Everything we canât stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in pop culture.
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- While I eat 47 slices of pie on this holiday, my Daily Beastâs Obsessed and entertainment team colleagues have graciously stepped in to offer their picks for the pop culture theyâre most grateful for this year. I am also very thankful for them. Happy Thanksgiving! My Daytime Girls I donât know if I would have made it through this year without my best friends, [Kelly Clarkson]( and [Drew Barrymore](. I remember when both of their daytime talk shows were announced. As much as I love them both, they seemed like random choices as hosts. I should never have doubted them. Clarksonâs âKellyokeâ performances are like little hugs from God every day, and her enthusiasm with her guests is infectious. On Barrymoreâs show, meanwhile, I rarely have any idea whatâs going on. Itâs all so silly, and yet shockingly emotional. Itâs the kind of well-intentioned chaos thatâs fitting for our time. - Kevin Fallon Trying I admittedly did not start watching the first season of this delightfully sweet and upliftingâand yet still somehow laugh-out-loud hilariousâBritish comedy until the third season was premiering on Apple TV+ (thanks to a [recommendation from Obsessedâs Kevin Fallon](). But once I did, I couldnât stop, mostly because it was such a calming respite from the horrors happening elsewhere on TV and in the real world. As a messy couple trying to get their act together enough to adopt a child (or two!), Rafe Spall and Esther Smith are pitch-perfect in their roles. But the biggest joy is seeing Imelda Staunton get the chance to be a much fuller human as their relentlessly optimistic adoption agent Penny than she ever gets to be as the Queen in season five of The Crown. - Matt Wilstein Jackass Forever 2022 has provided few avenues of escape from horrible news, so it was with great joy that we were able to welcome Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of pranksters back into our lives [courtesy of Jackass Forever](, the fourth installment in the troupeâs long-running franchise-du-inanity. A joint production between Knoxville and his old-guard buddies and a new generation of injury-courting daredevils, director Jeff Tremaineâs sequel didnât try to break new ground or forward any socio-political agenda. Instead, it simply reveledâas beforeâin the sheer, unadulterated recklessness and absurdity of its cast of characters, who risked life, limb and valuable private parts in comedy bits that were as mad as they were hilarious. The Theater of Cruelty has rarely been this disgusting, demented and deliriously entertaining. - Nick Schager The Garvey Sisters from Bad Sisters Bad Sisters is the most [underrated delight of the year](. For all of us only children, Sharon Horganâs black comedy excelled at making us all jealous of the loving bond between siblingsâespecially when they come together to take down the worst in-law of all time. This holiday season, Iâll be longing for Christmas with the Garvey sisters, gossiping about the recently-deceased Prick while having healthy pours of red wine. If youâre struggling to stay cheery with a tricky relative while visiting home for the holidays, Bad Sisters will remedy that by giving you the best advice of all: Just kill them! Easy, peasy. Gather your four smartest family members and murder the black sheep of the family. Itâs not that hard, right? - Fletcher Peters Chris Pine Rolling His Eyes Through Venice Film Festival Has anyone captured ennui quite like Chris Pine sleepwalking through [Donât Worry Darlingâs press circuit]( at the Venice Film Festival? They have not. It started with those photos of him snoozing and rolling his eyes toward the sun while wearing a headset and looking like a delegate to the UN. It peaked with spit-gate, in which the world looked at videos and photos of his [acting-challenged co-star]( sitting next to him and (maybe? possibly? most definitely not, actually?) spitting on him. What was Chris Pine thinking through all this? âGet me out of here,â perhaps? âYes, worry, darlingâ? If quiet quitting is the trend of 2022, Chris Pine is its best mascot. - Laura Bradley The Vow Season 2 At this point, the NXIVM story has been swallowed, digested and nearly expelledâonly to be regurgitated at the last minuteâby premium networks in search of an unchewed morsel in the pile of ejecta that was âExecutive Success Programsâ and its related groups. There was last yearâs incessant trial coverage of cult leader Keith Reniere, who was eventually sentenced to 120 years in prison for running a sex cult masquerading as a life/business/volleyball coaching service. There was a Showtime show, I guess. And now thereâs [Season 2 of The Vow](, which manages to excavate new lows of human behavior. We learn about a woman in her early 20s who was brainwashed into staying in a room for two years as âpunishmentâ for kissing a man other than Reniere. She did it, even though the door was unlocked the whole time. How terrible. And then I watch the next episode. - Adam Manno Britney Spearsâ Full Year of Freedom I know some haters and conspiracy theorists and body shamers will keep arguing that Britney Spearsâ social media presence is too weird, too unstable, and too messy to believe everythingâs OK in her world. Who knows if thatâs true, but as a forever Britney fan, Iâm choosing to celebrate the wins from her full year as a free woman following the end of her 13-year conservatorship last November. She got married this year! She scored a book deal this year! She danced to one of her best deep cuts, âGet Naked,â this year! And, for heavenâs sake, she released new music this year ([âHold Me Closerâ with Elton John](, which is her highest-charting single in a decade)! May 2023 be even better and brighter for Britâshe deserves it. - Madeline Roth The Bonafide Lohanaissance Exactly 10 years ago, those of us who grew up falling in love with the onscreen charms of Lindsay Lohan were strapping in for her her latest film. It was a little Lifetime network stinker called Liz & Dick that premiered the Sunday after Thanksgiving 2012. There was a point when we all genuinely thought it was due to be her major comeback after years of public-facing personal and legal woes. Needless to say, it was merely [an awful campsterpiece](. We watched Lohan attempt this again and again through the years, her reascension never quite taking off because of her proclivity to get in her own way. But after stepping away from the public eye in 2019, Lohan made a [genuine return with Falling for Christmas](. It might be a cheesy Netflix film, but its press tourâwith Lohan looking healthy, happy, and serving look after designer look styled by celeb stylist Law Roachâwas the holiday miracle weâve (OK, maybe just me) been waiting on for a decade. - Coleman Spilde âLavender Hazeâ by Taylor Swift Call me basic! Iâm grateful for one of the most popular songs on the most popular album on the planet right now, [Midnights](. Iâm slightly embarrassed that âLavender Hazeâ is my favorite track on the albumâwhich I believe has 57 songs in totalâgiven that itâs the first song. It makes it seem like I havenât listened to the entire LP multiple times. But something about the distorted ad libs, Swiftâs subtly impressive vocal performance, and the way the song pulsates makes me return to it more than either other track. The lyrics âget it off your chest/get it off my deskâ also enter my brain randomly at least three times a day. Despite some of the flack she receives, I love the sound of hip hop/R&B-influenced, Reputation-era Taylor Swift, and I hope she sticks to it for the next four albums. - Kyndall Cunningham [Obsess over it!]( [See This] - Welcome to Chippendales: A wilder story than youâd expect! (Now on Hulu) - Gossip Girl: Donât make fun of me, but I actually like this reboot. (Thurs. on HBO Max) - Bones and All: Timothée Chalamet is a very sexy cannibal. (Now in theaters) [Skip This] - Wednesday: Just watch Addams Family Values instead. (Now on Netflix) - Williow: Yet another disappointing revival. (Wed. on Disney+) Like our take on what to watch?
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