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The most brutal moment of Physical: 100 plays out in episode three during a one-on-one wrestling match between male MMA fighter Park Hyung-geun and female bodybuilder Kim Chun-ri, whom Park hand-picked for a match with the strategy of easily beating a weaker opponent. Park decides his go-to move throughout the three-minute round will be kneeling on Kim’s stomach and solar plexus so she can’t move or breathe. It’s the type of savagery you’d expect from a show that borrows from the aesthetic of Squid Game to imply life-or-death stakes — and it’s a complete vibe shift from every other match-up of the competition so far, which have been soundtracked by cheers of encouragement from the other players. [Read More]

Annie Baker at the opening night party for John. See all 59 Reasons You couldn’t write an argument for optimism about New York theater without invoking Annie Baker, who, at 34, is practically a metonym for the best of her Off Broadway generation: creators making a life, if not quite a living, by redefining what it means to be innovative (and successful) in the medium. Setting her earliest plays in fictional Shirley, Vermont, a liberal college town not unlike her hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts, she really broke through in 2009 with Circle Mirror Transformation, which was built around a series of goofy theater exercises, shared an Obie with another Baker show, The Aliens, and went on to become the country’s second most-produced play of 2010. [Read More]

The original. The power of nostalgia has compelled Pottery Barn to curate a kitschy collection of Friends items for your home, which, besides eternally celebrating our beloved sextet, was created to ring in the show’s 25th (!) anniversary this fall. Between the reasonably priced mugs and throw pillows, though, is an item that only the 0.1 percent of Friends fanatics would even dare flirt with: It’s the apothecary table made famous in a season-six episode, where Rachel tries to conceal her new table’s origins from noted Big Furniture hater, Phoebe. [Read More]

It’s been ages since the last blockbuster narrative show. What does that mean for the medium as an art form? Animation: Melanie Lambrick This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. One Monday this September, a judge in Baltimore reminded earbud-owning citizens that podcasting was once powerful. Her ruling — vacating the conviction of a man accused of murdering his former high-school girlfriend — could be traced directly to the 2014 smash hit Serial, which brought the cold case to increasingly feverish national attention in weekly installments. [Read More]

At the start of the show’s fifth season, Porsha Williams waltzed onto The Real Housewives of Atlanta with two left feet. In the midst of a contentious marriage, she struggled to find her voice among the other women, and Williams herself thought she was going to be a one-season-and-done cast member. However, after avoiding the chopping block and thriving over more than eight years on the show, she became an undeniable fan favorite, most notably in her final season when she followed in the footsteps of her late grandfather, civil rights activist Hosea Williams, and put herself on the front lines of the Black Lives Matter movement. [Read More]

Power Don’t Go Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Power Don’t Go Season 3 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Joseph Sikora as Tommy, Omari Hardwick as Ghost. We’ve officially reached the point where everyone is stuck. In “Don’t Go,” almost all the characters have their (figurative) balls caught in a vicelike grip. [Read More]

NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 19: Actress Rachel Dratch attends the 2012 Writers Guild East Coast Awards at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill on February 19, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images) Rachel Dratch has joined the cast of the pilot for Lady Friends, a multicamera comedy for NBC, TV Guide reports. The show, from The New Adventures of Old Christine creator Kari Lizer, is about two besties — one successful and perfect (Better Off Ted’s Andrea Anders), the other less so — whose lives change when one gets married. [Read More]

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Every Martin Scorsese Movie, RankedAs Killers of the Flower Moon rises, we look back at the director’s highs and lows.

By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch

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the pains of castamere June 3, 2013

Dread vs. Shock: The Two Red Wedding ReactionsGame of Thrones viewers had very different experiences, depending on whether or not they knew where the episode was going.

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If you’re looking for prayers, Ramy Youssef is the guy to call. At least among his friends, as he explained during his debut Saturday Night Live monologue, who typically turn to him when in need. “They call me when they’re in trouble because they want me to pray for them,” he said, before recounting two separate phone calls he got within an hour from friends asking for prayers. [Read More]