son and declining parents, sounds like it might be similarly ironic. It isn’t, really.
In Gen Z Romance Shows Like Crew Girl , Sports Are the New Sex Original
In the Netflix teen drama Crew Girl, 16-year-old solo rowing champ Teagan Tao has her life uprooted when her hotel-magnate dad gets a tip that he’s about to be arrested for financial crimes and disappears. Suddenly, Teagan (Miku Martineau) and her flighty mom, Ella (Jessica Paré), are broke and moving across the country to the crumbling New England house where Ella grew up.
In PBS's Heartrending Trespasses , Love Defies War in '70s Belfast Original
In an early scene of the exquisitely devastating miniseries Trespasses, two strangers in a pub ruminate on the relationship between art and pain. Cushla (Lola Petticrew), a schoolteacher taking a shift behind her family’s bar, admits she couldn’t finish reading A Clockwork Orange; the knowledge that the novel’s author, Anthony Burgess, was inspired by soldiers’ savage attack on his wife disturbed her too much. “He turned his suffering into art,” protests her customer, Michael (Tom Cullen).
Earle Meets World Is One Long ‘Get Ready With Me’ Video Original
“You’re gonna see everything on this show,” Alix Earle assures viewers in the voiceover that opens her Netflix reality series Earle Meets World. But if the show made a genuine effort to fulfill the 25-year-old social media star’s vow to reveal the rawest, most intimate aspects of her life, then the only reasonable conclusion to draw from it would be that there just isn’t much to see.
Of Course Dolly Parton Produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer Original
By the time she passed away on Tuesday, Dolly Parton had become an American saint, celebrated not just for giving us immortal songs like “Jolene” and “9 to 5,” but for philanthropic work that provided hundreds of millions of free books to children and proved instrumental in the development of a COVID vaccine. That wasn’t always her reputation, though.
Of Course Dolly Parton Produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8 hours ago Royal family honours Dolly Parton with Buckingham Palace band tribute The Independent - Holly Patrick • 8h The Changing of the Guard's military band played a rendition of Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" outside Buckingham Palace in tribute to the beloved country singer, who has died aged 80 following a "brief battle" with cancer.
Turn around, Bright Eyes
I like Bright Eyes. There, I said it. That’s no small confession for someone who prides herself on listening to serious music. I’ve evolved from preteen grunge aficionado to high school punk fan to college indie rocker and finally become a somewhat omnivorous 20-something with ears for everything from noise-rock to tropicalia. As a woman who writes about music, I’ve worked extra hard to distance myself from teeny-boppers and groupies and drippy sentimentality.
Lanterns Is Better Than Most Superhero Shows—But It's No Watchmen Original
“Are you afraid?” This is the tagline of the HBO drama Lanterns, a prestige take on the Green Lantern that is part of James Gunn’s reimagined DC Universe. Early in the premiere, we hear both of the show’s lead characters respond in the negative.
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Men of a Certain Age
by Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Custom Feed: See the stories that matter most to you. Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. TV Critic Danny Feld—TNT/Everett Collection Won’t somebody think of the middle-aged men? I kid, I kid.
How TIME’s TV Critic Chose the Most Underappreciated Shows of the 21st Century
Before the 21st century, TV could be sorted into three categories: hits, flops, and cult classics. Hits that touched a societal nerve—The Twilight Zone, Norman Lear sitcoms—earned a place in our collective memory. Flops were soon forgotten, and usually deserved it. Cult classics like My So-Called Lifeand Dark Shadows varied in popularity during their runs but ultimately found the niche audiences that preserve their legacies.
'Slip' Is One of TIME's 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows
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'Penelope' Is One of TIME's 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows
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'It's a Sin' Is One of TIME's 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows
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'It's a Sin' Is One of TIME's 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows
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'It's a Sin' Is One of TIME's 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows
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'Men of a Certain Age' Is One of TIME's 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows
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