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Jess Watches // Wed 10 July // Day 286 Synopses & Favourite Scenes & Poll

Sunny (with B) 1x01 He's in Refrigerators

Living in Kyoto, Japan, Suzie's life is turned upside down after her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash; as consolation, she receives Sunny, a domestic robot made by her husband's electronics company.

I'm Mixxy, fumbling, trying to flirt with Rashida Jones. Sorry about your possibly dead husband. I have an ex-girlfriend whose strap game was 🥵🔥. Please don't leave. Was it something I said?

Land of Women (with mm) 1x04 Chapter 4

Hank and Kevin close in on Gala's whereabouts just as she makes a troubling discovery about the extent of Fred's misdeeds.

Fred is a p.o.s. Boohoo. Ignore him and concentrate on making new friends at the co-op. They'll warm up to her... eventually.

Abbott Elementary (with mum) 3x08 Panel

Ava and Gregory are invited to speak on a panel about public schools, while the other teachers must complete CPR training; Janine faces challenges securing district approval for her librarian extension program.

The basketball game cold open could've been the entire episode for me. Barb was just finding her rhythm.🏀

My Lady Jane (with L) 1x01 Who'll Be the Next in Line?

Lady Jane Grey has been betrothed against her will to her cousin, the king is coughing up blood and her best friend has flown the coop, literally.

Shiri Appleby's daughter and Andi Peters son star in the gayest, not actually gay??, first episode of a delightful, hilariously narrated, historical rewrite. (Jamie Babbit directed half the eps so that where the gay vibes were coming from 🤔)

The Legend of Korra (rw with L) 2x08 Beginnings Part 2

Korra delves deeper into the Avatar's past and realizes what she must do in order to restore balance between the physical and spirit worlds.

Steven Yeun was Wan? I should've turned the volume up bc I did not catch that smh 🤦‍♀️. The animation during the battle with Vaatu was breathtakingly beautiful, stunningly spectacular.

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Stays Krunchy in Milk Episode 550: Release Yo’ Delf

The first, and most likely last solo episode of SKiM. Tee goes it alone this week which of course means a shorter ep but we hope a still effective bit of podcasting. Tee shares tales of his birthday before saying goodbye to Frankie Beverly. The Eclipse brought some decent money to NE Ohio. In an all-Tee episode, he discusses good times at the Ohio BMV before we head to Reddit for some AITA before wrapping it up with the entertainment recommendations of the week. We’ll see you next time.

Thanks,

Team SKiM

Alternative Title – The Nutter Butter Hour II: The Buttering

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AITA for screaming at my father and his wife and refusing to stop until I said what I needed to?

AITA for telling my parents they owe my husband a real and heartfelt apology to my husband if they ever want to be invited to anything?

AITA for taking kids to dinner when my wife had left food out for them?

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Book Review: Sunny by Colin O'Sullivan

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Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Friday, and it’s time for another review. Today, I am reviewing Sunny by Colin O’Sullivan. Sunny was published in December 2023 by Mariner Books and is 288 pages long. The PlotSunny is a techno-thriller in which a young woman’s life is upturned when her young son and her husband are presumed dead after a catastrophic plane crash. At home, she is…

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Chris Evans Is PEOPLE's 2022 Sexiest Man Alive: 'My Mom Will Be So Happy'

If you were to tell a middle school-aged Chris Evans that he would one day be named PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive, "he'd be pumped!" the star tells the magazine in this week's cover story. "This would probably be the road to the cool table which I was not at."

Present-day Evans, 41, is still adjusting to the new title of PEOPLE's 2022 Sexiest Man Alive and having to talk about it, but he knows this news will delight at least one person: "My mom will be so happy," he says. "She's proud of everything I do but this is something she can really brag about."

It's a sunny fall day on a farm outside of Atlanta, Ga. where Evans is sitting in front of the fireplace in a quaint farmhouse. Although he appears to have fully understood this particular assignment, dressed in a cozy knit sweater and jeans, the Boston native would probably rather jump into said fireplace than talk about being sexy.

"This whole thing is tough to be interviewed about," he says with a laugh. "It feels like a weird form of humble bragging."

The Gray Man star is also bracing for some good-natured ribbing from his close friends.

"Really this will just be a point of bullying," he jokes. "It's ripe for harassment."

Regardless, his mom Lisa is delighted by the news. "I am not surprised at all," she tells PEOPLE. "Our family will be beside themselves."

Best known for playing the altruistic, self-sacrificing superhero Captain America in Marvel's multi-billion-dollar Avengers franchise, and as a devoted, photo-happy dog dad to Dodger, his boxer mix, on social media, Evans is far more comfortable talking about his career, which has been on fire for the last decade. This year alone, he starred in Pixar's Lightyear, Netflix's Gray Man and filmed three new movies, including 2023's Ghosted for AppleTV+ which he is also producing, and also still co-runs A Starting Point, the civic engagement platform he launched in 2020.

Now in his 40s, Evans is trying to prioritize a healthy work-life balance and spending as much time as possible at home and with his family in Boston.

"When it comes to seeking out the people I play it's more of an issue of where the movie shoots," he says. "I'm too old to be living out of a suitcase for six months and I've settled into a nicer phase where I'm just happy being at home."

He's also thinking a lot more about his future outside of acting — one that includes marriage and fatherhood.

"That's absolutely something I want," he says. Just don't expect him to talk much about that when it happens: "Some things you want just for you, or just for my family and my friends."

Twenty-two years into his career, Evans admits he's ready to slow down a bit.

"The most enjoyable aspect of my career right now is feeling secure enough to take my foot off the gas," he says. "I feel like I have a bit more freedom to take time away from the industry and still find projects that will satisfy my creative appetite when I return."

​And given all the time he's been spending in and around his hometown, what does he think is the sexiest thing about Boston?

"So much history there! I love the accent. To me, the accent is home," he says. "I love the weather. The seasons, the sports teams. But the sexiest thing about Boston... maybe our universities. We've got a lot of good schools. Let's give education a plug, that's damn sexy."

Just don't ask him to use the word "sexy" in a sentence about himself. And although he's not quite comfortable with it yet, years from now he'll look back on the title fondly.

"It's something that as I become old and saggy I can look back on and say 'I remember then…' " he says. "I'm lucky to be in the discussion in any capacity."

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The fraught experience of watching TV in a streaming entertainment economy.

I basically watch new TV with the expectation that current season I’m watching is going to be the last. That includes The Witcher Netflix, btw, but other shows, too. I get the feeling we’ve all sort of…come to this conclusion, right? We’re all so jaded because things get cancelled left and right. Nothing is safe. Nothing. :(

We all have to race to watch The Sandman or Shadow and Bone ASAP instead of enjoying a week-to-week drop. It’s exhausting. I don’t like feeling guilty when I don’t have the brain to watch things. I definitely have just streamed stuff in the background and watched it for real later, too.

Star Trek Prodigy on Paramount? Cancelled and pulled from the platform. People who purchased the rest of the season on Amazon never got the episodes because the rights were pulled. Star Trek is the flagship IP!!! And it STILL GOT CANCELLED. Even though it’s beautiful, and fucking brilliant and incredible television and had new episodes in the pipeline.

The other show I’m currently mourning is Moonhaven. I wrote about that show here. It was renewed for a second season! It’s an fascinating, atypical sci-fi TV premise with great leads and interesting worldbuilding and shooting locations in Ireland. And then AMC decided that they were not going to renew it. It’s similar what happened to Avenue 5 on HBO (Ave 5 was more of a Schroedinger’s Cancellation. It’s cancelled except maybe not? But it really is cancelled.)

A League of Their Own? Cancelled. Willow? Cancelled. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance? Sense8???? The list goes on and on. :(

I think for me it was in 2017 or 2018 that I really started internalizing this idea that none of my favorite, amazing shows were going to last. Santa Clarita Diet was axed by Netflix far too soon. Same with Altered Carbon. Those cancellations changed me, yeah…

I follow a lot of WGA writers on twitter and there’s been a lot of discussion happening about the Suits renaissance. Suits aired on the USA Network for 9 years with 16+ episodes/season. It’s been streaming on NBC’s Peacock platform for awhile and now has 8 seasons on Netflix. It’s currently the most-streamed show in Nielson’s history, something like over 2 billion minutes now. people are discovering it for the first time or coming back to it for a very happy rewatch.

This writer sums up the situation perfectly.

I also can’t track down the tweet where a writer was talking to a development executive at Peacock who admitted that they wouldn’t be able to get Suits made today.

Ugly Betty is another show that’s having a similar bump (thanks in part to Barbie, people catching up to how amazing America Ferrara is. Also watch Superstore!!) because people are looking for these longer shows that have character development and the longevity.

The only streaming platform I currently ‘trust’ with my vested TV interests is AppleTV. And I only trust them because I can see what kind of free reign they’re allowing their creatives to do with their shows. They’re specific and bold premises and commitment to characters and themes. Similar to Netflix in the early years. I doubt this will last much longer.

On Apple TV you’ve got incredible psychological thrillers like Severence and Silo happening. The musical comedy Schmiagdoon! too.

Ted Lasso got to have longer episodes and handed over showrunning duties to the lead actor with some questionable creative choices made in those seasons. It still got to complete the show on its own terms. Amazing.

Apple TV also has Mythic Quest which is a unique comedy in the streaming age.

It’s a workplace comedy about a fictionalized video game development company. Picture Ubisoft who also provides video game assets/interstitials for the show among other things. It’s Community meets Always Sunny in Philadelphia (features writers and actors from both). A comedy that examines toxic masculinity in a workplace, completely roasts the girlbloss tropes and the patriarchy. The main characters are really autistic and ADHD coded. The show is completely self-aware (at times painfully so).

But what sets Mythic Quest apart and what tells me Apple TV is letting creatives do their jobs: This show has Bottle Episodes! And flashback episodes that don’t feature any of the primary actors! But the episodes are still relevant to the the themes and character dynamics the show is exploring.

In a hyper-serialized streaming world where executives and product strategists are measuring engagement by minutes watched and how soon they watch, Apple TV is letting these folks make episodes you can watch out of order or skip. But they’re also episodes with high rewatchability. It’s a show with a ton of heart. Apple TV renews Mythic Quest ahead of a season premiere. It renews it for multiple seasons. I’ve found this commitment to the longevity of the show very heartening.

In the past I’ve fallen in love with shows that were irreverent, campy, self-aware comedies. All of these were ABC shows so I can’t even rail against the streaming model. But like Netflix shows they weren’t given enough time to reach a wider audience even though I think some of these definitely have Cult Acclaim by now. I showed up bright an early for most of these and my god. The cancellations stung so much. That pain just accumulated over the years. A precursor of what was to come. :(

Better Off Ted - 2009 show. Another workplace satire that was just ahead of it’s time in the way it showed us the gallows humor of being a cog in the capitalist system. Addressed sexism, racism and classism. Funny as hell. Portia di Rossi knew the fucking assignment and fucked its brains out with her performance. Maz Jobrani was only in like 5 or 6 episodes and he was SO GOOD. I made sure to see every local comedy show I could to see more of him once I saw him in Better off Ted. - currently streaming on Hulu

Galavant - 2014-2016 - a fantasy musical. Monty Python meets Princess Bride. Featuring creators and lyricists who worked on 90s Disney films. So fucking funny and cheeky and heartwarming and silly. The music is so GREAT. All my Witcher and Our Flag Meets Death friends need to check this one out if they need something new-to-them that is witty and light and heartfelt. - also streaming on Hulu

Don’t Trust the B— in Apt 23 - a 2012 show with Krysten Ritter!! Before she was Jessica Jones! This show has eccentric women characters and James van der Beek playing a fictionalized version of himself. This is a show that had so much potential and they aired everything out of order and and and and and and I loved it so much. - Hulu since this is again an ABC show. Vid Rec: Applause by elipie.

Selfie - JOHN CHO AND KAREN GILLAN! John Cho and Karen Gillan in a ROM COM. The screeching wails from fandom when this got cancelled. It was an amazing set-up, amazing chemistry. Funny, quirky. You could see the growth in both of the characters!! And! We Never! Got enough!! - seriously watch this on hulu if you can. John and Karen are AMAZING.

Every first season of Star Trek has been wobbly or had wobbily episodes that didn't work or actors were still getting to know their characters. Every first season. Including new Trek! The X-Files? Even rebooted again? I don’t think it would work. Heck, even if they made second reboot of Battlestar Galactica I’m not sure it’d last. FARSCAPE! Got cancelled! By SyFy! They (like Sense8 and Firefly and a few others) got to have a movie conclusion. But at what narrative cost?? The Expanse got cancelled and uncancelled. The Orville got cancelled and uncancelled. I can't get my hopes up about anything unless I know it's a "limited series" at the onset.

I'm exhausted and sad by the state of the industry. I hope the writers and actors get everything from the studios and we can see a shift back to the previous working models again. Better working conditions and pay and residuals.

So I'll eventually watch A League of Their Own and 1899 and I know I'm going to fucking love every moment that we got to have. And then mourn. And go dig up all the fanfic and vids and art that I can to get my fix.

I think for now I'm gonna join in the Suits rewatch cause I love the humor and the character growth and relationships are fantastic. I don't think I rewatched Suits or Ugly Betty since they aired.

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Okay, this is my first time doing this!

Tagged by @quackquackcey

Watching: Sunny on AppleTv (I love SciFi murder mysteries with cute robots), I mostly watch BLs, so the current list is long okay: on Gagaoolala I am watching: I Hear The Sunspot, 4-Minutes, Cosmetic Playlover, and Takara's Treasure, on Youtube: The Trainee and Battle of the Writers. In Kdrama: No Love, No Gain. And too many Isekai Anime but to name a few: Failure Frame, Reincarnated as Slime, No Longer Allowed in Another World, Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy yeah I am an unemployed person who is watching everything that comes their way!

Current obsession: Though I can't play video games, Stray, the Cat Game has kept my brain active.

Relationship status: Single since before the pandemic, how many years does that make it, 5? 6? I stopped counting.

Spicy/sweet/savoury: I am team sour! I love sour food, drinks and dessert! My family will have to pry the lemons out of my cold hands when I die! I love Sour!

The last song I listened to: Strawberry by Bump of Chicken

Tagging but don't feel like you have to, I am tagging you all because I talk the most with you all on Tumblr thehehehe: @lutorao, @minniiaa @n-moonbreeze and @1010ninetynine

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Rashida Jones on ‘Sunny’ and the Challenge of Guiding the Audience

NOC Interview: Rashida Jones on ‘Sunny’ and the Challenge of Guiding the Audience @iamrashidajones @AppleTV @A24 #Sunny

Rashida Jones portrays Suzie in Sunny, which she executive produced as well. The show is based on Dark Manual by Colin O’Sullivan and new episodes will premiere every Wednesday through September 4 on Apple TV+. Continue reading Rashida Jones on ‘Sunny’ and the Challenge of Guiding the Audience

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Anodite Ben With Gwen With Sunny & Verdona With Max And More In The Flesh With Omnitrix Wings & Anodite Hair: #Ben10 #Anodite #omnitrix #Ben #Gwen #Sunny #Verdona #Max Your Flashing Me So Much Power [#netflix #appletv #hulu #disney #fyp #trending #viral #anime #otaku ]

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Coming To Your Screen July 2024

Here is a list of new shows coming to television or streaming services this month:

Sunny - Rashida Jones stars in this dark comedy set in Japan about a grieving widow and mother who is gifted a robot. (Coming to AppleTV+ on July 10th)

Those About to Die - Anthony Hopkins is a Roman emperor in this sword-and-sandals drama about gladiators. (Coming to Peacock on July 18th)

Lady in the Lake - Natalie Portman stars in this limited series based on an acclaimed novel of the same name. (Coming to AppleTV+ on July 19th)

Time Bandits - Lisa Kudrow leads an ensemble cast in this fantasy adventure based on the 1981 Terry Gilliam film. (Coming to AppleTV+ on July 24th)

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Trending TV Show News

Trending TV show news.

Sunny – AppleTV+ Rashida Jones plays a lonely American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. To help with her grief, she’s given a chipper domestic robot named Sunny that was made by her husband’s electronics company, with the robot immediately going in for a hug. Suzie is reluctant at first, but eventually, she and…

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if you like david hornsby and would like to watch a show where you dont need to actively hate his character: mythic quest

I’ve actually been really keen to check that out! I’m a big fan of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, so love that it’s coming from some of the team on that, plus it has an Australian actress in it I really love. The only reason I haven’t yet is because it’s on AppleTV+, which is like, the one streaming service I don’t have, haha. Maybe I’ll just get the free trial and try and watch it all at once, haha.

Thank you for the rec though! I always love TV and movie recs!

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Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet - Season 1 (2020) Review

I don’t really play video games, I don’t get how people get addicted to them. *Ghost of Tsushima is released.* I AM A SAMURAI AND THAT IS THAT!!!

Plot: The team behind the biggest multiplayer video game of all-time is tasked with building worlds, moulding heroes and creating legends, but the most hard-fought battles don't occur in the game -- they happen in the office.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a very Marmite show. You either like it or you don’t. There are numerous folks who would hate the offensive no-filter humour of it, I have many friends you love it and quote it endlessly, in turn also trying to compare themselves to the characters in the show, which is tad worrying and concerning, since the personalities of the show are, to put it simply, bad people who lack the sense of a moral compass. However the creative team behind It’s Always Sunny’s long lasting TV run (14 seasons and counting) have teamed up yet again to bring us Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, a comedic series more appropriate for a wider audience. It’s the typical office based sitcom, only with the added flavour of the video game background, meaning game players can enjoy a show featuring a ridiculous yet somewhat realistic behind-the-scenes look at how video games are made as well as a focus on the world of streaming, with how gamers provide game-plays and walkthroughs of game hits and how this impacts the market. 

The show’s creators as such have partnered up with popular game developer Ubisoft to provide authenticity to this world. Game footage is a big part of Mythic Quest, not only as the central theme of the show's overall plot, but also as interstitial segues between scenes and stages for some of the series' most dramatic moments. To pull it off believably, Ubisoft actually created original game assets and actual working gameplay sandboxes that were shot practically as the actors played on set. So basically, Ubisoft went out of their way to make a fake game for the show that no one will ever get the chance to play in real life. Then again, the game within the show borrows a lot in it’s look from games such as For Honour and World of Warcraft, so I guess go and play those if you’d like. Or don’t, I’m not your mother, I can’t tell you what to do. Unless you are lacking a parental figure, but even then, I don’t think this is going to work out. 

In any case, is Mythic Quest a good show? Generally speaking, yes. It’s enjoyable, offering enough laughs and providing us with a likeable central cast (Rob McElhenney on top form playing once again a self-absorbed diva), but I’d say the show plays it a bit too safe. Not many risks are taken, and as such, there’s a lack of surprise to the procedures. That being said, it’s never boring and also the production design is top notch. I mean, the latter makes sense since its one of the very first shows from the new streaming service AppleTV+ (which I got for free for one year due to getting a new iPhone 11 for my birthday so take that suckaz!!), so Apple, with its billions of safes that hold billions of dollars from selling billions of phones and tablets to billions and billions of people, has had no problem in shoving a lot of money into this thing. Hence, the lush look of the series and that nifty little deal with Ubisoft. 

Where the series does shine is in it’s special episodes, most significantly two of them. Firstly I’d like to mention it’s most recent episode, a one-off special that was released during quarantine this year, and it’s quite impressive as the whole thing was written, filmed and edited in-quarantine all from the respectable homes of the show’s cast and crew, and the result is truly incredible. Yes, during lockdown a few shows did little specials like Parks & Recreation having their little adorable nostalgic reunion (“bye-bye Lil’ Sebastian, you’re 5000 candles in the winds....” *sob sob*) or Saturday Night Live not being live and being performed on webcam without a laughing audience and then late-night hosts did their shtick from the comfort of their households on YouTube, but with Mythic Quest, there was definitely a step-up in quality. The final result is, dare I say, a mythical effort. The show doesn’t treat its video-chat setup like a one-off gag but rather uses it to establish running concepts like Poppy’s stubborn refusal to shower, while also perfectly reacquainting the audiences with the show’s main trio and their quirks. And if that weren’t enough, it also marks the debut of McElhenney’s pale bare ass on the show. The result is one of the show’s most effective and funniest episodes. Then the other stand-out episode is episode 5 that comes bang in the middle of the first season. It’s an episode that takes a break from the main story-line of the series and instead features an entirely different cast led by Jake Johnson and Cristin Milioti and tells a tonally different, unrelated story that spans across 20 years and that episode alone was a solid 9/10! Simply put, it is a masterclass in storytelling. Over half an hour, the episode details the birth and death of a dream. It’s about a couple that come together to develop their video game, and then they find success in both their game and relationship until it all comes crashing down. It’s the idea of how one pours all their passion and heart into something, be it a video game or a relationship, the output can be truly incredible. But also what it does to you as a person is very remarkable, for better or for worse. This was a truly enthralling watch, with some strong Black Mirror vibes, and as such even if you don’t watch the entire series, I implore you to check out episode 5 of season 1 of Mythic Quest. 

Overall score: 7/10

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Entertainment heat wave is coming this summer: What to watch for | Entertainment

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Entertainment heat wave is coming this summer: What to watch for | Entertainment

Remember 2019, when hot girl summer became a motto for living with confidence?

Well, with life getting closer to normal and vaccines nudging the pandemic into — fingers crossed — the rear-view mirror, 2021’s entertainment calendar for the next few months has a similar mood.

Call it a hot everything summer.

Blockbuster movies are returning to theaters. Live concerts are set to resume. Television and streaming shows are back to being a nice part of the mix, not a sole entertainment lifeline. And with travel heating up again, beach books can actually be read on a faraway beach.

To navigate this soaring heat index for fun, here is a list of recommendations that are sunny, breezy, steaming and sizzling. You get the idea.

Hot Jeff Daniels summer

Michigan’s resident acting great always keeps it real — remember his plaid dad shirt at February’s virtual Golden Globes? His latest project evokes his home state’s ethos of blue-collar endurance. “American Rust,” a nine-episode series premiering Sept. 12 on Showtime, stars Daniels as the police chief of a Rust-Belt Pennsylvania town who is feeling “ticked off and kind of jumpy” when a murder investigation tests his loyalties. If the preview looks a bit like HBO’s gritty “Mare of Easttown,” that’s a very good thing.

Hot goofy summer

In real life, metro Detroit native Tim Robinson could be a calm, collected guy. But as a sketch comedian, he’s made an art form out of wildly overreacting to life’s little embarrassments. “I Think You Should Leave,” his mini-masterpiece Netflix show, is back July 6 with a second season. Besides brilliantly making himself the butt of the jokes, Robinson always remembers his hometown friends. Let’s hope for repeat appearances by his pals like “Detroiters” co-star Sam Richardson and Troy’s own Oscar nominee, Steven Yeun.

Hot retro Motor City summer

The Detroit of the mid-1950s comes alive in director Steven Soderbergh’s “No Sudden Move,” available July 1 on HBO Max. The crime drama starring Don Cheadle, David Harbour, Benicio del Toro, Jon Hamm and more is about some low-level criminals given a simple assignment that draws them into a mystery that stretches to the heights of the automotive industry’s power structure. The film was shot last year in Detroit under strict COVID-19 safety measures, because Soderbergh, who filmed 1998’s “Out of Sight” here, would accept no other city as a substitute.

Hot road trip summer

Six years ago, a young waitress from Detroit created a viral Twitter thread about a bizarre journey she took to Florida with a new friend to do some freelance stripping. It was as compelling as a novel and as vivid as a movie. Cut to June 30 when “Zola” hits theaters starring Taylour Page and Riley Keough. It’s a comedy and a thriller that defies expectations and makes J-Lo’s “Hustlers” seem mild. Director Janicza Bravo and screenplay co-writer Jeremy O. Harris have created a raunchy adventure that still respects A’Ziah (Zola) King as a strong woman and original writing voice.

Hot action dad summer

Yes, Matt Damon is now old enough to play a Liam Neeson-esque outraged father out for justice. In “Stillwater,” Damon is a worker for an Oklahoma oil rig who must travel to France to try and clear his daughter (Abigail Breslin) of murder charges. Think “Taken,” if it were a serious drama directed and co-written by Tom McCarthy of “Spotlight” fame. It comes out July 30, just in time to make Damon’s fans from his “Good Will Hunting” days feel ancient.

Hot reboot summer

It has been almost a decade since “Gossip Girl” ended its run, which is way too long to be without fashion tips from impossibly beautiful rich kids. The newly reimagined “Gossip Girl” on HBO Max arrives July 8 with some notable improvements, like the inclusiveness of its cast of newcomers. But it’s bringing back the original narrator, Kristen Bell (who grew up in Huntington Woods), as the voice of the title character with the hidden identity.

Hot sweating summer

Sweating is a bodily function, but what exactly is it all about? “The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration,” out July 13, will explore the biology, history and marketing behind the moisture that makes us glow (to use a polite term). It covers everything from the role of stress in sweat to deodorant research that involves people who can sniff out, literally, the effectiveness of a product. Since the New York Times recommended the book as one of its 24 summer reads, you know that author Sarah Everts did sweat the details.

Hot Olympic star summer

The 2021 Tokyo Games, which run July 23-Aug. 8, will feature the world’s best gymnast, Simone Biles. She still enjoys competing, but quarantining gave her some time to improve her work-life balance, as she told Glamour for its June cover story (which comes with a dazzling photo spread of Biles). “Before I would only focus on the gym. But me being happy outside the gym is just as important as me being happy and doing well in the gym. Now it’s like everything’s coming together.” For the 24-year-old GOAT, the sky — or, maybe, gravity — is the limit.

Hot variety show summer

“What percentage of white women do you hate? And there is a right answer.” That was among the questions posed by internet sensation Ziwe to her first guest, Fran Lebowitz, on the current Showtime series that carries her name. Combining interviews, sketches and music, “Ziwe” deploys comedy to illuminate America’s awkwardness on issues of race and politics. The results are hilarious, so find out about Ziwe now before her next project arrives, a scam-themed comedy for Amazon called “The Nigerian Princess.”

Hot ice road summer

Take the driving skills of the reality series “Ice Road Truckers” and add one stoic dose of Liam Neeson and you’ve got “The Ice Road,” which premiered Friday on Hulu. The adventure flick involves a collapse in a diamond mine, the miners trapped inside and the man (Neeson) who’s willing to steer his ginormous rig over frozen water to attempt a rescue mission. Crank up the AC temporarily!

Hot kindness summer

There is a better way to be a human being, and he shares a name with an Apple TV+ series. “Ted Lasso,” the fish-out-of-water sitcom about an American football coach (Jason Sudeikis) who’s drafted to lead a British soccer team returns for a second season on July 23 —the date that Lasso fans will resume their efforts to be more empathetic and encouraging, just like Ted. Only there’s a new sports psychologist for AFC Richmond who seems impervious to Ted’s charms and home-baked biscuits. She doesn’t like Ted? We’re gobsmacked!

Hot podcast summer

When Michael Che guested on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” recently, his segment was interrupted repeatedly by Dave Chappelle, who kept plugging his “The Midnight Miracle” podcast available on Luminary. What Chappelle was selling is worth the listening. “The Midnight Miracle” brings him together with his co-hosts, Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, and his famous friends from the comedy world and beyond for funny and though-provoking conversations interspersed with music. If you were a fly on the wall of Chappelle’s home, this is what you might hear.

Hot series finale summer

The last 10 episodes of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” start airing Aug. 12 on NBC, a too-short goodbye to one of the most underrated comedies in TV history. You can give all the glory to “The Office,” but the detectives of the Nine-Nine could go toe to toe with Dunder-Mifflin’s Scranton branch in terms of quirkiness, humanity and office romances and bromances. It’s hard to pick a favorite dynamic among the characters, but the irritated father-incorrigible son vibes between Captain Holt (Andre Braugher) and Det. Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) are sublime.

Hot musical comedy summer

Keegan-Michael Key and “Saturday Night Live’s” Cecily Strong lead a star-studded cast in “Schmigadoon!,” an AppleTV+ series premiering July 16 that magically transports a backpacking couple to a land of 1940s musicals. Until Broadway reopens in September, this parody love letter to the power of musical theater should do nicely. And the premiere episode’s song “Corn Pudding”? Catchy!

Hot nostalgia tour

Hall & Oates are criss-crossing the nation with enough 1980s hits —”Maneater,” “Kiss on My List,” “I Can’t Go for That,” “You Make My Dreams Come True,” etc. — to make you want to trade your mom jeans for spandex leggings. As if they weren’t enough top-40 goodness, their opening acts are Squeeze, still pouring a cup of “Black Coffee in Bed” all these years later, and K.T. Tunstall, whose “Suddenly I See” is immortalized as the anthem of “The Devil Wears Prada.”

Hot all-female, all-Muslim punk band summer

A British import now airing on the NBC streaming spinoff Peacock, “We Are Lady Parts” would be notable alone for defying stereotypes about Muslim women. But this sitcom about an all-female, all-Muslim aspiring rock band is a gem of both representation and laughs, thanks to characters like Amina, a shy doctoral candidate in microbiology whose complaints about a guy she calls “Bashir with the good beard” inspires a song.

Hot documentary summer

While Woodstock has become synonymous with epic music gatherings, the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969 is finally about to get the pop-culture recognition it deserves. “Summer of Soul: (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” directed by the Roots drummer Questlove, will hit theaters and Hulu on July 2. It chronicles a mostly forgotten event that drew superstars like Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, the Fifth Dimension, Sly & the Family Stone and B.B. King. Using his vast knowledge of music, archival footage and interviews with performers and those who attended, Questlove has created a history lesson that’s also the best concert you’ve never seen before.

Hot Marvel summer

Once you’re all caught up with the summer streaming sensation “Loki” on Disney+, please turn your attention to two new films. “Black Widow,” the long-awaited star turn for Scarlett Johansson’s former KGB assassin Natasha Romanoff, makes its debut July 9. It’s followed by “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” set for Sept. 3 and starring Simu Liu (“Kim’s Convenience”) as the martial arts master of the title. All brought to you by the corporate global entertainment domination machine that is Marvel.

Hot biopic summer

“Respect,” starring Jennifer Hudson, arrives Aug. 13 at theaters, nearly three years to the day the world lost the Queen of Soul. Although Cynthia Erivo gave a fine performance earlier this year as Franklin in “Genius: Aretha” on the National Geographic network, the odds are good that Hudson, chosen by Franklin herself for the part, will be the definitive screen Aretha.

Hot fiction summer

Terry McMillan calls “The Other Black Girl” essential reading. Entertainment Weekly describes it as “‘The Devil Wears Prada’ meets ‘Get Out,’ with a little bit of ‘Black Mirror’ thrown in.” This debut novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris mixes office politics with suspense in its story of Nella Rogers, an editorial assistant who’s the only Black staffer at a noted publishing company. When Hazel, a new Black employee, is hired, things seem to be improving. But then Nella starts receiving ominous unsigned notes. Sounds like yet another reason to keep working from home.

Hot slow dance summer

After nearly four months on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, “Leave the Door Open” remains the song most likely to provoke a quiet storm on the dance floor. The hit single from Silk Sonic (aka Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak) may sound like a cover of a long-lost ‘70s classic R&B tune, but it’s a contemporary song that can make you forget the humidity long enough for “kissing, cuddling, rose petals in the bathtub, girl, lets jump in.”

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