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• Season 2 of Aziz Ansari’s Emmywinning comedy premieres with a nod to The Bicycle Thief in Italy, but if that‘s not enough to get you hooked, it’s also packed with touching and humorous stories on religion, romance, sexuality, and, of course, food. (Premieres May 12, Netflix) GA M E S

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ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, by Elizabeth Strout

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winning author of Olive Kitteridge impresses yet again with Anything Is Possible, taking readers to a small town full of larger-than-life characters and their daily struggles.

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• You’ll clutch your passport a little tighter after listening to first-hand stories of people captured or arrested while traveling overseas— even one from the man whose incarceration inspired Midnight Express. (TuneIn)

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• To celebrate the 30th anniversary of their magnum opus, 1987’s The Joshua Tree, the rock legends will play it in its entirety—along with other highlights from their extensive catalog— on their latest North American tour.

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13 Reasons Why In a landscape full of troubled teens battling an array of demons, Netflix’s adaptation of the 2007 YA novel has sparked more conversations than any other series. Here’s why. BY SAMANTHA HIGHFILL

Twin Peaks Kyle MacLachlan talks us through the most enlightening episodes. BY JEFF JENSEN & DARREN FRANICH

Master of None Aziz Ansari’s show is back to break even more boundaries—and looks damn good doing it. BY RAY RAHMAN

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—Zoe Saldana, letting pal and Crossroads costar Britney Spears off the hook for outing her pregnancy, on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen

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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

TO INFINITY WAR AND BEYOND! After blasting the box office, StarLord & Co. have a packed space schedule. Next up: an Avengers team-up and Vol. 3. B y C l a rk C o lli s

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Vol. 2 flew into theaters on May 5, the big question was “I am Groot?” Or for those not proficient in the language of the franchise’s ambulatory tree voiced by Vin Diesel, “Could director James Gunn’s superhero sequel beat the box office of his 2014 original?” The answer was a resounding “I am Groot!” (Translation: “Yes!”) The first film, about the thenobscure team of Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper), and, of course, Groot, grossed an impressive $94.3 million over its opening weekend. Vol. 2 earned $146.5 million, a 54 percent increase and the highest figure for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film not featuring Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man. That commercial

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Two for the Road Delving deep into the most epic Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 post-credits scenes. B Y D A R R E N F R A N I C H The superhero sequel winds down with a wild array of moviestar cameos and comic-book references—sequences that point to the future of the franchise and the Marvel Universe. Of the five scenes, two standouts are especially important. (To be clear, we also love Angry Emo Teen Groot.)

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success has made Star-Lord and crew—and Gunn—of central importance to Marvel Studios. So what’s next for our heroes? Well, speaking of Downey, the Guardians will appear in Avengers: Infinity War (due May 4, 2018). The film’s villain is Josh Brolin’s Thanos, the so-called Mad Titan who also happens to be the adoptive father of Gamora and Nebula (Karen Gillan). “Getting to work with the rest of the characters in the Marvel Universe is amazing, even though we may not ever see all of them, because the Guardians are in space,” says Saldana. “But because Thanos is the villain in Infinity War, it wouldn’t make sense if you didn’t dive into his personal life…which was just a bonus for Karen and me.” Gunn, who co-wrote the first Guardians film and wrote the second solo, has been advising Infinity War directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Captain America: Civil War) in his role as executive producer. “I’m caretaking the Guardians characters and doing what I can to make Infinity War as good a movie as possible,” he says. Gunn is also writing the third Guardians film, which he will once again direct. Possible plotlines hinted at in Vol. 2 include the Guardians facing off against superbeing Adam Warlock, the comic-book character seemingly referenced by Elizabeth Debicki’s Ayesha at the end of Vol. 2 (see sidebar). Gunn says making the third film will be a three-year process, which would target a 2020 release. After that, things get hazy for the Guardians gang. According to Gunn, the third film will “conclude” this iteration of the team, and Saldana recently told EW that after appearing in Vol. 3 and James Cameron’s four planned Avatar sequels, she’ll be “done with space.” So for now, the future can be summed up in three words: I am Groot.

“I THINK I SHALL CALL HIM ADAM” After a whole film spent chasing the titular superteam, High Priestess Ayesha (Elizabeth Debicki) brags that she has created a new being “more powerful, more beautiful, more capable of destroying the Guardians of the Galaxy.” She’s growing this ultimate weapon inside a cocoon—and calling it Adam. That would be Adam Warlock, one of the great figures in Marvel’s cosmic tradition. A scientifically engineered perfect specimen, Warlock was a hippie messiah before an arc by writer-artist Jim Starlin transformed him into a demented outer-space demigod. He’s also a frequent antagonist to Thanos, but Marvel claims Warlock won’t appear in next year’s Thanos-tastic Avengers: Infinity War, so we’ll have to wait until Vol. 3 to see who plays the golden-skinned Perfect Being. Matt Bomer? Trevante Rhodes? Zac Efron? If Vin Diesel can voice a dancing baby tree, anything’s possible.

GUARDIANS: OG EDITION Space pirate Yondu (Michael Rooker) sacrifices himself in Vol. 2’s climax, leading to a reunion of his old Ravager pals and prompting Sylvester Stallone’s Stakar to get the gang back together—including Michelle Yeoh as Aleta, Ving Rhames as Charlie27, and an unrecognizable Michael Rosenbaum as glassy Martinex. (Those characters were part of the original Guardians of the Galaxy comic book.) They’re joined by robot Mainframe (voiced by Miley Cyrus) and a red devil-worm magician named Krugarr. It’s clear that these Ravagers aren’t as heroic as their comic-book incarnations, as Stakar reunites the team for the ignoble purpose of “stealing some s---.” But expect to see them pop up again, especially as the Marvel Universe explores more intergalactic territory.

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T H E J E S S CAG L E I N T E RV I E W

As Good as Gold(ie) Goldie Hawn returns! People and EW editorial director Jess Cagle stopped by the actress’ L.A. home to catch up for a new episode of his show on the People/Entertainment Weekly Network (PEN). BY RUTH KINANE

Fifteen years after Goldie Hawn’s last big-screen role—2002’s The Banger Sisters—the Oscar-winning actress is tickling funny bones once again in Snatched. The adventure comedy stars Hawn, 71, as an overly cautious mom to Amy Schumer’s hot-mess, thrill-seeking daughter. It was the opportunity to play Schumer’s mother that lured Hawn back in front of the cameras. “She’s so smart and so funny,” says Hawn of her costar. “I thought that I could be a good mom for her.” Hawn, who has three kids—Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, and Wyatt Russell—saw something compelling in the antics of a mother-daughter vacation gone awry. “It’s a very complex relationship,” she says. “I think it’s important: that love, that forgiveness, that understanding of the fact that your mother is a real human being and not just a mom. Maybe everybody who sees this movie will go home and call their mothers and know that we did the best we could.”

GAME OF THRONES

The Never-Ending Story? With four potential spin-offs in the works, winter could come again, and again, and again, and again... B Y J A M E S H I B B E R D

What if instead of concluding after just 13 more episodes, HBO’s Game of Thrones continued for years? Decades, even?! Well, hold the door— because it could happen. Rather than letting its most popular and award-winningest drama of all time wink off the air with a final eighth season, the network is aggressively trying to transform GoT from a single series into a full-blown multi-title franchise. HBO now just needs to prove that Westeros can inspire another successful tale—and it’s leaving little to chance, developing four top secret followup series from different writing teams (their collective credits include Kong: Skull Island, X-Men: First Class, and A Knight’s Tale). To be sure, the core ingredients are all there: Like Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter before it, author George R.R. Martin’s creation has enthralled millions of fans worldwide with a unique expanse of locations, languages, history, characters,

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and magic. But even with a bingeworthy story in place, there’s no guarantee the cast would be game. Many say they’re ready to move on but also wouldn’t mind seeing a series set before GoT. “I think a prequel makes a lot of sense— start with a new set of characters,” says Kit Harington, who stars as Jon Snow. John Bradley, who plays former Snow sidekick Samwell Tarly, agrees: “It’s an exciting idea and a testament to the universe George has created that when you read the books, you feel like you’re only reading a snippet of the entire history of this universe. There’s a lot of very interesting stuff that happens before Thrones, and they can go as far back as they want.” Of course, there’s always a chance that HBO won’t make any of the proposed spin-offs. And if the network brutally killed off the popular series without an heir, well, that would be the most Game of Thronesian ending of them all.

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AMERICAN IDOL IS BACK!

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Well, that was fast! A mere 13 months after being canceled by Fox, American Idol is headed to ABC. The network reportedly outbid NBC and Fox (which apparently had a change of heart) for the 16th cycle of the singing-competition series, set to premiere next year. Though no stars are attached yet, speculation has run rampant that host Ryan Seacrest (an employee of ABC, thanks to his new gig on Live With Kelly and Ryan) could return. And as for the judges’ panel, well, we have some ideas.

Depends on who you ask. MTV broke down barriers at this year’s Movie & TV Awards—but don’t expect other shows to follow suit. B Y N I C O L E S P E R L I N G

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The first American Idol is one of the show’s most successful alums. Her Idol experience and industry acumen would make Clarkson an asset to t original. the panel and a link to the

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Simon Cowell perfected the art of the biting jab during his tenure—and who better to fill his shoes than the mercurial rapper? ’Ye would be the greatest judge of all time. Of all time.

SELENA GOMEZ

Gomez has found success as a singersongwriter and an executive producer. Her personal struggles could make her the “Paula,” a kind advocate, but with a youthful perspective.

—Maureen Lee Lenker

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When Beauty and the Beast star Emma Watson won MTV’s first gender-neutral best-actor prize at the Movie & TV Awards on May 7, she commended the network, saying during her acceptance speech, “It indicates that acting is about the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, and that doesn’t need to be separated into two different categories.” MTV’s new format came in the wake of an April letter written by Billions gender-nonconforming actor Asia Kate Dillon to the Television Academy challenging gendered awards categories. Dillon’s onstage moment with Watson was lauded as one of the night’s best—but don’t look for the likes of the Oscars or Emmys to follow MTV’s lead just yet. While MTV has the benefit of fan voting, most awards in Hollywood are decided by membership-based organizations, like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which already struggles with diversity. And eliminating gender categories among its acting prizes, some insiders argue, could make the awards less inclusive, not more—at

least where women are concerned. In the film industry, women are still fighting for the same opportunities (and pay) as men, and you can see the possible ramifications of a genderless system. “The leading roles go to the men. The director slots go to the men. Actresses don’t want to give up their awards. I think their voices would be the loudest in the room as to why you shouldn’t do it,” says an awards consultant. An Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences member agrees: “I’d love to live in a world where [genderless categories were] possible. But until there is parity in the voting body, we will have separate categories.” (The Academy is 76 percent male, according to the Los Angeles Times.) For their part, the Emmys, which are voted on by 20,000-plus members of the Television Academy, allow performers to enter in whichever gender category they wish. Still, the issue is complicated— what if neither category fits?—and much more work needs to be done. For now, the industry would be wise to look to the fans to lead the way.

UNTIL THERE IS PARITY IN THE VOTING BODY, WE WILL HAVE SEPARATE CATEGORIES.” —AN ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES MEMBER

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ENTERTAINING BRINGING P O P C U LT U R E TO YOUR KITCHEN By Ruth Kinane

BAKING TIPS

Feeling a little crusty when it comes to pastry prep? Castle shares some simple hacks to avoid crumbling under the pressure.

Mermaid Marshmallow Pie

The Broadway musical Waitress features star Sara Bareilles and enticing onstage sweets, but this pastel pick from Sheri Castle, recipe developer for The Waitress Pie Book: Sugar, Butter, Flour, is a spotlight stealer SHORTBREAD COOKIE PIE SHELL 1¾ CUPS SHORTBREAD COOKIE CRUMBS, from about 9 oz. cookies 6 TBSP. UNSALTED BUTTER, melted FILLING ½ 8 ½ 1 1 1 1 ¾ 1 2

CUP HEAVY CREAM, chilled OZ. CREAM CHEESE, at room temperature CUP SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK TSP. VANILLA EXTRACT PINCH OF SALT CUP DRAINED CRUSHED PINEAPPLE, patted dry CUP DRAINED MANDARIN ORANGES, patted dry CUP PECAN PIECES CUP SWEETENED FLAKED COCONUT, plus 1 tbsp. for garnish CUPS COLORED MINI MARSHMALLOWS

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1 For the pie shell: Preheat oven to 350°. Toss together cookie crumbs and melted butter in a medium bowl until crumbs are moistened. Press mixture onto bottom and up sides of a 9½-inch deep-dish pie pan. Chill at least 15 minutes. Bake in center of preheated oven just until set and fragrant, about 10 minutes. Cool in pan on a wire rack, about 20 minutes. 2 For the filling: Beat cream in a chilled medium bowl with an electric mixer on high speed until firm peaks form. Chill until ready to use. 3 Beat cream cheese in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth.

Add condensed milk, vanilla, and salt; beat until smooth. Fold in pineapple, oranges, pecans, and 1 cup of the coconut until combined. Gently fold in the chilled whipped cream. Pour mixture into prepared piecrust, and smooth top. Chill until set, about 4 hours. 4 Top pie evenly with marshmallows, and sprinkle with remaining 1 tbsp. coconut.

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Preheat a baking sheet along with the oven, then place the pie tin atop the tray so it’s not touching the rack. “An evenly heated sheet gives a consistent bake,” says Castle. AVOID SUBSTITUTES

“Baking is chemistry,” she says. “Everything performs a role.” Switching one ingredient for another (butter for margarine, sugar for honey) can have “dire consequences.” KEEP COOL & CARRY ON

“Jenna uses this pie to flirt with

her obstetrician,” says Castle of Bareilles’ plucky baker in Waitress. “It’s colorful, pretty, and doable, whatever your skill level.”

Chill everything to stop gluten from developing in the flour. That includes the “flour, the bowl, utensils— even your hands!” says Castle, who pauses to run hers under cold water.

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The Good Knight Djimon Hounsou lends his regal bearing, action-epic bona fides, and Oscar-nominated pedigree to Camelot as Bedivere in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. BY KEVIN P. SULLIVAN

A HERO’S JOURNEY

A WELL-ROUNDED TABLE In director Guy Ritchie’s film, Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) is backed by a diverse Round Table, including Hounsou’s Bedivere, whose status as a black knight in medieval England is treated as matter-of-fact. “This tale is about understanding the king through his knights,” Hounsou says. “We live in a world that’s multicultural. I think we’re trying to convey that, and it was a great idea to approach it that way.”

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SEARCHING FOR GOLD Six years after Amistad, Hounsou became the first black African man to receive an Oscar nomination for acting, playing a photographer dying of AIDS in Jim Sheridan’s Irish-immigrant tale In America. He racked up another nom with 2006’s Blood Diamond, portraying a father desperate to save his son from Sierra Leone warlords. “To be lucky enough to be part of a story that [generates] social change, where you had performed decently well [in order] to be recognized, it’s absolutely mind-blowing,” he says. Still, he’s not resting on his laurels. “What would put the icing on the cake would be getting an Oscar,” he says. “Being an African man in Hollywood, I think it would be greatly appreciated for me to win.”

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Not unlike a certain medieval legend, the origins of two-time Academy Award nominee Djimon Hounsou are humble. Born in what is now the African country of Benin, Hounsou immigrated to France at the age of 13 and lived on the Paris streets for stretches of his teenage years. “Because I come from a very odd background, I did not know any of these [King Arthur] stories,” he says, though he was quick to see their appeal. “It’s one of those fictional stories that you can tell from many different angles, given the fact that you’re dealing with a king— a king that came from nothing.”

Hounsou got his start as a model—fashion designer Thierry Mugler discovered him in Paris— but acting had been a passion since childhood, when, despite being “quite shy,” he appeared in school plays in Africa. “I felt that acting got me out of my skin,” says the 53-year-old. “There was something fulfilling about trying to emulate other characters.” By 1989, feeling “suffocated in France,” Hounsou was ready for a change. To him, America was where people went to “fulfill that ultimate dream,” and early parts in music videos for Madonna (“Express Yourself”) and Paula Abdul (“Straight Up”) led to a supporting role in Stargate (1994) and then Steven Spielberg’s Amistad (1997). “Amistad really confirmed my career for me,” says Hounsou, who received a Golden Globe nomination for his role as a noble slave.

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REASONS : WHY INSIDE THE MOST DARING SHOW ON TELEVISION In a landscape full of troubled teens battling an array of demons, Netflix’s adaptation of Jay A she r’s 2007 YA no vel has sparked more conversations than any o t h e r s e r i e s. H e r e ’ s w h y. BY SAMANTHA HIGHFILL @SAMHIGHFILL PHOTOGRAPHS BY ZOEY GROSSMAN

Dylan Minnette and Katherine Langford photographed on May 6, 2017, at Hudson Loft in Los Angeles

( Clockwise from left ) Langford and Minnette; Langford ( in hat ); Justin Prentice and Alisha Boe; Kate Walsh and Langford

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Reasons Why hit Netﬂix in March, the internet couldn’t stop talking about it. Three weeks after the show’s release, it had become the most tweeted-about TV series of 2017, with 11 million tweets. Whether it’s about the subject matter, the performances, or even the music, the conversation surrounding the show has been constant, making it a breakout hit for the streaming service—not to mention landing its original source material, Jay Asher’s 2007 YA novel of the same name, the No. 1 spot on USA Today’s best-seller list. Adapted by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Brian Yorkey (Next to Normal) and executive-produced by a team including Selena Gomez and Spotlight director Tom McCarthy, 13 Reasons depicts a year in the life of a high school junior who kills herself after leaving behind 13 tapes explaining her decision. On the series, each cassette translates to an individual episode during which Hannah discusses a particular person’s impact on her life. As Hannah’s love interest Clay listens to the tapes, an increasingly haunting tale of bullying, sexual assault, and, eventually, suicide is unspooled.

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KATHERINE LANGFORD’S HANNAH BAKER WILL BREAK YOUR HEART. As the show’s central character and narrator, 21-year-old Langford was tasked with bringing Hannah to life and, perhaps more daunting, telling the story of her death. “Hannah was the hardest [to cast],” Yorkey says. “We imagined Hannah as a girl with a tremendous life force that, bit by bit, got snuffed out. To go on that journey with her and see that life force snuffed out, we had to see it in the first place, and we found it in the last place we looked.” That place was Perth, Australia, where Langford grew up never really considering acting as a long-term goal. “My parents are both doctors, and even though they’ve been nothing but supportive, it’s still hard because you grow up thinking there’s a particular path you have to follow,” she says. It wasn’t until Langford attended a Lady Gaga concert when she was 16 that she decided to explore musical theater, which led her to apply to drama school. And when she didn’t get in, she took on three jobs—bartending, ushering, and dressing as the Easter Bunny—so that she could audition for roles while her parents were under the impression that she was in college. It would take a year for Langford to get an agent, and 13 Reasons Why wouldn’t be far behind. (The true sign she’s made it? Lady Gaga recently retweeted one of her interviews.)

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As hot as the show is among young (and not-so-young) viewers, the ways in which it confronts these issues is just as hotly debated. Does it glamorize suicide? Is it too graphic? Or should it be celebrated for its willingness to shake up audiences in the pursuit of honest conversation? The show isn’t just dominating Twitter—it’s become watercooler talk across the nation. So why can’t we stop talking about this show? So many reasons...

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AND SO WILL DYLAN MINNETTE’S CLAY JENSEN. Unlike Langford, Minnette, now 20, knew he wanted to act from a young age. He signed with an agent at age 6 when a convention came through his hometown of Evansville, Ind., looking for models and actors, and by age 8, he’d participated in his ﬁrst pilot season. “I’m pretty sure that normally those conventions are scams, but somehow it worked for me,” Minnette says. You might recognize him from Prison Break, Lost, Scandal, or if you’re like Asher, 2015’s Goosebumps. “When I pictured who could play this character, Dylan was the very ﬁrst person that I thought of who would be absolutely perfect,” Asher says. “When they told me he was playing Clay, I was extremely happy.” Hannah is the voice of the story, and Clay is its vessel. Through him, the audience experiences Hannah’s life

and its impact. Together, their stories form a romance, a tragedy, and a cautionary tale all in one. “The trick with Clay is that he has to be a genuine human being, but he’s also a kid who’s not—especially when the series begins—really in touch with his feelings,” says Yorkey. “We needed to ﬁnd someone who could be very still and real while also communicating the depth of feeling that was really going on underneath.” THE LOVE STORY IS IMPERFECT AND PERFECTLY REAL. One of 13 Reasons Why’s bright spots is Hannah and Clay’s budding relationship, and their relatable struggle to communicate their feelings for each other. “So much of their journey is that they’re perfect for each other but keep missing each other,” says Langford. The

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actors met after they’d both been cast and were immediately thrown into playing the beginning and the end of their characters’ life together, which starts on the job at a local movie theater. “Our first day filming at the Crestmont, you see the last time he saw her, which is when she sets her uniform down on the counter and walks out,” Minnette says. “We filmed that the same day we filmed her training me. It was so interesting to film our first real interaction and our last interaction in the same day. We had no idea what was ahead of us.” THE ADAPTATION IS FAITHFUL WHEN IT NEEDS TO BE. Roughly two years after Asher’s novel was released, Selena Gomez and her mother approached him about adapting it into a film. Ultimately, it would take eight years from Gomez’s first meeting with Asher for the show to premiere on Netflix, and though the project didn’t get the big-screen treatment, Asher is happy with the alternative. In the book, Clay listens to all of Hannah’s tapes in one night, but having that take place over several days the way the series does allows viewers a glimpse at how Asher initially imagined Hannah’s story. “When I first came up with the idea for the book, it was going to be more like the show, where it was going to take place over several days, so you would have more interaction with the characters,” Asher says. “So when producers wanted to go this way with it, I was excited.” For the most part, the show follows Asher’s novel, but by expanding the timeline, filmmakers could add new characters to the mix, including Hannah’s parents, Olivia (Kate Walsh) and Andy (Brian d’Arcy James), who don’t appear in the book. “For people who aren’t in high school, this show is a peek at what high school is like nowadays,” Yorkey says. “I also was hoping high schoolers would watch it and they would get a peek at what their parents go through in trying to figure them out.” Furthermore, the decision to feature Hannah’s parents paints a fuller picture of the devastation their daughter leaves behind. “Watching [her parents] come to terms with what’s happened and try to figure out the way to get closure and justice for Hannah is super compelling and heartbreaking,” Yorkey says. IT SOUNDS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT. When Yorkey was in seventh grade he watched The Breakfast Club, and it became a big influence. Not only did it give him an idea of what to expect from his own high school experience, its music became a central part of his teen years. “The way I processed [my adolescence] was so often through the lens of the music I was

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listening to,” he says, which is why he was so passionate about incorporating an ’80s-music vibe into 13 Reasons. Yorkey worked with music supervisor Season Kent to craft a soundtrack that emphasized what Kent calls the “darkness” and “alt-rock” of ’80s songs. The end result is a virtual mixtape of indie tunes, throwback jams, and pop covers— think Lord Huron, Joy Division, and, yes, Selena Gomez. (And speaking of mixtapes, Yorkey promises to reintroduce another piece of retro technology in the recently announced second season of 13 Reasons, hitting Netflix in 2018. “There is a different sort of analog technology that plays a hugely important role in season 2.” THE CAST’S OFFSCREEN AFFECTION IS INFECTIOUS. The show debuts a powerhouse supporting cast, including Miles Heizer, Christian Navarro, and Alisha Boe, to name a few. But it’s not just their characters that fans have fallen in love with. Thanks to social media, the cast has created its very own #squadgoals in the 13 Reasons Why fandom, posting photos of hangouts, both on and off set. “None of us lived where we filmed the show, so we all had to move there,” Heizer says of the show’s San Rafael, Calif., location. “And seven of us accidentally moved into the same apartment building.” Boe adds, “I lived two doors down from Christian, and every day after set I would go over to his place and watch RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

FEMALE DIRECTORS HELM SOME OF THE MOST SENSITIVE EPISODES. As season 1 progresses, the story only grows darker. Episode 12—directed by Jessica Yu (American Crime)— contains Hannah’s rape. Producers made a conscious choice to have a woman direct the installment. “A great deal of the show is about Hannah being seen through the male gaze,” Yorkey says. “It was very important to us for Hannah to be led by a woman [for this episode].” Langford also applauds Yu for her approach to the challenging material. “I remember her talking about how we were going to shoot it and how diﬀerent angles could make it look sexual, which is another problem: So much porn is based on rape fantasy. And so for her, shooting it was about not making it look like sex but more a physical action,” Langford says.

IT TAKES TEENAGERS SERIOUSLY. The majority of the population seems to talk about hating high school, but Hollywood tends to love it—at least as a setting. “High schoolers are absolutely hilarious and tragic and interesting and just full of life and emotion,” Yorkey says. “[They’re] a jumble of thoughts and feelings trying to coalesce into an adult.” But there aren’t many teens who find their own experiences reﬂected in the dark mysteries of Riverdale or the supernatural world of Teen Wolf. Instead, 13 Reasons presents a highly authentic portrayal, whether through true-to-life dialogue or the way cyberbullying is shown as a fact of life for most teens today. “Being a young person and not too far out of high school myself, I think it’s important that people are able to see representations of these issues and characters they can relate to,” Langford says.

IT BREAKS THE RULES. One of the biggest topics of discussion surrounding 13 Reasons is how unflinchingly it portrays bullying, sexual assault, and suicide. The filmmakers purposefully present uncomfortable scenes depicting all three. “It was supremely important that we do everything we could to tell the truth,” Yorkey says. “In the case of the more traumatic events of the show, we felt a real responsibility not to look away from them. The temptation to tell that story in a way that makes it easier to watch is tantamount to not telling the truth. So where we were bold, we were only bold because the truth is powerful and sometimes difficult.” One of the filmmakers’ most debated decisions came in the finale, which shows Hannah’s suicide in excruciating detail. In the book it’s rumored that Hannah overdosed, but it’s never clearly stated; for the series, filmmakers chose to have Hannah slit her wrists in a bathtub. “It’s a very brutal sequence and very hard to watch, and we debated that at great length,” Yorkey says. “We had some wonderful doctors who helped us to understand what the experience would be like for Hannah and in what ways past depictions of suicide, especially by teenagers, had been aestheticized and made pretty. We set about to do it as truthfully as we could.” Suicide certainly isn’t new to pop culture, but unlike Dead Poets Society and any number of other onscreen portrayals, 13 Reasons kept a camera on Hannah through every step of her devastating decision. “When these things happen in books or movies or TV shows, we don’t see it, and we’re comfortable with that,” Asher says. “But then we wonder why people in our culture still don’t understand how horrific those things are.” It’s those scenes that have launched worldwide conversations, with responses both negative and positive. Some schools have banned talk of the show; others have sent home letters advising parents on how to speak to

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their kids about it. In response, Netflix has added multiple trigger warnings to the series, which already features an after-special, Beyond the Reasons, where cast and creators and medical professionals talk about issues the series brings up. “If the book or TV show can get people talking about these uncomfortable things, that’s beautiful,” says Asher. HANNAH’S STORY IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING. There’s one thing Yorkey doesn’t want to hear about the recently announced season 2, and that’s the idea that Hannah’s story is over just because we’ve heard all of the tapes. “For every tape, there’s another person who has a side of the story,” he says. “We saw Hannah’s version of events unfold, but there’s a lot more to be told about those characters.” And Hannah’s tale isn’t the only one left unfinished. The finale has a number of cliff-hangers—Alex (Heizer) shot himself, Tyler (Devin Druid) was collecting an arsenal—and Yorkey promises to address all of them when the second season picks up a few months later at the trial between Hannah’s parents and her school. “We’re going to see a lot of things that we hadn’t even heard about that fill in some really interesting gaps in our understanding of who Hannah Baker was and what her life was,” Yorkey says. Once again, the series will intertwine past and present, and the voice-overs will be back, though they won’t come from Hannah. Yorkey also wants to explore the process of recovery. “As they begin to emerge from this very dark time, there’s hope and there is some light to be found,” he says, noting that he specifically looks forward to expanding the story of Hannah’s classmate Jessica, played by Boe. “Jessica is just beginning the process of recovering, and we have a rapist who has not in any way been brought to justice,” Yorkey reminds fans. Which brings us to the biggest reason we need a season 2: to “see somebody punch Bryce [Justin Prentice] in the face,” Yorkey says. IT WANTS TO EFFECT REAL CHANGE. For Yorkey, 13 Reasons has two central themes: “You never really know what’s going on in someone else’s life,” and, as Asher writes in every copy of the book he signs, “Everything affects everything.” They’re lessons Yorkey hopes people take away from the show, because, as Clay says in the season 1 finale, It has to get better. “I don’t know any scientific way of knowing why the show has had the response it’s had,” Yorkey says. “I’m sure it’s a combination of many things and it’s different things for different people. My hunch is it’s because we—the writers, the directors, and especially the actors—did everything we could to be truthful and to do justice to the lives that kids lead.” (Additional reporting by Nivea Serrao)

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Help Is Available IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS EXPERIENCING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS, BELOW IS A LISTING OF NATIONAL RESOURCES THAT YOU CAN CALL UPON 24/7

NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE

RAPE, ABUSE & INCEST NATIONAL NETWORK

Boasting more than 160 local crisis centers, the NSPL is a crisis hotline for people in suicidal or emotional distress. The service offers free and confidential support to those in need.

RAINN is the country’s largest anti-sexual-violence organization and operates both the National Sexual Assault Hotline and the Department of Defense Safe Helpline. The organization is dedicated to both informing the public and improving public policy to ensure justice for survivors.

suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ 800-273-8255

rainn.org/800-656-4673

CRISIS TEXT LINE

With the help of Crisis Text Line— which assists users with anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts via smartphone messaging— prevention methods are evolving alongside our increasingly digital world. Since 2013, millions of texts have been exchanged via the service. Text HOME to 741741

LOVEISRESPECT

A project of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, Loveisrespect works toward preventing and ending abusive relationships among teenagers. In 2011, Vice President Joe Biden helped launch its 24-hour text service. 866-331-9474; text LOVEIS to 22522

TEEN LINE

VETERANS CRISIS LINE

For almost 40 years, Teen Line has fostered support for young people through confidential phone services, text messaging, and community outreach—all executed by trained teenagers. “They won’t judge you or give advice,” its website reads. “Their job is to listen to your feelings…and help you make positive decisions.”

According to data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, an average of 20 veterans die from suicide each day. The Veterans Crisis Line provides telephone responders specially trained to help former military members cope with emotional distress.

teenlineonline.org/310-855-4673

TRANS LIFELINE

A 2015 study conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality found that 40 percent of trans Americans surveyed had attempted suicide. This nonprofit organization offers crucial support to members of the community in crisis, enlisting transgender volunteers to staff its phone lines for a safe space of support. translifeline.org/877-565-8860

THE TREVOR PROJECT

Launched in 1998, it was the first nationwide crisis-intervention and suicide-prevention lifeline for lesbian, gay, transgender, and questioning youth. Since then, its purpose has grown to also include offering life-affirming resources, educating parents, and advocating for increasing government funding for LGBT youth mental-health services. thetrevorproject.org/866-488-7386

800-273-8255

IT GETS BETTER PROJECT

This online initiative, which targets LGBT youth with messages of resilience to combat the damaging effects of discriminatory harassment faced by queer youth, features viral videos from a wide range of notables, including Janet Jackson, members of the Boston Red Sox, and President Obama. itgetsbetter.org

CIRCLES OF SUPPORTS

Dedicated to building strong support networks for young suicideattempt survivors, this site is a great resource for friends, family, and teachers looking for information on how they can help their loved ones during the recovery process. circlesofsupports.org

ALLIANCE OF HOPE

Suicide is never singular in terms of its impact, and survivors regularly share their stories each month on the Alliance of Hope’s website, which also offers resources to help grieving individuals cope with the deaths of their loved ones. allianceofhope.org

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TO PREPARE FOR SHOWTIME’S REVIVAL OF DAVID LYNCH’S ICONIC SERIES (PREMIERING MAY 21), STAR KYLE M AC LACHLAN TALKS US THROUGH A SPEED-BINGE OF THE SHOW’S MOST ENLIGHTENING EPISODES. BY JEFF JENSEN @EWDOCJENSEN AND DARREN FRANICH @DARREN FRANICH PHOTOGRAPH BY MARC HOM

Sheryl Lee and Kyle MacLachlan photographed on Feb. 3, 2017, in Los Angeles

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David Lynch’s masterfully directed twohourpremiere is a mesmerizing orientation— an invitation to never-ending love. A dreamy stream of narrative enhanced by Angelo Badalamenti’s moody-romantic score draws you into a singular setting: Twin Peaks, a woodsy Americana idyll hiding rings of secrets and rot. Tragedy pierces the ironic facade with the murder of troubled beauty Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). An engagingly eccentric hero, FBI agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), pulls at her mystery, revealing that a population of peculiar people hold more. The premise, novel in 1990, is familiar today, but Lynch’s artistry makes it timeless and potent.

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Season 1’s only other Lynchhelmed installment is arguably the series’ signature episode. Cooper shows a mystic side to his deductive technique in a sequence marked by absurd comedy. But it’s a prophetic nightmare that steals the show. It begins with a chanting onearmed man (“Fire, walk with me!”) presenting denim-clad psycho BOB (Frank Silva). It ends with an aged Cooper in an otherworldly red-curtained room receiving a whispered message from a backward-speaking Laura. Says MacLachlan: “The show is adding a whole new dimension here, quite literally.”

Who killed Laura Palmer? “We all did!” screams Laura’s wildeyed boyfriend Bobby (Dana Ashbrook), as the town gathers for her funeral. The burial is Twin Peaks’ ghoulish sense of humor writ large: When tearful daddy Leland (Ray Wise) jumps on Laura’s lowering coffin, the soap operatic goes Freudian. This episode also pulls back the veil on the show’s deeper fascinations. Sheriff Harry Truman (Michael Ontkean) explains that there is “something very, very strange in these old woods…a darkness, a presence.” Meanwhile, Laura’s cousin Maddy (Lee, with dark hair now) arrives.

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As Dale lies bleeding from a gunshot wound, a mysterious bald giant (Carel Struycken) appears, oﬀering koanic inscrutabilities (“The owls are not what they seem”) that set the stage for season 2’s deepening exploration of the supernatural. By the end of the Lynch-directed season premiere, Leland’s hair has turned white, Donna (Lara Flynn Boyle) has taken over Laura’s Meals on Wheels route, and the giant appears to oﬀer one last bit of wisdom: “Don’t search for all the answers at once.” We couldn’t possibly.

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There’s plenty to love in the post–Laura Palmer period, but season 2 suffers from definite mission drift, symbolized most obviously by Cooper’s decision to swap his J. Edgar suit for a plaid lumberjack-chic ensemble. In this reset-button episode, Lynch guest-stars as Cooper’s FBI boss. His advice speaks meta-volumes: “You better dust off your own black suit.” The show recovers its compass immediately, sending Cooper into the mysterious depths of the Owl Cave.

Another scary-trippy-WTH? hour from Lynch ends the series with a brutal cliffhanger. Cooper ventures into the Black Lodge underworld, where Laura cryptically vows, “I’ll see you again in 25 years.” Cooper, trapped in limbo, is replaced in Twin Peaks by his shadow self. “The show found traction again with a powerful new direction,” says MacLachlan. “It would have been compelling to explore.” Perhaps the new show will do just that. And it has been 25 years…

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A message arrives for Cooper from outer space, and that’s merely the fourth-weirdest thing in this ep. There’s a visit with the Tremonds, an eerie grandmagrandson pair with a creamedcorn fixation. Then Donna, Maddy, and James (James Marshall) perform a love-triangle musical number in the living room. And then Maddy has a vision of a sneering BOB climbing over the couch to claim her. Witness the essence of Twin Peaks: romantic nostalgia invaded by transgressive horror.

The police arrest the wrong man, but the show reveals the real culprit. It’s Leland—and it’s BOB, a possessor-spirit symbolizing unfathomable evil. There’s a new, brutal killing, but the tone is ultimately elegiac. Lynch cuts from the murder to the Roadhouse diner, where songstress Julee Cruise sings melancholic dream-pop. The giant appears. People cry. Cooper looks bummed. It’s a farewell to the show’s defining mystery—and the last episode Lynch directed until the finale.

Would the Laura Palmer whodunit have ended differently if ABC hadn’t made Lynch and partner Mark Frost wrap it up? “It’s possible,” says MacLachlan, who isn’t certain the Leland-BOB dualism represents the creators’ original intent. Still, “Arbitrary Law” captures your imagination for high-concept evil, thanks to Tim Hunter’s careful direction and Wise’s howling, wrenching performance, supported nicely by MacLachlan. From here Twin Peaks turns increasingly wacky, and the psycho-spiritual abstractions start solidifying into concrete occult mythology via a tepid plot about Cooper’s unhinged ex-partner, Windom Earle (Kenneth Welsh).

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Lynch’s prequel flick infuriated fans by refusing to resolve dangling story lines, but this challenging experience is now more intriguing knowing more Twin Peaks is imminent. Lee’s bold performance brings Laura to vibrant life. David Bowie as a teleporting FBI agent electrifies the Black Lodge stuff by remystifying it. (Who the hell is Judy?!) And is Chris Isaak’s Chester Desmond real or just Cooper’s dream avatar? “Never heard that theory,” says MacLachlan, “but I like the idea of looking and singing like Chris Isaak.”

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ﬁrst—and than most other TV comedies, for that matter. Each and every new episode of Master of None feels like a carefully crafted, conversation-worthy event, down to the last poop joke. THE LINE THAT DIVIDES AZIZ ANSARI FROM DEV SHAH HAS ALWAYS

been thin, but this season it’s sometimes invisible. The premiere, the first “big swing” of the 10 episodes, opens with Dev living in Modena, a quaint Italian city where he tries to simultaneously sate his heart and his stomach. He has become an apprentice pasta maker, and along the way has fallen for a local girl named Francesca (Mastronardi from the pharmacy). She’s engaged, but Dev’s quixotic infatuation with her serves as the season’s central love story. Ansari himself spent months residing in Modena, learning to make pasta at the same charming restaurants that are on the show. There was no Francesca, but he did develop a love of classic Italian cinema, which inspired him to shoot the premiere in black and white, nodding to films like The Bicycle Thief. The episode is almost entirely in Italian, which he learned with mixed results. “I’m definitely top three as far as Indian people go,” he says. Mastronardi offers a slightly different assessment. “He sounds like a Russian when he speaks in Italian, and I have no idea why,” she says with a laugh. “But he’s a really good student. Better than Eric.” That would be Eric Wareheim, who estimates his friendship with Ansari goes back six or seven years. “We knew each other from the comedy scene, but we became closer friends by exploring new food.” It’s not such a stretch that Wareheim’s character on the show is Arnold, Dev’s main partner in crime; the pair end up eating (and singing) their way through Italy together. “It’s semi-based on our real friendship,” says Wareheim, who’s also a supervising

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pharmacy in midtown Manhattan, has an urgent question. “What’s funnier: ‘problems with your bowels’ or ‘issues with your bowels’?” This question is meant for the team of comedy writers and producers huddled behind a camera monitor in the nearby shampoo section. Ansari and his acting partner in this scene, Italian actress Alessandra Mastronardi, have already spent much of the chilly December morning doing multiple takes. If they’re tired of talking about bowels, Ansari has only himself to blame: He’s directing this episode, and he’s convinced the line could be stronger. Then again, it’s hard to tell if Ansari, the 34-year-old star and co-creator of Netflix’s Master of None, is ever really satisfied. As fans of the groundbreaking series have intuited by now, he isn’t someone who likes to settle. Based loosely yet clearly on Ansari’s and cocreator Alan Yang’s own life experiences, season 1 followed thirtysomething struggling actor and serial dater Dev Shah around New York as he tried to figure out what he wanted in life. The series proved an instant hit, and not just the kind that makes best-of lists and wins Emmys (though it did those things, too). Master of None became a part of the Cultural Conversation, entering that rarefied club of boutique comedies that inspire discussion in dive bars and The New Yorker alike: Girls, but with an Indian guy. Ansari is all too aware of this, of course, which is why he isn’t letting himself off the hook with round 2. “I was hesitant about even doing a second season,” he admits. “I didn’t want the show to become the sort of thing where we’re cranking out meat like we’re on a production line. If you look at season 1, you think, ‘What’s the template for how they wrote those episodes?’ I said, ‘Let’s never do that again. Throw out all that s---. Do it a totally different way. Let’s just take a bunch of really big swings and make a bunch of crazy episodes.’ I wanted our ideas to be things we were passionate about.” The result is a stunning season 2 (streaming now) that’s bolder, weirder, and more confident than the

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producer. “We traveled through Sicily the summer before we started shooting [in 2016]. We would talk about girls and life, and a lot of that seeped into the show.” In another major plotline, Dev is presented with what could be the break his career’s been needing: the chance to team up with a celebrity chef (played by Bobby Cannavale) for a food-and-travel reality series called BFFs: Best Food Friends. This too is cribbed from Ansari’s real life. “We started going to these elaborate dinners and came up with this silly concept: food-club captains,” Wareheim says. “We would actually dress up in suits with these captain’s hats that said our names on them. If the restaurant was really good, we would send them a plaque with our picture on it. They’re still hanging at, like, six restaurants in Los Angeles.” Some of the most personal moments for Ansari come in the third episode, titled “Religion.” His father and mother, Shoukath and Fatima, were unexpected breakouts in season 1 thanks to their turn in the Emmy-winning “Parents” episode. They return in a sweetnatured tale based on Ansari’s experiences growing up as a baconcoveting Muslim kid in South Carolina. The episode’s very existence might be Master of None’s biggest statement to date. “I’ve never seen Islamic humor in the way you’ve seen Jewish humor,” Ansari explains, citing a speciﬁc Curb Your Enthusiasm episode in which Larry David pretends to be an Orthodox Jew. “I thought we could do something like that but make it all Islam stuﬀ. There’s so many things that I laugh about with my family that have to do with religion, and I’d never seen it shown.” His younger brother Aniz, who writes for the show, was on hand as well, adding to the warm family vibe on set. “We’re making this thing I’m really proud of, and I’m getting to do it with the immediate members of my family,” says Ansari. “It’s a really special thing.”

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people talking this season: a brilliantly edited half hour composed entirely of Tinder-esque first dates; an episode that ditches the main characters in favor of a string of strangers; an emotional, generation-spanning Thanksgiving installment featuring Angela Bassett; and the hour-long penultimate episode that stars Dev and Francesca in the mixed-race romantic comedy that Hollywood never makes. Thanks to the success of the first season, Ansari and Yang were able to approach these episodes with plenty of confidence in their creative instincts. If one of them had an intriguing but out-there vision in his head, they knew they could make it a reality. “We were kind of in our own little bubble,” Yang says. “What we wanted to do this season was not only not repeat what we’d seen on other shows but also not repeat ourselves.” Adds Ansari, “We have this great creative freedom at Netflix, and I think you’ve got to take advantage of that while you can.” Back on set, as the crew wraps up at the pharmacy (they decided on “issues with your bowel movements,” if you were wondering), Ansari and Yang recount the considerably more glamorous scene they shot the day before—Dev and Francesca in a helicopter, enjoying a magical moonlit ride above Manhattan. Yet not even a moment like that seems to match the ambitious spirit of the series itself, or of its star. “Each time we get to do this show,” says Ansari, “we really treat it like we’re never going to get to do it again.” X

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origin story, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, is two-plus hours of sorcery, swashbuckling, and supersize CG snakes and swamp rats. Somewhere in all of this there’s a good movie trying to get out. The impulse to reimagine the tale of Excalibur isn’t a bad one. There’s still a lot of narrative meat to gnaw on that drumstick (action, adventure, chivalry, etc.). But Hollywood only knows how to dream big right now, when the truth is, the

best moments in this film are the smaller ones—the scheming and snap-crackle-pop wordplay among its gallery of medieval rogues. It’s the same franchise quicksand that Ritchie stepped into with his Sherlock Holmes reboot back in 2009, when mental gymnastics were upstaged by razzle-dazzle bare-knuckle brawls. Now he’s just sinking deeper. Someone needs to throw him a line. When the movie opens, Arthur is a young boy who witnesses the murder of his father, King Uther (Eric Bana), at the hands of his power-hungry uncle Vortigern (Jude Law, sniveling in fascist black leather and chain mail). Arthur goes into hiding and is raised by kindly prostitutes on the streets of ancient London, where he learns to use both his fists and his wits while growing up to become Charlie Hunnam—which is to say, haunted and cocky with zero-percent body

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fat and snug leather pants. He’s forced, as all men in the kingdom are, to try to pull Uther’s stubborn and mystical sword from a stone. When he touches its hilt, he’s zapped by white light. The music on the soundtrack swells. The earth shakes. Dogs bark and horses rear up. Excalibur is meant for him. A hero, albeit a reluctant one, is born. As Law’s Vortigern snarls about how he wants this threat to his black-magic reign dead, Arthur saddles up with a group of rebels (and one pouty, catwalk-ready mage, played by Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) to bring Vortigern down. It’s here that the film briefly sparks to life, as Arthur’s grifting, wisecracking cronies (with colorful names like Goosefat Bill) hatch their throne-toppling scheme in thick Cockney accents reminiscent of Ritchie’s East London street toughs from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. They’re rascals you want to spend some hang time with. But the film never allows you to. There are too many phony-looking specialeffects sequences of giant marauding elephants and magical eel creatures to get to. It doesn’t matter if they don’t help the story; what seems to matter is that Ritchie had enough money at his disposal to conjure them, so why not spend it? Hunnam and his charismatic band of merry pranksters get lost in the sea of pixels. Which is a shame. Because King Arthur could have been a rollicking blast. Instead it’s just another wannabe blockbuster with too much flash and not enough soul. C+

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John Cena is no rookie. A WWE superstar for 15 years, he has headlined the brand as a champion in the ring and a goodwill ambassador outside it. With more than 500 Make-A-Wish requests granted, he holds the foundation’s record for the most completed by a single person. But when it comes to his acting career, the wrestler’s brash showmanship is replaced by something resembling humility. Not humble-for-anactor, but actually humble. “I’ve read a lot of good scripts that I don’t think I’d do well in because I’m still refining my skill set,” he says. “Hopefully, that skill set is growing every day.” In the past few years, Cena, now 40, has taken unexpected supporting roles, stealing g scenes in comedies co ed es like e Traina wreck, Daddy’s e k, D y’ Home,, and Sisters. a dS s e s The parts p were e e a deliberate de be a e change g of pace for Cena,, who broke into o

movies as the lead in generic blow-’em-up flicks like The Marine. “I really wasn’t proud of the stuff. It might as well have come in a white box that said ‘Movie’ on the side,” Cena says. “It wasn’t as creatively stimulating as the stuff I’m in now.” The stuff he’s in now is The Wall, a tense Iraq War thriller from director Doug Liman. Cena plays y sniper p who’s an Army

injured by an unseen shooter. His only hope is his partner (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who’s pinned down behind a crumbling stack of bricks. The movie gives Cena a chance to showcase that skill set he’s been working on. He’s charming and funny at first, then physically and emotionally drained. It helped that temperatures on the California desert set reached 115 degrees. But in the g heat,, he found the challenge g he was seeking. g. “Aside from it being g hot as balls,” he says, y , “I think we did pretty p y damn good.” g ”

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have residential neighborhoods. Then it goes on to a suburbs. L.A. is all these little cities put together. It just felt like this is the real domain that this movie should happen within. All of the Los Angeles locations in this film feel so iconic. How did you go about finding them?

The true story that inspired Heat largely took place in Chicago. What led you to set the film in Los Angeles? M I C H A E L M A N N L.A. is more balkanized than Chicago. There’s a unity to Chicago. It’s got north and south streets. It’s all in a grid. It has a downtown area. Then you

Myself and a guy who was a commander in the L.A.P.D. in plainclothes, we started touring around at least one night every weekend for about six months. There’d be a homicide in Pacoima. We’d wind up in the middle of an armed robbery in progress. Another time, we’d just left some crazy incident where some guy had stolen two traffic lights, which are very big, and had put them in a shopping cart. Some guy who was drunk with his

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or two, that Goldie Hawn was their mother? That conceit—and a few hastily scrawled script notes on a Post-it—was apparently enough to get Amy Schumer to sign on to Snatched, a profane, wildly scattershot comedy that rides almost entirely on the sheer life force of its two stars. Schumer is Emily, a spectacularly self-involved woman-child who bungles her way out of a job (retail) and a boyfriend (regulation band-bro) on the eve of a romantic trip to South America. Emily’s odds of ﬁnding someone else to come along are drastically reduced by the fact that most of her friends seem to hate her, but a visit home to the adoring Linda (Hawn) sparks a last-ditch plea: “Come on. Help me put the fun in unrefundable,” she begs. Linda demurs; she’s the kind of panic-button mom who sees peril in a crosstown trip to Costco. But maternal love wins, even as the tourism board of Ecuador prepares to take a blow; the resort is actually gorgeous, and day-drunk Emily even meets a man (Tom Bateman, a stubbled dreamboat with teeth so white they’re a beacon). Except he is, of course, also Linda’s worst fear come true: a bait hook for a band of ruthless kidnappers who toss both women in a jungle prison, demanding ransom. Emily’s ﬁrst-world oblivion and Linda’s bad knees hardly bode well for survival, and the plot pitches and weaves like a drunk lemur. But as Snatched’s blonde-leading-theblonde farce careens on, it stumbles into moments of deranged inspiration, lifted by loopy cameos (Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes, a mute Joan Cusack) and Hawn’s dizzy, undiminished charisma. After nearly 15 years away from the big screen, she’s still pure Goldie. C+

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evolves year to year. If I shot this film two or three years ago, this particular film would be less chromatic. And the sense of tension would become more pronounced with greater contrast and a more blue-black palette. [On the Blu-ray], when Hanna [Al Pacino] is chasing Neil McCauley [Robert De Niro] at the end of the film past the airport, all that is a lot darker. Primary reds are stripped out. The reflections in the metal—everything is substantially darker. The Blu-ray includes a Q&A with the cast and crew from a special screening of Heat last year. Cinematographer Dante Spinotti said there that he prefers the digital 4K version to the original film. Do you agree?

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girlfriend in a Camry ran into the shopping cart, and this guy was very pissed off that they had ruined his traffic lights. So you’d run into these absurd situations. Or the guy with the console TV, who’s in the beginning of the film in the armored-van robbery, he’s somebody else we met on the street. I would just pop these people into the movie. When it came to remastering this for the Blu-ray, were there specific sequences you focused on?

Yeah, the whole film! When you go into Blu-ray, and you go to 4K, you’re in a different color space. The ambition here was: If I was shooting the film two or three years ago, what would it look like? So we went into every shot. Your style in your more recent films has evolved from when you made Heat. Did that affect how you looked at this film?

Yes, I evolved. But also, audience perception evolves, and media

The more data we have, the better. The more pixels, the more resolution, the better. But seeing it on the big screen, what is much more impactful is the performance. You just get so much more from what Al’s doing, what Bob’s doing, what Jon Voight’s doing, what Val Kilmer is doing. It’s larger than life, and you really see deeply into their natures. It was recently reported that you’ve hired Reed Farrel Coleman to co-write a Heat prequel novel.

make their way to the multiplex in the unwieldy cinematic hybrid Manifesto. I know what you’re thinking: Finally! If you’ve heard anything about German director Julian Rosefeldt’s experimental new film, it’s probably because it began its life as a museum piece and features Cate Blanchett playing 13 different characters with as many accents. And to be fair, she’s totally fearless in every incarnation. But the film itself is mostly a didactic, disjointed endurance test. Rosefeldt has set out to catalog the various art movements of the 20th century with his chameleonic, Academy Award-winning muse mouthing their fiery declarations against ironic backdrops. For a few minutes she’s a homeless person wandering among blasted-out factories spouting anticapitalist situationist doggerel; then she’s a mourner at a funeral delivering a dadaist eulogy; then she’s a wasted punk rocker snarling the avant-garde battle cry “To the electric chair with Chopin!” A little of this goes a long way. At least there’s Christoph Krauss’ gorgeous cinematography. The goal of any manifesto is making its aims as clear as possible. But it’s never clear what this Manifesto is aiming for besides a cheeky roll call of intellectual camps. Ph.D.s in art theory will chuckle knowingly as everyone else eyes the exit. C

I can’t really [talk about it] because it’s under wraps what we’re thinking of doing, and it’s in early stages. The other thing that I’ve been working on now: I acquired an extraordinary book by Mark Bowden [Black Hawk Down], which is coming out June 6, called Hue 1968. It’s the entire pivotal battle during the Tet Offensive, told within the personal stories of hundreds of people caught in this compression in this war zone. It’s going to be a limited series, either eight or 10 hours. That’s got all my attention, along with Ferrari [a biopic starring Hugh Jackman], which I plan to do in 2018.

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of a movie, Paris Can Wait is the kind of film that leaves you famished—not just for la belle vie on screen but for the stronger sustenance of plot and character. Instead, Eleanor Coppola (wife of Francis Ford, mother of Sofia) settles for a cinematic experience that is essentially all scenic route: a sun-dappled road-trip ramble rich in the buttery wonders of French cuisine and whisper-light on story line. Diane Lane stars as Anne, the mildly neglected wife of Michael (Alec Baldwin), a garrulous producer—even his ringtone barks like a Doberman—who has urgent business in Budapest and a mess to fix on set in Morocco. Hobbled by an ear infection, Anne decides to opt out and head straight from their hotel in Cannes to an old friend’s apartment in Paris instead; Michael’s producing partner Jacques (Arnaud Viard) kindly volunteers the passenger seat in his old Peugeot. It should be a short commute, but because Jacques is the type of Gallic hedonist who can leave no snail untasted or pinot cork unpopped, a day trip becomes an odyssey: Eat Drink Drive filtered through a dreamy Nancy Meyers-lite lens. Lane looks lovely in her breathable linens, though it’s unclear exactly who she is beyond her vague hobbies (she once owned a dress shop and likes to take artily framed photos of croissants and cobblestones). Even as a late revelation—and the bittersweet specter of romance—hints at hidden depths, Paris keeps its placid, pretty surfaces intact. B–

COLOSSAL Starring Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens 2 Directed by Nacho Vigalondo A DARK SONG Starring Catherine Walker, Steve Oram 2 Directed by Liam Gavin

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FREE FIRE Starring Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy 2 Directed by Ben Wheatley

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THE LOST CITY OF Z Starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson

James Gray’s ravishing new adventure story is a throwback to a more classical style of filmmaking. Aside from the fact that it was actually shot on 35mm film, it’s the kind of old-fashioned epic that Hollywood hasn’t had much need for since Gandhi and Out of Africa.

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Schreiber buoys the boxing film with his characteristic blend of nuance and smirking humor. He’s one of the most underappreciated actors (rewatch Spotlight for an example of how damn great he can be), playing a guy who never got enough respect. B

T H E FAT E O F T H E F U R I O U S Starring Vin Diesel, Charlize Theron, Dwayne Johnson 2 Directed by F. Gary Gray

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NORMAN Starring Richard Gere, Michael Sheen, Dan Stevens 2 Directed by Joseph Cedar

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Director Gaby Dellal (On a Clear Day) admirably avoids the trap in which transgender characters are portrayed as victims, but she way overcranks the “movie” neuroses of her three characters, muffling any human spark. C

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the world with greater hilarity and provocation than Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. The new season of the satirical fantasia is no exception: The storytelling gobbles up hottopic politics, entertainment, and social issues like candy and burps them up as laughing gas with sweet-and-sour sting that makes you laugh or wince or both. Creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock mock the romantic notion that our culture can teach, improve, and reﬁne us, even as they pine for it. One complex, that’s-so-wrong bit ﬁnds a desperate Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) auditioning for Sesame T H E 8 - S EC O N D R E V I E W

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Street—and tempted to self-debasement on the couch of a puppet named Mr. Frumpus. Somewhere, Mister Rogers weeps. Kimmy is coming off a next-level year, where it pushed its irreverent and reﬂexive comedy to a supremely artful max. The stories deepened characters and addressed criticisms by playing with them and internalizing them. The controversial Jacqueline White—a race-erased Sioux played by Jane Krakowski—pursued self-redemption before getting humbled. And trauma survivor and “cartoon person” Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper) got painfully real, confronting her complex cheeriness and penchant for happyplace escapism. Season 2, with its tweaked MO and tales of deconstruction, was about being breakable and chasing grace.

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Season 3 finds Kimmy & Co. messily chasing reconstruction, producing satire that questions the politics of change and personal responsibility. Episode 2 coyly spoofs our recent election by having cracked, impolitic Lillian (Carol Kane) run a Trumpish campaign for city council. Kimmy is given a fascinating moral conundrum: granting her former captor-rapist Rev. Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm) a divorce. Agree, and she can finally break from her painful past. Deny him, and she saves his latest target (Laura Dern) from a wrecked future. As she wavers between doing right by herself and for others, Kimmy goes to college and is forced to ﬁnd a calling. Horse brusher? Crossing guard? Maybe something better? A possible romance with a philosophy student (Daveed Diggs) lets the show explicitly interrogate two of its essential themes: what’s real and what’s good. Meanwhile, Titus parts (permanently?) with boyfriend Mikey (Mike Carlsen), for reasons that may not be best for either of them. The agonies of Titus are good for some lavish parodies of Beyoncé’s “Lemonade,” but they’re familiar, and his plight embodies the season’s sluggish start. The writing, like the characters, seems uncertain about how to advance some key characters, relationships, and subplots. But Josh Charles as slimy scion of the Washington Redskins is a great baddie and ignites a story line about Jacqueline’s mission to rename the team. Kimmy’s college experience allows the series to vigorously satirize issues of gender, sex, and those damn, touchy millennials and poke at the way we talk about them. The story of Kimmy’s continuing education was bound to get bumpy, but it remains entertaining, and season 3 has every chance to graduate with honors. B

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How will fans of The Leftovers feel after they watch the very last episode on Sunday, June 4? You can hear Damon Lindelof’s voice on the phone deflate at the question. “I don’t know, man,” says the showrunner, whose last big series famously had a rather divisive conclusion. (That would be ABC’s Lost.) “I’m probably quite literally the least qualified person to answer that.” But don’t take his reply as a lack of confidence. When plotting the current third and final season (Sundays, 9 p.m.), Lindelof convened the show’s writers for two solid weeks to tackle the last scene. “There was a lot of spirited conversation and emotion at the table,” he recalls. “It was my feeling that we would not stop until all the writers agreed we had the most authentic ending.” Eventually they cracked it, and while Lindelof is certain it’s the “right” conclusion, he’s not convinced fans will agree. “I find it to be immensely satisfying and true to the show,” he says. “But it’s possible that the audience will have an entirely different reaction to it.” If you listen to critics (who saw seven of the season’s eight

episodes in advance), Lindelof has been doing everything right so far. This has been the challenging drama’s best-reviewed season, despite gambling on another major location change as the action shifted from Texas to Australia. Now that we’re halfway through, we’ve seen a mounting series of omens that suggest an imminent great flood that will wipe out humanity (or not), the possibly immortal Kevin (Justin Theroux) wrestling with his messiah status, and, most intriguingly, Nora (Carrie Coon) having the opportunity to use a machine that may or may not teleport her to her vanished kids. The upcoming weeks include an hour that’s mostly focused on the struggles of Laurie (Amy Brenneman) and a wild head-trip episode that’s a spiritual sequel to season 2’s polarizing “International Assassin.” And then comes the grand finale. “We were less interested in the question of ‘Centuries from now, is Kevin Garvey viewed as a prophet?’ and more interested in ‘Are these characters going to be okay?’ ” says Lindelof. “I believe we designed a finale that answers both fairly satisfyingly. I hope they dig it. But I’ve been wrong before.”

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The Keepers, Netflixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s engrossing seven-part docuseries (debuts May 19), investigates how the unsolved 1969 murder of a Baltimore nun was connected to a dark and traumatic conspiracy in the city. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what you should know before diving into this irresistible binge. B Y C H A N C E L L O R A G A R D

ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NOT JUST ABOUT A HOMICIDE

The Keepers begins with the murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, 26, an English teacher at a Baltimore all-girls Catholic high school. The show burrows beyond that crime to reveal that her death was part of a sinister story in which several female students were allegedly raped by the high schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chaplain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking atâ&#x20AC;Śis a network of child sex abuse,â&#x20AC;? says director and EP Ryan White. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also about the institutional cover-ups in this web.â&#x20AC;?

THE KEEPERS IS PERSONAL

Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aunt was a student of Cesnikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, but he knew nothing about the festering mystery until she brought it to his attention three years ago. Weeks later, White flew to Baltimore to explore. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even for tangential people like my aunt, entire life trajectories were affected by the death of this woman they looked up to,â&#x20AC;? says White, who relied on Cesnikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; investigations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There would be no story if it werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for these women deciding this has to finally come out.â&#x20AC;?

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While watercooler hits like Netflixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Making a Murderer focused on accused perpetrators, Keepersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; main subjects are the victimsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Cesnik and the rape survivors. â&#x20AC;?It focuses on how these people were harmed,â&#x20AC;? says White, adding that the series zeroes in on perpetrators and potential suspects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully viewers willâ&#x20AC;Ścome away with a larger understanding of the issue at hand, but also of the problem that was taking place in Baltimore and, I think, is still taking place today.â&#x20AC;?

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Jagger, a 5-and-a-half-year-old Malinois, has been sniffing out clues for three seasons as canine Detective Hoffman alongside costar Rashida Jones on TBS’ Angie Tribeca (Mondays, 10:30 p.m.). But when he’s not parking cars, chewing gum, or answering calls (er, barkanswering, that is) on the comedy, he squeezes in screen time with flicks like 2015’s Max. Here’s how Jagger became one of Hollywood’s hardestworking hounds. B Y N I V E A S E R R A O

EXPERIENCE

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Reprised his role as the heroic canine in this limited-release sequel that sees the titular dog ﬁll in as a Secret Service pooch who befriends (and protects) the president’s son. MAX (2015)

Shared the lead role in this family drama about a war dog with PTSD starring Lauren Graham, Thomas Haden Church, and Robbie Amell.

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Plays Detective Hoﬀman, the surprisingly capable four-legged partner of DJ Tanner (Deon Cole), on the TBS sitcom co-created by Steve Carell. MAJOR CRIMES (2015–PRESENT)

Regularly guest-stars as a SWAT dog on the TNT procedural drama—and spin-oﬀ of The Closer— about a special division of the LAPD.

SKILLS

Going up on his hind legs. Biting on command, playing dress-up. (Just because you have fur doesn’t mean you can’t sport sunglasses or the occasional princess costume.)

INTERESTS

Playing ball in the park. Spending time with family.

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There’s trouble in paradise in the drama’s finale, which finds the geniuses still stranded on a desert island. Tension builds as Walter (Elyes Gabel) and Toby (Eddie Kaye Thomas) disagree on how to escape. Plus, another type of tension grows as the couples—Walter and Paige (Katharine McPhee), newlyweds Toby and Happy (Jadyn Wong)—become increasingly frustrated by their inability to consummate their love. “They’re starting to get on each other’s nerves and break into camps,” says EP Nicholas Wootton. Fans should pay special attention to the final line of the season: “It sums up a buildup of the past three years,” explains fellow EP Nick Santora. —Chancellor Agard

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THE KEEPERS FRIDAY, MAY 19

STREAMING

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Fatigued by the true-crime fad? Have faith in The Keepers, a jolting investigation into evil, power, and truth that couldn’t be more timely. The seven-part series immediately hooks you with two crusading women, alumni of a prestigious Catholic school in Baltimore, obsessed with solving the decades-old murder of a teacher they adored, Sister Cathy Cesnik. Just when you think director Ryan White (see page 48) is attempting a subversive inquiry into armchair detectives, episode 2 introduces you to a riveting soul, a “Jane Doe,” whose complex chronicle of pedophile priests goes from harrowing to inspiring. The story keeps widening—and keeps redeeming some dubious choices (re-creations, cliff-hangers)—and by episode 4, The Keepers evolves into something like a nonﬁction version of The Wire, a profound portrait of a city and its people. A– —Jeff Jensen Go to ew.com/what-to-watch for our daily picks of What to Watch

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Tracy Morgan: Staying Alive STREAMING

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“How are you feeling, Tracy?” a pizza seller asks Tracy Morgan in a Saturday Night Feverspoofing sequence. “Who’s Tracy?” replies Morgan, in a joke referencing the traumatic brain injury the 30 Rock star suffered in a 2014 car accident. The comic repeatedly returns to that event and its consequences while also proving he has recovered his comedic chops. Something else he has in common with the “old” Tracy is a fondness for the politically incorrect; the easily offended might care to skip the bit where he fantasizes about Caitlyn Jenner. Still, it’s great to have him back. Who’s Tracy? The answer is right here. B —Clark Collis

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IIn this dee eply moving documentary, Heath Ledger’s family and friends, in ncluding Hollywood heavyweights Naomi Watts and director Ang g Le ee, offer an intimate portrait of the Aussie actor who died nearly a decade d ago, at 28. But the film doesn’t dwell on his death; i instead, itt aims to celebrate his life, a goal it largely achieves by using g a co ollection of home videos Ledger recorded throughout his career. Th he clips showcase the late star’s playful personality while also demo onstrating his passion for his craft. When he wasn’t on camera, h he was behind it, taking photos and directing music videos for friend friends. s. Ledger always wanted to be an artist; I Am Heath Ledger proves that his life itself was a work of art.. B+ —Shirley e y Lii

Series Debut Downward Dog 9:30–10PM

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THURSDAY MAY 18

FRIDAY MAY 19 SEASON FINALE Scandal 9–11PM

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His presidency ending, Fitz uses his powers one last time. Presidential M&M’s packets for everyone! Season Premiere 12 Monkeys Season Finale Supernatural 8–10PM

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In the final two episodes of the season, aired back-toback tonight, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) face off against two major foes: the British Men of Letters and Lucifer. But pure plot isn’t the only draw. Like some of the best episodes before it, this one will get a little heady. “Finales, by definition, can’t go too crazy,” executive producer Andrew Dabb concedes. “But I will say this: It’s by far the most meta finale we’ve ever done. There are some twists coming that we’ve never done before.” —Samantha Highfill

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The hunt for the Witness continues into season 3, and is made only more difficult by the reveal that he’s the future child of Cole (Aaron Stanford) and Cassie (Amanda Schull)—and rest assured, he’ll appear in the flesh this season. “The answers they’re looking for will lead them further back in time than they’ve ever gone,” notes EP Terry Matalas, who says to be on the lookout for “more aggressive and portable” time-travel tech in the team’s quest to save the world. We’re game. —Natalie Abrams

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If it looks like a dog, walks like a dog, and talks like a millennial dude-bro with serious boundary issues, this must be a sitcom. Fargo’s Allison Tolman ostensibly stars as Nan, an executive at an Abercrombie-esque clothing company in Pittsburgh. But most scenes, like her shoes, are stolen by Martin—a Holstein-eyed mutt (voiced by co-creator Samm Hodges) whose anxious, selfabsorbed monologues frequently break the fourth wall, even though they never reach the human ears on screen. Martin lives for Nan and their cozy routines (”Fridays are our scheduled cryinto-the-wine time”); she, alas, has other distractions, like her on-off boyfriend and smugly infuriating boss. Downward is shaggy but sweet, a surreal little Scooby snack. B+ —Leah Greenblatt

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The Wizard of Lies 8–10:15PM

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Whenever the camera moves close to Robert De Niro in The Wizard of Lies, he looks so much like Bernie Madoff you want to punch him. Yet, as Madoff proved, looks can be deceiving. De Niro disappears into the Ponzi schemer’s skin, but Barry Levinson’s film struggles to break through to its inscrutable subject. Adapted from Diana B. Henriques’ book, Wizard includes nifty flourishes. (Henriques appears throughout the film as herself, Madoff’s Grand Inquisitor.) But the film tries to honor Madoff’s victims, explore the tragedy within his own family, and mix in Big Short-ish financial montages. It’s a mess. Michelle Pfeiffer, however, is stunning, and has a Queens accent so thick it’s funny. Her Ruth Madoff is a figure of confused tragedy, demolished by the man she loved and the lives he ruined. B —Darren Franich

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Season Finale Shades of Blue 9–11PM

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The season 2 finale promises to be a thriling two hours for Harlee (Jennifer Lopez), who, showrunner Jack Orman teases, will “have to take drastic steps” to evade an obsessive pursuit by Stahl (Warren Kole). Ominous! But the season ender’s emotional core lies in Lieutenant Wozniak (Ray Liotta), who is forced to choose between Harlee and his ambitious former protégée Julia Ayres (Anna Gunn). “I start seeing that Julia isn’t who I thought she was,” Liotta tells us of his character, adding: “Harlee saw it.” No matter whom Wozniak chooses, Orman hints that “by the end, the world will be turned upside down.” —Mary Sollosi

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PARAMORE’S HAYLEY WILLIAMS The emo-pop queen, 28, reveals how band turmoil led to the group’s fierce comeback album, After Laughter. B Y A R I A N A B A C L E

First things first: Can you explain the album title, After Laughter?

It means that look on a person’s face when they laugh really hard and then there’s this moment where they come back to reality— I like watching for it. Maybe I’m a little bit of a creep. [Laughs] It’s been four years since Paramore released an album, and a lot has changed—this is the first record without cofounding bassist Jeremy Davis, who left in 2015. What’s it been like?

Anytime you grow up in a group of friends, you’re going to fight about things, and that’s really no different than our situation. We have to live some of that stuff out, and unfortunately there’s no way to do that gracefully. It was

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NOTEWORTHY Don’t Sleep on This Set the alarm to catch Shania Twain, Mary J. Blige, Miley Cyrus, Ed Sheeran, and other superstars who’ve been tapped for the Today show’s summer concert series, which kicked off this week on NBC.

embarrassing, you know? It still sucks. It’s life, though, and sometimes life is really painful.

On a happier note, drummer Zac Farro, who left Paramore in 2010, recently rejoined.

The single “Hard Times” is an uptempo rocker. But there’s a dark undertone, with lyrical allusions to the band’s struggles. How did it come together?

It feels like I’ve gotten a part of myself back! I’ve got one of my best friends in the world back, and I can’t wait to be on stage in front of people and turn around and see him again.

I realized I didn’t have to match every feeling I have to the music. Maybe the fact that I can put some of my sadness to these sounds that make me want to dance and move a lot is a good thing. Maybe that’s going to help me get through it. And it was true for all of us. We needed a place to put the feelings that are hard to talk about. These songs helped us. I think they were a musical therapist, in a way. [Laughs] At any point did you consider calling it quits?

It’s like that scene in Bridesmaids: “I think if you’re growing, then you’re changing.” [Laughs] I always think about that scene, but I also still feel so much like that 16-year-old who got in the van and took off with my dad at the wheel. We were babies. You’ve changed your trademark orange hair to platinum blond. Why the switch?

The hair thing is so emotional for me. About a year ago, I called my colorist and was like, “I’m going through so much emotionally. I need a reset. I need you to bleach my hair.” This has been really important for me, as a 27and 28-year-old, to show myself every morning when I get up that I’m not someone that is going to live in the past. When it’s time for Neon Hayley to come back to life, she will. But right now, this is me.

PAR AMORE: LINDSEY BYRNES; ST YLES: HARLEY WEIR

There were many talks over coffee with [bandmate Taylor York]. We thought, “Maybe we should start something new.” But Taylor said to me, “If we start another band and people call it Paramore, you’re gonna be so mad. So you might as well just be Paramore.” I actually think I could have been happy if we kept creating together and never put out a record, but the fact that we created an album and people get to hear it—I’m still pinching myself.

You and the band were just teenagers when Paramore’s debut album came out in 2005. What’s it like to grow up in the spotlight?

Taylor York, Hayley Williams, and Zac Farro

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the guy having the best time in One Direction: a dimpled, rakish prankster happy to wear the mantle of Class Clown—maybe because he knew that Most Likely to Succeed belonged to him too. He wore the absurdity of boy-band fame lightly, with a wink and smile, and even his look (the swirling quiff of hair, the louche satin shirts, the scrappy jumble of stick-and-poke tattoos) had the dress-forthe-job-you-want whiff of incipient solo stardom. That giddy hedonist is all over his self-titled debut, but there’s a surprising dose of Serious Harry here. In the video for the yearning, Bowie-esque “Sign of the Times,” he soars alone through a marshy hinterland, begging in an earnest falsetto, “Why are we always stuck/And running from the bullets?” (A nod perhaps to his role as a British soldier in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming WWII epic Dunkirk. Or just, you know, heavy metaphor.) If early 1D defector Zayn Malik ran toward glassy, future-perfect R&B, Styles is a man proudly looking backward, a faithful revivalist steeped in the tao of dusty vinyl and dad rock. Opener “Meet Me in the Hallway” offers gauzy campfire folk; “Two Ghosts” is a mournful acoustic autopsy of love lost; “Sweet Creature,” a strummy lullaby. They’re delicate sketches, wistful and pretty. And they sound like songs that would be beat up in the bathroom by the likes of “Kiwi” and “Only Angel,” two swaggering slabs of codpiece rock; the shag-rug come-on “Carolina”; and “Woman,” a Lennon-style stomper with a “Bennie and the Jets” piano intro and an all-caps chorus. Reconciling the folkie and the rogue hardly seems like Harry’s priority; instead, the 23-year-old basks in the privilege of paying tribute to his many musical heroes, and trying on all the styles that fit. B

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American Epic: The Soundtrack For the upcoming PBS docuseries American Epic, Jack White and T Bone Burnett re-created Depressionera equipment to record artists including Elton John, Beck, and Nas.

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Twenty-three years ago this week, Ace of Base bested R. Kelly’s grind, Madonna and Mariah cried, and Crash Test Dummies crash-hummed the Hot 100. B Y L E A H G R E E N B L AT T

AC E O F B A S E

“The Sign” The sublime sound of four gorgeous, inscrutable Swedes who saw something—pentagram? Illuminati eye? The ankh on that velvet choker you got for Christmas from Spencer Gifts?—and decided that today was clearly the day to dump you. A+

“Bump N’ Grind”

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“Return to Innocence” A German-Romanian producer, an indigenous Taiwanese chant recorded in a French culture center, a song that will haunt your yoga teacher for the next 9,000 years. A

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“I’m Ready” Tevin’s tender, tinkly ode to forever love went up against “Bump N’ Grind” for the No. 1 R&B chart spot four straight weeks and lost—which just seems mean, like sending a baby rabbit on a blind date with a python. B

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Welcome Home The fifth effort from the country rockers is aptly named: On Welcome Home, Brown & Co. eschew the EDM and grunge flavors of 2015’s Jekyll + Hyde for a roots LP that honors heroes James Taylor and Jim Croce.

Remember cassingles? It was like getting two songs for the price of one! Or in this case, a piano-bar take on a 1970 soft-rock masterpiece plus a middling Babyface ballad. B–

Nothing says “Please stop talking about my Sex book” like an earnest, ethereal movie ballad about Harvard student Brendan Fraser bonding with dying hobo Joe Pesci. B+

CRASH TEST DUMMIES

A pledge of fidelity so deathless that it topped the Hot 100 for 11 weeks, won a Best Pop Vocal Grammy, and outlasted approximately 67 percent of the marriages it four-part-harmonized down the aisle. I swear. B+

“I’ll Remember (From With Honors)”

TODD RUNDGREN

White Knight Mr. Bang the Drum All Day teamed up with electrosteeped artists like disco queen Robyn and Trent Reznor for his latest LP. On the surface, it’s the year’s most unlikely album, but cuts like “Fiction” are irresistible synth-pop gems.

Hot tip: When you are being quizzed about ’90s one-hit wonders, don’t shout out “Macarena” or “Cotton Eye Joe” when they ask which one had six sing-talking verses about a girl with birthmarks all over her body. B–

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Hush, girl, don’t U be stressing the unpronounceable glyph; the Artist Temporarily Known as Not Prince is just trying 2 tell U how pretty U R. A–

“Baby, I Love Your Way” The one thing about Reality Bites that actually bites: this ersatz Sandalsresort-reggae cover of a 1975 Pete Frampton jam that doesn’t even deserve to speak Winona’s name. C+

With hindsight, Kelly’s new-jack swaggy pledge to follow his pelvis wherever it led suddenly tilts a lot less “delightfully sex-positive” and a lot more “highly admissable in court.” B

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Pageant The queercore duo’s funny, poignant, and masterful second album draws on punk and glam influences for a moving testament about gender identity, romance, and being comfortable in your own skin.

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If you liked Henrietta Lacks, you’ll be fascinated by this history of brain surgery, which is refracted through the case of a man known only as H.M., an epileptic turned into an amnesiac by a disastrous lobotomy in 1953.

This bio of Helen Gurley Brown—the author of Sex and the Single Girl, who went on to transform Cosmopolitan magazine—is every bit as brash and racy as the legendary editor herself.

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Morgan unspools a sprawling and distinctly Southern novel about a wealthy Kentucky horse-racing dynasty, set against a backdrop of prejudice and poverty.

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Lonely and awkward, 14-year-old Evie tumbles into the swirling counterculture cauldron of late-’60s California, finding communion with a crew of flower children and misfits on a remote Sonoma County ranch.

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BETWEEN THE LINES Missing Link Bill Clinton and James Patterson are writing a thriller together called The President Is Missing.

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Sorry Spell J.K. Rowling surprised fans by tweeting, “I’d like to apologise for killing (whispers)...Snape.“

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The author of The Run of His Life—made into the FX series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story—explores the kidnapping and radicalization of Patty Hearst. 6

J O E G O U L D’S TEETH JILL LEPORE

New Yorker staff writer Lepore recounts her search for the long-lost longest book ever written: a century-old manuscript by madman and scholar Joe Gould called The Oral History of Our Time. As she sifts through archives, scraps, diaries, and letters, Lepore dives into Gould’s world, ultimately unearthing many of his secrets.

Gyasi’s lyrical debut novel traces the fates of two half sisters born villages apart in 18thcentury Ghana. From their twined bloodlines spring slaves and warriors, sharecroppers and coal miners, jazz singers and junkies and Ph.D. students—each one brought vividly to life in sequential chapters. 9

L A ROS E LO UISE ERDRICH When a recovering alcoholic accidentally shoots and kills his neighbor’s 5-year-old son, he and his wife— after consulting the tribal sweat lodge— gift the grieving family with their own 5-year-old, LaRose. 10

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SW E E T B I T T E R STEPHANIE DANLER

Danler’s exquisite coming-of-age novel about a young woman who moves to New York and gets a job at a famed restaurant is like a luxurious glass of wine: We can describe it all we want, but you just need to taste it for yourself.

In The Nix—EW’s No. 1 novel of 2016— a listless adjunct at a Midwestern college spends his days playing Elfscape and trying not to think about the mother who abandoned him. When she suddenly reemerges, the story surges, ricocheting from sleepy ’80s suburbia to the 1968 DNC riots and from WWII-era Norway to post-9/11 Iraq.

MAYIM BIALIK The Blossom and Big Bang Theory actress, 41—who also has a Ph.D. in neuroscience— has plumbed her own “awkward” adolescence for Girling Up, an advice book for young teens. BY ISABELLA BIEDENHARN

What made you want to write Girling Up? I was inspired by Natalie Angier, who’s a science writer for The New York Times. She wrote a book called Woman: An Intimate Geography, which is about the entire experience of being female from a scientific, psychological perspective. There’s not anything like that for younger girls. And that’s how this book came about.

What was the toughest chapter to write? The one about dating and sex. I want this book to appeal to people no matter what side of the political spectrum they’re on, no matter what religion they participate in or don’t. How much detail do you go into about ways people get pregnant or don’t? How do you do that in a way that doesn’t feel overly religious or overly moralistic? It was really hard.

You’ve got sons, not daughters. How did they feel about you writing a book for girls? They understand my feminist perspective! I mean, I joke with them that every other book in human history is written pretty much for men, so.… [Laughs] They understand I’m just trying to level the playing field. They have a good sense of humor about it, and obviously it’s dedicated to them as well.

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KATHY REICHS ON TEMPERANCE BRENNAN P L AY E D B Y E M I LY D E S C H A N E L O N B O N E S

“In 1987, I signed on as a faculty member for the roundthe-world nautical adventure known as Semester at Sea. A student on that voyage was called Tempe. Liking the name, I stored it in some remote corner of my brain. As my readers have learned over the course of 18 novels, our intrepid heroine was born an Irish-Catholic lass in the Chicago neighborhood of Beverly. Given that, the name Tempe had to be formalized to an appropriately ‘baptismal’ version. Thus, Temperance.”

MICHAEL CONNELLY ON HIERONYMUS “HARRY” B OSCH P L AY E D B Y T I T U S W E L L I V E R O N T H E A M A Z O N S E R I E S B O S C H

“When I was in college, I took an art-appreciation class where, at the teacher’s choosing, we studied the 15th-century painter Hieronymus Bosch and all his works of chaos and world-gone-wrong, the wages of sin, etc. And then about 15 years later, I’m writing my first novel about an LAPD detective, and I just remembered those paintings and saw a metaphorical connection between this guy, who’s a homicide detective, and the paintings, which are about chaos.”

ALEXANDER M C CALL SMITH ON PRECIOUS RAMOTSWE P L AY E D B Y J I L L S C O T T O N T H E H B O S H O W THE NO. 1 L ADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY

“I was working in Swaziland, and there was a woman who was helping in the house next to mine who had a little baby. She brought her to show me, this little baby dressed in a very elaborate, lovely y sort of dress, and she said, ‘This is Baby Precious.’ Anyway, when it came time to name my character, I thought of this little baby. And there’s a village in Botswana called Ramotswa, which is where her last name came from.”

How Jack Reacher Got His Name

Six novelistts reveal how they named their most famous characters. BY ISABELLA BIEDENHARN

“I was a television director, and I had lost my job,” says Lee Child, best-selling author of the Jack Reacher book series. “I was available for doing chores and errands, which was the worst part of being out of work! [Laughs] I had started writing what would become the first Reacher book when one night [my wife] said to me, ‘Come to the supermarket with me tomorrow because I’ve

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got a lot to haul home.’ She’s very small, and I’m tall, so I’m good for that kind of thing. Every time we went to the supermarket, there were little old ladies coming up to me, saying, ‘Oh, you’re a nice, tall gentleman. Would you reach me that box?’ And my wife said, ‘If the writing gig doesn’t work out, you could be a reacher in a supermarket.’ And I thought, ‘That is a really good name.’ ”

IAN RANKIN ON JOHN REBUS P L AY E D B Y K E N S T O T T O N T H E B R I T I S H S E R I E S R E B U S

“A rebus is a picture puzzle, and I decided that my detective in that first book was going to be sent picture puzzles by his nemesis, and he has to work out who’s sending them and why. There was a detective in fiction in the U.K. called Morse, which is a kind of code, and I thought, ‘Well, if we’ve got Inspector Code, we can have Inspector Puzzle!’ ”

WA LTER MOSLEY ON E ASY R AW L I N S P L AY E D B Y D E N Z E L WA S H I N G T O N I N DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS

“Most art is unconscious. Rawlins just sounded good. Now, it turns out that the name Easy is wonderful for th hiss character, because it’s everything his life is not. But I can’t say that I planned that. Maybe my unconscious was talking and saying, ‘Walter, you know, I have an idea.’ .’ ”

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By Jeff VanderMeer 2 FANTASY

Genetically modified flying bears, evil sorceresses, a strange city: The author of the Southern Reach trilogy returns with a brand-new poisoned world, where his protagonist Rachel, her lover Wick, and her de facto child—“a hybrid of sea anemone and a squid”—must all scavenge for survival. B+

NO ONE CAN PRONOUNCE MY NAME By Rakesh Satyal 2 NOVEL

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

By David Grann 2 HISTORY

Almost 100 years ago, members of the Osage Nation began to suspect a serial killer was in their midst. In his meticulously researched and masterfully spun book, Grann explores the mystery behind the murders and the origins of the FBI.

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GROCERY

By Michael Ruhlman 2 HISTORY

As a culture, we’re obsessed with food—but why? Ruhlman, a skilled journalist and cookbook author, looks for answers in this engaging exploration of the ways American eating habits have changed over the past half century. B+

PRIESTDADDY

By Patricia Lockwood 2 MEMOIR

In this charming memoir, Lockwood, a poet, juxtaposes stories of her youth—her father was a Catholic priest—against the chaotic months she and her husband spent living in her childhood home. B+

THIS IS JUST MY FACE By Gabourey Sidibe 2 MEMOIR

It turns out that Sidibe’s smart, funny Twitter account is no fluke: These essays from the Empire actress about growing up in New York City and finding unexpected fame after her star turn in Precious are both moving and beautifully written. Don’t miss the story about her job as a phone-sex “talker.”

A YOUNG ADULT

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This droll tale explores the friendship between two Indian immigrants: a man who dresses as his late sister because it comforts his mother, and a novelist who specializes in paranormal romances.

AND WE’RE OFF

By Dana Schwartz 2 NOVEL

When her grandfather, wanting to foster a love of art, gifts 17-year-old Nora with a trip to Europe, she’s thrilled— that is, until her mother, “five foot three inches tall, newly minted paralegal, and parental nightmare”—decides she’s going to tag along. A

THE GO-BETWEEN

By Veronica Chambers 2 NOVEL

In Mexico City, where her mom is a beloved telenovela actress, Camilla del Valle is practically royalty, accustomed to designer clothes, chauffeurs, and annoying paparazzi. But when the family moves to California, the kids at her tony L.A. prep school assume her mother’s a maid and she’s a scholarship student.

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Kanye deletes all social media accounts. Now if he can just get the other 11 Kardashians on board.

The CW gives Frequency no tomorrow, stops No Tomorrow’s frequency.

Snow White’s daughter marries Captain Hook in ceremony officiated by Jiminy Cricket. Never change, Once Upon a Time.

Shout out to my Excalibur

One of our favorite shows is becoming a movie and we’re totally… excited. Stoked? Wait, it’ll come to us.

HBO announces four possible Game of Thrones spin-offs, with 2–1 odds on Jaime Lannister as Most Likely to Joey.

Mayybe they just M won’t use the popular won’t vote this time?

Nicki Minaj pays fans’ college tuitions, putting the AF back in FAFSA.

Dear TV people: Thanks for Dear White People! Good news, LCD Soundsystem—2017 still has a demand for antique stereo equipment!

Moonlight teens win MTV award for Best Kiss. If there were an award for the other thing they do, they’d win that, too.

Love the None you’re with.

Okay, Lip Sync Battle, you can come back from time-out now.

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A requisition for Riverdale season 2: more Cheryl’s Creek, less Blossom’s Castle.

Exclusive first look at every upcoming Tom Cruise movie

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Dance Moms coach sent to prison—and ”Cell Block Tango” has found its choreographer!

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