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This post contains mild spoilers for Euphoria, but only for Kat’s storyline. Promise. The premise for Euphoria feels like any other teen show: an ensemble of characters from varying cliques (popular girls, jocks and weirdos included) all attempt to navigate adolescence, participating in parties and prom nights whilst still trying to make their grades. But there’s a depth to this show that sets it apart from the rest. Created by Sam Levinson (Assassination Nation) and starring Zendaya (most recently seen in Spider-Man: Far From Home), Euphoria is a depiction of what it’s like to be a teenager right now - at least, that’s what it feels like to me, at the grand old (irrelevant) age of 26.

FBoy? F, Hi. Again! After being unceremoniously axed by MAX in 2022, our favorite, innovative reality dating show has made a moderately triumphant comeback. “FBoy Island,” a show from the creative brain of former “Bachelor” EP Elan Gale, just wrapped up its third season on The CW, and boy do we have thoughts. First, there’s the good. We’ve been “FBoy Island” devotees since its first season in 2021. Instead of prioritizing constructed drama, “FBoy Island” prioritizes comedy and narrative.

Steve Perrault is a well known media presence in the Boston sports space. The former co-host of the well known Section 10 Podcast with Jared Carrabis and Coley Mick, is now the proud founder and co-host of the popular “Inside The Monster” podcast with Joey Copponi. Perrault is recognized among Sox fans for his authentic and optimistic outlook on the team and supports all the Boston area teams. You might find him at the Garden cheering on Jayson Tatum and David Pastrnak or at Gillette Stadium hoping for a Pats win, but it’s safest to say that when it’s mid-August and the Sox are in the middle of a playoff run, he is going be at Fenway… even if it’s in a Reese’s costume.

My family and I lived in Chicago for a year while my father was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. We lived in university housing on the South Side after moving from lily-white North Dallas to a neighborhood where the local elementary school was 70% Black. To say it was a culture shock is a understatement. In our neighborhood in Madison Park, since gentrified, it was not unusual to hear gunfire at night.

‘Girl, Woman, Other’ is a novel without capital letters to start sentences and no periods to end them. There are no quotes to indicate when someone is speaking. Sentence fragments, even single words, are sometimes stacked for effect and you know what? Although it takes some getting used to, it works. In fact, it’s brilliant. At first, I thought it was a gimmick. But I realized that Bernardine Evaristo’s style choice might be meant to demonstrate how many things we accept as society’s rules are arbitrary.

Legendary and Warner Bros. Discovery’s Godzilla x Kong entered its second weekend with $103 million domestic. It took a week to pass the unadjusted $100 million domestic total of Godzilla Vs. Kong. So, yeah, I’m thinking The New Empire is a breakout sequel. Moreover, as it likely crosses $300 million worldwide this weekend, Godzilla x Kong is a breakout sequel to Godzilla Vs. Kong ($471 million in 2021), which itself was a well-received follow-up to a film (Godzilla: King of the Monsters) that was enough of a flop ($390 million in 2019) that it should have killed the series.

As the 15th overall pick in the NHL draft approached in 1977, the man who drafted Mike Bossy had a vexing decision to make. With projected NHL stars Dale McCourt and Barry Beck long gone, the New York Islanders were undecided over two players. One of them was Bossy, a scoring machine from the Laval National of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League whose defensive misgivings were the biggest reason for his drop to the bottom of the first round.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Dir. James Gunn 150 min. In 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy offered the best proof yet that the Marvel Cinematic Universe experiment was going even better than anyone could have predicted. A team of galactic misfits, the Guardians had existed in Marvel Comics in various configurations for decades, largely on the fringes. (Show me someone who could pick Groot or Gamora out of a lineup in 2013 and I’ll show you someone with a box of comics in mylar bags.

It’s so strange to wake up on the other side of the ocean, enjoying the odd quiet of the morning in a big city, while everybody back home is sleeping. Matt and I are living this summer near the heart of Vienna, yet there is a tranquility to this city that is kind of mysterious. Maybe it’s because the Austrians are stereoty… ncG1vNJzZmiqn5mxs7HHnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wtMCpp7Jlkah6onnLmqmkZZGjsW7DyK2fqK2kYq5ur8Snqw%3D%3D