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The Must List MUSIC

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Vic Mensa

• Exec-produced by No I.D. (who helmed JAY-Z’s recent 4:44), the debut album from this buzzy Chicago MC bursts with soulful classicism and witty, heartfelt verses. Pharrell, Weezer, and others guest.

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THE LYING GAME, by Ruth Ware

• What seems like a familiar plot—a group of friends who share a dark secret must reunite because somebody knows—swells into a riveting, atmospheric thriller in the Woman in Cabin 10 author Ware’s capable hands.

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• Oh, honey! RuPaul’s Drag Race veterans Katya and Trixie Mattel prove you don’t need to win the competition to be stars. Their wide-ranging YouTube show serves raunchy comedy, greenscreen insanity, and, of course, plenty of shade.

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• In this provocative true-crime series, an FBI agent tries to bring down domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski (Paul Bettany) but starts to find his motivations surprisingly sympathetic. (Debuts Aug. 1, 9 p.m., Discovery) AU G U ST 4 , 2 0 1 7

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are happening in this motel room, where the Duplass brothers are hosting a weekly anthology showcase for odd, suspenseful, and often eerie tales that fall somewhere between Black Mirror and High Maintenance. (Debuts July 28, 11:30 p.m., HBO)

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MUSIC

NERVOUS SYSTEM, Julia Michaels

• We’ve got no “Issues”

with this pop hitmakerturned-artist’s debut mini-album. Armed with freaky space-rock bops (“Pink”) and gorgeous ballads (“Don’t Wanna Think”), she shouldn’t be one bit nervous about seizing the spotlight.

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AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER

• In this follow-up to his

2006 Oscar-winning doc, Al Gore puts down the PowerPoint presentations and travels around the world as he fights for clean energy and explores the devastating impact of climate change firsthand. (PG)

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• What do Missy Elliott,

50 Cent, and Busta Rhymes all have in common? Their careers were shaped by Chris Lighty, the legendary hip-hop manager whose life and career prior to his 2012 suicide are the subject of this gripping six-part series.

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AMERICAN FIRE, by Monica Hesse

• A string of nearly 70 arsons in rural Virginia puzzled local officials for months, until the culprits—a town couple— were finally caught. What fascinates Washington Post reporter Hesse, and will grab you, too, isn’t who but why they did it.

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“Tell Jon Snow that his queen invites him to come to Dragonstone and bend the knee.” —Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), proposing a major meet-up, on Game of Thrones

“Your father’s laundering money for a Mexican drug cartel. I s--- you not.” —Wendy (Laura Linney), explaining to her children why their family is moving into a home where somebody else is living, on Ozark

“I saw that two new Harry Potter books are coming out to mark the 20th anniversary of the first book. The new books are a two-part series called You’ll Buy Anything That Says Harry Potter.”

“Oh, I can now. Would you like to see that?” —Halle Berry, before chugging a large lass off wh hiskey key tha h t Chan h ningg Ta glass gl whisk that Channin Tatum atum f r her, poured pou red fo for her, at th thee San San Die Diego goo ComicCom ic-Con Con pa panel nel ffo forr thei theirr new new moovie, ovie,, he Gold lden Cir le Kingsm Kin gsman: an: Th The Golden Circle cle

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“It’s been done.” —William Shakespeare (Laurie Davidson), after Richard Burbage suggests that he write a play about Henry VI, on Will

“It’s 1589, Will—everything’s been done.” —Richard Burbage (Mattias Inwood)

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“ I’m about to get pregnant tonight!” —Dina (Tiffany Haddish), determined to take her Diddy concert experience to the next level, in Girls Trip

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ON THE COVERS We celebrate Star Trek coming back to TV with three collector’s covers; the last two combine to show the cast on the famous transporter deck. To buy the ﬁrst cover, beam yourself over to Barnes & Noble, where it’s available exclusively. You can also purchase the bundle at backissues.ew.com. Jason Isaacs as Capt. Gabriel Lorca, Michelle Yeoh as Capt. Philippa Georgiou, Shazad Latif as Lieut. Ash Tyler, Doug Jones as Lieutenant Saru, Sonequa Martin-Green as First Officer Michael Burnham, Anthony Rapp as Lieut. Paul Stamets, and Mary Wiseman as Cadet Sylvia Tilly. Photographed by Matthias Clamer on July 9, 2017, in Toronto. COSTUME DESIGN: GERSHA PHILLIPS; HAIR: JEANETTE STAWIARSKI; MAKEUP: ASHLEY SZABADI; SPECIAL EFFECTS MAKEUP: JAMES MACKINNON; PROPS: MARIO MOREIRA

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Con is the wide swath of people you can encounter. Look, there’s Chadwick Boseman! Nice to meet you, Jean Smart! Hey there, lady who’s waiting on a serpentine line while 1,000 months pregnant and decked out in Game of Thrones regalia. Winter is coming—and so is your baby! Once again, EW set up shop atop the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego, where our photo, video, and radio studio attracted more than 75 casts, including those from Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Justice League, Outlander, and Stranger Things. We also used the space to host evening VIP events for FX and the Marvel shows; the latter allowed me to meet my current favorite superhero,

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Luke Cage, and the great, very large guy who plays him, Mike Colter (see above). You can check out these exclusive videos and photos on EW.com or listen to our interviews on EW Radio SiriusXM Channel 105. Special thanks to Peet’s Cold Brew, Sambazon, and especially Samsung, who outﬁtted our suite with the EW Social Studio Created by Samsung, where the actors took pictures with the Samsung Galaxy S8. This year our efforts also had a charitable component: We partnered with DonorsChoose.org to provide gift cards to actors, who, in turn, could use them to help fund public-school projects. (For more info on this great organization, hop over to donorschoose.org.) On the convention’s closing night,

celebrities including Lupita Nyong’o, Seth Rogen , Evan Rachel Wood, and Ricky Whittle swung by Float at the Hard Rock Hotel for our sixth annual bash. While there, attendees danced to music from Michelle Pesce (whom I’d like to DJ my entire life), ogled models playing volleyball in the pool, and had a chance to get their photo taken on the Throne (you know the one I’m taking about, obviously). We’re grateful to the event’s sponsors, including HBO, Xbox, and Peet’s Cold Brew. Hope to see you in San Diego next year!

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20 YEARS LATER

The Enduring Legacy of Diana Thanks to the princess’ immense cultural impact, even as we near the 20th anniversary of her death, she still hasn’t left us. B y R ay R a h m a n

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hundred years after deciding that the British monarchy wasn’t for them, the United States had a change of heart. A wedding was happening across the ocean, and the former colonies, like the rest of the world, couldn’t get enough of the royal spectacle. An estimated 750 million people tuned in, eager to watch Lady Diana Spencer become the Princess of Wales.

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As a child in the 1960s, from Remembering Diana: A Life in Photographs

With William and Harry in a 1988 shot from HBO’s Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy

The Princess Diaries

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DIANA—HER TRUE STORY IN HER OWN WORDS

By Andrew Morton Out now Morton updates his 1992 biography, which revealed bombshell details about Charles and Diana’s marriage, with new material the author recorded with Diana.

DIANA, OUR MOTHER: HER LIFE AND LEGACY HBO Now and HBO Go The revealing documentary centers on emotional memoryfilled conversations with Prince William and Prince Harry.

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Our infatuation hasn’t let up since. With the 20th anniversary of her death approaching, Princess Diana’s impact on American culture can still be seen everywhere you look, from tabloid covers to prestige television. She didn’t just influence us—she left behind a legacy that changed us forever. Before Diana, if the average American knew anything about the royals, it was likely from a history book. The residents of Buckingham Palace lived squarely in the realm of homework, not entertainment. That changed in 1980, when Diana burst onto the scene as Prince Charles’ soon-to-be wife. She was beautiful, charismatic, and yet still relatable and accessible—a natural star. “She turned a rather stuffy institution into this glamorous international family with a fascinating narrative,” biographer Andrew Morton tells EW. “Everyone, especially in America, was transfixed by her.” While Diana modernized the monarchy’s image, she also became a phenomenon all her own. By the time she attended a White House gala in 1985, Americans were mesmerized. The instantly iconic image of the princess and John Travolta twirling across the dance floor solidified Hollywood’s love affair with her. To that end, Diana graced the cover of EW’s sister publication People a remarkable 58 times, from 1981 to this very week’s issue—far more than any other figure in the magazine’s history. Along the way, she redefined the nature of celebrity itself. Keenly aware that wherever she went, cameras would follow, the People’s Princess used her stature to promote awareness and raise money for a wide range of charitable causes; notable examples include her campaign against land mines and her compassionate approach to the AIDS crisis. Her commitment to humanitarianism helped inspire a generation of movie stars and rock singers to view public philanthropy as essential parts of their personal brands. Almost nothing Diana did was ever really private, of course. The press hounded her relentlessly, turning every personal detail and intimate moment into a tabloid headline. As a result, her struggles became everyone’s struggles: postpartum depression, eating disorders, affairs, and, eventually, divorce. “She was a human being, and people responded to that,” Morton notes. “People responded to the vulnerabilities and the virtues.” Her life was the first reality TV show, presaging the around-the-clock TMZ world we know all too well now. The anniversary of Diana’s death has It was this sense of connection— prompted a flood of the sense that Diana was a part of new books and TV specials reflecting your family—that made her death, on the royal’s life at the age of 36, such a shocking, and legacy traumatic, and all-encompassing event. George Clooney lashed out at the press in a now-infamous news conference, blaming paparazzi for

Diana on the cover of People in September 1997, after her death

John Travolta and Princess Diana in 1985

In the recessional from her 1981 wedding to Charles

the car crash that killed her. Britons protested the Queen’s refusal to publicly comment on Diana’s death. Two billion people around the world watched the funeral service, where Elton John performed a version of “Candle in the Wind” specially written in the princess’ honor. The song became the highest-selling single of all time. Since Diana, the royals have remained a pop culture fixture, appearing regularly in cable-news reports, social media feeds, and celebrity magazines. People may not know who their state representatives are, but Diana’s sons are household names. We gush over photos of William and Kate’s kids, and when it was revealed that Harry and Suits star Meghan Markle were an item, she became an overnight sensation. For a while, we even kept track of someone named Pippa. And, because we are Americans, we make TV shows about them. Over the past 20 years, the British monarchy—once the domain of dusty historical productions—has become a mass-entertainment staple. HBO’s Elizabeth I, The CW’s Reign, E!’s The Royals, Showtime’s The Tudors, PBS’ Victoria, and Starz’s The White Queen each offers its own take on royal drama. Producers of Netflix’s acclaimed The Crown, which depicts Queen Elizabeth’s early days, promise to jump ahead in time and bring Diana into the fold by season 3. Then there’s Ryan Murphy, who’s going all-in: Season 2 of his FX series Feud will cover the saga of Charles and Diana from their divorce up to Diana’s death. “Our public perceptions of all these people are so interesting to me,” Murphy told EW in March. “The thing I was struck about was how real [Diana] was and how great she was with those kids. She was an ordinary person put in an extraordinary circumstance.” These shows surely won’t be the last ones to revisit the late princess. Two decades after her death, Diana’s story still resonates with millions around the world—and will continue to touch people for many years to come.

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Out Aug. 1

THE STORY OF DIANA

ABC Aug. 9–10, 9 p.m.

DIANA AND THE PAPARAZZI and DIANA: THE DAY WE SAID GOODBYE

The luxe picture book from National Geographic features 100 photographs and a foreword penned by magazine editor Tina Brown, a friend of Diana’s.

Produced in conjunction with People (our sister publication), the two-night documentary digs deep into the princess’ cultural impact, and includes an exclusive interview with Diana’s brother, Charles.

Two hour-long specials, airing consecutively, explore Diana’s relationship with the press and revisit the day of her funeral, with narration by Kate Winslet.

PRINCESS DIANA: TRAGEDY OR TREASON

REMEMBERING DIANA: A LIFE IN PHOTOGRAPHS

The three-hour special dives into the conspiracy theories and rumors surrounding Diana’s death, with input from Morton and actor Richard Belzer.

TLC July 31, 8 p.m.

Smithsonian Aug. 27, 8 p.m.

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Art’s Latest Inspiration?

TRUMP

Many actors and artists are taking cues from the president’s words and actions. Here, five new and upcoming works. BY CHRISTIAN HOLUB

Prolific documentarian Michael Moore stars in a limited-run one-man show on Broadway that takes square aim at President Trump. (Belasco Theatre, July 28–Oct. 22)

Alec Baldwin, he of the notorious SNL impression, and Spy magazine’s Kurt Andersen (it was Spy that once dubbed Trump a “short-fingered vulgarian”) unite for this parody book about the president’s first year in office (out Nov. 7). American Horror Story: Cult Season 7 of AHS (FX, Sept. 5) opens on election night and takes place in Michigan, a key battleground state, creator Ryan Murphy revealed on Twitter. (Follow his social accounts for more clues!)

Will Dunkirk Score Nolan His First Oscar?

As the director of the Dark Knight films, Christopher Nolan is revered by Hollywood, but one prize has eluded him. His new WWII drama could fix that. B Y K E V I N P. S U L L I VA N

Margaret Cho’s Fresh Off the Bloat tour Cho’s new comedy tour will focus on, among other things, the Trump presidency. “It’s easy and difficult to talk about him, because he’s gambling with the world,” Cho tells EW. Calexit by Matteo Pizzolo and Amancay Nahuelpan This comic series imagines a California that’s in open rebellion against the government. Issue No. 1 sold out immediately; No. 2 hits comic stores and Comixology.com Aug. 30.

With all that filmmaker Christopher Nolan (the Dark Knight trilogy) has accomplished in his career, one major marker of success has somehow—shockingly—eluded him. Though he’s been nominated for an Oscar three times (Best Original Screenplay for Memento and Inception, as well as Best Picture for the latter), Nolan has never been nominated for Best Director. And he has never won in any category. Dunkirk may change that. On its opening weekend, the World War II story of British Christopher Nolan on the Dunkirk set

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forces attempting a deathdefying escape back home took in an estimated $105.9 million globally—a major feat in this superhero-saturated summer— and was adored by critics. EW’s Chris Nashawaty declared it “hands down, the best motion picture of the year so far.” With the fall movie season still ahead of us, much can change in the awards conversation between now and when nominations are announced on Jan. 23, 2018. But as anyone who watched WWII Spitfires dogfighting on an IMAX screen this past weekend will attest, Nolan’s nod is a safe bet.

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PAIGE OF ALL TRADES

When the Emmynominated Trading Spaces heads back to TLC in 2018, it’ll have its trusty host, Paige Davis, in tow. EW talked to the very excited star. B Y K E L LY C O N N O L LY

If Trading Spaces taught us anything, it’s that the smartest renovations keep some original features intact—which is why longtime host Paige Davis will be returning when the series is revived next year. Davis spent five seasons guiding neighbors through two-day home-swapping redesigns, working with a rotating crew of designers and carpenters, including Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’s Ty Pennington. “I hope they all come back!” Davis tells EW. “It would be great to have the Tradey Bunch back again.” Nine years after the show refinished its last wood floor, the upbeat host is effusive about the virtues that made the

series so appealing: the cast’s camaraderie, the “purity” of the concept, the DIY tips, and, of course, the occasional makeover fail. Davis remembers one now-infamous homeowner who stepped off camera to cry after the neighbors altered her fireplace: “Pam will, in pop

culture, forever be known as Crying Pam.” But even then, Pam’s husband insisted he’d do the show again. “I never met a homeowner who didn’t love the two days,” says Davis—and that’s the experience she’ll be focused on preserving in the revival. “We still have to have incredible fun on camera,” says the host. “We have to make these rooms come to life, make the homeowners come to life. But we have this wonderful advantage of a history with our audience.” In an age of reboots, Davis hits the nail on the head.

SWIMMING WITH SHARKS

OUT FOR BLOOD

To kick off Discovery’s Shark Week, Michael Phelps raced a great white—and lost. Here, we rank pop culture’s similarly undefeatable finned fiends, from most ruthless to least. B Y C A R L A S O S E N KO

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An OG ocean predator so terrifying, he has his own soundtrack.

These deadly creatures wield sick dance moves as their weapon.

A trickster fish out of water with ill intent. Ariel’s polar opposite.

His signature move? Crushing dreams (instead of limbs).

A saboteur who does damage by becoming Unchained From the Rhythm.

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

MAGICAL MIXTURE

ACCIO BUTTERBEER!

Dismount and drink up the Hogsmeade staple with this recipe from YouTube’s SORTEDfood. INGREDIENTS MERINGUE FROTH ½ CUP GRANULATED SUGAR 2 LARGE EGG WHITES 2 TBSP. UNSALTED BUTTER, softened SWEET ICE ¼ CUP UNSALTED BUTTER, melted 2 TBSP. CANNED DULCE DE LECHE ½ TBSP. MOLASSES PINCH OF FLAKY SEA SALT 4 CUPS ICE CUBES NONALCOHOLIC-BEER MIXTURE 2 ½ CUPS CREAM SODA 1¼ CUPS GINGER ALE

uidditch for Muggles Summon your wizarding wannabes and celebrate Harry Potter’s birthday on July 31 in the most magical way possible: with a backyard Quidditch match. What are you waiting for? On your broom! WHAT YOU’LL NEED

HOW TO PLAY

15 FRIENDS 7 players on each team (3 chasers, 2 beaters, 1 seeker, and 1 keeper) and 1 impartial person as the snitch runner 4 BALLS 1 volleyball and 3 dodgeballs 14 SWEATBANDS In 4 different colors to distinguish between positions 1 SOCK WITH A TENNIS BALL INSIDE To fasten to the snitch runner’s waist 6 HULA HOOPS To score through (3 at each end of field) 15 BROOMS 1 for each player (you can also use pool noodles) 6 PLASTIC PIPES OR WOODEN SPEARS (IN VARIOUS HEIGHTS) To use as posts to mount hoops on (or hang hoops from trees, if available) TAPE To fasten hoops to posts

• Three chasers score goals worth

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10 points each with the quaffle (that’s “volleyball” in Muggle). They advance the ball down the field by running with it, passing it to teammates, or kicking it. (All players must keep brooms between their legs at all times. Players may hold on to their broom with their hands and thighs.) Each team has a keeper who defends the goal hoops. The keepers and chasers are the only players allowed to touch the quaffle. Players can kick the quaffle just once before picking it up.

• Two beaters use bludgers

(dodgeballs) to disrupt the flow of the game by knocking out other players (just be gentle). Any player hit by a bludger is out of play until

they run to and touch their own goal. If a player is holding a ball when hit, they must drop it before running to their goal.

2 Whisk sweet-ice ingredients (minus ice) in a small bowl until smooth. Place ice cubes in a food processor; drizzle with butter mixture. Pulse until ice is finely crushed. 3 Combine cream soda and ginger ale in a pitcher.

• Potter fans are familiar with

the dodgy spherical snitch. After 18 minutes of play, the snitch runner enters the game with the snitch (a tennis ball attached to the waist). He or she uses any means necessary to avoid being caught. Catching the snitch is worth 30 points, which ends the game, and only a seeker may capture it. If the score is tied after the snitch catch, the game proceeds into overtime.

elements of rugby, dodgeball, and tag, “ With there’s something for everyone,” says Mary Kimball, events director of US Quidditch. “And you don’t need a certain skill set to play.

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4 Divide sweet ice among 6 beer mugs. Top with beer mixture and dollops of meringue. SERVES 6 Active/total time: 25 minutes

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1 Bring 1 inch of water to a simmer in a medium saucepan. Combine sugar and egg whites in a heatproof bowl and place over water, whisking until whites are hot and sugar dissolves. Remove bowl. Beat until stiff peaks form and mixture is cool. Add butter 1 tablespoon at a time, and beat on medium speed until incorporated.

JASON ISAACS, MICHELLE YEOH, DOUG JONES, AND SONEQUA MARTIN-GREEN PHOTOGRAPHED ON JULY 9, 2017, IN TORONTO

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THE IMPOSING CAPTAIN GABRIEL LORCA STRIDES ACROSS THE STARSHIP DISCOVERY

bridge, squinting at the raging battle on the viewscreen, rattling off orders to his crew with rapid precision. There’s a Federation ship under attack by Klingons, and the Discovery is rushing to join the fight. “Lock on the Bird of Prey!” Lorca barks. “Basic pattern Beta 9. Hard to port! Fire at something, for God’s sakes!” Too late. The Klingons blast the Discovery. Lorca and his shipmates lurch hard to one side. The high-tech set’s thousands of lights flicker anxiously, conveying the ship’s wounds. The director halts the action and Lorca, played by British actor Jason Isaacs of Harry Potter fame, steps off the stage. The episode’s writer, Kirsten Beyer, approaches to give a correction on his “for God’s sakes” ad lib. “Wait, I can’t say ‘God’?” Isaacs asks, amused. “I thought I could say ‘God’ or ‘damn’ but not ‘goddamn’?” Beyer explains that Star Trek is creator Gene Roddenberry’s vision of a science-driven 23rd-century future where religion basically no longer exists. “How about ‘for f---’s sake’?” he shoots back. “Can I say that?” “You can say that before you can say ‘God,’ ” she dryly replies. The director wants to try the scene again. “Sure,” Isaacs gamely shrugs. “It’s not my money.”

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WHEN THE ORIGINAL SERIES LAUNCHED 51 YEARS AGO, IT CHANGED

Quite true. It’s CBS All Access that’s footing the bill for Star Trek: Discovery, an ambitious venture to not only reboot Trek on television after a 12-year absence but also fuel CBS’ fledging original-content streaming service at a time when traditional broadcasters are striving to compete in the digital era (in fact, Netflix will distribute the show overseas). And while the scene with Lorca might sound like classic, old-school Trek, the show will evolve the franchise in ways never before attempted. Discovery (set to premiere Sept. 24) is serialized, for starters, with a greater focus on characters’ personal lives, and with fatally realistic life-and-death stakes. Plus, there’s the show’s cast. If this was yesteryear’s Trek, Isaacs would be the star. Instead The Walking Dead’s Sonequa Martin-Green (who we’ll meet later) is taking center stage as Trek’s first black female lead. Yet figuring out exactly how to bring Trek back to television wasn’t easy, and that’s one thing about the franchise that’s never changed.

not only television but the world. Roddenberry’s radical depiction of a harmonious post-racial United Federation of Planets lasted only three seasons amid modest ratings and the creator’s infighting with NBC, yet millions were ultimately inspired by his vision. Generations of scientists credit the show for their career path, and countless Hollywood productions were influenced by its format, characters, and stories. Real-life tech innovations such as the Motorola flip phone were credited to Trek. The whole concept of organized sci-fi fandom events like Comic-Con was launched by Trekkies meeting up at hotels to honor the original series in the early 1970s. And as a business, Trek has earned billions, spawning six TV shows, 13 feature films, and an endless array of merchandising. You could argue that television has never produced a more impactful title in the history of the medium than Star Trek. When the last Trek series, Enterprise, was canceled in 2005, the studio immediately started receiving letters begging for the franchise to return. And the pleas never stopped. “I was inundated with letters and literally money from fans, saying, ‘Please don’t let this go away,’” says CBS Television Studios president David Stapf. But there was a contractual hitch. Following the breakup of Viacom in 2005, Paramount Pictures got the Trek film rights and CBS landed the television rights. The film division was given the priority to reboot Trek as a big-screen franchise (which was successfully achieved by director-producer J.J. Abrams, starting with 2009’s Star Trek), while CBS was under

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a time in Trek that’s never been seen before. “The original pitch was to do for science fiction what American Horror Story had done for horror,” Fuller says. “It would platform a universe of Star Trek shows.” CBS countered with the plan of creating a single serialized show and then seeing how it performed. It was a fair compromise, yet demonstrated the first conflict of vision between a powerful company and an inventive writer that would eventually lead to a dramatic falling-out.

STARDATE 2016: INSURRECTION FULLER WAS ON STAGE AT THE TELEVISION CRITICS ASSOCIATION’S

press tour in Beverly Hills last summer, happily talking about Discovery. Each of his revelations inspired a rainstorm of excited keyboard clacking. The protagonist will not be a captain? Discovery will have Trek’s ﬁrst openly gay character? Yet behind the scenes, Fuller’s relationship with CBS was strained. The studio hired David Semel, a veteran of procedurals like Madam Secretary and Code Black, to direct the Discovery pilot against Fuller’s wishes (Fuller and CBS had no comment on this). The two clashed in preproduction, with sources saying Fuller thought he was wrong for the job (Baby Driver director Edgar Wright tells us he was among those Fuller approached instead). There were squabbles over the Discovery budget, too, with the production eventually going over CBS’ original plan to spend $6 million per episode (a number that’s either on the high side for an original drama series, or a bit lean for an ambitious genre show, depending on whom you ask).

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embargo to hold off releasing a new series until January 2017, six months after the launch of Star Trek Beyond. In late 2015, CBS started eyeing a Trek show to become the first original drama for its All Access streaming platform. “[CBS CEO] Leslie Moonves, our COO Joe Ianniello, and I all sort of said, ‘Wow, this could be a franchise that really puts All Access on the map,’ ” recalls CBS Interactive president Marc DeBevoise. “It organically grew out of the company wanting to reboot the franchise and having a streaming service that could benefit greatly from having an anchor series.” The company made a deal for a new show with producer Alex Kurtzman, who worked on the Abrams movies. To lead the writing, the company looked to showrunner Bryan Fuller, the mind behind NBC’s Hannibal, who’d worked on Deep Space Nine and Voyager. For years Fuller had publicly lobbied for the return of Trek to television, specifically with a black woman at the fore. “I couldn’t stop thinking about how many black people were inspired by seeing Nichelle Nichols on the bridge of a ship [as Lieutenant Uhura on the original series],” Fuller says. “I couldn’t stop thinking about how many Asian people were inspired by seeing George Takei [as Sulu] and feeling that gave them hope for their place in the future. I wanted to be part of that representation for a new era.” Fuller sat with CBS executives to deliver his pitch. It wasn’t just for a Trek series but for multiple serialized anthology shows that would begin with the Discovery prequel, journey through the eras of Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and then go beyond to

But perhaps the biggest issue was trying to launch Discovery by January 2017, a date some felt was unrealistic. Fuller was striving to design the new show’s uniforms, sets, and aliens, while also figuring out his first season’s complex arc. “It’s not like doing a show about cops and you can head down to Nordstrom and pick up a suit,” notes Discovery writer-producer Aaron Harberts. Nor was this a challenge exclusive to Discovery; HBO ran into issues getting the first seasons of world-building hits Game of Thrones and Westworld off the ground as well. From CBS’ perspective, executives say they were frustrated that, given the ticking clock, Fuller was spending so much time on his equally ambitious Starz show, American Gods, which was simultaneously shooting its debut season. “It wasn’t just a little, teeny side job he had over there,” one insider noted. “It was a massive undertaking.” In September 2016, CBS pushed Discovery’s premiere date to May to give the production more runway. “We didn’t want to cut corners to meet an arbitrary date,” Stapf says. “It was more important for us to get it right.” Construction on the show’s sets was well under way in Toronto, but the show still had no cast. A few weeks later Fuller felt he found the crucial piece of the puzzle when he met with MartinGreen to play his lead, Michael Burnham—a Vulcan-raised human Starfleet first officer who serves under the command of Michelle Yeoh’s Captain Philippa Georgiou. “Her audition was fantastic,” Fuller recalls. “I found her incredibly insightful as an actor and delightful as a human being.” Harberts was impressed as well. “We read a lot of people who either went too robotic or too emotional,” he says. “She was able to be aloof and logical but still warm and surrendering her emotional side to the audience.” Yet even that decision ran into a seemingly insurmountable roadblock because AMC would not release the actress until her Walking Dead character died on screen in April. The only way the production could hire Martin-Green was if the show’s premiere was delayed a second time. In October, after months of backstage tension, CBS Television Studios asked Fuller to step down as showrunner. The company announced he would leave the show to focus on Gods and his reboot of the anthology series Amazing Stories. The captain’s chair was filled by Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg, two writers Fuller had worked with for years. “The good news is Bryan created a really nice template that was unbelievably specifically detailed,” Stapf says. “The other great thing we had was Aaron and Gretchen, and it was the three of them together that birthed this.” Some of Fuller’s ideas were tossed, however—from the more heavily allegorical and complex story line to his choice of uniforms (a subdued spin on the original series’ trio of primary colors). “I got to dream big,” Fuller says. “I was sad for a week, and then I salute the ship and compartmentalize my experience.”

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AN ALIEN ENCOUNTER WITH

DOUG JONES THE 57-YEAR-OLD ACTOR HAS GONE FROM HELLBOY AND BACK TO PLAY MEMORABLE MONSTERS ON THE BIG AND SMALL SCREEN. HERE, HE TALKS HIS LATEST CREATURE, LIEUTENANT SARU. BY SHIRLEY LI

Abe Sapien in Hellboy. The Faun and the Pale Man in Pan’s Labyrinth. The Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Simply put, you’ve had a rather unique career. Unique, yes. My career has spanned 30 years now, and the characters I’ve played and invested myself in, they’ve become like kids to me. And now you’re on Star Trek! What is that like? As a kid in the ’60s, the original series was on TV.... To be on the birthing side of a new species for the Star Trek universe was exciting to me. No one else has ever been a Kelpien before. How did the writers describe your character, Lieutenant Saru? They said, “He’s the Spock, the Data of the series.” Those are beloved characters that I connect with, so [Saru] feels familiar to me. He’s been easy to find that way. Kelpien come from a planet where they’re prey. How does

that backstory inform your performance? The animal reference that came up the most to me was gazelle.... But the word Kelpien makes you also think, “Is there a water element to where I come from?” The writers said that’s a possibility, so I incorporated that into my posturing. What’s his dynamic with Burnham? They’re sibling-like, right? That’s the most satisfying part of the story for me, this competition thing. We’ll have moments where we’re at each other’s throats, and moments where the brother-sister love is there. Do you feel any pressure to live up to the aliens that have been on bridge crews before you? Well, of course. Fan chatter has included [comparisons] already. You know, like, if I’m not as charming as Data or if I’m not as sassy or smarmy as Spock was, I’m going to worry about that. But that’s why I hope they allow me to find my way as this new creature, as this new thing.

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TREKS THE STORIED FRANCHISE HASN’T EXACTLY TIMETRAVELED IN A STRAIGHT LINE. WE MAKE (CHRONOLOGICAL) SENSE OF THE SERIES AND MOVIES. BY DARREN FRANICH

2151–61 STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (DEBUTED 2001) The prequel series begins with Starfleet’s first deepspace vessel, and ends with the formation of the Federation. There’s also a war between time travelers, but let’s keep things simple(ish).

Yet the piece of Fuller’s vision he was most passionate about for so long—casting a woman of color to lead a Trek revival—was achieved. Producers hired Martin-Green a few months after Fuller left. Ironically, it was the production delays that made her casting possible. Many months later, Fuller saw the Star Trek: Discovery trailer. How did he feel watching that? Fuller pauses. “What I can say is…my reaction was that I was happy to see a black woman and an Asian woman in command of a starship.”

SONEQUA MARTIN-GREEN SPENT FOUR SEASONS ON THE WALKING

Dead sweating in the woods of Georgia. She finally gets to lead her own show, this one set in deep space. And yet here she is, right back in the woods as she walks around in a forest outside Toronto. Only she’s traded Sasha’s grimy survival clothes for a royal blue uniform and a rifle for a Tricorder. “We were joking that Michael Burnham was having flashbacks of killing Walkers,” she quips. After her scene, it’s time to give the Discovery star a Trek test. Best character? Mr. Spock, she says. “Leonard Nimoy was able to bring such a charm and, dare I say, vulnerability to his Vulcan rigidity.” Favorite episode? “Journey to Babel,” from the original series, which introduced Spock’s father, Sarek. “You’ve got family, you’ve got sacrifice, there’s so much explored in one episode.” Can she do the Vulcan salute? Martin-Green instantly throws it down, bam, didn’t even have to push her fingers into place. “It was just there, I suppose I’ve always had it in me.” Martin-Green plays a gifted and ambitious first officer who gets caught up in an extraordinary series of events that take her from one ship and crew (the Shenzhou) to another (the USS Discovery, helmed by Captain Lorca and nicknamed

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY (SEPT. 2017) A decade before Captain Kirk commanded the Enterprise, First Officer Michael Burnham finds herself embroiled in the Klingon-Federation cold war.

2264–69 STAR TREK (1966) On their three-season, five-year mission, Kirk and Spock boldly go where no sci-fi show has gone before. Tribbles and lizard men and unfrozengene fascists, oh my!

“the Disco” behind the scenes). It’s a journey of self-discovery and redemption, though her casting was initially met with some online trolling by so-called Trek fans objecting to the show’s diversity. “What does it matter?” hits back Harberts. “If you fall in love with the characters, we’ve done our job. And when fans get a sense of the Discovery bridge, I think they’ll see it as a lovely reflection of where we’re at.” That representation also includes Anthony Rapp as a science officer and the first openly gay Trek series regular. “He’s persnickety and difficult and brilliant and has very strong feelings about why he’s on Discovery,” Harberts says. In last year’s Star Trek Beyond, Sulu was revealed to be gay in the briefest of scenes, but Discovery will go much further. The social lives of all the characters are fair game, with Burnham’s non-captain perspective lending the show a more lower-decks feel than previous Treks. “We actually get to see me with my partner in conversation, in our living quarters,” Rapp says. “It’s treated as any other relationship would be treated.” And those relationships won’t always be harmonious; there are dramatic conflicts between crew members that for decades were forbidden in the franchise. “There are moments when characters really go toe-totoe,” Rapp notes. “It’s not contrived or melodramatic, it’s still rooted in ethical conflicts or interpersonal situations where there’s a profound disagreement.” No Trek show would be complete without an alien perspective, and for that Discovery has Lieutenant Saru, a “Kelpien” played by

ENTERPRISE: EVERET T COLLECTION; THE ORIGINAL SERIES, THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY: PAR AMOUNT PICTURES/PHOTOFEST (2); THE NE X T GENER ATION, STAR TREK: PAR AMOUNT (2); VOYAGER: UPN; NEMESIS: SAM EMERSON/PAR AMOUNT; WILSON: MICHAEL GIBSON/CBS

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2273–93 THE ORIGINAL CAST MOVIES (1979) The aging Enterprise crew fight Khan, search for Spock, and find God (kinda) in the Final Frontier. In The Undiscovered Country, the Klingons and the Federation make peace.

2364–70 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987) A century later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D pursue kinder, gentler diplomatic solutions (except when it comes to the Borg).

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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (1993) STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995) Set in far-flung corners of the TNG era, these spin-offs chronicle the Dominion War and map out the distant Delta Quadrant.

creature vet Doug Jones (Hellboy). Saru is dryly sarcastic with a sympathetic backstory—he’s the first Kelpien, a perpetually hunted “prey species,” to make it into Starfleet. Consider him an early contender for fan favorite. “Kelpien were born with fear and self-preservation as a part of our instincts, but when I’m being threatened, I can be vicious,” Jones says. Burnham has a brother-sister kind of rivalry with Saru, and a more mother-daughter relationship with Captain Georgiou. On the verge of getting her own command, Burnham has a profound connection to her mentor, under whom she’s served for seven years. “She’s a great leader and war veteran devoted to Starfleet with a very important task to mentor this amazing human,” says Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), who shows off her world-famous fighting skills when facing a Klingon. There are several other key players in the sprawling narrative, such as Lieutenant Tyler (Shazad Latif), a prisoner of war, and Cadet Tilly (Mary Wiseman), Burnham’s roommate; there’s even the return of con man Harry Mudd from the original series (played in a less broadly comic manner by Rainn Wilson). “I’m still processing it,” marvels Latif. “Walking onto sets for the first time, you’re stunned at the money that’s gone into it, and you realize, ‘Oh, wow, Star Trek is back,’ and just how big this is.”

Longtime Trekkie Rainn Wilson as con man Harry Mudd

STAR TREK: NEMESIS (2002) The last of four Next Generation features is thus far the final Trek film set in the 24th century. In an echo of The Undiscovered Country’s Klingon détente, Nemesis ends with the promise of peace with the Romulans…

2387 STAR TREK (2009) …but peace is short-lived, as J.J. Abrams’ reboot shows Romulus destroyed. This is the final canonical point in the original timeline, before Spock inadvertently creates an alternate reality where Kirk has blue eyes.

If all this seems like a lot of characters to follow, there might not be quite as many around by the end of the season. Discovery has grave consequences baked into its story line. And since CBS All Access is a streaming service, the show can indulge in profanity and nudity—just don’t expect too much. “Every writer’s impulse when you get to work on the streaming shows is to go crazy,” Harberts says. “But how does nudity play on Trek? Eh, it feels weird. We’re trying to push more by having complicated, messed-up characters who aren’t necessarily embraced on broadcast TV.” Battlestar Galactica showrunner and Trek veteran Ron Moore says he’s optimistic from what he’s heard so far. “Star Trek at its core is a TV show, and there’s never been a Star Trek that’s operated in a post-Sopranos world,” Moore says. “It’s an exciting prospect to take the new way we make television and apply it to Trek. It will be a whole new way of looking at the series. I think Fuller was a great choice…and I also think the world of Gretchen and Aaron; they’re amazing writer-producers in their own right.” Not that the show needs any more pressure, but the stakes are high: Is one of the biggest and most beloved pop culture titles of all time still viable on TV? Can a traditional TV company transition into the digital world? (All Access has declared a goal of quadrupling subscribers to 4 million by 2020.) And is there still room for Roddenberry’s 1960s starry-eyed idealism, even as it updates to reﬂect our more cynical times? It’s too much weight to put on any series, but Discovery is carrying it nonetheless. Thankfully, there’s one refrain you hear from all involved: a sincere determination to “get it right.” “It’s easy to allow yourself to get freaked out if you look at it from a fearful perspective,” Martin-Green says. “There’s a temptation to get overwhelmed. For me the important thing is the knowledge we’re here for a reason and doing something that will hopefully make a positive impact. That thought will calm you down and help you focus.” Sounds like captain material to us.

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IN THE SEARING NETFLIX FILM TO THE BONE,

LILY COLLINS CONFRONTS HER OWN PAST TO PLAY A WOMAN BATTLING ANOREXIA.

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LILY COLLINS EARNED A GOLDEN GLOBE NOD FOR HER ROLE AS A ’50S ASPIRING ACTRESS IN

last year’s Rules Don’t Apply, but her latest film is less glamorous—and more personal. In To the Bone (now on Netflix), the 28-year-old daughter of Phil Collins plays a prickly young woman named Ellen who lands in an anorexia-recovery program led by an unconventional doctor (Keanu Reeves). It’s a spiky, snarky, and emotional role—made all the more intimate by the fact that Collins herself grappled with an eating disorder as a teen. “Even if you’re only dipping into that mindset for a short time, I know how tricky it can be,” says writer-director Marti Noxon (Lifetime’s UnREAL), who based the script on her own experiences. “But Lily really recognized the power this story could have.” Collins spoke to EW about the film’s message and her own past struggle. With your history, did you have any apprehension about immersing yourself in this character?

I got this script, and I just knew that the person who had written it must have had a connection to it. There was just too much in there that felt personal. I met with Marti, and she was so open about her experiences that I thought, “Well, all right, I’m just going to talk about it too!” At ﬁrst, my mom and some people that knew my history brought it up. And I said, “I really feel like I’m at the place where I want to tell this story.” I wanted to pay tribute to the 16-year-old girl that I was and make a movie that would’ve helped open my eyes.

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Hollywood has made plenty of movies about mental illness, but there aren’t a ton of stories about eating disorders. Why do you think that is?

Well, Marti has been open about the fact that when she was pitching this to ﬁnanciers and producers, she pitched it to

a male who said the script was great but it was too small of a subject matter. I just can’t believe that. This conversation should’ve happened years ago, but if not now, then when? It’s only getting worse. People need to better understand the gravity of the situation. I go back to the idea that [movies about this don’t get made because] it’s awkward. Sometimes, when something has not been done, who wants to be the ﬁrst one to put it out there and hold the ﬂag?

of uncomfortableness in the way that you view her. But it was done in a way that provided me with the nutrition and the supplements and the energy I needed to do my job. And obviously, with Marti and all the other female producers and Keanu and everyone, I was being held accountable. I know my limits, and I was not about to let Ellen’s story take over my own.

You decided to work with a nutritionist and lose weight for this role. How did that work?

Films that tackle heavy subjects like this can be a trigger for certain audience members. How did you work to portray eating disorders in a way that was safe but also honest?

No one ever gave me a number to lose or a weight to reach. I knew that Marti was showing very speciﬁc moments of body— nothing gratuitous, just certain moments where you as an audience need to kind of gather what is going on. But [losing weight] allowed me to emotionally access some of the feelings that my character was going through. There has to be a bit

We wanted to touch upon some uncomfortable moments because it is an uncomfortable subject matter. For me, I was so adamant that this was a character, and I could give my experiences and my emotions to the character, but at the end of the day, I was Lily, years later. So there was that balance: I wanted to give as much as I could to Ellen, but Ellen can’t take away from me. X

( From left ) Keanu Reeves and Lily Collins in To the Bone; Collins on set with director Marti Noxon

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DOCTOR WHO The 12th Time Lord bid an emotional farewell to Hall H guests and celebrated Jodie Whittaker’s casting as the first female Doctor. “Jodie’s going to be amazing,” Peter Capaldi told fans. “She’s a great choice.” —SHIRLEY LI Peter Capaldi

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JUSTICE LEAGUE Warner Bros. announced Wonder Woman and Suicide Squad sequels, and while a new Justice League trailer hinted at Superman’s return, rumors swirled that Ben Affleck could be finished playing Batman. “My status remains what it always is,” Affleck responded. “I’ve done the two movies. I’ve always intended on doing a third if Warners wants to make it.” —DARREN FRANICH

Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, and Ben Affleck

THE DEFENDERS After fans in Hall H learned that Iron Fist would return for a second season with Luke Cage’s Misty Knight (Simone Missick) joining the cast, they watched the first episode of Netflix’s all-star Marvel team-up, The Defenders. —KEVIN P. SULLIVAN ( Clockwise from left ) Elodie Yung, Mike Colter, Jessica Henwick, Krysten Ritter, Charlie Cox, and Finn Jones

THOR: RAGNAROK Chris Hemsworth explained the origin of the funniest line from the trailer, when Thor faces Hulk in gladiatorial combat. “We had a young kid, a Make-A-Wish kid, on set that day,” Hemsworth said. “I was talking with him, and he goes, ‘You know, you should say, He’s a friend from work!’ ” —ANTHONY BREZNICAN Jeff Goldblum, Rachel House, Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, Karl Urban, Taika Waititi, and Mark Ruffalo

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WESTWORLD Last year’s robo-cowboy sensation won’t return until 2018, but the trailer for season 2 of HBO’s breakout offered enough tantalizing clues to keep the internet spinning for months. Accompanied by Sammy Davis Jr.’s rendition of “I’ve Gotta Be Me,” the clip opens with the AI revolution in full swing, including Evan Rachel Wood’s Dolores on horseback, picking off stragglers with a rifle. Corpses abound. “There’s a...philosophical tale that we’re trying to tell, both about the characters and about the state of the world and AI,” co-creator Lisa Joy said. “We do have markers that we’re shooting for, and we kind of know where it’s going to end.” —DARREN FRANICH ( Clockwise from bottom left ) Ben Barnes, Jimmi Simpson, Evan Rachel Wood, Angela Sarafyan, Tessa Thompson, Rodrigo Santoro, Jeffrey Wright, and Shannon Woodward

STRANGER THINGS The cast and creators arrived in San Diego with a new trailer for Netflix’s highly anticipated sequel, set to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” “They’ll explain in season 2 how [Will coughing up a slug in the season 1 finale] affected him personally and mentally,” Noah Schnapp said. “It’s a lot darker and scarier.” —TIM STACK Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin, Millie Bobby Brown, Sadie Sink, Gaten Matarazzo, and Finn Wolfhard

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BLACK PANTHER The cast of Black Panther was leaping out of their seats at the footage shown in Hall H, but on screen there is trouble for the heroes. Winston Duke, who portrays mountain-tribe villain M’Baku, says good intentions lead to hard feelings in Wakanda: “A huge recurring motif you have is that everyone loves this country, and everyone wants the best for this country, but they have different ways of trying to move this country into the future.” —ANTHONY BREZNICAN Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong’o

AMERICAN GODS Ricky Whittle, who wowed fans at EW’s Brave New Warriors panel, said he loves his character’s “eternal hope” on the Starz drama: “[Shadow Moon] constantly gets back up and keeps moving forward.” Whittle also garnered laughs when admitting that his worst role was a commercial in which he was the face of an STD: “I was that guy.” —LYNETTE RICE Ricky Whittle

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ARCHER FXX’s animated spy comedy revealed the 1939-set tropical theme for season 9: Danger Island. Expect “quicksand, cannibals, superintelligent monkeys, and a volcano, and a talking f---ing parrot,” promised executive producer Matt Thompson. —DAN SNIERSON Judy Greer, Aisha Tyler, Lucky Yates, Jessica Walter, and Amber Nash

ATOMIC BLONDE The Hall H crowd swooned over footage from Atomic Blonde and its star and producer, Charlize Theron, who headlined EW’s Women Who Kick Ass panel. “I’ve always been fascinated to see if a woman can play by the same rules men do in these films,” Theron said of her tough-as-nails character, Lorraine Broughton, a Cold War spy in 1989 Berlin. When the conversation turned to more general issues of women in Hollywood, Theron said, “I always say to studios—make more female-driven movies. We need [audiences] to understand we’re just as good as the guys. Plus, we have boobs!” —SARA VILKOMERSON Charlize Theron

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OUTLANDER If you were one of the 4,000 people who packed Ballroom 20 on July 21, you got to see what other Outlander fans will have to wait until Sept. 10 to experience: the season 3 premiere of Starz’s addictive drama. Many moments in the episode weren’t entirely unexpected, like the opening scene on the fields of Culloden where Jamie (Sam Heughan) finally goes mano a mano against his archnemesis Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies). But Menzies still believes it packs an unexpected punch. “I think it’s a beautiful episode,” he said. “A lot has happened in the two seasons leading up to this. I think people are going to be very excited.” —LYNETTE RICE Sam Heughan, Caitriona Balfe, and Tobias Menzies

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Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson treated fans to the flashback-heavy season 4 premiere before teasing more colorful adventures to come, including an episode involving mushrooms. (No, not the kind sold in supermarkets.) —SHIRLEY LI

Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson

GAME OF THRONES With season 7 in full swing, the most famous cast on TV could only address what audiences have seen—like the new rivalry between Jon (Kit Harington) and Sansa (Sophie Turner). “Jon is the military man, and the sexism exists where he believes he is the man that should [rule],” Turner said. “In reality, Sansa is a really wonderful politician.” Gwendoline Christie also teased a more independent Brienne; John Bradley explained Sam Tarly’s disgusting Citadel experience; and Conleth Hill joked about Lord Varys’ role in all the action: “I have someone to do all my own stunts.” We promise we’ll let you know when we see one. —MARC SNETIKER Nathalie Emmanuel, Conleth Hill, Jacob Anderson, Alfie Allen, and Sophie Turner

BLADE RUNNER 2049 Blade Runner is director Denis Villeneuve’s favorite film of all time. So when he was given the opportunity to bring Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi classic back to the big screen, his reason for accepting the job was simple: “I didn’t want somebody else to f--- it up!” —SARA VILKOMERSON Ana de Armas, Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, and Sylvia Hoeks

THE PUNISHER The Punisher’s past as a soldier will help differentiate the upcoming stand-alone spinoff, due this fall, from Daredevil and other Marvel-Netflix series. “There will very much be a military component to the show,” says Jon Bernthal, who plays the antihero. —CHANCELLOR AGARD

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TIMELESS After a last-minute reprieve from NBC, the Timeless crew is gearing up for season 2. “With [Goran Višnjić’s Flynn] behind bars, we’re going to see different people operating the mothership and causing havoc in the past,” said co-creator Shawn Ryan. —CHRISTIAN HOLUB Abigail Spencer, Malcolm Barrett, Goran Višnjić, and Matt Lanter

RIVERDALE The CW’s Archie reboot doubles down on trouble with season 2’s arrivals of Veronica’s bad-boy ex (Nick St. Clair) and Jughead’s (Cole Sprouse) new Southside Serpent classmate (Toni Topaz), who could foil his romance with Betty. “Jughead is in the middle of two worlds that are starting to collide and erupt,” Sprouse says. Start campaigning, Bughead fans. —MARC SNETIKER Ashleigh Murray, KJ Apa, Camila Mendes, Lili Reinhart, Casey Cott, Madelaine Petsch, and Cole Sprouse

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Will Poulter and Anthony Mackie

Detroit S TA R R I N G

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John Boyega, Will Poulter, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith, Hannah Murray

Kathryn Bigelow

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has earned her stripes in onscreen combat. A virtuoso of blunt-force action and moral ambiguity, she is ﬂuent in the lingua franca of blood and sweat and strategic hot spots (Iraq, Pakistan, a Soviet submarine) scattered across the globe. But she’s never made a war movie quite like this one: an American horror story rooted so deeply

and shamefully in home soil that it is still painful to watch half a century after the true events it’s based on took place. Like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty before it, her Detroit is a battleﬁeld, though hardly a level one. After a terse prologue, the drama plunges directly into the seething, sweltering summer of 1967: An all-black after-hours club celebrating the return of a soldier from Vietnam is targeted in a routine raid. Without a viable back exit, the arresting oﬃcers are forced to parade partygoers from the door to waiting police vans. A crowd gathers and boos; bottles and epithets are thrown. Like so many other parts of the country already corroded by decades of fear and loathing on both sides

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of the racial divide, the city is a powder keg, and a spark isn’t hard to find. As the streets burn, a motley crew assembles at the shabby but lively Algiers Motel: an aspiring R&B singer (Algee Smith) and his sweet-faced hype man (Jacob Latimore); a weary veteran (Anthony Mackie); two freewheeling white girls (Hannah Murray and Kaitlyn Dever) dipping their toes in the sexual revolution. Recent strangers quickbonded by heat and alcohol, they flirt by the courtyard pool and debate the merits of John Coltrane. Then one guest (Straight Outta Compton’s Jason Mitchell) pops off a starter pistol as a prank; the shots provoke a rattled onslaught of law enforcement, including local officers Krauss (Will Poulter) and Demens (Jack Reynor), members of the National Guard, and John Boyega’s night watchman Dismukes. What follows is historical record, albeit still a disputed one—even after several court cases, dozens of news articles and eyewitnesses, and 50 years of distance. (Bigelow’s longtime collaborator Mark Boal grounds his script largely in known facts and new research, with a requisite dose of artistic license.) As the force’s unlikely alpha dog, Poulter (The Revenant, We’re the Millers) is a chilling enigma. A rogue Boy Scout with a sterile blank where his conscience should be, he looks like Howdy Doody and kills as casually as a kid playing videogames—shooting a terrified looter in the back over a few groceries even after a colleague reminds him that they’ve been explicitly told to let low-level offenders go. (He’s also one of several actors, including Boyega, Murray, and Reynor, who hail from the U.K. but deliver seamless

MUCH OF DETROIT LIVES IN SMALL IMPRESSIONISTIC MOMENTS, OR IN THE PRICKLING STILLNESS BEFORE A SCENE EXPLODES INTO BRUTAL STRAW DOGS-STYLE VIOLENCE.”

( From top ) In the aftermath of the 1967 Detroit race uprising, National Guard officers patrol the streets; police arrest subjects at gunpoint on July 25, 1967

American accents.) Boyega is equally good in an ambiguous, sometimes thankless role: the wary peacemaker who gets “Uncle Tom” spat at him from one camp and a derogatory “boy” from the other, he’s quietly magnetic. It’s a pleasure just to watch him think. Though a lot happens, Bigelow doesn’t juice the narrative. Much of the movie lives in small impressionistic moments, or in the prickling stillness before a scene explodes into brutal Straw Dogs-style violence. Her immersive filmmaking has the visceral documentary feel of firsthand experience. Handheld cameras shudder and jolt with on-the-fly immediacy; jagged edges are left unsmoothed by quick cutaways or atmospheric scores. (When music is used it’s mostly organic, spilling from stages or transistor radios.) For better and worse, she also leaves psychology on the cutting-room floor; hardly any screen time is wasted on motivation or backstory, but her characters do share one trait—a singular, almost fanatical drive. Like Jeremy Renner’s brittle bomb defuser in The Hurt Locker, Jessica Chastain’s Osama bin Laden-obsessed

CIA agent in Zero Dark, or even Keanu Reeves’ wave-ripping undercover agent in Point Break, they each chase down rabbit holes with a fixation that borders on mania. Bigelow’s own focus comes back again and again to the ugly tug of power, usually attached to a badge or a bully pulpit. A beat cop casually cupping a woman’s backside as he props her into a paddy wagon; the guardsman who smirks and asks Boyega for sugar when he offers fresh coffee (“Don’t push it,” comes the tight-lipped reply); the long, freighted pause before another carefully picks out the word Negro. In a nation that may be as divided as it’s ever been, her indictment of what amounts to a sort of institutionalized domestic terrorism will almost certainly lead to accusations of misplaced white guilt and cinematic scaletipping. Detroit’s aim feels simpler than that, though, and sadder: not a political treatise on the relative matter of blue or black lives, but a sincere effort to illuminate a singularly dark chapter in history—and a stark reminder of exactly what gets lost when human beings fail to take care of their own. A–

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Kyle Mooney

The Woman Changing the Face of Hollywood Brigsby Bear S TA R R I N G

Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill

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Dave McCary

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You’ve been a longtime advocate for diversity in media, from founding Latina magazine to joining CAA. How has the conversation changed? I feel like my life’s work is empowering and elevating who gets to tell stories and whose stories get told. We’ve seen from lots of academic research that diversity drives innovation, and we [now] realize if we bring new voices into our industry—women’s voices, voices of people of color, voices of disabled people—we’re actually going to get better stories.

What exactly is CAA doing to try to move the needle? If a network is like, “We’d love to see more diverse talent in our writing rooms,” but there hasn’t been an agency vetting folks and reading all their material and working on their skills, the supply isn’t there. Since I’ve been here [2005], our diverse client list has grown 1,400 percent—1,400! That allows us to make the change in the marketplace happen faster. What do you think is the biggest change Hollywood could make to do the most good? Certainly, they have to consider [diversity] a critical element in box office success. It’s changing the dialogue from “Oh, we should do this” to “This is the smartest thing we can do for our production.”

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“It’s vague.. Like, I’m glad I sort of o charmed g you, but this is also y a baffling fa ace. I think it means so ea s someone’s placating m g me.”

“I have a bunch of friends that keep sending me that one and I’m like, ‘Are…are… are you happy? Do you want to come over? What’s happening? Are we going to the club?’ ”

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any of SNL’s offbeat 12:55 sketches, then you’re familiar with cast member Kyle Mooney’s warped sense of humor. It’s clear that he possesses a more left-field sensibility than the show’s downthe-middle satire allows. But in the new comedy Brigsby Bear (which he also co-wrote), he’s finally been given a forum to let his freak flag really fly. With his long mop of corkscrew curls and the nerdy, deadpan air of a Take the Money and Run-era Woody Allen, Mooney plays James, a grown man stuck in a state of arrested development. It turns out that James was kidnapped as a baby by a childless couple (Mark Hamill and Jane Adams) and raised in a desert bunker on a diet of kids’ TV shows. Actually, one show in particular—a lo-fi adventure fantasy featuring a giant teddy bear named Brigsby. When James is rescued and reunited with his biological parents (Matt Walsh and Michaela Watkins), he not only has a hard time adjusting to the real world, he won’t let go of his obsession and decides to direct his own Brigsby movie. Surrounded by an ace supporting cast (including Greg Kinnear as a cop with the acting bug), Mooney teeters between being charmingly naive, and onenote in a Napoleon Dynamite kind of way. The result is a slight, handcrafted indie that’s sweet, skewed, and feels a bit like a skit stretched out to feature length. B

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What are the business benefits of telling diverse stories? We did this deep-dive analysis of 415 films that have been released over the last couple of years and looked at the audience composition. Seven of the 10 largest movies had an opening-weekend audience that was majority nonwhite. That was fascinating. At every budget level, a movie with a cast that was 30 percent or more diverse outperformed, in its opening weekend, one that was not.

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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power S TA R R I N G

Al Gore

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What kind of firsthand results have you seen? A couple years ago, I got to meet Malala Yousafzai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. I stayed up late finishing her autobiography, I Am Malala. And in the book she mentions Ugly Betty, talking about the fact that Betty was a journalist and a young woman who made her think that she might want to use her voice. I sent a note to [Betty executive

producer] Salma Hayek in the middle of the night, like, “Oh my gosh.” I said to Salma and [Ugly Betty star America Ferrera], “Don’t doubt for a moment that what you do matters. There are 7 billion people in the world and most of them will never come to the United States, but they’re going to see our movies and our television. And we get to tell them what a hero looks like.”

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The Mom star lends her voice to The Emoji Movie (July 28) as jaded code breaker Jailbreak. But the actress doesn’t always “get” the cute texting icons. Here, she reveals her blind spots. B Y D A N S N I E R S O N

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“We should not abuse or misunderstand this beautiful fruit, and certainly not misconstrue it for any other thing than the beautiful fruit that it is.”

“Do you think that’s only sent by men? I just don’t know if a woman would send me that. It feels a little bit like a player sent you that or somebody who wants you to feel confused. And they want to demand answers out of you without giving up any of their own.”

“Does it mean that we are going to have a great time in our lives? What’s happening? Because I’m a mom, and I’m not going out to the clubs—and I hate my birthday.”

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his PowerPoint climate-change crusade into the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, there was still some reason for hope. Sure, Bush and Cheney were calling the shots, but the force of Gore’s argument was impossible to ignore. Now, a decade later, with a fervent global-warming denier in the Oval Oﬃce, hope seems in shorter supply. In his wake-up-call follow-up, Gore is a little grayer and a little thicker around the midsection, but he’s still tirelessly speaking truth to power on behalf of our ailing planet in his folksy Tennessee twang. During one of his presentations in which he shows disaster footage from around the globe, he says, “Every night on the evening news is like a nature walk through the Book of Revelation.” You’d have to have your head in the sand not to agree. Directors Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen shadow the former vice president as he visits the rapidly melting ice caps of the Arctic and the flooding streets of Miami, growing increasingly frustrated as to why more isn’t being done. The strongest part of the ﬁlm chronicles Gore’s behind-the-scenes scrambling and horse-swapping at the 2015 drafting of the Paris climate accord, where India is dragging its feet on its adoption of solar energy. I know, it sounds super dry. But it unfolds like a white-knuckle episode of House of Cards. The cruel irony is that after all of Gore’s roundthe-clock diplomacy to get a deal done, it would turn out to be partly undone when President Trump later pulled out of the agreement. The only good news in all of this—and the message that An Inconvenient Sequel hammers home time and again—is that if you think that this self-proclaimed “recovering politician” is going away, guess again. B+

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Atomic Blonde S TA R R I N G

Charlize Theron, James McAvoy

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1 hr., 54 mins.

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WITH HER FEROCIOUS TURN IN MAD

DUNKIRK Starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance

The latest movie from Christopher Nolan is a towering achievement, not just of the sort of drum-tight storytelling we’ve come to expect from the director of Memento, The Dark Knight, and Inception but also of old-school, handmade filmmaking.

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BABY DRIVER Starring Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Jamie Foxx 2 Directed by Edgar Wright

B+

THE BIG SICK Starring Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter 2 Directed by Michael Showalter

B+

THE INCREDIBLE JESSICA JAMES Starring Jessica Williams, Chris O’Dowd, Lakeith Stanfield

Missing Williams’ quick wit on The Daily Show? This delightful rom-com takes advantage of her cleverness and charisma, casting her as an aspiring New York playwright who strikes up a relationship with a recent divorcé. B+

LANDLINE Starring Jenny Slate, Jay Duplass, John Turturro 2 Directed by Gillian Robespierre

B+

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Starring Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn 2 Directed by Matt Reeves

DESPICABLE ME 3 Starring Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker 2 Directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda

THE LITTLE HOURS Starring Aubrey Plaza, Dave Franco, Alison Brie 2 Directed by Jeff Baena

OKJA Starring An Seo Hyun, Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal 2 Directed by Bong Joon-ho

TO THE BONE Starring Lily Collins, Keanu Reeves, Leslie Bibb 2 Directed by Marti Noxon

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L A DY M AC B E T H Starring Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton 2 Directed by William Oldroyd

A GHOST STORY Starring Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara 2 Directed by David Lowery

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THE HOUSE Starring Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Jason Mantzoukas 2 Directed by Andrew Jay Cohen

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Starring Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen

During the film’s intoxicating first 30 minutes, which includes an interdimensional chase scene, I couldn’t decide whether what I was watching was brilliantly bonkers or total folly. Then, as the story went on, it came into sharper and sharper focus: Valerian is an epic mess. C–

Charlize Theron

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Max: Fury Road, Charlize Theron went from Oscar-winning actress to Hollywood’s most badass action heroine. Her hard-boiled new beatdown ballet, Atomic Blonde, will only cement her place in the fistsof-fury firmament. Too bad it’s not a better film. Directed by John Wick’s David Leitch and based on Antony Johnston and Sam Hart’s 2012 graphic novel, The Coldest City, this pulpy Cold War thriller features Theron as Lorraine Broughton, an MI6 agent sent to Berlin just as the Wall is coming down to recover a stolen list of undercover Western operatives before the Russians. Unable to trust anyone, even the spies on her own side (Sofia Boutella, John Goodman, and James McAvoy having a wildeyed blast), Lorraine tries to delicately negotiate a minefield of double crosses. Well, maybe “delicately” is the wrong word. She’s a blunt instrument with platinum bangs. The pounding ’80s soundtrack (New Order, Depeche Mode, Ministry) couldn’t be cooler, the ultraviolence is relentlessly brutal, and Theron’s guns-and-garters wardrobe is sexy as hell. So it’s a shame that apart from the gender flip, the plot is so derivative (really, a stolen microfilm?). Fortunately, there’s one absolutely bonkers stairway brawl that goes on for so long it will leave you feeling breathless and bruised. In the end, though, Atomic Blonde is simply an exercise in style. But what style! B

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IN MEMORIAM 1946–2017

John Heard The Home Alone actor, who died on July 21 at age 71, crafted a cast of characters far more varied than his most famous role. B Y J O E M C G O V E R N Throughout the 1980s, John Heard was regarded as one of the movie industry’s most rock-solid character actors. In films like Cutter’s Way, Cat People, The Trip to Bountiful, C.H.U.D., After Hours, Beaches, and Big, he imbued parts large and small with a mix of charm and sleaze, warmth and wickedness, businessman’s intellect and workingman’s grit. Then came 1990—and all those ingredients led director Chris Columbus to cast Heard in what would become his trademark role, as the baffled father to Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister in Home Alone. Alongside Catherine O’Hara as Kevin’s mom, Heard actually had a tricky balance to strike for a family comedy, steeping notes of lightness and irony into parents who inadvertently abandoned their 8-year-old son. The movie’s $286 million gross and 1992 sequel ensured Heard a lifetime of worldwide recognizability, but he pivoted the very next year as a brutal bad guy in the Goldie Hawn thriller Deceived, and in 1999 earned his darker stripes (and an Emmy nomination) for his snarled performance as a detective on The Sopranos. And though reactions to his death centered around Home Alone, costars such as Bette Midler (Beaches), Jeff Bridges (Cutter’s Way), and Marlon Wayans (White Chicks) praised Heard for the richness and diversity of his 40-year career.

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blessing to television. FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson was a courtroom thriller that interrogated issues of race, HBO’s Big Little Lies was a murder mystery that investigated issues of gender, and both did well by their deep themes while delivering fantastic genre entertainment. The Sinner, an eight-episode adaptation of Petra Hammesfahr’s 2007 best-seller, tries for T H E 2 2 -WO R D R E V I E W

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something unique, a whydunit instead of a whodunit that deconstructs ideas about good, evil, and identity to create elevated pulp. But it’s as fun as a trip to a confessional booth and doesn’t achieve the transcendence it covets. This show full of fallen souls focuses on Jessica Biel’s Cora, who initially presents as a cliché of female misery. She’s got a selfcentered husband (Christopher Abbott), smothering in-laws, a dull job in their family business, and a toddler who wants only her. But the truth of her innate depression and deadening circumstances is more nuanced than it appears. Fragments of

Teen Wolf (MTV, Sundays, 8 p.m.) Given last season’s satisfying full-circle finale, these eps feel slightly unnecessary. But with new super-

LOGLINES The Originals’ Final Bite Creator Julie Plec says the CW series’ upcoming fifth season will be its last.

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petition’s longtime emcee will return for the ABC reboot.

memory ﬂick at prior horrors and regrets. Tragedy. Abuse. A shame-oriented Catholic upbringing. An image of a woman beckoning Cora into a hotel room. Biel’s own past nourishes these layers: The Sinner is her first major small-screen work since her star-making turn on the long-running Christian family drama 7th Heaven, playing rebel daughter Mary. It’s an assertive bid to be born again as a prestige TV actress. One hot day at the beach, with her existential crisis boiling, Cora has a psychotic break. She stabs a young man to death in broad daylight, with husband, kids, and dozens more watching. What would seem to be an open-and-shut case for Det. Harry Ambrose (Bill Pullman) becomes an obsessive inquiry. What triggered Cora? Did the victim actually let his murder happen? And why does Harry—who’s got demons and guilt of his own—care so damn much? The premise and psychology of the main characters capture your interest. But the oppressive portentousness squanders it— the heavy-handed slo-mo and symbolism, the glum gravitas of the acting. Biel’s intense performance of despair isn’t helped by a story that keeps Cora a cipher or by clipped scenes that don’t let her stretch and breathe. Hopefully, that will improve as the series unfolds. Yet the critiques of female roles and religion are familiar and superficial. Pullman’s eccentric grizzled cop could have been a delightfully weird and poignant element in a weird piece of work—he’s nerdy about plants, he’s a sexual masochist, he wanders the night in his underwear—but he’s sabotaged by bad writing and confused tone. The mystery might keep you, but there are too many ﬂaws to love The Sinner. B–

natural drama, it’s the usual bonkers fun. B —Dalene Rovenstine

Laura Linney’s Ozark Adventure

The 53-year-old Emmy winner learns just how dirty the money-laundering business can be on Netflix’s Ozark. Linney stars with Jason Bateman on the drama that follows a financial manager and his secret-keeping wife, who move their family to the Lake of the Ozarks to clean $8 million for a drug lord (Esai Morales). B Y D A N S N I E R S O N

What was the one detail about Ozark that made you most excited to sign on?

It’s all about Jason.… When he asked me to do this, I wasn’t looking to do television, but we talked it through. I have such respect for him and just instinctively like him and trust him, so I was like, “Yeah, absolutely.” He’s so incredibly involved in every aspect of it that I wanted to help him as much as I could. And thankfully my instincts were right. I really felt like I landed in a pot of honey. Which of your previous roles best prepared you for this part?

Probably The Dinner, which is a movie that I’d done right before it. There are some huge differences, but there’s a similar focus. It’s also someone who is smart but dealing with a very primal instinct. It’s that combination—and one can’t overwhelm the other.

but it’s an authentic one. It’s one of those “We’ll live together, we’ll die together” decisions.… I don’t even think she understands why she’s doing it, but there’s a primal instinct—and she just follows it. What’s the best thing to do with $8 million?

I think you save a little. Buy a painting. Tim Curry taught me this, actually: Whenever you have a really big job, you need to buy a piece of art. I’ve tried to follow his lead there. And you give a lot of it away. For me, it would be arts education. You can help other people. There’s my bleeding liberal heart.

By season’s end (spoiler alert!), your character, Wendy, decides to abandon the unofficial witness protection program and return to the Ozarks so the family can be together. It’s a feel-good, emotional decision, but dangerous, isn’t it?

It’s not the wisest decision—in line with all of the other decisions that she’s made—

Laura Linney and Jason Bateman on Ozark

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Wet Hot’s Face-oﬀ

Adam Scott joins the Camp Firewood gang for Netflix’s reunion series—but as a very familiar character (spoilers ahead!). B Y

Finally, 16 years later, it’s 10 years later. Wet Hot American Summer returns to Netﬂix on Aug. 4 with something long promised: a 10-year reunion. At the end of 2001’s smart-stupid indie movie about summercamp counselors in 1981, we received a ﬂeeting glimpse of the future gathering. Two years ago, Wet Hot reassembled the gang, but for a prequel series. Now that the time is right for that proper reunion, here’s what you need to know about the eight-episode time warp to 1991 in Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (including Adam Scott’s mystery role!). The gang’s all here: Amy Poehler as haughty theater nerd Susie, Paul Rudd as cocksure douche Andy, Christopher Meloni as unstable chef Gene, Adam Scott as Susie’s secretly gay boyfriend Ben—wait a sec! That’s Bradley Cooper’s character! And that’s one of the first of many absurd jokes this season. Cooper wasn’t available to reprise his role, as he was directing and starring in A Star Is Born, but the producers had already devised a juicy story line for the character, so they did the only logical thing they could—they cast their friend Adam Scott in the role, explaining on screen that Ben had undergone minor cosmetic surgery. “The idea that seemed so silly

was that he had a nose job and is worried that people won’t recognize him, and the joke is that everybody recognizes him completely and says that you can barely notice it,” says co-creator/ star Michael Showalter. A Wet Hot superfan, Scott was tickled to play along. “I thought, ‘Well, that’s insane, but without question I will see what I can do,’ ” says Scott. “I would’ve come on and just stood in the background.” The swap, of course, also creates a Parks and Recreation reunion between Scott and Poehler. “The character’s name is Ben [like in Parks], so we did have a moment where we see each other and she screams, ‘Ben!’ ” recalls Scott. “And we were both like, ‘Whoa, okay. Hold on.’ ”

DAN SNIERSON

More Summer Scoop NANNY DEAREST Scott is joined by another notable new star for a story that rocks…the cradle. Ben and McKinley (Michael Ian Black), now with child (!), hire a nanny, Renata (Alyssa Milano), to watch their baby, and she is very attached to the child—maybe too attached. “The story line takes a lot of twists and turns, and keeps twisting and turning all the way to the very end,” hints co-creator/director David Wain. “There are some dark moments we enjoyed playing purely dark without any real joke to it, which is what we like to do.”

THAT CAN-DO SPIRIT Speaking of high drama, Ten Years Later thrusts camp director–turned–talking can of vegetables (H. Jon Benjamin) into the spotlight as he enlists the help of a tortured, familiar face to try to save the day. “The camp is in danger, in a real way, and the can is one of the only people that knows it,” says Showalter. “So the can goes on a crazy journey, à la Harrison Ford in The Fugitive, where he’s being chased by bad guys, and inexplicably is able to run, hitchhike, and have sex. But we never explain the physics of that.”

( Above ) Adam Scott and Amy Poehler; ( top right ) Scott, Alyssa Milano, and Michael Ian Black

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A CRAPPY STORY This season also toys with the old-rivalries/ old-loves tropes of the reunion movie (think: The Big Chill, Indian Summer) and truly goes old-school by introducing the ultimate camp lore. “The Legend of Willie S---s His Pants was the kid who made a poop out of nervousness at a camp dance, all the way back in 1921,” explains Wain. “Amazingly, it’s not just a one-off story but actually plays into the larger arc of the story, and it’s one of three or four s---ting motifs in this season.… You can make your Freudian analyses from that.”

THE SHOW IS ABOUT WHY THE DREAM OF HOLLYWOOD HAS SUCH A POWERFUL GRIP ON ALL OF US—THE CHARACTERS ARE CHASING SOMETHING SO ELUSIVE.” —BILLY R AY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

AMAZON BETS ON THE LAST TYCOON

MERIE WALL ACE/AMA ZON PRIME VIDEO (3)

Originally developed for HBO, the F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation— starring Kelsey Grammer and Matt Bomer—brings its razzle-dazzle to the streaming site. Will it be the toast of Tinseltown? B Y T I M S TA C K

Kelsey Grammer is upset. The Emmy winner is in his final days of shooting Amazon’s epic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon, and Grammer, playing studio head Pat Brady, is complaining to his protégé Monroe Stahr (Matt Bomer) that gossip columnist Hedda Hopper has snubbed their latest film and endorsed a competing project. Even in 1930s Hollywood, it’s all about being popular. The Last Tycoon, streaming now, aims to be both a lavish re-creation of this era of Hollywood and an expansion of Fitzgerald’s last, unfinished text (the novel was published posthumously in 1941). It’s the story of charismatic movie mogul Stahr and his relationship with older

mentor Brady. “He really does see him as a father ﬁgure,” says Bomer. “There’s a great deal of tension between them, but at the same time it’s a very incestuous

Kelsey Grammer and Matt Bomer

family.” Not only is Pat’s daughter, Celia (Lily Collins), harboring a not-so-secret crush on Monroe but the ladies’ man has been having a secret aﬀair with Pat’s wife (Rosemarie DeWitt). Quips Bomer, “He’s quite proliﬁc in his romantic pursuits.” The series was originally developed at HBO with executive producers Billy Ray (Shattered Glass) and Christopher Keyser (Party of Five) but was put into turnaround and eventually ended up at Amazon. Keyser says that HBO asked for “a much darker

version” of the story, while the streaming service encouraged the team to amp up the razzledazzle. “Amazon wanted more glamour, more beauty, and more romance,” explains Ray. “It turned out that made the show a lot more fun. So that became the new true north, and we just never stopped going for it.” To that end, Tycoon boasts a number of award-winning department heads, including production designer Patrizia von Brandenstein (Amadeus) and costume designer Janie Bryant (Mad Men), who helped give the production its lush aesthetic. But Ray and Keyser promise that Tycoon will serve up more than just visual ﬂash. “The battle between Brady and Stahr is going to escalate and become dangerous,” says Keyser of the nineepisode ﬁrst season. “It will be a battle not only for the studio but for the soul of Celia.” And ultimately the series ponders whether the risks of Hollywood fame and fortune are worth it. Adds Ray, “On a dramatic level, it’s about the cost of power and love and what you lose when you pursue that dream.”

( From left ) Rosemarie DeWitt; Jennifer Beals

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MONDAY JULY 31

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A DAY-TO-DAY GUIDE TO NOTABLE PROGRAMS* BY RAY RAHMAN @RayRahman Series Debut Siesta Key 10–11PM

MTV

High school drama isn’t as fun when the players are 22 years old. The team behind Laguna Beach takes us to a Florida beach town to hang with tanned college grads who don’t have jobs (unless you count being on a reality show). Juliette serves as the Lauren Conrad figure narrating the drama but lacks her predecessor’s magnetism. She used to date party boy Alex, but he cheated on her with his high school sweetheart Madisson. And guess what? They’re all here and going to the same pool party. Who will Alex choose? And who even cares? Despite a Lana Del Reyfilled soundtrack, nothing on Siesta packs the emotional punch of Laguna’s infamous love triangle. C+ —Breanne L. Heldman

TUESDAY AUGUST 1

Frank Grillo and Matt Hughes

Series Finale

KINGDOM WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2

8–9PM

AT&T AUDIENCE

Kingdom’s third and final season has been building up to this: Alvey’s (Frank Grillo) much-anticipated and sure to be bloody return to the cage. But is he really ready to face his demons? “Alvey used this fight to wall himself off from his responsibilities as a father and a man,” says showrunner Byron Balasco. All that will change, however, thanks to last week’s cliff-hanger, which saw Nate (Nick Jonas) get shot in the episode’s final moments. Whether or not Nate survives, life will still be difficult for the Kulina clan. “One thing we’ve always strived to do on this show was to stay true to the idea that life is cruel and capricious,” Balasco says, adding that the finale was one of the hardest hours for him to write. And while the episode wasn’t originally written to serve as Kingdom’s series finale, fans need not fret—Balasco promises “a fitting end” to the story. —Samantha Highfill

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Series Debut Manhunt: Unabomber 9–11PM

DISCOVERY

It takes some time for Paul Bettany to show up as Ted Kaczynski in this dramatization of the FBI’s years-long hunt for the terrorist. But once he does, the actor chillingly embodies the man who haunted America like a specter. His deadly mail bombs are accompanied by a manifesto about the failings of industrial society, which means profiler James Fitzgerald (Sam Worthington) has to not only catch a criminal but also fight a philosophy. Manhunt expertly zeroes in on that challenge, shadowing Fitz as he chases Kaczynski—while battling the nagging feeling that his foe might have a point. B+ —Christian Holub

*TIMES ARE E ASTERN DAYLIGHT AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE

KINGDOM: AT&T AUDIENCE NET WORK ; SIESTA KEY: MT V; MANHUNT: UNABOMBER: TINA ROWDEN/DISCOVERY CHANNEL

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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2 HERB FULLY LOADED MasterChef 8–9PM

FOX

Gordon Ramsay invites beekeepers, herb growers, and artisanal purveyors to the kitchen. As a result, Brooklyn will be closed for the day.

Series Debut The Lowe Files

THE LOWE FILES: RICHARD KNAPP/A&E; BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOW: IFC; THE GUEST BOOK: DOUG HYUN/ TBS; WHAT WOULD DIPLO DO?: SHANE MCCAULEY/ VICEL AND

10–11PM

A&E

Series Debut Baroness von Sketch Show 10–10:30PM

IFC

Written and acted entirely by women (Meredith MacNeill, Carolyn Taylor, Aurora Browne, and Jennifer Whalen), IFC’s lively new comedy show is here to put male chauvinism on blast. Look no further than a skit where a patriarchal boss forces his female staffers to conform their PR campaigns to simplistic gender norms (pink colors, butterfly images, etc.). Of course, one doesn’t need to be a woman to enjoy the humor on display. The actresses bring their years of experience to bear on satirizing all the inexplicable elements of modern life, from struggling to find the right words for a condolence note to letting it all hang loose in the gym once you turn 40. B —Christian Holub

Wait...what? Rob Lowe—Rob Lowe—is hosting one of those paranormal-activity-chasing reality shows? With his two sons? On A&E? Yes, it’s all true, and it’s as silly as you think. “Why do some people see things, and others not see things?” Lowe asks a ghost expert as they sit outside a purportedly haunted former boys’ reform school. If this sounds like a joke, don’t laugh—Lowe, who claims to have once seen Bigfoot, is serious. His search for the supernatural is not only entirely earnest but also a sweet excuse to carve out some quality father–son bonding time. In future episodes, they’ll look for an underwater alien base and attempt to master extrasensory perception. I’m rooting for them. B

THURSDAY AUGUST A 3 Series Debut The Guest Book 10–11PM

TBS

Did Four Rooms just get added to Netflix? The Guest Book is the second show this summer (after HBO’s Room 104) to riff on the different-guests-in-the-same-hotel premise. Created by Greg Garcia (My Name Is Earl), the comedy follows visitors (such as Danny Pudi) of a mountain lodge prone to zaniness and mishapery. The frenetic plots can be tiring, and the humor leans too hard on the hyper-quirky tone that’s come to define the post–Parks and Rec sitcom landscape. If there’s a reason to stay, it’s the e permanent cast of townsfolk, who start to shine once the episodic tales intertwine. B

IN PLAIN SIGHT The Gong Show 10–11PM

ABC

Megan Fox, Maya Rudolph, and Andy Samberg pretend not to recognize Mike Myers.

SSeries Debut What Would Diplo Do? 110–10:30PM

VICELAND

E Exec-produced by Diplo himself, Viceland’s first scripted comedy is a spoof of the EDM scene centering on a fictionalized version of tthe titular DJ (portrayed by James Van Der Beek, because why not?) as he makes music while also contending with imaginary ninjas who a rruin his chill. (Yes, that happens.) Portrayed with aplomb by Van Der Beek, Diplo is an intentional contradiction: He preaches unity through B music yet spends the entire pilot in a Twitter beef with Calvin Harris m ((played by Tom Stourton). There’s some comedic potential here, but WWDD? doesn’t deliver the joke density or fun absurdity of similar, W better send-ups like the Lonely Island’s Popstar. B– —Chancellor Agard

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SATURDAY AUGUST 5 Icarus STREAMING

BY GEORGE NETFLIX

George Lopez: The Wall, Live From Washington D.C.

The Sundance prizewinning exposé details Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic-doping efforts—absolutely shocking behavior from an otherwise honorable government!

10–11PM

HBO

I wonder what he’ll talk about!

WE Day Series Debut Comrade Detective STREAMING

AMAZON

HALLMARK

A confident, devilmay-care surfer wins the affection of the attractive new neighbor next door, a woman who clearly learned nothing from the 1991 cautionary tale Point Break. Son of Sam: The Hunt for a Killer

CBS

9–11PM

Hosted by Selena Gomez, the telecast will feature speakers and performers— including Alicia Keys, DJ Khaled, Josh Gad, Demi Lovato, and Miss Piggy (perhaps the most famous of them all?)—to raise awareness about social issues such as equality, poverty, and accessibility.

To observe the upcoming 40th anniversary of New York City serial killer David Berkowitz’s capture, this documentary uses first-person testimony and archival footage to trace the stories of his victims and the police detectives who caught him.

SUNDAY AUGUST 6 Sharknado 5: Global Swarming 8–10PM

SYFY

In the franchise’s fifth feeding frenzy, Ian Ziering once again faces an army of CG predators chomping through the air—and he wouldn’t have it any other way. “It really is all because of the fans,” the actor says. “The success that 90210 grew to took a couple years to find its zenith. But with social media, Sharknado got to that level instantly.” This year’s edition ups the ante by taking the threat global, with sharknados hitting far-flung locales such as Tokyo, Rome, and Sydney. And of course, there will be cheeky cameos: Fabio as the Pope, Olivia Newton-John as a scientist, and Chris Kattan as the prime minister of England. Says Ziering, “This is going to leave the audience begging for more.” There’s more? —Dan Heching

Series Debut Life of Kylie 9–10PM

With the earth’s temperatures rising and the polar ice caps melting at alarming rates, many scientists have concluded that the planet will soon be too warm to support human life. So why not watch this? Insecure 10:30–11PM

HBO

Molly meets a promising new guy during a night out, while Issa, getting increasingly sexually frustrated, tries a new dating outlook. It’s called “Netflix and...just Netflix.”

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Season Premiere Ray Donovan 9–10PM

SHOWTIME

At the end of last season, everything was coming up Donovan. Not anymore. The premiere begins with the family splintered thanks to a shocking death, and with Ray (Liev Schreiber) in court-ordered therapy due to a mysterious incident involving his father (Jon Voight). But the most intriguing plotline centers around a secretive movie exec named Samantha Winslow (Susan Sarandon, in a delightfully strange turn). What does she want from Ray? The suspense is enough to pull us back in. B —Kyle Fowle

COMR ADE DETECTIVE: AMA ZON PRIME VIDEO; SHARKNADO 5: GLOBAL SWARMING: YANA BL A JEVA/SYF Y; R AY DONOVAN: MICHAEL DESMOND/SHOW TIME

See if you can follow: Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt provide English voice-overs to translate a gritty 1980s Romanian tough-guy cop show for an American audience. The gimmick? The cop show isn’t real—it’s an elaborate meta-spoof created to poke fun at dated action tropes and retro-TV campiness. Romanians do the acting but are dubbed by the likes of Nick Offerman, Mahershala Ali, Jenny Slate, Bobby Cannavale, and plenty more legit talents who seem to be having a lot of fun with the assignment. However, the joke doesn’t always land. Comrade is one of those amusing-in-theory concepts that struggle to rise above the level of a cult-comedy inside joke. C+

8–9PM

Love at the Shore 9–11PM

PRESENTS

An intimate look from those who knew her best.

A TWO-NIGHT TELEVISION EVENT BEGINS WEDNESDAY AUG 9 9|8c #TheStoryofDiana

Music EDITED BY

KEVIN O’DONNELL @ODtron

THE FIRST ALBUM I BOUGHT WITH MY OWN MONEY

I remember being in an airport with my parents when Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me” was, like, a big song that summer, and I saw a cassette in a rack there, so I bought it and I listened to the whole thing and the song wasn’t even on it. I was extremely disappointed.

MY FIRST TIME ON STAGE

THE MOMENT I WOULD GO BACK FOR IN A TIME MACHINE

SOUNDTRACK OF MY LIFE

ARCADE FIRE’S WIN BUTLER With his band’s long-anticipated fifth album out now, the Texas-bred frontman, 37, opens up about the artists and songs that shaped him. B Y L E A H G R E E N B L AT T

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It would probably be < 1 > Louis Armstrong in New Orleans when he was just getting going. To me, that’s the height of American music. Or the first < 2 > Bee Gees rehearsal where [Robin Gibb] starts singing in that falsetto. Just because they had, like, 10 years where he sang normal, and at some point he went, “Guys, I got this idea, check this out! Just roll with it, it’s gonna be really cool.”

BUTLER: CARRIE DAVENPORT/GET T Y IMAGES; ARMSTRONG: DAVID REDFERNS/GET T Y IMAGES

My mom is a jazz harpist, and she would do these concerts for elementary schools that she kind of roped my brother and I into— it was an all-in-the-family thing. When I was really little, though, I remember my mom was playing some jazz fest and I went up and peed off the front of the stage while she was performing. I wasn’t aware that that was a faux pas yet. [Laughs]

NOTEWORTHY Still Rolling Keith Richards says the Stones are hitting the studio “very shortly” to begin work on a follow-up to 2016’s

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Blue & Lonesome. Long Live The Queen The Smiths will reissue their classic 1986 LP, The Queen Is Dead, on Oct. 20.

Arcade Fire TITLE

THE ALBUM THAT REMINDS ME OF MY FIRST CRUSH

Disintegration by < 3 > the Cure. I listened to it pretty obsessively in high school, and I remember a point where it kind of shifted and stopped sounding depressing to me. There was a moment where it felt really uplifting and happy, and I was like, “Oh, the album hasn’t changed; I’ve changed.”

SALT-N-PEPA HAS REALLY STOOD THE TEST OF TIME. THOSE SONGS ARE SO HEAVY AND SO GOOD.”

ARCADE FIRE: GUY AROCH; BEE GEES: MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES/GET T Y IMAGES; THE CURE: PAUL NATKIN/ WIREIMAGE; SALT-N-PEPA: TIM RONEY/GET T Y IMAGES; JACKSON: DAVID REDFERNS/GET T Y IMAGES

THE SONG THAT ALWAYS GETS TO ME

LadySmith Black Mambazo is this South African choral group who sang on Paul Simon’s Graceland, and they have a song called “Hello My Baby,” where a guy’s telling this girl to meet him in a train station, and it’s just so specific and so moving that every time kind of feels like the first time hearing it for me.

THE MUSIC MY SON MAKES ME LISTEN TO

I’m listening to a lot more < 5 > Michael Jackson than I did four years ago. It’s the same stuff I was into when I was his age—Thriller, the Jackson 5, just on constant rotation. And I have a greater appreciation for that Justin Timberlake song on the Trolls soundtrack, [sings in Timberlake’s style] “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” There’s no escaping that if you have a kid [his] age—that’s just a slam-dunk party starter if you want all the 4-year-olds to lose it.

THE MUSIC I WANT PLAYED AT MY FUNERAL

My grandfather [influential bigband-era musician Alvino Rey] had this recording called “My Buddy” with my grandmother, who’s singing through a 1940s vocoder—it was the B side of the first Arcade Fire 7-inch. So maybe that? I know I’m a singer, so people at my service might want to hear me. I would be horrified to play my own songs if I was alive, but I won’t be. [Laughs]

THE BAND PEOPLE MIGHT NOT GUESS I’M A FAN OF < 4 > Salt-N-Pepa has really stood

the test of time. Those songs are so heavy and so good. You never know what’s going to hold up, you know? If you went back and told people in the late ’70s that the Bee Gees and ABBA were gonna be the most enduring music from that period and that no one was going to care about Emerson, Lake & Palmer at all, I think all the music critics would be so sad.

Everything Now

LABEL

Columbia Records

GENRE

Rock

REVIEW BY

Eric Renner Brown @ericrennerbrown

SINCE ARCADE FIRE

debuted with Funeral, their 2004 masterpiece about death and grieving, one aspect has defined their epic music above all else: They’re not ones for subtlety. Like 2013’s overwrought Reflektor, the band’s fifth LP tackles information overload in the digital age—but the result is hitand-miss. The concept lands beautifully on “Everything Now,” a heartland-rock ode to consumption; less so on “Infinite Content,” a 97-second ditty with the trite refrain “Infinite content, we’re infinitely content.” Lyrical shakiness aside, Everything Now is musically rousing, from the dubby “Peter Pan” to the anxious funk of “Good God Damn” to “Signs of Life,” which channels the dancepunk of longtime collaborators LCD Soundsystem. The best moment comes on “Creature Comfort,” where the band pairs a menacing synth riff from Portishead’s Geoff Barrow with a sunny indie-pop melody for new-wave-y bliss. Like Everything Now’s subject matter, Arcade Fire gets a bit excessive—yet their fearlessness has resulted in some of the most ambitious music of their career. B+

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What to

Stream EW’s guide to this week’s essential new releases

Wins and Losses For his third album, the Philly rapper worked with Future, Young Thug, Quavo, Rick Ross, and others. The guests serve to accentuate Meek’s versatility, from silky slow jams (“Whatever You Need”) to showy bangers (“Issues”).

1990

MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA

A Black Mile to the Surface Scoring a film—2016’s Swiss Army Man—inspired the alt-rockers to up the drama on their latest LP. The resulting collection is a mix of sweeping guitars, booming drums, and delightful vocal harmonies.

Twenty-seven years ago this week, Mariah Carey and Billy Idol made their own kind of love, Michael Bolton bottomed out, and Madonna got spanky. B Y L E A H G R E E N B L AT T

G L E N N M E D E I R O S F E AT. B O B BY B R OW N

“She Ain’t Worth It”

7 M A RI A H C A RE Y

B I L LY I D O L

“Cradle of Love” (from The Adventures of Ford Fairlane)

JO HNNY G I L L

“Rub You the Right Way”

E N VO G U E

“Hold On” This song is subjectively better than the Wilson Phillips ballad of the same name that topped the Hot 100 seven weeks before. Still, it was all an insane “Hold On” lady-harmony bonanza, and we were blessed. A+

“Girls Nite Out”

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Good for You Last year the freshman rapper hit No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his clattering breakout single “Caroline.” His debut LP features Ty Dolla $ign, Nelly, and Offset, plus slick production from Di l ’ Guy G LLawrence Disclosure’s k. on one track.

“When I’m Back on My Feet Again”

DEPECHE MODE

“Enjoy the Silence”

M A D O N NA

“Hanky Panky” To your grandparents, “hanky panky” was probably a little secondbase slap and tickle. For Dick Tracyera Madonna it meant hard spanks, light bondage, and heavily implied bisexuality. Potato, po-tah-to. B+

SOURCE: JOEL WHITBURN PRESENTS THE BILLBOARD® HOT 100® CHARTS—THE NINETIES

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MI CHAE L BO LTO N

Words like violence break the silence, and a thousand baby goths are born—never to avoid SPF or frolic outside a graveyard again, unless it’s a Sunday and 120 Minutes is on. A+

Johnny is either a truly amazing masseur or the ex–New Edition member most confused about how genie bottles work; “Rub” earns him stroking rights either way. A

T YLER COLLINS

Michael has many gifts, but did you know he was a Chumbawamba? He gets knocked down, and he gets up again. He’s just going to raspily softrock whine about it for a while first. B–

So the difference between a Vision and a Cradle is maybe four octaves, one bottle of peroxide, and three degrees of Andrew Dice Clay. A–

JERRY GARCIA & MERL SAUNDERS

GarciaLive Vol. 9 Garcia’s latest posthumous live release captures a smoking 1974 gig with legendary keyboardist Saunders. Best jam? A 19-minute cover of Jimmy Cliff’s “The Harder They Come.”

Do not tell Tyler what she can do with her time. She wrote songs for Celine Dion and had a whole arc on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and if she says it’s girls nite, it’s freaking girls nite. B+

“Vision of Love” She was just a simple girl from Long Island with a spiral perm and a dream. But she worked hard and visualized and sang like God’s own dolphin, and sweet destiny did treat her kind. A

“The Power” Just one of those kooky Euro-dance acts who were sort of faceless and made fantastic nonsensical jock jams that predicted the BPM needs of spin class by about two decades. A

Believe Bobby when he new-jack swears this girl is shady; he knows better than (b-b-better than) you. And Glenn? He’s a high school principal in Hawaii now, and he looks pretty happy. Honolulu is worth it. B+

SNAP!

Aminé

IDOL: AL AIN BENAINOUS/GAMMA-R APHO/GET T Y IMAGES; CAREY: FR ANK MICELOT TA/GET T Y IMAGES; BROWN: RON GALELL A, LTD./WIREIMAGE; MADONNA: LEE CEL ANO/REUTERS/L ANDOV; AMINE: JOSH BR ASTED/WIREIMAGE; CRUTCHFIELD: JESSE RIGGINS

MEEK MILL

CHART FLASHBACK

3 QUESTIONS FOR

WAXAHATCHEE Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, one of the decade’s best new artists, opens up about her ferocious LP Out in the Storm. BY N O L A N F E E N E Y

This is your loudest, most rocking album to date—a far cry from your lo-fi 2012 debut, American Weekend. What drove the change? In the past I had just worked with a couple people in my house, and it was a very intimate process. I really wanted to work with my live band on this record because a lot of songs are [about] things we went through together.

Is it safe to say this is your angriest LP yet? Absolutely! It was written at the end of a long, bad relationship, so it’s very autobiographical. That’s something I haven’t done in a while. I wanted to spot all the cracks in the relationship and analyze them in a way that lifts me up. It’s okay to not be perfect!

Your twin sister, Allison, who put out her own solo album this year, plays on your record. Has the way you work together changed since you were kids? When I write something, she’s the first person I send it to. I need her to analyze it. That’s how I know the song is finished. We lean on each other in that way. It was our thing when we were in bands together, and it’s still our thing now. WAXAHATCHEE [WAKS-UH-HACH-EE]

n. A creek in Alabama, Crutchﬁeld’s home state

BENNINGTON’S MOST SOULBARING SONGS

The singer, who struggled with addiction, openly addressed his demons. BY ERIC RENNER BROWN

“Crawling” 2000 “Crawling in my skin, these wounds, they will not heal,” Bennington sings on this Grammy-winning Hybrid Theory track. He later admitted he felt conflicted about achieving commercial success with a song about addiction’s power. Chester Bennington and Tim McIlrath in 2014

IN MEMORIAM 1976–2017

Chester Bennington The first time I met Chester was probably at one of the KROQ Acoustic Christmases in L.A. He just walked right up to me like we already knew each other. I wasn’t aware that he was aware of our band. He started telling me what a big fan he was. The most shocking thing about all of this is that the Chester I crossed paths with on tour was just so unstressed and light as a feather. He had that disposition of somebody who’d just walked out of a massage: floating and smiley and happy and unbothered by the buzz of activity around him. He’d stop and talk to me, and there’d be a nervous tour manager right behind him saying, “Chester, we have to go! You’re on stage in,

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like, 90 seconds!” And he’d be like, “Hey, man, how was your day?” On the surface, he was one of the most untortured guys that you saw on the road. A band like Rise Against has been a gateway for a lot of young people who are transitioning into heavier music or finding music they really identify with. Linkin Park was a bigger band of the same ilk. That’s what made me appreciate what they were doing. They were guiding these kids through adolescence and they were helping them— and there was something really positive about it too. Chester had demons that he was wrestling, but that’s the price we pay to do this. For a band like Linkin Park to happen, that requires a guy or a girl to look deep

in themselves and wrestle these demons. After they do it every night, they make it look easy. Something that I’ve learned is that you can never underestimate the role of music in a person’s life. To a young music lover, it has more influence than their religion, parents, teachers, peers, family. Music can supersede all of those things. The right music to the right person is so powerful. To have a guy like Chester be able to tap into the angst that is adolescence, that was such an important thing. —As told to Eric Renner Brown

“Leave Out All the Rest” 2007 Written during a years-long sober period, the Minutes to Midnight single was about humility and atoning for past mistakes: “When my time comes, forget the wrong that I’ve done.” “My Suffering” 2009 On this track from Bennington’s side project, Dead by Sunrise, he explores how the personal troubles he articulates in his music catapulted him to fame and wealth. “Heavy” 2017 Bennington said Linkin Park’s Kiiara-featuring single addressed the realization that he caused most of his own problems, paving the way for self-improvement.

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The Linkin Park singer gave voice to the struggles of American adolescents before taking his own life on July 20 at age 41. His friend, Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath, looks back on his legacy.

”Easier to Run” 2003 The band’s second LP, Meteora, was released after Bennington completed rehab for alcoholism. “It’s easier to run,” he belts, “replacing this pain with something numb.”

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ANYWHERE BUT HERE Mona Simpson

A fitful, fretful mother yearning to escape it all grabs her second husband’s credit card and drags her sullen 10-year-old daughter on a pilgrimage from Wisconsin to Hollywood.

FLAMING IGUANAS Erika Lopez

Lopez’s sassy, sexy coming-of-age tale (bonus: It’s illustrated!) features young Tomato Rodriguez as she hops on her motorcycle and embarks on a cross-country ride to visit her ailing dad.

I L L U ST R AT I O N BY K AT I E C A R E Y

BETWEEN THE LINES Winter Is Still Coming Fans clamoring for The Winds of Winter, the next installment of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, finally have an update—of sorts. “I am still months away,” he says. “How many? Good question.”

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PAPER TOWNS John Green

GOING BOVINE Libba Bray

Does 16-year-old Cameron—dying from mad cow disease—really escape the hospital and go on a road trip with a videogameplaying dwarf and a Norse god posing as a garden gnome, or is it all a fever-sparked hallucination? 4

THE LAST DAYS OF CALIFORNIA Mary Miller

In this winsome novel, two girls and their fundamentalist parents drive from Alabama to California for the Rapture, passing out religious tracts and trying to save as many souls as they can. 5

ON SUCH A FULL SEA Chang-rae Lee

Set in a chaotic, dystopian America, Lee’s novel follows a teenager who leaves the safety of her industrial town in search of her boyfriend, traveling through lawless open country where the least fortunate fend for themselves.

Quentin, who’s been enthralled by his beautiful neighbor Margo for years, sets out to find her when she vanishes right before graduation. She’s left clues—but she might not want to be found.

STATION ELEVEN Emily St. John Mandel

In a postapocalyptic world decimated by disease, a band of performers roams the country presenting Shakespeare and Beethoven. This isn’t a grim tale, though; it’s one of art, family, and memory—and the courage it takes to look upon the world with fresh and hopeful eyes.

THE WANGS VS. THE WORLD Jade Chang

After cosmetics king Charles Wang loses his fortune, his entire family piles into their powder blue Mercedes for a cross-country trip. Chang packs her pages nearly as tightly as the car, piling on wry observations of everything from Asian immigrant culture and faded Southern gentry to fashionblog etiquette.

LAURIE GELMAN

The former broadcaster mined the years she spent volunteering at her kids’ school to inform her debut novel, Class Mom, about a woman whose sarcastic emails get her in trouble with the other parents. B Y I S A B E L L A B I E D E N H A R N

Is it true that the novel is based on your own life—that you were fired as a class mom? Yes! I was having lunch with my agent, and he was trying to explain to me why 37 publishers rejected my latest try at a kid’s book. Somehow I ended up telling him this whole story about getting fired as class mom. And he was in stitches. I was telling him about what a thankless frickin’ soil pit of a job it is, and he said, “You know what? That’s your book.”

I have to ask why you got fired. I’d been writing very snarky, acerbic emails. The tone of them was always very “I’m in charge, you’re my slaves, do what I say, and then we’ll all be fine.” Fathers would answer, “I’ve never read a class email before. I look forward to yours.” It was fun, and everybody liked it—until they didn’t. Somebody complained to the head of the school, and that was the end of me.

Did you talk to other class moms when you were writing? I did. I surveyed my friends all over the country: “Have you been a class mom?” “Yes.” “Did you like it?” “No. Worst job ever.” It was that across the board. No one ever said, “Ah, I loved it!” Which I thought was funny. You do it because somebody’s gotta do it, and if you’re one of those people who’s, you know, a martyr.

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Few writers can capture the gritty streets of L.A.—and the inner workings of the LAPD—like Connelly, whose new series features a conflicted young detective named Renée Ballard.

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FIERCE KINGDOM

By Gin Phillips 2 THRILLER

Set after-hours in a darkened zoo, Phillips’ tale of a mother’s desperate struggle to protect her child is like a shot of pure adrenaline. But it’s not just the action that will keep you turning pages: Fierce Kingdom is a moving story, too.

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GATH E R TH E DAU G HTE R S By Jennie Melamed 2 COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL

In Melamed’s haunting debut, a group of teen girls born into a disturbing cult on an island attempt a rebellion.

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HAPPINESS

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Harpham’s initial experience of motherhood is the exact opposite of her book’s title: Her partner doesn’t want kids, so she gives birth alone. But when little Gracie’s health plummets, Brian returns to Harpham’s side.

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“As a writer who’s been curious for decades about what prompts people to cook and eat the way they do, I’ve often marveled at the emotional and psychological baggage we bring to the table,” writes Shapiro in these essays about famous women and what they liked to eat.

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D E V I L’ S B A R G A I N

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Through both essays and interviews, Klam explores our culture of celebrity obsession, examining why we care so much.

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Westerhausen, author of the popular blog Vegetarian ’Ventures, serves up 100 dishes with Midwestern flair in a cookbook that’s cunningly arranged by outing: There are chapters devoted to picnics, camping, and so on.

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PEPPERS OF THE AMERICAS

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The three-time James Beard Award winner takes a deep dive into one very piquant ingredient, sharing recipes from sauces to main dishes.

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