It’s Time for The Traitors US to Ditch the Celebrity Cast
Peacock’s version of The Traitors would work so much better if it took a cue from its international counterparts: ditch the celebs.
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Ty Segall Gets Back to Boundless Exploration on Three Bells
The California garage rock giant’s new album arrives all over the musical map.
The Secrets Against Me! Left Us To Follow
For the 10th anniversary of ‘Transgender Dysphoria Blues,’ Niko Stratis pens a love letter to Against Me!’s ‘Searching For a Former Clarity.’
It’s a Bittersweet 25th Anniversary for the Shared Star of She’s All That and Varsity Blues
Paul Walker was not a teenager in 1999. He had already been alive for a quarter-century. I was a teenager (albeit just barely), and I didn’t care for Walker at all, to the extent that I was even aware of him. He blended into a sea of attractive preps – plus I didn’t see Varsity Blues in a movie theater. I became more aware of Walker a couple of years later, as many did, when he made The Fast and the Furious – playing an adult by that point, but no less of a youth-culture sex symbol.
Dakota Johnson Is Too Placid To Bring SNL to a Boil
Johnson is resolutely low key in a format that sort of needs visible engagement.