Ricky MartinPhoto: Gareth Cattermole (Getty Images) A restraining order has been filed against Ricky Martin in Puerto Rico, with People reporting that an unidentified person has accused him of domestic abuse and had petitioned for a court to grant the protection order. The accuser did not initially go to the police, but the Puerto Rico … Read more
Millie Bobby Brown, Sadie Sink, and Natalia Dyer in Stranger Things season fourPhoto: Netflix [Editor’s note: This piece discusses the plot of Stranger Things season four.] It’s hard to determine who tops the scoreboard in Stranger Things’ monumental fourth season. As it always goes with Netflix’s beloved sci-fi series, multiple characters rely on each … Read more
Evan Rachel Wood in Westworld Photo: John Johnson/HBO Westworld is a show about storytelling. Throughout its first three seasons, creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have made clear they are fascinated by the way narratives rule our world: Concepts like free will and agency are, in the show’s cosmology, intimately tied to the stories we … Read more
Photo: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images Two actors from Netflix’s upcoming TV series The Chosen One have died after a car accident near the show’s Mexico filming location, Deadline reports. A van carrying several members of the series’ cast and crew reportedly crashed and flipped, injuring six members of the streaming series’ production crew, and … Read more
Wendy WilliamsPhoto: David Livingston (Getty Images) The Wendy Williams Show ended its complicated, controversial, sometimes baffling 13-year-run on TV this week—without an appearance from its complicated, controversial, sometimes baffling star. Wendy Williams, who’s been on a leave of absence from the series since 2021, reportedly exacerbated by a COVID-19 infection in September of that year, … Read more
Tyler Sanders, a former child actor who earned an Emmy nomination for his starring role on Amazon’s kids fantasy series Just Add Magic: Mystery City, has died. Sanders—whose other recent credits include single-episode appearances on The Rookie and Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star City—was 18; his death has been confirmed by his agent, per Deadline, with … Read more
Christopher Briney (Conrad) and Lola Tung (Belly) in The Summer I Turned Pretty Photo: Dana Hawley/Prime Video There is a lot of pressure on a sophomore project to live up to the hype of its predecessor. (Look no further than just about every headline declaring that Conversations With Friends dropped the Normal People torch.) The … Read more
Ewan McGregor, Hayden ChristensenPhoto: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney A lot of Star Wars opinions seem straightforward—the originals are “good,” the prequels are “bad,” the sequels are “disastrous, except for The Last Jedi which is perfect in every way”—but there’s actually more nuance in there than the average person might expect. Some people, for example, … Read more
Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliott Image: Nick Wall/Netflix With the arrival of Netflix’s trailer for its adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Dakota Johnson proves she was always meant to lead a period piece, as she effortlessly melds into the romantic world. Johnson leads Persuasion as Anne Elliot, who finds herself caught between the demands of … Read more