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The Challenge has always understood that scenery is most useful when it can also make the contestants miserable. Season 42, titled The Challenge: Cutthroat, doubles down on that principle. Twenty-four veterans and newcomers are split into three teams, but collective survival comes with an individual temptation: the winning captain controls how the $500,000 prize is…
By the time Jackie Howard returns to Silver Falls in Season 3, the Colorado town no longer feels like the refuge she entered after losing her family. It has become the place where she rebuilt herself, complicated two brothers’ lives and found a community she may not be ready to leave. The season resumes after…
My Life with the Walter Boys returns for Season 3 with Jackie Howard facing a problem that refuses to become simpler: two Walter brothers love her, she has feelings for both, and the family around them is dealing with a crisis much larger than teenage romance. The new season, released on Netflix on August 6,…
The Challenge: Cutthroat wastes little time pretending its three-team format will create unity. The season 42 premiere divides 24 competitors into Blue, Orange, and Gray, gives each group a captain, then immediately introduces rules designed to make those leaders unpopular. That is the real promise of Cutthroat. Winning challenges matters, but so does surviving the…
One Hundred Years of Solitude gives most members of the Buendía family difficult, lonely, or violent endings. Remedios the Beauty is the exception. Her final scene does not show a conventional death. On an otherwise ordinary afternoon, Remedios rises into the sky and disappears from Macondo. The moment is peaceful, strange, and deliberately unlike the…
The disturbing phone call at the end of The Shards premiere suggested that the Trawler had begun moving closer to Bret’s life. Episode 2, “Don’t You Want Me,” confirms something worse. The killer, or whoever is imitating him, has found the relationship Bret is most desperate to conceal. Matt Kellner disappears after receiving anonymous calls…
The Shards does not gently introduce viewers to Bret Easton Ellis’ version of 1981 Los Angeles. It opens with teenage Bret becoming transfixed by a beautiful stranger during a screening of The Shining, follows that encounter with the brutal murder of a young woman, and then spends the rest of the premiere bringing those two…
Macondo was born as an act of imagination, but the second half of One Hundred Years of Solitude asks what happens when the outside world finally reaches it. The railway brings commerce and strangers. Fernanda del Carpio introduces a colder order into the Buendía home. The banana company promises prosperity, then reveals the violence beneath…
By the time the rain begins swallowing Macondo, the town has already survived enough history for several lifetimes. War has exhausted it. The railroad has connected it to the wider world, only for that connection to invite exploitation. The banana company has transformed progress into something much uglier. Meanwhile, the Buendías continue repeating the emotional…
Few television finales felt as settled as Ted Lasso Season 3. Ted returned to the United States, AFC Richmond carried on without him, and the coach appeared ready to build a quieter life around his son. Season 4 reopens that ending with a new assignment. Ted heads back to England to manage Richmond’s second-division women’s…
Annie Jacobson arrives at Sterling Point looking for answers about her dead mother, not a boyfriend. Romance is barely on her summer agenda. She already has Oliver back in New York, even if their relationship has quietly become an arrangement neither of them believes in. Then Rory offers Annie the excitement of a proper summer…
Sterling Point never treats Ramona’s feelings for Oona as a mystery. The uncertainty comes from whether those feelings can survive being returned. Ramona has spent years loving her best friend while quietly assuming that friendship is the most she will ever get. Oona, meanwhile, moves through brief romances with the confidence of someone who knows…
