Television
Is the Gang Still Worse Than Us?
Twenty-one years, a double-episode return tonight, and the one test that decides whether late Sunny still works. Plus the season to restart from if you bailed somewhere in the middle.
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns tonight with two episodes, and the number attached to them is faintly absurd: eighteen. Ten in total, weekly through October 12, on FXX, FX and Hulu. The show started in 2005. No live-action sitcom…
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Immortal Rose
BOOK · Alexandra Bracken's perfume-magic fantasy
Wed
19
Lucky
TV · Anya Taylor-Joy's con-artist finale on Apple TV
Fri
21
Weezer, The Gold Album
MUSIC · Twentieth album, cut live with no click track
Fri
21
Sam Smith, Hazel Eyes
MUSIC · A new album written as an ode to New York
Cover Story / The Long Read
What happened to the cast of Twin Peaks? Where the stars of David Lynch's small-town nightmare are now
Six of them get back on a bus next month. Twin Peaks: Conversation With the Stars, an expanded US tour announced on July 29, puts Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Michael Horse, Dana Ashbrook, Kimmy Robertson and Harry Goaz on stage…
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Movies
Insidious Has Been Haunting the Wrong Family
The sixth film opens this week with Lin Shaye back as Elise Rainier. Here is why she is the reason to buy a ticket, plus the three-film run-up that actually prepares you (it is not release order).
Games
The Sinking City 2 Is Survival Horror Now
Frogwares rebuilt the series as 1920s Arkham, combat and scarcity included. There is a free hour on Steam that settles whether that is your kind of Lovecraft.
Books
Does It Matter Who Wrote Daggermouth?
A self-published ebook is now number one in hardcover fiction and on four bestseller lists at once, with an unproven AI accusation following it around. Our verdict on both.
Music
Courtney Love says the album she wrote in and out of hospital is finally finished: 'I almost died'
Butch Walker, Will Sergeant, Billie Joe Armstrong and Melissa Auf Der Maur are on it. There is still no title and no release date, which is the part worth arguing about.
Games
Mortal Shell's Small Map Was the Point
A roughly 30-person studio follows a famously compact soulslike with an interconnected open world, at $49.99, this Thursday. It is the biggest game Playstack has ever funded, by an order of magnitude.
Movies
Mark Rydell directed the film that won Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn their Oscars, and it is not his best
On Golden Pond got the trophies and the reputation. The Rydell film we would actually put on came twelve years earlier.
Books
The Westeros Books That Actually End
Nine Emmy nominations went to a show adapted from short, self-contained novellas you could finish before the ceremony. Where to start, and what we make of the main series still sitting unfinished.
Television
Can Outer Banks Land Without JJ?
All ten episodes of the final season arrive in one night, and the show's most reckless Pogue is not in any of them. A catch-up plan sized to the time you have, plus an honest answer on whether to clear the weekend.
Cross-media
Anne Rice Left the Setlist Blank
Sam Reid fronted a live band in character as Lestat for 2,900 people at the Beacon Theatre, playing original songs by series composer Daniel Hart. The recording of the concert Rice imagined in 1985 lands on AMC+ this Sunday.
Cross-media
The Best Stephen King Movie Has No Monster
Forty years on, here is the case for it, plus a read-then-watch order built on the novel that is climbing our books chart right now.
Cross-media
Five Books Jumped Fifteen Places This Week
A 1955 science fiction novel, a Discworld entry and a Stephen King all moved hard on our books chart. Over on the movies chart, the biggest mover of the week barely registered.
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