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This post contains spoilers for the entire fourth season of The Bear, now streaming on Hulu. The Bear Season Four finale is called “Goodbye.” This could be read a lot of different ways, given both its subject matter and its placement in the season. The episode — a single scene, …

This post contains spoilers for the third and final season of Squid Game, which is now streaming on Netflix. Once upon a time, the cameo that comes in the concluding scene of Squid Game would have been thrilling, and very much in keeping with the Netflix drama’s status as the …

This post contains spoilers for Season Four of The Bear, which is now streaming on Hulu. Late in “Bears,” the seventh episode of the new season of The Bear, 16 different people are seated under the same table at a wedding reception. When we first see this table — part …

The police are the good guys, or so I thought as a kid growing up in the suburbs in the 1980s and 1990s when just about everything I knew about policing came from what I watched on television. Long before I had ever heard the word “copaganda,” I had little …

“I mean, this is our culture?” Danny Boyle asks, rhetorically. “Right?” Or maybe he’s not being rhetorical — the British director has a tendency to pose as many questions as he does provide answers during an interview, and seems genuinely interested in having a conversation rather than simply being the …

The shark refused to work. The main boat nearly sank. The young director, who insisted on filming on open water, nearly had a nervous breakdown; he’d later admit that the production left him with serious PTSD. Two of the leads hated each other — the British stage actor thought the …

The summer of 2024 solidified Love Island USA as a top reality-TV choice for households across the country, and 2025 is proving to be a repeat success. The series — which puts a dozen twenty-somethings on a remote villa in Fiji where they are filmed at all hours, all for …

M atty Matheson is driving down memory lane in a green 1963 Ford Galaxie. The skies above Fort Erie, Ontario, are gray, obscuring the Buffalo skyline across the lake. He points out some of the town’s landmarks. “That building over there is where I was served my first beer,” says …

I n Season Three of The Gilded Age, George Russell prepares to risk it all. The fictional late-19th-century tycoon, played by Morgan Spector, has his sights set on conquering westward trade and travel with a transcontinental railroad project. It’s a monumental endeavor that requires all manner of smoky backroom dealmaking, …

I t’s not hard to find James Gunn’s office on the Warner Bros. lot. A huge, glowing Superman “S” symbol beckons from an entrance wall, visible through a glass door from yards away. Gunn, 58, is in his third year as co-CEO of the company’s newly created DC Studios, sharing …