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Scientology! Insurrection! Fired! The Real Housewives Are in Chaos

This week: Scientology? The Jan. 6 insurrection? Michael Jordan’s son? It’s a veritable Mad Libs of search terms and scandal, so perhaps...

20.04.2024 4

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The Week the World Wept Over Kids Show ‘Bluey’

There was a wackadoo of an international incident this week. It was an event so shattering that adults around the globe were immediately reduced to...

19.04.2024 20

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Can We Talk About How Hot Wagner Moura Is in ‘Civil War’?

Alex Garland’s Civil War is a cinematic lightning rod in a historic thunderstorm—and the tempest, in this case, is “being alive in America...

16.04.2024 20

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Give Susie Essman an Emmy Nod for Final Season of ‘Curb’

It is a rare, affirming experience when you are watching a TV series or film and see yourself reflected back at you. I realized this last week that...

13.04.2024 8

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Fox News Is Going to Have a Field Day With ‘Civil War’

With Civil War , Alex Garland made a film intended to provoke audiences into thinking about the state of the country. So naturally, I’m terrified....

12.04.2024 10

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William Shatner’s Next ‘Bold’ Adventure: Facing Death

William Shatner has spent a lifetime “boldly going” where maybe not no man, but few have gone before. The phrase—“to boldly go where no man...

10.04.2024 10

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I Can’t Stop Thinking About Jill Zarin’s Unhinged ‘Below Deck’ Appearance

There has not been a second that’s passed this week that I have not been thinking about Jill Zarin’s appearance on Below Deck . Well, there was...

06.04.2024 4

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‘White Collar’ Is About to Be the Next ‘Suits’ Netflix Hit

Netflix knows how to get my attention. In its announcement that the series White Collar, which ran from 2009 to 2014 on USA, is now available on...

06.04.2024 20

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‘Ya Ya’ Is the Best Song on Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Album

It’s a little wild how all pop culture writing about Beyoncé inevitably escalates into laughable hyperbole. I have no interest in contributing to...

30.03.2024 10

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The Best Acting on TV Right Now Is on ‘Shōgun’

It’s been a busy spring TV season already, with some of the funniest comedies of the year ( Girls5eva ), best reality shows ( Top Chef ), best...

29.03.2024 6

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Why Is There So Much TV Right Now?

It’s the time of the year when each week there are seemingly two dozen new TV series or seasons dropping. DVRs are short-circuiting. Bank accounts...

23.03.2024 5

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A New ‘Top Chef’ Is Here to Make Everything in Life Better

Christmas; the only day where it’s actually spring weather in New York City; being asked out on a date: There are certain things that happen once a...

22.03.2024 10

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Lori Loughlin’s ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Comeback Is So Twisted

There are simply not enough people talking about Lori Loughlin on the most recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm . Once in a while I’m reminded of...

16.03.2024 8

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Kate Middleton Enters the Celebrity Photoshop Hall of Shame

There’s a question that’s at the top of mind for the entire world. It’s a wonder the global economy hasn’t completely shut down. The effort it...

15.03.2024 20

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Diane Warren Knows She’s a ‘Pain in the Ass’—and Isn’t Sorry

“How about that Diane is nuts? Can we start with that?” The first voice you hear in the new documentary Diane Warren: Relentless is unmistakable....

13.03.2024 10

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The ‘Queens’ Giving a Middle Finger to Sexism—and Changing Wildlife TV

NGORONGORO CRATER, Tanzania—Of the scene’s many horrors, it’s the sound that haunts the most. The Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, by day, can...

12.03.2024 10

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Oscars Review: Jimmy Kimmel Hosted the Best Show in Years

There may be no greater endorsement for a piece of entertainment than Donald Trump logging onto Truth Social and trashing it. So consider Jimmy...

11.03.2024 4

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Why ‘Oppenheimer’ Will Win Everything at This Year’s Oscars

This week This is a rare year for the Oscars. Not only are the nominees—this never happens—actually good, but every detail we’ve heard about...

09.03.2024 9

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‘Cruel Intentions’—and Cinema’s Most Important Butt—Turn 25

Even the Marcia fucking Brady of the Upper East Side gets gray hair. At least that’s what I’m saying to comfort myself upon learning that Cruel...

08.03.2024 10

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Whoa! The Oscars Really Might Not Suck This Year

Being obsessed with award shows is strange, because it often involves complaining about and even hating award shows. Common gripes include: voters...

02.03.2024 5

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Sad Willy Wonka and Missing Kate Middleton Took Over This Week

This week was set up to be a huge bummer. You mean to tell me that, in the hellscape that is the year 2024, there was going to be an extra day? And...

01.03.2024 10

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‘Elsbeth’ Is the Quirky New ‘Columbo’ We Didn’t Know We Needed

Elsbeth, the new procedural premiering Thursday night on CBS, is the second official spinoff of the Emmy-winning legal drama The Good Wife . It...

29.02.2024 10

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Jonathan Bennett’s Wild Journey From ‘Mean Girls’ to Broadway’s ‘Spamalot’

There are certain dates that are heavily associated with individual people. Presidents’ Day, of course, is tied to George Washington and Abraham...

28.02.2024 10

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Anne Hathaway Sobs at Barbra Streisand’s SAG Win. Relatable.

Barbra Streisand was presented with the lifetime achievement honor at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards. It’s an appropriate year for such a...

25.02.2024 6

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The Best Movie of 2023 Is Now on Hulu: ‘All of Us Strangers’

This week: Get Ready to Cry Award seasons are strange. There are movies that are nominated for everything, then swiftly forgotten once the last...

24.02.2024 5

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Ariana Grande and Mariah Carey’s Duet Is Everything We Hoped For

I didn’t expect anyone to find a way to make a new Ariana Grande bop that samples Madonna’s “Vogue,” with a music video that references Paula...

17.02.2024 30

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Jennifer Lopez’s New Movie Is So Gloriously Weird

There’s a reason that Jennifer Lopez said that “everybody thought [she] was crazy” for making her $20 million musical fantasia/”cinematic...

16.02.2024 9

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‘The Rookie’ Is Apparently One of the Most Watched Series in the World

The biggest television phenomenon of the last year is a series that went off air nearly four years ago—and, let’s be honest, wasn’t that popular...

11.02.2024 10

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‘The Bachelor’ Producers Have No Answer for Racism Controversies

Things turned more thorny when rosy when The Bachelor producers appeared on the Unscripted Storytellers panel at Saturday’s Television Critics...

11.02.2024 10

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We Made the Perfect ‘The Traitors’ Season 3 Dream Cast

This week: “Excitement” is a foreign feeling for me these days. It seems so preposterous that I imagine it would be akin to what it’s like to...

10.02.2024 20

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Jon Bon Jovi Reveals Vocal Cord Surgery, Teases ‘Dark’ New Docuseries

Charge your Life Alert bracelets and tune your hearing aids, because the forthcoming news is akin to having your age come swinging toward you like a...

10.02.2024 10

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‘9-1-1,’ TV’s Wackiest Show, Is Getting Even More Bonkers

As much as I love so-called “prestige TV,” there is no programming more magical than when a broadcast drama series cannonballs into the waters of...

09.02.2024 10

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Gina Rodriguez Brought Her Baby to Emotional ‘Not Dead Yet’ Interview

When the cast and creative team behind ABC’s hit comedy series Not Dead Yet walked to their seats for their press conference for Television...

08.02.2024 7

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Andie MacDowell: Hollywood Completely Ignores Women My Age

The Way Home is the Hallmark Channel’s first new original series in seven years, and, when its first season premiered last year, marked a major...

08.02.2024 6

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Rick and Michonne’s Return to ‘The Walking Dead’ Is an Epic Love Story

It’s been 13 years since The Walking Dead first arrived on AMC like a sonic boom, kicking off a horror universe that has since spawned five...

07.02.2024 6

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‘Palm Royale’: How Carol Burnett Ended Up in a Kristen Wiig Comedy

Laura Dern does an excellent Kristen Wiig impression. The Oscar winner channeled the Saturday Night Live alum at the Television Critics Association...

06.02.2024 10

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The Beautiful ‘Real Housewives of Miami’ Moment That Will Make You Cry

There’s no dismissing the entertainment value of the Real Housewives franchises, whether it’s delighting in the cast’s feuds, Pulitzer-worthy...

03.02.2024 9

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‘The Traitors’: Why Everyone Is So Obsessed With the Greatest Reality Show on TV

What is it about the Peacock competition series The Traitors that has made the show so popular, outside of the fact that it is the greatest reality...

02.02.2024 10

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‘Sebastian’: The Provocative Film Revolutionizing Gay Sex Work on Screen

PARK CITY, Utah—The sex in Sebastian happens early. Then it happens often. We first meet a young man in his early twenties—thin, but fit and very...

30.01.2024 8

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The Very Best of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival

This week: Another trip to the Sundance Film Festival is over for The Daily Beast’s Obsessed. That means I’ve taken the same photo I’ve taken...

27.01.2024 3

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How Angry Should You Be About the ‘Barbie’ Oscar Snubs?

It was around the time when people were blaming eugenics on the Barbie Oscar snubs that I feared we may have lost the plot. Every year Oscar...

26.01.2024 8

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‘A Real Bug’s Life’ Is a Live-Action Version of a Pixar Movie—And Could Change Minds

NGORONGORO CRATER, Tanzania—Scaling the walls of Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater is among the few terrestrial experiences we have that feel akin to...

24.01.2024 9

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‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’: The Wild Search for a Tech Icon Who Isn’t Real

PARK CITY, Utah—The reason that I am able to type this—and therefore you are able to read it—is because of a woman named Mavis Beacon. Thanks to...

23.01.2024 10

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Will Ferrell’s Road Trip Movie With His Trans Best Friend Will Save Lives

PARK CITY, Utah—Will Ferrell and his dear friend Harper Steele began working at Saturday Night Live the same season, nearly 30 years ago. Ferrell...

23.01.2024 60

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‘Girls State’: The Teen Girls at Sundance Who Are Going to Save America

PARK CITY, Utah—This year’s Sundance Film Festival hosted films that brought the likes of Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Steven...

22.01.2024 6

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‘Sasquatch Sunset’: The Pooping, Pissing Bigfoots That Are Disturbing Sundance

PARK CITY, Utah—There’s been a Sasquatch sighting in Park City. That actually happened: Someone dressed head to toe in a (quite impressive)...

21.01.2024 10

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‘Thelma’: 94-Year-Old Grandma Out for Revenge Against Her Scammers

PARK CITY, Utah—If Tom Cruise ever retires from action movies, I know a 94-year-old actress more than capable of taking his place. In what will...

20.01.2024 20

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These Are the Oscar Nominations That Should Happen

I am a twin (fun fact about me!). When we were in late elementary/early middle school, my brother and I became obsessed with stats. We watched...

20.01.2024 2

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Ayo Edebiri Is Hollywood’s Best New Star. Thank God.

This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by editor Kevin Fallon. There’s something incredibly cool...

19.01.2024 7

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Ava DuVernay: People Shouldn’t Be Scared to Watch New Race Drama ‘Origin’

Mainstream films are rarely as ambitious as Origin . Written and directed by Ava DuVernay, it is based on Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 book Caste: The...

18.01.2024 8

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