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Dammit, Netflix’s ‘Love Is Blind’ Mobile Game Is Actually Good

If Netflix has its way, all of us are about to become gamers. News broke last week that the streamer plans to make four new games based on some of its...

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Nepo Baby of the Week: This F***ing Guy

Every now and again, the circumstances of one’s life converge in a single incandescent moment to illustrate how absurd this world really is. Take,...

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Doomcasting the Trump Trial: Who Would Play These People on TV?

Donald Trump’s hush money trial is a historic landmark of great national and electoral significance. This marks the first time a former U.S....

29.05.2024 10

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What Happened to J. Lo’s Movie Career?

When did you first fall in love with Jennifer Lopez on screen? Maybe she charmed you while stealing Natasha Richardson’s clothes to flirt with Ralph...

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Nepo Baby of the Week: Demi Moore’s ‘Gremlin Dog’ Stuns Cannes

Nepo babies are a dime a dozen at the Cannes Film Festival, but this week, one of them has really stood out from the pack. Her name is Pilaf Moore....

25.05.2024 20

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‘Evil’ Delivers TV’s Most Disgusting Antichrist Baby in Final Season

Which of these scenarios would be more frightening: walking into a particle accelerator that might or might not open the gates of hell, or becoming...

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Is ‘Virgin Island,’ Where Celibates Gather to Have Sex, a New TV Low?

As a longtime fan of the reality dating genre, I’ll be the first to admit that some of my favorite shows have never scored high in the “taste”...

23.05.2024 30

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Garfield: A Fat, Lazy Cat Who Is the Epitome of America

For decades now, French beaches have weathered a strange kind of plague. Since the 1980s, shards of orange plastic phones have been washing...

23.05.2024 30

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‘The Good Doctor Finale Was as Preposterous as You’d Expect

It’s hard to overstate how gaga viewers were over The Good Doctor when it first premiered in 2017. The ABC medical drama stars Freddie Highmore...

22.05.2024 30

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Mike Schur Knows 'Parks and Rec' Would Have Seemed 'Naive' Post-Trump

When Parks and Recreation first premiered in spring 2009, we were all living in a different world. Wide belts, baker boy hats, and multi-colored...

20.05.2024 40

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When Will the Hottest Bridgerton Finally Get His Own Season?

Dearest gentle reader, I recognize that the laws of attraction can be fickle. The very same features that might make one person quiver beneath her...

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Nepo Babies of the Week: Baby Coppolas Are Taking Over Cannes

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‘The Strangers’ Star Madelaine Petsch Has Seen Every Horror Movie

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‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 Is More Enchanting and Sexier Than Ever

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Why Did ‘The Rings Of Power’ Season 2 Make Sauron Look Like *That*?

14.05.2024 40

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John Mulaney Should Walk Away From His Perfect Live Show

13.05.2024 40

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Nepo Baby of the Week: Hailey Bieber’s Pregnancy Is PR Gold for Justin

Hailey and Justin Bieber’s baby might not have left the womb yet, but it’s already learning the ropes of influencer marketing. True to form,...

11.05.2024 40

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John Mulaney’s ‘Everybody’s in L.A.’ Goes to a Trump Rally

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Chris Pine’s Disastrous ‘Poolman’ Fashion Is Actually Making Him Hotter

Friends, I might have a problem. Give me your thoughts on this one: Is it just me, or is Chris Pine slowly ascending to a plane of hotness that most...

10.05.2024 50

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I Love ‘Lord of the Rings.’ But I Beg you, Stop With the Spinoffs

09.05.2024 10

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John Mulaney’s Wacky Live Show Mercilessly Trolls a Hypnotist

John Mulaney has no intention of making his six-episode live Netflix show, Everybody’s in L.A. , more coherent. As he put it during the show’s...

09.05.2024 40

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‘Mother of the Bride’: Every Wedding Should Have a Skinny-Dipping Brooke Shields

It’s not easy being a mom—just ask Brooke Shields’s character, Lana, in Netflix’s newest rom-com, Mother of the Bride . One minute, your...

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John Mulaney’s Off-the-Rails Netflix Show Goes All In on O.J. Simpson

Each night, John Mulaney’s Everybody’s in L.A. loosely organizes itself around a theme. Friday’s premiere of the six-episode Netflix live...

08.05.2024 40

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Jon Stewart’s ‘Everybody’s in L.A.’ Guest Spot Could Get John Mulaney ‘Sued‘

John Mulaney’s free-wheeling, ongoing Netflix special Everybody’s in L.A. might want to start informing their guests that they’re being...

07.05.2024 30

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How ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Star Brigette Lundy-Paine Became a ‘Space-Alien Cowboy’

When Brigette Lundy-Paine met director Jane Schoenbrun, they knew they needed to be a part of A24’s emo horror hit, I Saw the TV Glow . It wasn’t...

07.05.2024 10

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‘I Saw the TV Glow’: Meet the Director of the Coolest Movie of the Year

I Saw the TV Glow is one of those movies that seems to crawl under your skin. For months after watching the film, you might just catch yourself...

06.05.2024 30

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John Mulaney’s ‘Everybody’s in L.A.’ Is Bizarro Comedic Genius

I had no idea what to expect when I tuned into the first episode of John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A. on Friday night, but by the end, I...

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Nepo Baby of the Week: Other Nepos Could Learn From Maya Hawke

Maya Hawke might play the famous novelist and essayist Flannery O’Connor in her new movie, Wildcat , but during the film’s press tour, she’s...

04.05.2024 40

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Chris Pine Is Stuck in Very Suburban Battle Over Ficus Trees

Anyone who’s ever lived in the ’burbs knows what a thorny topic landscaping can be, and for the past couple years, Chris Pine has apparently been...

01.05.2024 9

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‘Anyone But You’ Showcases the Worst Thing About Modern Rom-Coms

Welcome to modern rom-com week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed! In honor of two big romance releases this week—The Fall Guy and The Idea of...

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The Jenna Ortega ‘Miller’s Girl’ Age-Gap Discourse Is Out of Control

If you spend too much time on the internet, it can start to feel like everyone is talking about age gaps all the time—and if they’re not talking...

30.04.2024 40

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Why Were 2000s Rom-Coms So Obsessed With Magazine Girlies?

Welcome to modern rom-com week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed! In honor of two big romance releases this week—The Fall Guy and The Idea of...

30.04.2024 40

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‘Mufasa’ Could Help Blue Ivy Carter Break Yet Another Record

Blue Ivy Carter might not appear in the first teaser for Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King, but she’s already stolen the show. It turns out that both...

29.04.2024 40

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How Zendaya Became Hollywood’s Reigning Red Carpet Queen

For weeks, it seems, the name on everybody’s lips has been Zendaya. Coming into the Challengers press tour, we all knew that Queen Z would show...

28.04.2024 20

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‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Foreshadows Hollywood’s Very Depressing Future

According to its own self-mythology, the entertainment industry is something far grander, more poetic and noble, than just a titanic money-maker. Our...

27.04.2024 20

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Nepo Baby of the Week: Leave Maya Rudolph Alone

Maya Rudolph didn’t mean to make waves this week when she sat down with Dax Shepard for an episode of Armchair Expert, but alas, sometimes you...

27.04.2024 20

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Meghan Markle’s Strawberry Jam Is the New Ivy Park Box

If Meghan Markle’s lifestyle brand American Riveria Orchard and its strawberry jam are all part of a grand plan to troll the royal family, chances...

25.04.2024 40

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When Did Fans Start Loving the Worst ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Doctor?

The Grey’s Anatomy fandom has never lacked for controversial characters. In fact, Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital seems to hire specifically for that...

25.04.2024 10

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Why Taylor Swift Hasn’t Moved On From Her Kim Kardashian Beef

Eight years ago, Taylor Swift and Kanye West shared a phone call that would later go down in infamy. Somehow, we still haven’t heard the end of it,...

24.04.2024 10

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When Did Katy Perry Become Elon Musk’s Go-To PR Shill?

Katy Perry, respectfully, what the hell are you doing? Is it just me, or do we, as a society, collectively ask that question every three months or...

23.04.2024 30

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How Netflix’s Stalker Series ‘Baby Reindeer’ Became a Viral Sensation

Baby Reindeer is not the sort of show you’d necessarily expect to take over Netflix. It’s not a sensational true-crime drama, a flashily produced...

23.04.2024 10

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Angus Cloud’s Scene-Stealing Final Performance in ‘Abigail’ Is a Must-See

It might be hard to imagine how any human character could steal the show in a movie all about a 12-year-old vampire-ballerina, but in the deliciously...

22.04.2024 20

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Nepo Baby of the Week: Ronan Farrow’s Paternity Drama Returns

These are two things I never thought I’d mash together in a sentence, but here goes nothing: RuPaul’s Drag Race and a Martin Scorsese biopic have...

20.04.2024 10

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God Help Us, People Are Actually Thirsting After Mark Zuckerberg

In the year of our lord 2024, the scourge of AI has become inescapable, even in pop culture. There’s a robo-character named “Max” catfishing on ...

19.04.2024 8

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An AI Player Is Fooling the Humans on ‘The Circle.’ God Help Us All

When I first learned that an AI chatbot was joining The Circle for Season 6, I wasn’t exactly worried for the human players. We’ve heard plenty...

19.04.2024 10

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‘Gay Pop’ Is the Moment, and Right Now, Chappell Roan Is Its Queen

Chappell Roan’s debut album might chart The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, but in the world of pop, she’s going nowhere but up. The...

19.04.2024 10

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‘The Strangers’: Inside That Unforgettably Bonkers, Coyote-Filled Ending

By the end of The Stranger , Maika Monroe’s terrified protagonist, rideshare driver Clare, has really suffered. She’s been stalked by a menacing...

16.04.2024 10

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A Rideshare Driver and Her Tiny Dog Battle a Stalker in ‘The Stranger’

Veena Sud’s goal in making The Stranger might’ve been to tell a story about toxic masculinity, but this horror movie also doubles as a cautionary...

15.04.2024 9

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O.J. Simpson’s Estate Wants to Make Sure the Goldmans Get ‘Nothing’

Attorney Malcolm LaVergne has no idea how he came to be the executor of O.J. Simpson’s estate, but he wants everyone to know that he takes the job...

14.04.2024 10

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Is Drake’s Kendrick Lamar Diss Track Real, or Is It AI?

Friends, I regret to announce that we’ve reached a new, uniquely annoying era when it comes to celebrity beef. Either Drake just fired back at...

13.04.2024 10

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