Television

Television

“We see this over and over again, where the Trump administration is weaponizing its power over mergers to try to get what it wants in the media space,” says David Sirota, editor-in-chief of The Lever and host of the Master Plan podcast.

It’s a good weekend to think about buying a new TV! This week, Devindra is joined by CECritic founder Dipin Sehdev to discuss the new RGB TVs and how they compare to OLED, the previous high-end TV technology of choice. Is RGB tech actually worth the premium, especially when OLED TVs have come way down in price? We also offer up a few tips for choosing the best TV today.

Based on Elle Kennedy's best-selling novel The Deal, the series is a delicious combination of competitive campus hockey and college romance, and follows the lives of Hannah Wells (played by Ella Bright) and Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli). Their unexpected spark soon turns into something more... Like a great lineage of rom-coms before it, the series starts with a fake boyfriend proposal from Hannah. A music major, she asks Garett, a star hockey player, to pretend in exchange for her helping him with his grades.

Hawkins, Indiana, the Boroughs presents as an idyllic, tight-knit community, a place where, as the slogan plastered on every flat surface reminds us, “you’ll have the time of your life.” But underneath its facade is-would you believe it?-a dark and deadly secret that the people who guard it will stop at nothing to keep hidden. And a ragtag group of friends, in this case thrown together more by circumstance than inclination, are the only ones who can uncover the truth.

The Testaments follows the sparks of a feminist revolution at the Aunt Lydia School, an elite academy that prepares the daughters of Gilead for their destiny - i.e., marriage to a decorated general. The legacyquel reunites us with Agnes (Chase Infiniti), the daughter of Handmaid's Tale heroine June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), but she's just one of many highlights in the series. Its first season has moved from strength to strength with each episode, introducing a tight-knit band of prospects whose coming of age reframes the stakes of this world.

“I'm really excited about what I'm put together this year. I'm even a little bit earlier than I usually am. I'm about two-thirds of the way done already,” Katz told On The Red Carpet.

They had to cook together. They had to break, they have to break a wall down to get to the bathroom, because they said they were so scared to walk outside their bedroom to go into the bathroom, and they could be taken, you know, during those, just walking a few feet. So they just, they tried to survive, you know?

When we first meet Paula ( Tatiana Maslany), the protagonist of Apple TV+'s new series "Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed," she's attempting to arrange her new apartment, with the help of friend Trevor ( Brandon Flynn), a handsome young man who currently resides on her laptop screen. She rambles about her struggles co-parenting her daughter, Hazel (Nola Wallace), with her ex-husband Karl ( Jake Johnson), before Trevor drops a bomb: they only have six minutes left on their scheduled call. As the two spend the next few minutes furiously and, respectively, rubbing one out, it becomes clear that the person whom Paula has shared all her secrets with is not a longtime friend, but rather, a sex worker.

Set in a faith school, Proper Ladies is a 10-minute short that follows four schoolgirls in detention, where friendships, rivalries and acts of rebellion unfold. Absurd, quick-witted and fast, it leans into the heightened logic of teenage life where the smallest things escalate quickly and everything feels urgent. In one scene, a student delivers a dramatic monologue about setting off the fire alarm to conceal the fact that she used the staff toilets to defecate.