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The Weeknd has dropped a new single, “Popular,” featuring Madonna and Playboi Carti. The upbeat pop number teases his forthcoming soundtrack LP, The Idol Vol. 1, out June 30. A video for the song showcases the cast of HBO series The Idol, including Lily-Rose Depp and Abel “the Weeknd” Tesfaye, …

This post contains spoilers for the Barry series finale, “Wow.” “Denial, it’s tough.” This line by Monroe Fuches is perhaps the most important sentiment expressed at any point during these four seasons of Barry. The series began as a Hollywood satire, illustrating the thin line that exists between killing on …

Week after week, in frantic monologue after frantic monologue, Sarah Goldberg delivered one of the greatest performances on TV in recent memory as Barry‘s self-obsessed actress Sally Reed, whose intensity occasionally unnerved even Bill Hader‘s titular hitman character. She scored an Emmy nomination for her performance in Season One —for …

This post contains spoilers for the Succession series finale, “With Open Eyes.” A lot happens over the course of the 90-minute Succession series finale, “With Open Eyes.” Alliances are made, broken, and made again. Votes happen, fortunes rise and fall, losers become winners, and vice versa. For all intents and …

When 33-year-old Anna Golez started her No Context Succession Twitter account in July 2019, she was filling a void in her own interest and fandom. An avid TV fan, Golez turned her eye toward Succession after her other favorite HBO series, Veep, ended in May 2019 and she “wanted something …

Brian Cox thinks Succession viewers should have lived with Logan Roy a little longer. In an interview with the BBC, the actor said he felt killing off Roy in the third episode of the HBO show’s final season was “too early.” In the episode, the Waystar CEO died while on …

In 1984 a promising director named Joe Dante unleashed Gremlins. It was a horror-comedy that played like a polished-up version of something he might have worked on for his mentor, B-movie king Roger Corman, who shepherded Dante’s first solo feature, Piranha, in 1978. Dante already had The Howling to his …

Tina Turner died today at age 83, and the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast tells the story of her one-of-a-kind musical journey. Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos join host Brian Hiatt for the discussion, which delves into HBO’s acclaimed 2021 documentary Tina (which reveals the lasting …

Memo to showrunners: When in doubt about your lead character, just cut to her masturbating while choking herself. It’s a little past the halfway mark of the first episode of The Idol — the HBO series about the pressure chamber of pop stardom from the minds of Abel “The Weeknd” …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Nearly three years after it was first announced, HBO Max — the streaming service from HBO and WarnerMedia — has officially become “Max“, merging their content library with …