During David Harbour’s SNL episode, Todd Phillips’s new Joker movie wasn’t only mentioned once during the expertly done parody for an Oscar the Grouch movie. It also received a mention during “Weekend Update,” when cast member Heidi Gardner returned as teen movie critic Bailey Gismert to fill Michael Che in on all the films she’s checked out recently. What did she think of It Chapter Two? “Pennywise, you keep hanging out with those same kids?

Like the Robs before her, Zoë Kravitz’s Rob is a pop music savant, but Hulu’s new adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel pushes that characterization into more interesting, challenging territory. During one of the many list-making conversations in Hulu’s High Fidelity, which premieres in full today, a debate ensues about the top-five musical reinventions of all time. When Simon (David H. Holmes), an employee at Championship Vinyl, mentions Cyndi Lauper and her Memphis Blues album, he is shouted down by friend and co-worker Cherise (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), who says Lauper’s decision to record a single blues album doesn’t count.

In a better world, the sequel to M3GAN would be MEG4N and Plane would be followed by Ship. Instead, we’re getting M3GAN 2.0 and Plane 2: Stowaway. Sometimes the decision-makers in Hollywood have a great thing going and then they totally, arbitrarily blow it. (For example: watching Barbenheimer save cinema and then punting other blockbuster releases to next year rather than ending the ongoing labor strikes.) There may not be a clearer example of bigwigs beefing it than two upcoming sequels to 2023 movies, both of which had perfect, incredible titles sitting right there only for studios to end up going in a more boring direction.

The word “steampunk” gets thrown around a lot these days to describe things that (pushes up glasses) aren’t really steampunk. I haven’t looked yet, but I can imagine that Hotel Artemis, a colorful bit of low-stakes humans-first future-fi, is getting the label. In fact, like Blade Runner before it, it is merely taking its cues from the grungy Art Deco bones of the downtown Los Angeles in which it takes place.

Spoilers follow for the third episode of House of the Dragon’s second season, which premiered on HBO June 30. Google Ewan Mitchell and the second result, right beneath his bio, is an Instagram fan account dedicated to the actor, with the bio “Ewan Mitchell can run me over, respectfully.” When I suggest to him that thirst posts like these will reach drought levels after his nude scene in this weekend’s episode of House of the Dragon, he smiles.

Tom Petty’s pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch released their second album in May, and now there’s a music video to accompany the hauntingly moody “I Forgive It All.” The country-rock tune is quite poignant — sample lyrics: “I have not been down these roads since I was a child / I ain’t broke and I ain’t hungry but I’m close enough to care” — but it’s perhaps the video’s creative personnel that overshadow the track itself.

Jim Parsons, of Big Bang Theory fame, and his gay lover, Todd Spiewak, have optioned a book to make a half-hour comedy series, according to Deadline. Here’s what’s notable about this: • The book is a memoir by Ryan O’Connell, who was the first writer at Thought Catalog and has penned millions of blog posts explaining what it’s like to be a millennial. He literally might be the “voice of his generation” if he’s not in the same generation as Tavi.

The Whitney Biennial this year has been celebrated as a much-needed sanctuary, one that has served as both a salve and an affirmation of the swirl of political feelings many people are currently going through. But that doesn’t mean it has been without controversy: A group of artists are asking that a painting of Emmett Till’s dead body, titled Open Casket by white artist Dana Schutz, be removed from the exhibit, saying that the painting uses black suffering for “profit and fun,” and that the artist’s depiction treats “Black pain as raw material.

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Last night’s premiere of The Millers brought Will Arnett and Margo Martindale (among others) back to prime time. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the show is not good, at all. And the worse news: The episode ends with a big Dirty Dancing homage dance sequence. No. This is unacceptable. No more Dirty Dancing dances! Mercifully, The Millers did not do “the lift,” but it’s still just the latest in a very long line of dozens and dozens of other Dirty Dancing allusions.