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[Jason Derulo Says Meow The musician was looking for his first movie. Then Cats called.](
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[What Rob Corddry Can’t Live Without The pencils, mints, smartwatch, and four other things that actor and comedian Rob Corddry swears by.](
[I Hated the New Star Wars, So I Talked to My Rabbi About It My spiritual guide was a big fan of The Rise of Skywalker and had wisdom to bestow.](
By Abraham Riesman
[The Witcher Recap: Do You Believe in Magic? While Geralt is on a fun little adventure with an obnoxious but charming new friend, a parallel plot introduces us to the young sorceress Yennefer.](
By Scott Meslow
[Lana Del Rey’s ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell’ Video Is Actually a 15-Minute Film And it’s got three songs for the price of one.](
By Jordan Crucchiola
[Darlene Love Declares The View Her New (Baby Please Come) Home After NBC Snub She performed with Jason Derulo.](
By Zoe Haylock
[The Perfect Star Wars Gift for Every Room of the House 101 semi-essential basics (or however else you’d classify a BB-8 nutcracker).](
By Dan Reilly
[5 Ways The Rise of Skywalker Reverses Course From The Last Jedi Well, no one would accuse the Star Wars sequel trilogy of being overly mapped out from the start.](
By Alison Willmore
[How Watchmen Built Out Its Universe With Peteypedia Loremaster Jeff Jensen walks us through the show’s supplementary materials, from the Doctor Manhattan dildo to Lube Man’s identity.](
By Jackson McHenry
[Jon Millstein Had to Face His Skinny-Arm Demons “I love 280-character Twitter and will use every letter because I don’t know how to make short pithy observations that are good.”](
By Taylor Garron
[10 Things You Won’t See in The Witcher Netflix doesn’t want us talking about what happens in The Witcher, so here’s some stuff that definitely doesn’t happen in The Witcher.](
[When Keri Russell Won a Golden Globe for Felicity, Awards Shows Got Interesting The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is known for rewarding absolutely bananas television, but in 1998, the decision felt right.](
By Joe Reid
[Jennifer Hudson Shines As Aretha Franklin in the Respect Teaser What you need? You know she’s got it.](
By Zoe Haylock
[Deck the Halls With Kellyoke! Here’s Every Kelly Clarkson Show Christmas Song ‘Twas the week before Christmas, and all through TV Kelly Clarkson was sleigh-ing on Kellyoke.](
By Rebecca Alter
[The Best Part of Ronny Chieng’s Netflix Comedy Special There’s some painful history in Asian Comedian Destroys America!, but it only makes the jokes land harder.](
By Elisabeth Sherman
[Every StarWars Creature, Ranked by Cuteness From Ewoks to Babu Frick — and, yes, Baby Yoda.](
By Carrie Wittmer
[The 15 Best TV Holiday Specials on Disney+ Vintage Simpsons, Mickey Mouse classics, Aaron Carter cameos, and more.](
By Eric Vilas-Boas
[How Much Has TV Really Changed in This Decade? The 2010s were a transformative time for television, except for all the stuff that hasn’t changed at all.](
By Jen Chaney
[Gugu Mbatha-Raw on The Morning Show’s Finale Shocker “What I appreciated was that they went for the gray area. They didn’t try and oversimplify it.”](
By Maria Elena Fernandez
[Lizzo Is As Excited for Eddie Murphy’s SNL Episode As You Are “Sexual Chocolate! Sexual Chocolate!”](
By Megh Wright
[All the Easter Eggs and Hidden References in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker From a punctuation mark we don’t often see to a John Williams tune we don’t often hear.](
By Ryan Britt
[The Best Horror Movies of 2019 Let’s dance with the devil and eat the rich.](
By Jordan Crucchiola
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