BrainDead series premiere recap: The Insanity Principle: How Extremism in Politics Is Threatening Democracy in the 21st Century

Yes, thats brain-eating space bugs. You read that correctly. Our heroine is Laurel Healy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, of10 Cloverfield LaneandScott Pilgrim vs. Extraterrestrial things, to be exact. Credit: Michael Parmelee/CBS Laurels first day starts innocently enough. trying to appease the random voters who wander into Sen. Healys office. That is until she meets a woman whos concerned that her husband is…different. Even more mysteriously, Sen. Healys office was responsible for shipping the meteor from Russia to D....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 213 words · Stacy Torres

BrainDead series premiere: EW review

Before we talk aboutBrainDead, lets talk aboutLost, because why not. One of them was an action/adventure/mystery procedural about a crime-fighting stripper (catchphrase: Razzle dazzle!) This larky concept tickled them so much it became something of obsession. Credit: Macall Polay/CBS And if the whole season is like the pilot, it might actually be fun. You know, the way government is supposed to work. You know, the way government actually works. Shes the change we desperately need and she will save us all… from insect invasion!...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 251 words · Teresa Anderson

BrainDead: How creators Robert and Michelle King dreamed up its gags

Its the idea of small being terrifying. Will any roaches pop up? Theres a thin line between comically gross and just disgusting. Credit: CBS Its a metaphor for how lawmakers tend to squeeze out thoughts that oppose their positions. Are you brain-sick yet? Instead, the alien bugs make their hosts purify their bodies to distract from their sudden passionate views. Still, the senators drinkismade up of healthy ingredients. Hes extra fond of kale, notes Michelle King....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 131 words · Sandra Frazier

BrainDead: Michelle and Robert King compare new series to The Good Wife

I read this interview I think J.J. Abrams gave afterFelicity, says Robert. He said he just wished sometimes that Felicity could have been a secret agent and go undercover. And so thats why he createdAlias. Credit: Jeff Neumann//CBS Thats, I think, where this is coming from. The extremism really is a dangerous thing. So what do the creepy bugs symbolize? Francis Specker/Getty Images There seemed to be some sense of people no longer thinking for themselves....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 158 words · Kelly Nixon

Bravalla: Mumford & Sons, Zara Larsson condemn sexual assaults at Swedish music festivals

Were appalled to hear what happened at the Bravalla Festival last weekend. Festivals are a celebration of music and people, a place to let go and feel safe doing so. Were gutted by these hideous reports, the band wrote on theirFacebook page. Credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images; Isa Foltin/Getty Images F you who shamelessly raped a girl in the audience. You deserve to burn in hell, the 18-year oldNever Forget Youperformeroriginally tweeted in Swedish....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 135 words · Mr. Scott Hill

Breaking Bad: Betsy Brandt talks scrapped Better Call Saul cameo

Ive talked to all those guys and they never said anything! she says with a laugh. So I respect that. Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC And after viewing Klick, Brandt agrees with the producers decision to nix Maries hospital visit. Oh no, she couldnt be there, she says. What are they going to do, stick me in the background? That would be weird. Would they both be wearing the silver blankets? Its not her time, she sums up....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 329 words · Justin Compton

Breaking Badcharacters we want to see next onBetter Call Saul

Some smaller, supporting roles, though? Maybe thats where well get a little glimpse into thatBadworld we love so much. So here are someBreaking Badalums besides the usual suspects wed love to see pop up onSaul. Credit: Ben Leuner/AMC Badger and Skinny Pete It just wouldnt be right to have one without the other. If their discussions about the science onStar Trekare any indication, theyll surely be fascinated by Chucks health condition....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 167 words · Christopher Perry

Breaking Big: Boots

The brain behind tracks on Beyonce’s surprise 2013 album delivers one of the year’s wildest debuts. If its jumping genres, thats just how I take in music. The genre-hopping also applies to his own output. Credit: Elliot Lee Hazel The Beatles were the pioneers of that, I think, he says. They were the first ones to really start blending sounds and doing things like that. And now its commonplace to put strings on everything....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 197 words · Dwayne Sanchez

Breaking Big: Meet the knockout actor who will dominate your summer

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May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 56 words · Helen Cummings

Breaking Big: Next-Gen Stars

Aubrie Sellers, Eliot Sumner, Joey Armstrong, and Aimee Osbourne are all on the cusp of stardom. That confidence helped her feel out a more rock-influenced sound on her just-releasedNew City Blues. NEXT UP: Dates opening forChris Stapleton, plus slots at festivals like Stagecoach. Credit: Cindy Ord/Getty Images; Rindoff/Dufour/Getty Images; Alice Baxley; Monica Schipper/Getty Images But here we are. I think Ill always be in the shadow of my parents,she told LondonsEvening Standardin December....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 206 words · Norma Torres

Breath of the Wildis the most ambitious Zelda ever made

If you press links we provide, we may receive compensation. See that mountain in the distance? you’re free to walk there… it just might take you awhile. The highly stylized art is like a Studio Ghibli take on fairytales, and its absolutely dripping with personality. Its a different take on dungeonsBreath of the Wildbreaks with the traditional Zelda formula in its approach to dungeons. So I did something that made me incredibly uncomfortable and abandoned the mission....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 106 words · Erica Ortiz

Brenda Strong compares her Desperate Housewives and The 100 characters

They have more in common than you might think! What doThe 100andDesperate Housewiveshave in common? Not much, until the Ice Nations ruthless leader made her debutlast week. Credit: Cate Cameron/The CW, ABC/ANDREW ECCLES Theyre both willing to sacrifice things for the good of the whole, Strong says. They both care for people, albeit in different ways. Mary Alice cares for friends and family; Nia cares to advance the survival of her nation....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 138 words · Lindsay Lopez

Brendon Urie talks Panic! At The Disco's Death Of A Bachelor

at the Disco returns this week with its fifth full-length album. But its not the Panic! fans first met back in 2004. Credit: Shervin Lainez As the collections accompanying booklet reads: Panic! at the Disco Is: Brendon Urie. After a long series of lineup changes, the former quartet of childhood friends is now a one-person act. This shows on the new album, its meditations mainly about love and loneliness feel more personal to Urie....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 477 words · Dana Brandt