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I'm definitely more proud than disappointed- we put the work in, and this is the way these shows go,

"What was so beautifully done about House of the Dragon is this epic scale at which the story is told. So to have this big booming orchestral score was very important," Kingdoms showrunner Ira Parker says during a roundtable interview. However, for his series, "we realized early on that we're telling a small story here - a small story about a simple person who has smaller ambitions. And so, certainly our sound had to suit that."

We don't know much about Dunk's beginnings, but to be fair, he didn't know much either. He grew up an orphan in Flea Bottom, the slum near King's Landing. He had no idea who his parents were, but figured he was an orphan and probably a bastard. (Some fans suggest he could be related to Brienne of Tarth, since he was tall just like her, but that's still unconfirmed.) He made a life by scavenging all kinds of meat for establishments that made "bowls of brown," the go-to food of Flea Bottom.

Based on Martin's Dunk & Egg novellas, this story has no dragons, no magic, and no zipping back-and-forth across Westeros. It sounded like the perfect solution to two of the streaming industry's largest problems: 1/ Every entertainment company wants universes of IP until they realize that scale does not easily translate into TV, and 2/ No showrunner can predict how much they can or cannot deviate from the source material and still hold their fanbase intact.

It may have taken viewers a while to feel this fresh sense of buyer's remorse, but many of the problems with Landman, Season 2 are the same as with Landman, Season 1-they just feel less novel, and thus more grating, now. You can say what you want about Sheridan being a self-satisfied, boringly anti-woke writer of liberal, urban, and educated characters, and a spottily misogynistic writer of female characters-and this season has its doozies in each category.

"I don't want to get anybody in trouble. I don't know what this is," Affleck stuttered when Access Hollywood asked him about Barlow. "Like, prove somebody right or wrong?" It's fair for him not to remember meeting her, considering Affleck has probably met a ton of people in his lifetime and isn't a Housewives fan. The journalist then showed a photo of Barlow to Affleck, and it still wasn't ringing any bells. "It doesn't look familiar to me, and I don't remember anything," he added.

In another attempt to reduce our attention spans to mush, TikTok has released the PineDrama app, which offers serialized drama series that are roughly a minute per episode. As first spotted by Business Insider, the app is designed exactly like TikTok, but instead of trendy dance videos, you can scroll through and watch "micro dramas." For those new to the category, micro dramas are bite-sized TV shows shot in vertical video and available in minute-long episodes.

After a four-year hiatus, the show finally returns to HBO Max on April 12, and there's a lot to unpack. Following a five-year time jump since their high school graduation, Zendaya's Rue seems to be sober and doing well - until her former dealer shows up at her door (Martha Kelly). She then ends up in what seems to be a strip club, seemingly about to be indebted to a whole new bad guy.

"You can think about the kind of people we're talking about - not criminals - who might need to redeem themselves in front of America,"

There will be some clips that we use, both good and bad. The big thing: I think we had nine turnovers, and seven of them became scoring chances the other way. This is not a team you can do that against - or against any team, really. We didn't manage the puck very well, especially in that second period. It was back a few games, so that is something that we've talked a lot about and worked on.

There's something very sweet about a public display of male friendship that feels uninhibited and real. The Heated Rivalry press circuit is a reminder of how endearing non-toxic bromances are. In 2026, young men are inundated with harmful messages about masculinity: they're supposed to "man up" and provide; be stoic, not open. Against that backdrop, the co-stars' bond makes a glorious statement: They're hunky, they're hilarious, they're besties - and they don't care who knows it.

Kyle MacLachlan (Washington, 66 years old) is not used to contemplating the apocalypse. It's enough to make it to the end of the day, the actor jokes from his Los Angeles home. In one hand, he holds a cup of black coffee a la Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks, and in the other, a fistful of nuts. I'm going to eat breakfast while we talk, he warns, with his habitual blend of amiability and oddity.

The hit ice hockey romance is based on Rachel Reid's steamy novel, which is widely sold out. Like the book, the show follows the rivals-to-lovers story of Ilya Rozanov ( Connor Storrie) and Shane Hollander ( Hudson Williams). On the ice, they're fierce rivals, but their connection is just as passionate - in a different way - in private. Here are just some of the major changes that were made from the book to the screen:

Filming was delayed for five days after the villa was evacuated due to the South African wildfires near Cape Town.

But Joan Hickson's terrific run as Marple ended in 1992. As a lifelong admirer of Christie's works, it gives me no pleasure to report that the latest attempt to adapt the Queen of Crime's work is a dismal failure: There's no regard for Christie's prose, no idea who the series' audience is meant to be, and no goal except to further increase Netflix's intellectual property resources.

The truest thing ever said about the Golden Globes was by Tina Fey when she hosted the awards in 2019 and described the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of junket hacks, as operating out of the back booth of a French McDonalds. The HFPA was disbanded in 2023 after allegations of racism, but 95 former members retained voting rights and on Monday, the show went on.

"As a genuine fan of Tell Me Lies, I was so excited to watch the new season, let alone make music for it," said CHVRCHES frontwoman Lauren Mayberry in a statement. "We were in the studio working on the new CHVRCHES album when we got the call and it was a really fun thing to get our teeth stuck into, finding the right balance of emotions - heartfelt, yet unhinged - to mirror what the show is so good at."

The folks at TDS realized that hysterical coverage of Mamdani from right-wing news outlets was going to be happening on the regular, so they wanted to be ready. And I'm sure the same team also made the supercut of ICE-agent bloopers on Wednesday night. Watching fascists eat it on Minnesota ice is so pleasurable, and that pleasure is compounded when it's edited well.

Romantic Relationships Get Defined Any single person knows that the struggle of dating involves perpetually undefined relationships. Emotional detachment has been embedded in modern dating, from the language we use to the (loose, barely existent) script that guides how people enter romantic relationships. Even saying "dating" feels like a commitment. Instead, people "talk" when they're first getting to know each other; they "go out," but they don't "go on a date."

That used to be the norm, and then when you strayed, that was the out of whack part. Now the out of whack part is fairly common, and staying and doing what you're supposed to do is stunning to people.

What do you get when you cross an all-women dance troupe with a rebellion against Catholicism and erotic '90s thrillers? Something supremely queer, I hope. In the words of Ayo Edebri: I'm simply too seated. This is The Body, a new Netflix psychodrama from queer writer-director and Blame actress Quinn Shephard, starring none other than The Traitors ' sapphic supreme, Gabby Windey (plus a host of other very talented stars) Announced back in October, the eight-part show is set to further the fascination with "raunchy" coming-of-age, sports-ish series when it's released later this year, and with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge approach to religion, too.

For most people playing or just watching The Traitors, each day is filled with physical and mental stress and anxiety. For Colton Underwood, it's just another day at work. "Everybody's like, 'That show had to be so hard and so intense,'" he tells Bustle over the phone. "I was like, 'Compared to the other shows I've done, Traitors was a cakewalk.'"

We filmed that day the morning after the premiere of The White Lotus; I had about three hours of sleep. I just had nothing left in the tank; it was exactly where I needed to be for that day,

Sophie Turner has a screwball comedy vibe in real life elegant trouser suit, arch but friendly expression, perfect hair, she looks ready for some whipsmart repartee and a sundowner. She seems very comfortable in her own skin, which is unusual anyway when you're not quite 30, but especially incongruous given her various screen personas: first, in Game of Thrones.

Chris Messina, best known for his work on The Mindy Project as heartthrob-toxic waste of space Danny (depending on whom you ask), is being offered a role on the show, per Deadline. If he accepts the offer, which would make sense for him to do since this show scored eight acting Emmy nominations last year, he'll join a cast that also reportedly includes Oscar nominee Helena Bonham Carter.

You're probably (unfortunately) at least vaguely familiar with some pretty infamous serial killers in the U.S., like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. However, you may never have heard of Stephen Morin, even though his suspected crimes rival both Bundy's and Dahmer's in number. And although none of these pieces of sh*t deserve to be immortalized, what makes Fear Not unique is that it tells Morin's story through the lens of a survivor's lived experience.

"Heated Rivalry" has captured hearts-and Instagram feeds-everywhere. The six-episode series on HBO Max mainly follows two hot, hot hockey stars, Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander, as they fight with each other on the ice and have sex with each other everywhere else. It's great-and Naomi Fry agrees. "Part of the pleasure for viewers," as Fry writes in her column, "is the show's plainspoken articulation of desire, when the love that dare not speak its name finally does."

Michael's ouster came largely at the hands of the man who holds claim to being the season's second-biggest villain - especially if you ask Bachelor fans - Colton Underwood. The roundtable at the end of episode five turned into a battle of wills and words with Michael trying to alliterate his way into taking out Colton and Colton expressing what increasingly appeared to be the will of the entire cast to be rid of Michael once and for all.