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Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 2:47 pm
Stranger Things: Tales From '85 season 2 review — what happens when Hawkins meets its first-ever ghosts
Hawkins, Indiana cannot have one normal holiday. Not Halloween, not Christmas, and — as of season 2 of Netflix's animated spinoff, all eight episodes of which dropped today — definitely not Valentine's Day.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
September 17, 2026 2:40 pm
Debby Ryan says her fifth concussion took six months out of her life, and some things never came back
Ryan told a YouTube food show that a brain injury took six months out of her life and six more in neurological rehab, and that some things never came back. The episode went up on Monday. It took about 51 hours for anyone to notice what was in it.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 2:24 pm
Why Judge Judy is retiring as Judy Justice ends — her 30th anniversary special airs first
Judith Sheindlin has spent three decades telling grown adults to stop talking, and now she's telling television itself to stop talking. On the literal 30th anniversary of the day Judge Judy first aired — September 16, 1996, for those of us who were home sick from school a lot — she went on Good Morning America and announced she's done.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 2:02 pm
The Traitors: New Blood premiere tonight — what to expect when 60,000 applicants boil down to 22 strangers in the castle
Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, NBC hands Alan Cumming's Scottish castle over to people you have never seen on television before, and I could not be more ready.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 1:37 pm
Why Kit Harington joined Harry Potter as Lockhart amid backlash, explained
Kit Harington knows nothing, except apparently every word of the Harry Potter audiobooks, which he confessed to using as a nightly sleep aid on national television this week.
Daniel Okafor
September 17, 2026 1:14 pm
Netflix's Monster returned with the one subject in four seasons that a jury acquitted
Ian Brennan's anthology has spent four seasons on men the courts convicted. This one is about a woman a jury let go in 1893 — and the show's own synopsis says she did it anyway. The first reviews arrived an hour apart and could not agree on what they had watched.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 1:14 pm
Reacher season 5 character update: Kathleen Robertson on whether Elspeth returns for Make Me
Reacher season 4 wrapped this week the way all Reacher seasons wrap: our giant boy wins, buys a fresh toothbrush, and walks off toward the horizon like a Roomba with abs.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 12:26 pm
DWTS season 35 night 2 elimination results: Maura Higgins tops the board — a Traitors reunion did half the work
The women of DWTS season 35 finally got their turn Wednesday night, dancing to No. 1 hits from the year they were born, which is a theme designed specifically to make me feel ancient.
Hannah Whitlock
September 17, 2026 12:19 pm
Who pays for the renovations on Kitchen Nightmares? An executive producer has settled it on the record
Every episode of Kitchen Nightmares runs on the same beautiful arc: Gordon Ramsay finds a walk-in fridge that violates the Geneva Conventions, screams in a way that should be studied by linguists, and then — overnight, somehow — the entire restaurant is reborn with new decor, new equipment, and a menu that no longer causes food poisoning.
Hannah Whitlock
September 17, 2026 10:47 am
Who is Kat in MobLand? Janet McTeer's power broker whose single phone call halts a cartel execution
MobLand spent seven episodes convincing me the Harrigans were the apex predators of London — Pierce Brosnan glowering, Helen Mirren scheming, Tom Hardy's Harry Da Souza fixing everything short of the weather. Then episode 7, "The Crossroads," happened, and the show casually revealed that all of these terrifying people are, on the global org chart, middle management.