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Nov 20, 2024
John M. Chu's adaptation of the stage musical, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, might make you feel trapped in someone else's nostalgia.
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Nov 19, 2024
A new, three-part Peacock docuseries features 20 years of unheard phone conversations between Charles Manson and his prison pen pal.
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Nov 19, 2024
The author and showrunner on his story about shining a light on the faceless characters typically on the margins.
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Nov 18, 2024
Actor and showrunner Natasha Rothwell shares stories about memorable first experiences.
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Nov 18, 2024
From The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast to a new show from the co-host of Reply All, these are the best podcasts of the year.
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Nov 17, 2024
The series chronicles the early evolution of the Bene Gesserit order into a superpowered mystical sisterhood with great political power.
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Nov 17, 2024
The fact that it has persisted for 10,000 years highlights its fundamental importance to Frank Herbert's universe.
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Nov 17, 2024
'Dune: Prophecy' is set 10,000 years before the birth of Paul Atreides, but many of the names will be familiar to fans.
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Nov 16, 2024
Jake Paul won an eight-round unanimous decision over Mike Tyson, who fought in his first sanctioned pro bout in almost 20 years
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Nov 15, 2024
The filmmaker on her Cannes award-winning drama and challenging the status quo in India through her work.
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Nov 15, 2024
"America demanded it and now it's happening," O'Brien said in a statement Friday.
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Nov 15, 2024
The Oscar-winning composer shares his writing process for Wicked's iconic songs, from 'Popular' to 'Defying Gravity'
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Nov 14, 2024
Peacock's new 10-episode series puts a modern spin on British author Frederick Forsyth's best-selling 1971 thriller of the same name.
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Nov 14, 2024
FX's gripping adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe's book dives into the complicated history of the Troubles
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Nov 14, 2024
The satire outlet was named the winning bidder, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, for the conspiratorial publication that it plans to relaunch as a parody.
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Nov 14, 2024
FX's adaptation of the book by Patrick Radden Keefe isn't just a gripping crime drama—it's an urgently timely work of political art.
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Nov 13, 2024
The second season's two-part premiere ended with a shocking death. Here's why the twist works so well.
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Nov 13, 2024
A new docuseries challenges half a century's worth of received wisdom about the influential social psychology study.
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Nov 13, 2024
Jacques Audiard's operatic musical stars Zoe Saldaña's, Karla Sofia Gascon, and Selena Gomez in an act of radical imagination.
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Nov 13, 2024
During his long career, West was a regular presence on stage and screen, his versatility allowing him to play a broad range of characters.
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Nov 13, 2024
In Kaveh Akbar's debut novel, a National Book Award finalist, Cyrus Shams is sleepwalking through life. He's a poet, newly sober, obsessed with death, and deeply depressed. When Cyrus was an infant, his mother boarded a plane in Tehran to visit her brother in Dubai. A U.S. missile mistakenly shot it down, and she was…
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Nov 13, 2024
Tommy Orange's family saga, Wandering Stars, picks up where his 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, There There, left off. In the wake of a 2018 shooting, high-school freshman Orvil Red Feather struggles to make sense of the violence he has endured. To better understand what Orvil is up against, Orange takes us back to 1864 to…
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Nov 13, 2024
Juli Min's debut, Shanghailanders, is an ambitious family drama told entirely in reverse. The novel begins in 2040 with Leo Yang, an aging Chinese real-estate investor who finds himself drifting apart from his elegant Japanese French wife Eko, their precocious eldest daughters Yumi and Yoko, and the baby of the family, aspiring actress Kiko. To…
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Nov 13, 2024
What does utopia look like for Black Americans? It's the question at the heart of essayist, editor, and translator Aaron Robertson's The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America, which explores the history and meaning of Black freedom movements in the U.S. The topic is a personal one for the author,…
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Nov 13, 2024
Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Mighty Red, a captivating multigenerational tale set amid the 2008 financial crisis, begins with a frenzied proposal. Gary Geist, a wealthy and preternaturally lucky football player, asks Kismet Poe, his rebellious Ojibwe classmate, to marry him. This is much to the chagrin of Kismet's superstitious truck-driver mom…
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Nov 13, 2024
In her debut memoir, best-selling cookbook author and food TV icon Ina Garten admits she has a "low threshold for boredom." This, she writes, has made her more than willing to take wild risks "just to get out of that miserable state." In Be Ready When the Luck Happens, Garten lays out her journey to…
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Nov 13, 2024
With his new book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides reckons with the ambitions and intentions of Captain James Cook. In recent years, Sides writes, the enigmatic British explorer and gifted cartographer has become, in some respects, the…
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Nov 13, 2024
Splinters centers on two defining moments in essayist Leslie Jamison's life that happened to coincide: the birth of her daughter and her separation from her husband. The book keeps Jamison's ex at a respectful but sometimes frustrating distance. So the "splinters" (or chapters) focus instead on flashbacks earlier in the marriage, attempts at romance after…
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Nov 13, 2024
With his best-selling 24th novel, Percival Everett offers an audacious reimagining of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Huck's enslaved friend Jim—who, as the book's title suggests, prefers to be called James. Everett doesn't stray far from the major events of Twain's novel. Instead, he creates a poignant parallel…
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Nov 13, 2024
Fresh off a breakup and in search of a job that would finance creative writing classes, Carrie Sun took a position as the personal assistant to a billionaire hedge-fund founder—though she wasn't allowed to call her place of work a "hedge fund" while there, because her boss thought the name had negative connotations. The joys…
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Nov 13, 2024
Arthurian legends have been passed down for centuries. There would seem to be little left to mine from the story of the king who pulled a sword from a stone. Yet The Magicians author and former TIME book critic Lev Grossman manages to conjure an ambitious, nearly 700-page narrative about Camelot—albeit Camelot in its latter,…
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Nov 13, 2024
The surprise fourth installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach ecological-horror trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) is both a prequel to these works and a standalone story. Set 20 years before the original books, Absolution focuses again on the Southern Reach, a secret government agency tasked with studying Area X, a stretch of Florida marsh that…
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Nov 13, 2024
On the surface, Hanif Abdurraqib's latest book, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, is, yes, about basketball. But, as with most of Abdurraqib's writing, it's also about so much more. In this sprawling offering, the best-selling author and poet explores his childhood growing up in Columbus, Ohio in beautiful, tender detail. Abdurraqib traverses…
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Nov 13, 2024
Xochitl Gonzalez pulls no punches against the art world in her latest propulsive novel, Anita de Monte Laughs Last. In the follow-up to her best-selling 2022 debut, Olga Dies Dreaming, Gonzalez explores how legacy gets warped over time. The novel follows the lives of Anita de Monte, an up-and-coming artist in 1985, and Raquel Toro,…
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Nov 13, 2024
A legend in Chinese poetry and contemporary writing, Bei Dao (the pen name for Zhao Zhenkai) returns to poetry after almost 15 years with Sidetracks, translated by Jeffrey Yang. The book-length poem is a culmination of the work and living he's done since 1989, when he was exiled from China over the Tiananmen Square student…
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Nov 13, 2024
Set on and around the Penobscot Reservation in Maine, Morgan Talty's debut novel follows Charles Lamosway, a man grappling with a huge secret. For the last 20 years, he has watched his daughter Elizabeth grow up on the reservation while he lives just outside of it, across the river. Elizabeth's mom doesn't want Charles to…
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Nov 13, 2024
The Lucky Ones—an enthralling, debut memoir by Zara Chowdhury—chronicles the persistent, heart-wrenching, multigenerational violence against Muslim communities in India. The story begins when a 2022 train fire killed Hindu passengers in Godhra, inciting backlash against the Muslim population in the country, with the then up-and-coming politician Narendra Modi fanning the flames by calling the event…
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Nov 12, 2024
'Superstore' creator Justin Spitzer's latest NBC sitcom does for health care what Quinta Brunson's show has done for education.
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Nov 11, 2024
From Smoke Signals to Rez Ball, these films reflect upon and give insight into indigenous life
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Nov 10, 2024
The actor behind the soft-eyed 17-year-old on filming the finale scene the series has been building up to.
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Nov 10, 2024
The first episode of "The Double Life of My Billionaire Husband" pans out like a daytime TV melodrama: a female protagonist asks her father and evil stepmother for $50,000 to pay for her mother's kidney dialysis treatment. Cue an evil stepsister, who snarkily says that the payment is assured—if the lead marries the illegitimate son…
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Nov 08, 2024
Chloe East weighs in on the final moments of A24's new religiously themed horror thriller.
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Nov 08, 2024
When it comes to the 2025 Grammy Award nominations, "Cowboy Carter" rules the nation.
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Nov 07, 2024
Three people have been charged in connection with the death of Liam Payne, a member of musical group One Direction.
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Nov 06, 2024
It's not clear whether we'll get more of the popular show after the next batch of episodes, but Taylor Sheridan's TV universe keeps expanding.
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Nov 04, 2024
The new courtroom drama, which could be the 94-year-old director's last film, reflects his preoccupations with moral gray areas and justice, down to its somber end.
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Nov 04, 2024
"Thriller" was a blockbuster forged by Jones' and Michael Jackson's maniacal competitiveness, deep love for global pop culture, and fascination with new technologies.
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Nov 04, 2024
Jones' legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson albums and collaborating with hundreds of other recording artists to writing prize-winning film and television scores.
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Nov 03, 2024
Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on "Saturday Night Live" where she tried to appeal to voters and jabbed at opponent Donald Trump.
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Nov 01, 2024
Blitz' follows a boy's journey home through war-torn London
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Nov 01, 2024
Jesse Eisenberg writes, directs, and stars, opposite Kieran Culkin in a deliberately comic film about raw suffering.
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Nov 01, 2024
Passion and politics come together in this maximalist six-episode adaptation of the classic novel.
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Nov 01, 2024
The famed director on his new movie 'Here,' starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, and his views on AI, sentimentality, and originality in Hollywood today.
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Nov 01, 2024
The real people and events that inspired Steve McQueen's World War II drama 'Blitz'
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Nov 01, 2024
Writer-director-star Jesse Eisenberg and co-star Kieran Culkin on making a different kind of Holocaust movie, inspired by Eisenberg's family history.
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Nov 01, 2024
What's coming to Netflix in November
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Oct 31, 2024
A spooky MCU series more focused on character development than CGI battles offers us a new compelling superhero: Billy Maximoff
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Oct 31, 2024
From Conclave to Anora.
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Oct 31, 2024
Netflix's new docuseries presents conflicting accounts of the alleged November 1989 abduction of a New York City woman named Linda Napolitano.
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Oct 31, 2024
A new documentary on Prime Video delves into Megan Thee Stallion's grief and trauma, especially after being shot by Tory Lanez.
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Oct 30, 2024
From 'Sweetpea' to 'Where's Wanda?' to 'Rivals'
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Oct 30, 2024
From Andrew Garfield to Adam Brody, the gentle man is taking over pop culture. In an election that is a referendum on gender, can he conquer American politics, too?
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Oct 29, 2024
The quirky comedy actor, who co-starred in such favorites as 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' died of multiple sclerosis at 79.
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Oct 29, 2024
A new Netflix documentary assays how Martha Stewart has made us feel across a five-decade career.
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Oct 29, 2024
All the political machinations and personal intrigue to remember before watching season 2 of The Diplomat
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Oct 27, 2024
Bad Bunny threw his support behind Harris shortly after a speaker at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage."
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Oct 27, 2024
The unpermitted costume contest in New York's Washington Square Park drew hundreds of onlookers—and a dispersal order from police.
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Oct 25, 2024
The post credit-scenes in Venom: The Last Dance hint at a future events that may never happen.
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Oct 25, 2024
The cat-and-mouse thriller sees its lead fight to survive after a serial killer injects her with a paralytic drug.
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Oct 25, 2024
The Venom films stand apart from other Spider-Man spinoffs by focusing on the true connection between its main characters
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Oct 25, 2024
The second season of Netflix's supernatural K-horror gives some real answers to its metaphysical machinations
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Oct 25, 2024
'Conclave' is a visually sumptuous movie with a somber undercurrent.
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Oct 25, 2024
The buzzy Vatican thriller chronicles how the election of a new pope turns into a fight for the soul of the modern-day Catholic Church.
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Oct 25, 2024
The film focuses on a Norwegian gamer who died at 25, only for his parents to discover he had a richer online life than they could have imagined.
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Oct 24, 2024
Billy Crystal's goofy Apple TV project is the year's most disappointing show—a psychological thriller that offers neither psychological insight nor thrills
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Oct 24, 2024
Lost in the cultural appropriation discourse of the 2025 Met Gala theme is the centering of a Black woman's scholarship.
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Oct 23, 2024
How the podcaster and author rose to the top by stating the obvious
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Oct 23, 2024
The HBO doc Breath of Fire explores the rise and sudden fall of Guru Jagat, a beloved and controversial Kundalini yoga teacher.
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Oct 23, 2024
The comedian, actor, and singer talks about ending her beloved HBO series, being honored by her hometown, and what's next.
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Oct 23, 2024
People who knew Arthur Leigh Allen as children say he confessed, drugged them, and brought them to the sites of Zodiac killer murders.
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Oct 22, 2024
Hasan Minhaj's new special finds the comedian relaxed, confident, and ready to move forward
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Oct 21, 2024
From 'The Simpsons' to 'Bob's Burgers' to — naturally — 'The Twilight Zone'
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Oct 21, 2024
The former One Direction member, who died last week at 31, lived a life defined by the internet and its evolving relationship to fandom.
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Oct 18, 2024
From 'Dracula' to 'Blade' to 'Hotel Transylvania' these are the 25 greatest vampire movies
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Oct 18, 2024
'Fanatical' documents a catfishing scam that haunted Tegan and Sara for more than a decade.
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Oct 18, 2024
The superior horror sequel centers on Naomi Scott's Skye Riley, a global pop sensation who contracts the franchise's smile-fueled curse.
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Oct 18, 2024
From 'Pearl' to 'Psycho' to 'The Babadook,' here are the scariest and most entertaining horror movies available to stream on Netflix.
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Oct 18, 2024
Director Titus Kaphar and actor André Holland on their new film about family, fathers, and the limits of forgiveness.
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Oct 18, 2024
Anna Kendrick's directorial debut dramatizes the story of Rodney Alcala, who appeared on 'The Dating Game' in the midst of a killing spree.
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Oct 18, 2024
Sean Baker's new movie views the south Brooklyn Russian immigrant neighborhood through a tender lens.
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Oct 18, 2024
Mark Eydelshteyn and Yura Borisov on their breakout roles in the beloved indie filmmaker's latest.
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Oct 18, 2024
Peacock's fun, insightful, occasionally scary horror series follows a teen metal band during the height of the satanic panic
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Oct 17, 2024
Her entertainment career spanned eight decades across film, television and the stage.
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Oct 17, 2024
The death of Liam Payne, a member of the internationally-renowned British boy band One Direction, at 31 has sent a wave of grief worldwide.
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Oct 16, 2024
Former One Direction singer Liam Payne, 31, was found dead after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on Wednesday
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Oct 16, 2024
A woman recalls being catfished in the Netflix documentary Sweet Bobby
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Oct 15, 2024
Lois Riess opens up about killing her husband in the HBO documentary 'I Am Not a Monster.'
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Oct 15, 2024
A Peacock documentary delves into the lies of Elisabeth Finch, a writer for Grey's Anatomy who pretended to have cancer.
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Oct 14, 2024
The FX comedy's season finale reaffirms the messy, modern, and authentic queer relationship at the core of the series.
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Oct 14, 2024
At least six lawsuits were filed against Combs in federal court in Manhattan, adding to a growing list of legal claims against the indicted hip-hop mogul, all of which he has denied.
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