White Noise is a trip, Armageddon Time stumbles a wee bit, and Cate Blanchett is still the best actress (or actor) in the world.

I’ve consumed way too much chocolate this festive season. I’ve also seen Amsterdam.

The New York Jets’ backup QB won’t light up the skies — but maybe he’ll save the franchise.

‘The White Lotus’ is going to get away with murder, again.

‘Deathloop’ comes to Xbox Game Pass, and is EA Sports the gaming industry’s last big domino?

The editor’s epic quest to find an NFL allegiance finally ends.

The Prime Video remake does inclusion and social commentary — and also baseball — better than any other show on TV.

The English Premier League is back, in all its awesome, empirical glory.

The director Olivier Assayas has a lot to get off his chest, and I suggest you listen.

Atlanta’s quietest season, at least by digital standards, is easily its best.

Eight things Everything Everywhere All At Once does better than the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

On the curious dilemma of being an African creative.

On gathering books and never quite reading them.

There are two different ways to build and run a basketball team. Both were on display during last night’s playoff games.

It’s the NBA playoffs, and it’s finally — finally — Karl Anthony Towns’ breakout party.

Real-time reactions to every last jam on Vince Staples’ Ramona Park Broke My Heart.

Sana Ginwalla casts quite the spell, with a lyric essay about falling in and out of love with the Mother City.

A slate of new shows about controversial tech founders says less about them than about, well, us.

Baseball’s back! — but the vibes taste a little different this year …

Bazzers and I discuss all the glass between time zones, and what shimmers behind it.