LiberationIs the Best Play I’ve Seen This Season

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Why arent we all talking more about Bess Wohl? Its a chancy move. Is everyone is everyone good? … How long is this going to take, right? Could this whole thing become a diary reading? I am here with you, in the present. Hi, Flood says, with just a hint of sheepishness. And I want to bring back some things that happened in the past....

February 20, 2025 · 2 min · 323 words · Candace Jenkins

Martin Scorsese and Dwayne Johnson Team Up on Hawaiian Mob Flick

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Youve heard ofBeetlejuice Goes Hawaiian,but the mafia? And DiCaprio knows Scorsese fromsome stuff they didtogether a while back, too. Sources Related Tags:

February 20, 2025 · 1 min · 37 words · Thomas Cardenas

MatlockRecap: Kramer vs. Kramer

Matlock Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. No, this series isnt as ripe with moral ambiguity as some antihero-driven prestige drama. Thats not really a knock, though. The rug pull was wholly intentional and, Ill argue, thematically on point. Lets start with the client, who is an easy one to root for. Paloma Deleon (Greta Quispe) is a Mexican immigrant who helps other immigrants attain small-business licenses....

February 20, 2025 · 2 min · 362 words · Lisa Sanchez

Monopolies and murder

Instead, the bulk of the note talks about thesizeofUnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare. (Mangione has pleaded not guilty to the shooting.) Though the manifesto gets some facts wrong UnitedHealth actually stood at No. Despite a century of antitrust legislation and litigation, American business is bigger than ever. Of course, companies consolidate for all sorts of reasons. For one, size allows them to take advantage of economies of scale....

February 20, 2025 · 2 min · 258 words · Lisa Harrington

Not Now,Zero Day

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Zero Dayis a show meant for an era that did not come to pass after November 5, 2024. The American-exceptionalism Kool-Aid, its flowing! Mullen is beginning to see people who arent there. He keeps hearing the Sex Pistols song Who Killed Bambi? at an excruciatingly loud volume. America, hoo-rah, etc. Like so many other neoliberal political series cough,The Diplomat theres also a ton of wish fulfillment here....

February 20, 2025 · 1 min · 144 words · David Lopez

Olivia Munn Wouldn’t Sign a NDA for a $1 Million Settlement

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. On Monica LewinskysReclaimingpodcast, Munn said shed been on a very traumatic movie set around 2017. But it came along with an NDA. I said, Im not signing an NDA. And they said, You have to. And I just felt that it was so wrong, she said. Munn was one of Brett Ratners accusersin 2017, claiming he masturbated in front of her in 2004....

February 20, 2025 · 1 min · 95 words · Anthony Gentry

ReacherRecap: All It’s Cracked Up to Be

Reacher Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. As he drives, Duke asks Reacher what he and Angel discussed at the warehouse. Reacher, his right hand still stained with Angels blood, plays dumb. Reacher cant figure out why. Duke summons Reacher to speak with Beck again. Reachers instinct is to arm himself for this meeting, but the kitchen knives are out of reach....

February 20, 2025 · 3 min · 569 words · Andrew Jenkins

ReacherRecap: The Seventh Sense

Reacher Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Much of this is down to the formal necessity that comes with translating a first-person novel to the screen. On TV, its just a phone, which means Reacher is yapping away all the damn time. Hes quick to puncture Duffys relief. Duffy bursts in and starts beating the man, demanding to know where Beck is keeping Teresa....

February 20, 2025 · 4 min · 689 words · William Nielsen

ReacherSeason-Premiere Recap: No Small Ask

Reacher Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Everything about the lengthy cold open of Persuader, the first episode ofReachers third season, feels off. Were in Abbottsville, Maine, a town that looks as charming as it is fictional. Havenhurst University, the (presumably) liberal-arts institution that anchors the town, is made up, too. Rushmoresize back, is hawkingvinyl? Theres a story reason for this, then theres the real reason:Reacheris ashow for dads....

February 20, 2025 · 3 min · 591 words · Martin Holloway

SoThe PittHas You Obsessed With Freedom House Ambulance. There’s a Doc for That.

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The 30-minute documentary from PBS-member-station WQED Pittsburgh was released in 2023 and isavailable on YouTube. He died weeks later.) One Hill District resident, Mitchell J. Brown, talks about police dismissing his passed-out mother as drunk. Until, perhaps inevitably, Pittsburghs white, wealthy, and powerful residents took notice. More From This Series Tags:

February 20, 2025 · 1 min · 66 words · Hunter Frederick DVM

Southern CharmRecap: That Shep Has Sailed

Southern Charm Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. And how many times will Madison (rightfully) gloat? How many times will Taylor giggle under her breath that Shep is finally getting the karma he deserves? How many times will Rodrigo and I make out in our speedos in the Bahamian sun? The episode starts with Shep and Sienna talking about their relationship in his suite....

February 20, 2025 · 3 min · 569 words · Janet Spears

The Name’s Bond. James ‘Amazon Echo’ Bond.

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Wilson, meanwhile, used his statement to announce a retirement from the franchise. She is currently producing a new adaptation ofChitty Chitty Bang Bangwith Amazon MGM, and she producedTillfor the studio. As to what Amazon will do with the franchise, theres no way to officially know. But a new Bond may be coming to a vodka martini near you soon....

February 20, 2025 · 1 min · 76 words · James Jackson

The PittRecap: Just One of Those Days

The Pitt Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Full disclosure, friends: I tried to avoid writing this recap for as long as possible. I avoided rewatching this episode for as long as possible. Now, you may read that and be like, Get a grip, woman. To which Id say, Hey! This episode is so traumatic, and I should get hazard pay for this job....

February 20, 2025 · 3 min · 560 words · Harold Walker