‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ delivers a major shock in its fourth-season finale

That moment felt almost like a relief, after an unsupervised one-on-one meeting between June and Waterford that, frankly, strained credibility, as the fourth season periodically has. That scenario followed another questionable twist in the penultimate episode — a recurring issue since the program has advanced beyond Margaret Atwood’s book — with Waterford cooperating with his […]

Jason Reynolds wins Carnegie medal for ‘breathtaking’ Look Both Ways

Reynolds, a poet and author who is currently the US national ambassador for young people’s literature, was chosen ahead of shortlisted authors including former winner Elizabeth Acevedo to take the prize. Look Both Ways is a collection of 10 interlinked stories about children walking home from school. But this time around it has been really […]

Kendall Jenner and Hailey Baldwin Get Cheeky in Butt-Baring String Bikinis During ‘Gals Weekend’

“gals weekend ✔️,” Baldwin captioned her post, which included a shot of her lounging on her stomach on a boat in a revealing thong bikini with a bottle of 818 Tequila by her side. In another pic, Baldwin showed off her backside as she wore a different thong bikini while posing underneath an outdoor shower […]

Rose Byrne in Apple TV+’s ‘Physical’: TV Review

There are people for whom exercising means a long, solitary, contemplative run. That’s the question that drives the most compelling part of Apple TV+’s Physical, a 10-episode, half-hour dramedy with an unrelenting sour streak that’s sure to immediately alienate any viewer who makes the mistake of thinking they’re tuning in for a vaguely campy slice […]

Move over, Attenborough! Penguin Town is the cuddly nature show for our times

In times of trouble, the last thing anyone wants to see is a gory, operatic, kill-or-be-killed reminder that all life on Earth is locked in a hellish struggle for survival that, by design, they are guaranteed to lose. You sense that Netflix understands this, too, because that’s the only logical explanation for the existence of […]