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We Like Ike

Ike Barinholtz is giving his all as The Studio’s sad clown. By Fran Hoepfner

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A Plea From a Member of the ‘51st State’

Americans don’t understand the threat Canadians face right now. Comedian Tom Green would like to explain. By Tom Green and Hershal Pandya

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Summer House Is for the Girls

Nine years in, the Hamptons reality stars have unlocked the secret to success, and it doesn’t involve fighting over men. By Rebecca Jennings

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Matthew Rhys’s Frown Lights Up Towards Zero

An otherwise by-the-numbers Agatha Christie adaptation gets a welcome jolt of grumpy energy whenever he shuffles onscreen. By Roxana Hadadi

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Diddy Wants to Delay His Sex-Trafficking Trial And Young Thug lawyer Brian Steel wants to join his defense team.
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Chappell Roan Supports Too-Bright Teeth The pop star boldly comes out as pro-veneer on Las Culturistas.
what? when? where? 1:45 p.m.

The Who Fired Ringo Starr’s Son As Their Drummer Zak Starkey, who had been with the band for three decades, says he is “surprised and saddened” by the decision.
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The Ultimate Guide to 2025’s Can’t-Miss Music Festivals Plan ahead for marquee acts, tolerable travel, and … punk-rock bowling? Let’s go.
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The 2025 Emmys Host Is Nate Bargatze Commentating the Best Drama smackdown between White Lotus, Severance, and The Last of Us.
art 10:30 a.m.

The Billionaires Are Battling Over a Giacometti Sculpture David Geffen, lion of the old-guard art world, is up against Justin Sun, tech provocateur.
succession 10:30 a.m.

Tina Fey Says Lorne Michaels Is ‘Irreplaceable’ To the left, to the left.
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‘I Was 24 and Working Illegally’ One Fifth is where I met my wife, watched Patti Smith bring a server to tears, and learned that, in America, charm is more important than ability.
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The Depression Puzzle 20-Down, Five Letters: One edge of Katniss’s love triangle
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Cinematrix No. 386: April 16, 2025 Can you name a Jennifer Lopez movie released between 2000 and 2009?
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Kevin Spacey Resurrected Frank Underwood for Comedian Tim Dillon “Netflix didn’t know we were doing it, but they’ve been super cool about it,” Dillon said of a promo clip featuring Spacey in character.
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Gayle King to Critics of Her Space Flight: ‘Have You Been?’ She’s “very disappointed” by negative reactions to Blue Origin’s all-women mission.
coming soon 4/15/2025

Only Murders in the Building Books a Booksmart Star Beanie Feldstein joins the cast in an unnamed role.
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Cate Blanchett Might Have More Time to Hate on Leaf Blowers Soon She insisted in a recent interview that she is “serious” about plans to retire from acting.

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Daredevil: Born Again Season-Finale Recap: Resist, Rebel, Rebuild All seems lost after the Fisks shut down the city, which is a perfect setup for season two.
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The Studio Recap: Free Parking Quinn and Sal engage in executive-level warfare over who gets to make the next low-budget slasher for the studio.
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The Valley Season-Premiere Recap: Hell Week Jax and Brittany’s divorce looks so much worse than we could have imagined.
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The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Boomerang For years, we watched the women on this show claw their way out of hell. Now, we’re watching them all willingly head back in.
overnights 4/15/2025

Below Deck Down Under Recap: The Great Divide With the Johnny-Wihan-Alesia bunk-bed situation handled and a refreshed team onboard, morale seems high for everyone … except Tzarina and Lara.
overnights 4/14/2025

The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: The Aftermath The wives pick up the pieces after Kenya’s explosive ousting, and the outlook is sunnier than I expected.
overnights 4/13/2025

The Righteous Gemstones Recap: Love Isn’t Always on Time Seeing the end of Lori’s relationship with Cobb explains what brought her back into the Gemstones’ orbit.
overnights 4/13/2025

The Last of Us Season-Premiere Recap: Welcome to Wyoming Ellie and Joel have become part of the community in Jackson, but their past actions threaten to drive them apart.
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Dark Winds Recap: Gods and Monsters Dark Winds nips the question of whether Yé’iitsoh is a character or metaphor in the bud.
overnights 4/13/2025

Saturday Night Live Recap: Jon Hamm Knows What to Do We know him, the cast knows him, and he knows what his job is when he shows up.
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Doctor Who Recap: What’s Schwup, Doc? Can we blame Belinda for being prickly toward the Doctor after he brought her to the “planet of the incels”?
overnights 4/11/2025

RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: RuDemption What happens when you do a lip-sync smackdown with a cast not known primarily for their lip-syncing? Still a pretty good reunion, as it turns out!
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Dope Thief Recap: So Much Top 40 Dope Thief goes into a full-on fever dream.
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Black Mirror Season-Finale Recap: Clone Wars Nanette (Cristin Milioti) and her crew don’t stand a chance in an unforgiving capitalist universe filled with pissed-off gamers.

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Matthew Rhys’s Frown Lights Up Towards Zero An otherwise by-the-numbers Agatha Christie adaptation gets a welcome jolt of grumpy energy whenever he shuffles onscreen.
album review 4/15/2025

Bon Iver Is Out of the Woods On Sable, Fable, Justin Vernon is committed to having a better time.
theater review 4/14/2025

A Crucible of Teen Drama: John Proctor Is the Villain When the stressors in Arthur Miller’s play and the ones in a classroom full of high-schoolers collide.
tv review 4/13/2025

The Baldwins Almost Succeeded Sometimes you nearly forget this exercise in crisis management was a wild miscalculation.
tv review 4/13/2025

The Last of Us Grows Up There will always be infected, but this series excels when its characters consider how to be human.
movie review 4/11/2025

What Was America? America was a movie in which the president saves the world in a ball gown with an automatic weapon.
close read 4/11/2025

Yellowjackets’s Big Bad Was Hiding in Plain Sight The series has finally embraced what now seems like an inevitability, turning this into a horror story of a different kind.
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In Warfare, the Fog of War Is Both a Literal and Spiritual Fact Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Iraq War drama plunges us into the horror and confusion of combat.
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The Thriller Drop Is a Perfect Addition to the Bad-First-Date Canon Meghann Fahy, you will always be famous.
theater review 4/10/2025

Smash Is the Wrong Kind of Dud Instead of embracing its legendary love-to-hate-watch roots, the Broadway adaptation of the NBC show about a musical is surprisingly timid.
movie review 4/10/2025

One to One: John & Yoko Cuts Through the Beatles-Industrial Complex Built around Lennon and Ono’s 1972 concert at Madison Square Garden — John’s last — the film presents a powerful look at their activism.
tv review 4/10/2025

World Got You Down? Head North of North. Netflix’s winning new Canadian comedy is the Black Mirror counterprogramming we need right now.
theater review 4/8/2025

What’s to Discuss? Old Friends Is a Familiar Trip Through the Sondheim Canon. Led by a committed Bernadette Peters.
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Rami Malek May Be Too Weird for Hollywood In spy thriller The Amateur, the Oscar winner and his pulpy material can’t get along.

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Daredevil: Born Again (S1/E9)

Resist, Rebel, Rebuild All seems lost after the Fisks shut down the city, which is a perfect setup for season two.
The Studio (S1/E5)

Free Parking Quinn and Sal engage in executive-level warfare over who gets to make the next low-budget slasher for the studio.
The Valley (S2/E1)

Hell Week Jax and Brittany’s divorce looks so much worse than we could have imagined.
The Handmaid’s Tale (S6/E4)

Boomerang For years, we watched the women on this show claw their way out of hell. Now, we’re watching them all willingly head back in.
Below Deck Down Under (S3/E11)

The Great Divide With the Johnny-Wihan-Alesia bunk-bed situation handled and a refreshed team onboard, morale seems high for everyone … except Tzarina and Lara.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta (S16/E6)

The Aftermath The wives pick up the pieces after Kenya’s explosive ousting, and the outlook is sunnier than I expected.
The Righteous Gemstones (S4/E6)

Love Isn’t Always on Time Seeing the end of Lori’s relationship with Cobb explains what brought her back into the Gemstones’ orbit.
The Last of Us (S2/E1)

Welcome to Wyoming Ellie and Joel have become part of the community in Jackson, but their past actions threaten to drive them apart.
Dark Winds (S3/E6)

Gods and Monsters Dark Winds nips the question of whether Yé’iitsoh is a character or metaphor in the bud.
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now streaming The 15 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Out with the doctors, in with the fungus zombies. By Savannah Salazar
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chicken jockey!!! Let the Children Scream Why not harness the Minecraft-fueled, meme-addled energy bringing real live young people into theaters? By Nicholas Quah
influences How Universal Language Found Poetry in Meaningless Spaces Matthew Rankin explains the Iranian and Winnipegian influences that shaped his movie’s distinct visual motifs. By Roxana Hadadi
building statues The Sash Is Funny And Green Day deserved to headline. By Fran Hoepfner

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Let the Children Scream

Why not harness the Minecraft-fueled, meme-addled energy bringing real live young people into theaters? By Nicholas Quah

influences How Universal Language Found Poetry in Meaningless Spaces Matthew Rankin explains the Iranian and Winnipegian influences that shaped his movie’s distinct visual motifs. By Roxana Hadadi
explainer Jury Selection for Harvey Weinstein’s Retrial Is Already Proving Difficult When the name of the case was announced, a woman in the back row remarked “wow,” her mouth opening in surprise. By Victoria Bekiempis
intermission news A$AP Rocky Spent 10 Hours of His One Life Watching The Brutalist Hopefully he gets composer Daniel Blumberg in the studio. By Jason P. Frank

jump in Florence Pugh Begged Marvel to Let Her Jump Off a Building Do a flip! By Alejandra Gularte
movie etiquette Scream ‘Chicken Jockey’ 3 Times, and Jack Black Will Appear He stepped in after moviegoers turned A Minecraft Movie into interactive theater. By Alejandra Gularte
inspspspiration Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Gave Ryan Coogler’s Villain a New Life Sinners’s lead vampire took inspiration from another fairy tale. By Alejandra Gularte
a knight’s tale What Zaslav Learned From Flopping And from the success of ‘A Minecraft Movie.’ By Jason P. Frank
role call Justin Theroux Answers Every Question We Have About American Psycho He has seen finance bros come to worship Patrick Bateman over time and finds it “disturbing.” By James Grebey

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The 2025 Emmys Host Is Nate Bargatze

Commentating the Best Drama smackdown between White Lotus, Severance, and The Last of Us. By Jason P. Frank

coming soon Only Murders in the Building Books a Booksmart Star Beanie Feldstein joins the cast in an unnamed role. By Jason P. Frank
fact check An ER Psychiatrist Analyzes The Pitt’s Mental-Health Struggles “These are realistically flawed characters, and some of the ways their flaws come out are in how they manage these mental-health patients.” By Nicholas Quah
spellcasting Harry Potter Hires Its Hogwarts Professors Paapa Essiedu, Nick Frost, Janet McTeer, and more are headed to the teachers lounge. By Rebecca Alter
when the moon hits your eye Was the All-Female Blue Origin Mission ‘Hopecore’? Katy Perry and Gayle King hoped spending 11 minutes in space inspired people to be better, somehow. By Fran Hoepfner

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The Only Baldwins Spinoff I’d Want to Watch Let Alec do his history lessons. By Fran Hoepfner

saymo(re) Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney Again On this week’s episode: David Letterman, Hannibal Buress, Leanne Morgan, Nikki Glaser, and music from Randy Newman. By Hershal Pandya
vulture lists Help! All My Shows Are Over! Not all of us want to watch fungal zombies. By Rebecca Alter
harry potter HBO Fills Out Its Hogwarts Faculty Paapa Esseidu is Snape, Nick Frost is Hagrid, and J.K. Rowling is involved. By Bethy Squires
black mirror What Happened During the Blue Origin Celebrity Space Flight Did Katy Perry really sing in space? By Rebecca Alter, Justin Curto, and Fran Hoepfner

Music

the law

Diddy Wants to Delay His Sex-Trafficking Trial

And Young Thug lawyer Brian Steel wants to join his defense team. By Justin Curto

biting Chappell Roan Supports Too-Bright Teeth The pop star boldly comes out as pro-veneer on Las Culturistas. By Jason P. Frank
what? when? where? The Who Fired Ringo Starr’s Son As Their Drummer Zak Starkey, who had been with the band for three decades, says he is “surprised and saddened” by the decision. By Devon Ivie
building statues The Sash Is Funny And Green Day deserved to headline. By Fran Hoepfner

accusations Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter Faces Fourth Sexual-Assault Allegation The woman claims she contracted HPV and was diagnosed with cervical cancer afterward. By Justin Curto
album review Bon Iver Is Out of the Woods On Sable, Fable, Justin Vernon is committed to having a better time. By Craig Jenkins
the festival circuit The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Coachella 2025 Yo Gabba Gabba!, Benson Boone flips, and free Erewhon shots. By Rebecca Castillo, Reanna Cruz, and Fran Hoepfner
the festival circuit Every Single Thing That Happened at Coachella 2025 From Clairo f. Bernie Sanders to Ava Max throwing her hair into the audience. By Jennifer Zhan
in the desert Lady Gaga Played Chess with a ‘Poker Face’ at Coachella Her headlining set had her doing everything from grabbing a guitar to dancing with a skeleton. By Jason P. Frank

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Comedy

succession

Tina Fey Says Lorne Michaels Is ‘Irreplaceable’

To the left, to the left. By Jason P. Frank

is this a joke Kevin Spacey Resurrected Frank Underwood for Comedian Tim Dillon “Netflix didn’t know we were doing it, but they’ve been super cool about it,” Dillon said of a promo clip featuring Spacey in character. By Jennifer Zhan
last night on late night Aimee Lou Wood Says SNL’s Parody Was ‘Mean and Unfunny’ Was Sarah Sherman supposed to be Cheryl Hines? By Bethy Squires
coming soon Find Your Happy Gilmore 2 Place The Sandman is back on the green and the spirit of Carl Weathers will live on. By Bethy Squires

this week in late night Chesterton Cheadle Won Late Night This Week Everybody’s Live exists only to fulfill the base desires of John Mulaney and his writing staff. By Bethy Squires
the grub street diet Jeffery Self Fills the Void With Coffee Runs “The power of a good scone is not to be underestimated.” By Zach Schiffman
live from london It’s SNL, Innit? Lorne Michaels will executive-produce a U.K. version of the legendary American sketch show. By Hershal Pandya
tv review World Got You Down? Head North of North. Netflix’s winning new Canadian comedy is the Black Mirror counterprogramming we need right now. By Roxana Hadadi
bittersweet symphony The Fantasmas Cast Has Cruel Intentions Julio Torres, Julia Fox, Justice Smith, and more went all the way during a live table read of the 1999 film. By Tom Smyth

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Jak Malone’s Guide to Singing the Best New Song on Broadway

“It makes me wonder if somebody somewhere has gone, ‘Yeah, we’ll give him a good go of it before he dies,’” the Operation Mincemeat star said. By Jason P. Frank

theater review A Crucible of Teen Drama: John Proctor Is the Villain When the stressors in Arthur Miller’s play and the ones in a classroom full of high-schoolers collide. By Sara Holdren
theater The Best Hate-Watch of All Time A guide to Smash, from screen to stage. By Jason P. Frank
chapters “It Feels Like We’re Lost in the East Village and Can’t Find a Way Out” Jeffrey Seller, co-producer of ‘Rent,’ on Jonathan Larson and his show’s bumpy road to success. By Jeffrey Seller
theater review Smash Is the Wrong Kind of Dud Instead of embracing its legendary love-to-hate-watch roots, the Broadway adaptation of the NBC show about a musical is surprisingly timid. By Jackson McHenry

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William Finn, Falsettos Composer, Dead at 73 He also wrote A New Brain and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. By Jason P. Frank

the upside down Stranger Things Brings the Upside Down to Broadway Demogorgon of the opera, if you will. By Alejandra Gularte
the-a-ter Broadway Legends on the Show That Got Away Idina Menzel’s Moonstruck opera and Betty Buckley’s stadium-size Annie Get Your Gun. By Zach Schiffman
the yesteryear issue The List Keepers The AIDS crisis shattered Broadway, and the scope of the loss has never been fully accounted for. Some kept their own records. By Mark Harris
theater review What’s to Discuss? Old Friends Is a Familiar Trip Through the Sondheim Canon. Led by a committed Bernadette Peters. By Jackson McHenry

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Books

well read McNally Jackson Is Starting a Book Festival The city’s big little indie-bookstore chain is betting on the idea that readers want something more than the standard launch party. By Emma Alpern
say it ain’t so Weezer Bassist’s Wife Shot by Police, Arrested for Attempted Murder Jillian Lauren is “all right,” her husband said — and so is his band’s Coachella set. By Justin Curto
endings What Sunrise on the Reaping Means for the World of the Hunger Games Spoiler warning for just about every book in the series. By Ashley Wolfgang
book review Katie Kitamura Gets Too Abstract Audition’s lack of novelistic detail is both a strength and a weakness. By Emma Alpern
books The National Book Foundation’s New ‘5 Under 35’ Is Here From a heady tale of non-monogamy to a haunted voice assistant, this year’s nominees confront a changing world. By Emma Alpern

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Art

art The Billionaires Are Battling Over a Giacometti Sculpture David Geffen, lion of the old-guard art world, is up against Justin Sun, tech provocateur. By Rachel Corbett
art Critics Are Fuming About the New MoMA Head “What a disappointing and unsurprising choice.” By Rachel Corbett
art review The Wary Gaze of Amy Sherald A majestic new show at the Whitney features the artist’s gift for portraiture that seethes with subtleties. By Jerry Saltz
art review Behold the Frick The newly renovated museum is bigger and better than ever. By Jerry Saltz
the work of art Lisa Yuskavage Becomes the Protagonist After 35 years of painting her signature girls, the artist has turned to a new subject: herself. By Adam Moss