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“You think you’re on the road to being legends, but you couldn’t “I’m not on make it from here to the door trial for murdering ENOWETH: without me etiquette.” pointing the way.” —Lavinia (Kristin Chenoweth), providing gifts to the audience at her —Elektra (Dominique Jackson), “This is the most sexist, launching into an murder trial, on Trial & Error insult tirade, on Pose misogynistic bulls--- we have everdone…andIloveit!” —Quinn (Constance Zimmer), reacting to Everlasting’s latest turn, on UnREAL KIN: PETER KRAMER/HBO; ZIMMER: BETTINA STRAUSS/LIFETIME; CH HOOD/USA NETWORK; HOFFMAN: IAN WATSON/USA NETWORK

“And as Ned Stark would say, he who passes the sentence should “Mydemonsare swing the sword.” not remotely tackled. —Katrina (Amanda Schull), arguing They’re just why she needs to handle “You know I could the firm’s layoffs, on Suits never argue with mildly concussed.” Ned Stark.” —Camille (Amy Adams), addressing her many —Louis (Rick Hoffman) issues, in Sharp Objects SERGEI BACHLAKOV/NBC; ADAMS: ANNE MARIE FOX/HBO; SCHULL: SHANE MA DANSON: VINCENT SANDOVAL/GETTY IMAGES; JACKSON: JOJO WHILDEN/FX; CUL EW

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FEATURES NEWS AND COLUMNS 18 Comic-Con 2018 1 See exclusive Sound Bites photos and read inside intel on the 6 stars, shows, and The Must List movies that were the talk of San Diego: 16 Shazam!, Venom, News Glass, Aquaman, EW examines James The Walking Dead, Gunn’s firing from the and much more! third Guardians of BY EW STAFF the Galaxy film and Andrew Lincoln’s 28 unexpected Tom Clancy’s departure from Jack Ryan The Walking Dead. The Ofice alum John Krasinski is 64 a long way from The Bullseye Scranton, stepping into the role of the titular CIA analyst/espionage REVIEWS icon in Amazon’s new series. 38 BY SAMANTHA Movies HIGHFILL 44 34 TV Kenny Chesney The country star 56 opens up about Music his new album, Songs for the Saints, 60 which he recorded following Hurricane Books Irma—and benefits island relief. BY SARAH RODMAN

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YOU KNOW THE OLD SAYING: IT’S NOT A plays Aquaman), Cole Sprouse, Regina the terrific interviews here: facebook.com/ successful party until the cast of Crazy King, and Kelly Ripa. We’re grateful to HBO, entertainmentweekly/videos—and chatted with Ex-Girlfriend jumps into a pool. Lucky for the presenting sponsor of our big blowout. our SiriusXM hosts Jessica Shaw, Dalton us, Rachel Bloom and Vincent Rodriguez That event capped a weekend in which Ross, Julia Cunningham, and Kyle Anderson. obliged at our eighth annual bash to close we hosted almost 80 casts, like Doctor Who If you want to hear those conversations, out San Diego Comic-Con. They were joined and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, at EW’s Photo you can find them on demand on the at FLOAT at the Hard Rock Hotel by less- and Video Suite atop the Hard Rock Hotel SiriusXM app. damp celebrities, including Jason Momoa San Diego. While they were there, they A very special thanks to Facebook, our (who ironically stayed dry despite the fact he went live on Facebook—you can watch all partner for this year’s studio.

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It’s healthy and medicinal family fare. It’s the brainchild of Amy and her estima- ble production company, Paper Kite. They came up with this great idea and decided Amy should host, but said, “Who could host with you? Who knows his way around a hammer and nail?” And tradi- tionally, I’m very good at standing next to

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MAKING IT What did you learn about what it means to Parks and Rec alums Amy Poehler and Nick Oferman team host a game show? up to lead this warm, fuzzy arts-and-crafts competition. With I was surprised inspiring challenges and pun-happy hosts, this down-home by how emotion- delight will take you by complete supplies. (NBC, July 31) ally invested

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Name one way Makiing It is just like Parks 2 and Rec, and one waay 3 7 it’s definitely not. 5 One way it’s like Paarks and Rec is that its heart and its themes are centered in optimism and the good- ness of the humann 1 9 spirit. Parks and Rec- 10 reation dealt with the complications of human foibles 6 but always ended up happy in the end because of the afec- tion and the relation- 1 3 6 8 ships. In the same KILLING EVE THE GOOD DOCTOR THE GOOD FIGHT DEAR WHITE PEOPLE way, nobody makes BBC America App ABC App CBS All Access Netflix things for themselves to sit and admire; you The buzzy new thriller We prescribe a binge Chalk this snub up to The college satire used make things for peo- received a nod for Eve for ABC’s hit starring Emmy voters not remem- wit and wisdom to tell HORSEMAN ple. To quote my herself, Sandra Oh Freddie Highmore as bering their CBS All TV’s smartest story about MICHAE MORENO: RITA CW; WHITE/THE EVERETT SCOTT RODRIGUEZ: VINCENT ABC; LOGAN BROWNING: EDDY CHEN/NETFLIX; JAMEELA JAMIL: COLLEEN HA COLLEEN JAMIL: JAMEELA CHEN/NETFLIX; EDDY BROWNING: LOGAN ABC; favorite writer Wen- (the first Asian woman an autistic surgeon. Access passwords. race and relationships. ever nominated for lead It’s not just feel-good; The Christine Baranski- dell Berry, when you FREDDIE HIGHMORE: BOB D’AMICO/ABC; JODIE COMER: BBC AMERICA; : NETFLIX; CHRISTINE BARANSKI: PATRICK HARBRON/CBS; SETH MEYERS: NBC make things with actress!), but nothing it’s feel-everything. led Good Wife spin-of 9 your hands, that’s else for the addictive cat- proved in season 2—a LATE NIGHT 4 a wonderful way of and-mouse drama about playful, dangerous mirror WITH SETH MEYERS a spy (Oh) and an assas- of the age of Trump— saying “I love you.” CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND NBC App/YouTube sin (the darkly funny and The CW App why it’s TV’s most power- terrifying Jodie Comer). ful legal drama. And one way it’s It seems the Emmys different? The fact that Rachel didn’t take a close 2 Bloom’s rom-com- 7 enough look at Meyers’ detonating musical didn’t funny, bold, and vital Making It is a hard- ONE DAY AT A TIME THE GOOD PLACE Netflix even get honored for its NBC App Closer Look segments. core contest that songs is, in a word, crazy. involves heartbreak There’s more to Ameri- What other show has 10 and victory and ca’s working class than 5 attempted to mix old- BOJACK HORSEMAN harsh defeat. People just Roseanne—case in BILLIONS school joke-writing with are sent home with Netflix point, Netflix’s uplifting Showtime Anytime deep moral philosophy? their shameful sitcom about three gen- Season 2 of Michael Netflix’s Hollywood spoof A-minus grades to erations of an immigrant Showtime’s finance fable Schur’s sitcom gem was deserved an animation L YARISH/ YES/NBC;

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MARY ORANGE DANIEL J. BLIGE IS THE BROOKS “ONLY LOVE” Did you find this year’s NEW story as emotionally draining for your char- Who knew summer acter, Taystee, as could get even hotter? BLACK the previous ones? Blige’s surprise release of this disco anthem is Last year was a lot. more than just a throw- The riot of season 5 I’m not going to lie, it is over, but the was probably the back—it’s a glittering toughest [yet]. This backward roller-skate struggle continues in the excellently season is a diferent glide into a sequined kind of weight. It’s still era of music we didn’t acted (and much- personal to her, but improved) sixth now it’s more about realize how much her than it is about we missed. With this cycle of Jenji Kohan’s ground- fighting for Poussey. unexpected drop, How does she fight Blige’s ’70s-tinged bop breaking prison for her own life? drama, which finds answers your prayers Where does this new for a reason to get out the women of Litch- field fighting for season pick up? the fringe once more. BLIGE: PARAS GRIFFIN/GETTY IMAGES; their lives—now in You’re going to figure maximum security. out where these (Netflix, July 27) women end up. Who stays, who goes. You’re going to find out who’s built for this. Where loyalty lies. At this point, a lot

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It definitely felt weird. It’s funny—as actors, we’re on the same journey as the characters. The fact that we actually let go of where we shot most of the exteriors, like the library and Mr. Caputo’s ofice…it was definitely sad to leave behind. But we’re still going. The show ain’t over! —Chancellor Agard MY LIFE AS A GODDESS by Guy Branum

A former Mindy Project writer and Chelsea Lately regular, Branum loads his first memoir with snarky wisdom. Using equal parts warmth and bite, he recounts his journey from Bewitched-obsessed gay teenager to stand-up comedian. Pay special attention to the hilarious footnotes and irresistible bits of celebrity trivia.

HEAD OVER HEELS YEARS &YEARS PALO SANTO : JOAN MARCUS

Translated from Spanish to English, the album title Palo Santo means “holy wood”—but that’s less to do with

HEAD HEELS OVER The upbeat tunes of ’80s rockers the Go- Go’s find new life in this joyful Broadway sunny California than with the U.K. trio’s exploration musical set in—wait, what?—the 16th cen- of what happens when religion and queerness collide. tury! A royal family must save the beat to If Years & Years’ chart-topping debut, Communion, save their kingdom, bringing audiences along on a campy journey that makes a sur- made a dance-pop splash back in 2015, their second efort prisingly good home for the band’s best is a tidal wave. Let the album’s thoughtful lyrics and the

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Walking Away After eight seasons as The Walking Dead’s central figure, actor Andrew Lincoln, 44, has confirmed he’s saying goodbye to the hit AMC drama. But what led to his shocking exit? IBY DALTON ROSS

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way. In a perfect world, Andrew Lincoln’s DEAD WALKING THE departure from The Walking Dead would have unfolded as a surprise on screen. How- (Fromtop)Andrew Lincoln on The Walking Dead; with Danai Gurira and Norman Reedus in Hall H ever, the zombie apocalypse is far from a perfect world. First, the news leaked in late my friends hug me at the end? The s--- got always in our heads while we’re trying to do PAGE : GENE May that Lincoln would be leaving the show real, is the truth of the matter.” that,” says Reedus, who enjoyed a well-

during the AMC drama’s upcoming ninth The proverbial s--- has also been getting publicized bromance with Lincoln that AMC FOR IMAGES GRANT/GETTY JESSE AT COMIC-CON: LINCOLN /AMC; season (which premieres Oct. 7). Then real for the cast members Lincoln is leaving included a back-and-forth prank war of epic TWD comic creator Robert Kirkman slipped behind. “He’s the best leading man on tele- proportions. “He’s made me a better actor, and confirmed it in an interview at San vision,” says Danai Gurira, who plays Rick’s a friend, a father, all the way down the line.” Diego Comic-Con. That left Lincoln no love interest Michonne. “It’s been a beauti- Lincoln is keeping silent about the details choice but to address it himself during the ful journey to have spent time with this man of Rick’s final onscreen moments (the show’s SDCC panel on July 20. “Complet- and to have learned from his example. character is still alive in Kirkman’s comics), ing the show was like releasing air finally. There’s no replacing him. There’s no just but the actor is more forthcoming about And it was very satisfying, the last two epi- getting over it.” Norman Reedus, who plays why he’s leaving the hit series. “I have two sodes in particular,” the actor—who has crossbow-toting Daryl Dixon, has worked young children, and I live in a different already filmed Rick’s final scenes—told EW with Lincoln since season 1. “He set a prec- country, and they become less portable as Radio after addressing the crowd. “But edent for us on this show. He set the bar they get older,” says the London-based star. doing a panel and having to talk to [thou- very high right from the beginning, and “It was that simple. It was time for me to sands of] people in Hall H and then have all we’re always trying to keep it real. He’s come home.” X

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Gunn’s Out After tweets that joked about sexual assault and pedophilia resurfaced, Disney fired Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn from the series’ upcoming third film. But calls to rehire him are growing louder. BY ANTHONY BREZNICAN

certainly not provocative like I had hoped, Gunn—bloggers Mike Cernovich and Jack but also because they don’t reflect the per- Posobiec—have had ties to the white- son I am today or have been for some time.” supremacist alt-right movement. “This was a He said he accepted Disney’s decision— #cybernazi attack that succeeded,” Bautista but many fans did not. A petition asking tweeted. “Unless we start to unite together Disney to rehire Gunn gathered more than a against this crap, whether people are quarter million signatures in four days. Sup- offended are not! ...it’s going to get much porters compared Gunn’s taboo cringe humor worse. And it can happen to anyone.” Over to the Cards Against Humanity game and the the next few days, Cernovich began high- raunch of the Deadpool movies (which Disney lighting similar jokes posted by Disney stars, will soon own once its purchase of Fox’s enter- such as Sarah Silverman and Patton Oswalt, tainment assets is finalized). Some of Gunn’s who voiced characters in Wreck-It Ralph and T allies expressed support without explicitly Ratatouille, respectively. calling for his reinstatement, like Guardians Disney officials declined to comment on THE JOKES WERE DESIGNED TO SHOCK AND star Zoe Saldana. “I’m pausing myself to take the petition to rehire Gunn, but sources at the offend, and they certainly did—even though everything in before I speak out of term,” Sal- company told EW the decision wasn’t being the gag-inducing gags had lain dormant in dana tweeted. “I just want everyone to know I revisited. The family-friendly media giant may filmmaker James Gunn’s Twitter account for love ALL members of my GOTG family.” be trapped in a tug-of-war between a film- almost 10 years. The Guardians of the Galaxy Guardians star Dave Bautista bluntly maker’s indefensible dirty jokes and online writer-director became the target of far-right pointed out that the lead figures targeting trolls pretending to be squeaky-clean. X trolls angered by his fiery Trump criticism, and on July 19 they began bombarding Dis- James Gunn on the set of Guardians of the Galaxy with Michael Rooker ney and Marvel social-media accounts with screenshots of his forgotten jokes—which detonated like vulgar land mines. There were numerous jokes about moles- tation, sexual assault, and AIDS that were repugnant on their own but in aggregate illustrated a pattern far worse. Within hours of the pressure campaign, Gunn was fired from the upcoming GOTG Vol. 3. “The offensive attitudes and state- ments discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values,” Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said. Gunn, 51, abjectly apologized: “My words of nearly a decade ago were, at the time, totally failed and unfortunate efforts to be /MARVEL/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK provocative. I have regretted them for many years since—not just because they were stu-

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A TIME LORD, A STARFLEET OFFICER, AQUAMAN, AND SEVERAL WIZARDS STOPPED BY EW’S SAN DIEGO COMIC- CON SUITE AT THE HARD ROCK HOTEL

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Perhaps the biggest question going into Comic-Con was whether the first Shazam! trailer could prove to fans that the why so serious? DC film factory can deliver a lighthearted superhero comedy. “I love that there’s still an optimism in him,” star Zach- ary Levi told an enthusiastic crowd in Hall H. “Maybe now more than ever we need heroes like that; we need people who care about other people.” —JAMES HIBBERD

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LOGO BY MATT THOMPSON During the show’s panel in Hall H, executive producer Alex Kurtzman revealed that Spock is beaming in to the show’s second season. Sonequa Martin-Green—who plays lead Michael Burnham, foster sister to the famed Vulcan from the original series—will also take her first steps onto the iconic USS Enterprise in 2019. “I’m very grateful for the courage it took to write this particular story in this way and to connect us to the franchise,” she told EW. —SARAH RODMAN

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Who is more scary: Godzilla or the Demogorgon? Millie Bobby Brown declared the former to be the winner when the Godzilla: King of the Monsters crew stomped into the EW studio. “The Demogor- gon is just pretty chill,” said the Stranger Things star with a laugh. —CLARK COLLIS

O’Shea Jackson Jr., Millie Bobby Brown, Vera Farmiga, and Thomas Middleditch

Not one but two Spider-Men stopped by EW’s Comic- Con suite, where Shameik Moore (who voices the young Miles Morales) and Jake Johnson (voice of Peter Parker) talked diferences between their two web- slingers. “Peter’s a little bit older,” Johnson told EW. “I think his back hurts a little bit more. I don’t think he’s positive he still wants to be Spider-Man. And then he meets a young guy who’s got a new spin on Spider- Man and might need his help.” —DEVAN COGGAN

Shameik Moore and Jake Johnson Hall H was stunned into silence when Johnny Depp unexpectedly took the stage in full character as the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald to deliver a speech rallying wiz- ardkind to “rise up and take our rightful place in this world.” As Jude Law (who plays young Dumbledore) told EW: “Grindelwald is temptation; he empowers you but also, I suppose, opens the worst parts of you.” —JAMES HIBBERD

( Clockwise from left ) Dan Fogler, Zoë Kravitz, Ezra Miller, Claudia Kim, Alison Sudol, Jude Law, Eddie Redmayne, Callum Turner, and Katherine Waterston

Kevin Williamson’s new show puts a modern twist on fairy tales, intertwining “Hansel and Gretel,” “Lit- tle Red Riding Hood,” and “The Three Little Pigs”— the latter starring Paul Wesley and James Wolk. “The moral of that has always been, hard work pays of,” Williamson said of their narrative. “How are we going to tell that story? Does hard work really pay of in this world today?” —SAMANTHA HIGHFILL

James Wolk and Paul Wesley

20 | EW.COM What’s black and white and slobbery all over? Venom’s Tom Hardy plays Eddie Brock, a sad-sack journalist who gains superpowers after he’s infected with an alien symbiote. “He doesn’t go out to be a superhero,” Hardy told EW. “It just kind of happens to him and at him and within him, and all of a sudden he has to find balance with somebody living rent- free within his body.” —DEVAN COGGAN

Riz Ahmed; Tom Hardy Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson’s characters have changed in the years between 2000’s Unbreakable and next year’s Glass, albeit gradually. “We’re all older, and we’ve had time to assess what we do think, what we believe, and what we don’t believe,” Jackson told EW. “So we’re either firmer in that, or less firm in it, because it hasn’t worked out.” —CLARK COLLIS

Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis Jodie Whittaker received an ecstatic reception at the Doctor Who panel in Hall H, her first convention appearance since being cast as the first woman to play the titular Time Lord. “We’ve had an amazing time filming, but we are very much in a little bubble in Cardif,” she told EW afterward. “Today has been the first time that we’ve experienced what it’s like being around the fans, which has been very exciting.” —CLARK COLLIS

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Riverdale took over Hall H to preview a jam-packed third season, including another musical episode and a flashback episode that will see Archie and the gang playing younger versions of their parents. As for new cast addi- tions, Mädchen Amick promised that a “really hand- some cult leader” is coming to town. What more could you want? —SAMANTHA HIGHFILL

( Clockwise from far right ) Skeet Ulrich, Mädchen Amick, Cole Sprouse, Lili Reinhart, Madelaine Petsch, Luke Perry, Vanessa Morgan, Marisol Nichols, Mark Consuelos, Camila Mendes, Casey Cott, Ashleigh Murray, and KJ Apa

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MILLER LITE. HOLD TRUE. The cast of Brooklyn Nine-Nine (seen here with Emmy-nominated guest star and The Predator costar Sterling K. Brown) did a few celebratory laps at Comic-Con in the wake of their swift and glorious rescue by NBC from cancellation. Of all the famous people who mobilized online to protest Fox’s axing of the veteran cop comedy, director Guil- lermo del Toro was the most delightfully surprising to Terry Crews. “You’re like, wow,” he told EW. “I was a big, big fan— and that one got me.” —DAN SNIERSON

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Magnum P.I. showrunner Peter Lenkov told fans that his reboot will do a crossover episode with Hawaii Five-O, the other drama he runs for CBS. That means Magnum (Jay Hernandez) will ultimately meet up with Five-O’s Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin). “That’s the fun of the fact they are both ex–Navy SEALS,” explained Lenkov during the Magnum P.I. panel. —LYNETTE RICE

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The first footage from James Wan’s long-awaited Aquaman trailer quickly racked up more views than any other Comic-Con trailer (24 million and count- ing), with fantastical visuals of the Atlantean world and a refreshingly playful performance from star Jason Momoa. The actor told EW: “What’s diferent about Aquaman is [that] he was obviously born with his powers, but he never harnessed them, honed them in. You get to see where he came from. Every- body gets to learn and grow with him.” —JAMES HIBBERD

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26 | EW.COM For star Jensen Ackles, Supernatural’s upcoming 14th season presents a new challenge: He’ll be playing the arch- angel Michael, at least for a while. “He has a very clear-cut mission as to what he wants and needs to do,” Ackles said. “He’s not one to pity or be empathetic. You’ll see some pretty harsh scenes with him.” —SAMANTHA HIGHFILL Sissy Spacek and her Castle Rock costars debuted the Jensen Ackles Stephen King-based drama’s first episode to a packed and eager Ballroom 20 audience. “I’m glad to be back in the Stephen King universe,” the horror icon told EW of returning to King’s world more than 40 years after starring in Carrie. “It feels like home.” —SHIRLEY LI

Sissy Spacek John Krasinski photographed exclusively for EW on July 9, 2018 ONAMAZON’SJACKRYAN, STEPS OUT OF THE OFFICE AND INTO THE FIELD AS THE FAMED CIA ANALYST SHIRT: JOHN VARVATOS; JEANS: ADRIANO GOLDSCHMIED; ADRIANO VARVATOS; JEANS: JOHN SHIRT: (PREVIOUS SPREAD) STYLING: ANDREA CAPRIO; GROOMING: AMY KOMOROW AMY GROOMING: CAPRIO; ANDREA STYLING: SPREAD) (PREVIOUS has gone from crunching numbers behind a desk to boarding a last-minute flight to Yemen, where he’s expected to help catch an interna- tional terrorist. It’s a good thing he’s an action JACK RYAN’S hero…even if he doesn’t realize it yet. Created by author Tom Clancy in 1984, the character Jack Ryan has appeared in 20 books and five film adaptations starring the likes of Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck, and most recently Chris Pine as the Marine–turned– LIFE IS ABOUT Wall Street stockbroker–turned–CIA analyst– RYANJACK turned–operative (–turned–president, depend- ing on how far you’ve read). “What?! There’s : MYLES ARONOWITZ/AMAZON

other people who’ve done this role? That’s JACKET, SKI/ART-DEPT, unacceptable, I quit,” jokes John Krasinski, 38, the star of Amazon’s new series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (premiering Aug. 31). Amazon clearly TO CHANGE. believes in the series, giving it a season 2 renewal ( From left ) interested in starring in A Quiet Place, but Krasinski says he was too scared of Krasinski as Jack Ryan; genre movies. “They’re like, ‘It’s about a family that can’t talk, and you have to with Wendell Pierce as figure out why.’ And I was like, ‘Dammit, that’s the best one-liner I’ve ever James Greer heard,’ ” he says with a laugh. Krasinski then persuaded them to let him rewrite, direct, and star in the film, which he began working on just five days after he wrapped season 1 of Jack Ryan. Now, three months after A Quiet Place hit theaters, Krasinski is finally able to talk about life as an almost action hero. (He won’t accept the title just yet.) “Let’s be honest, I know I can’t be Superman and I know I can’t be Iron Man,” Krasinski says. “So Jack Ryan sort of becomes the guy that maybe, if you work hard and dedicate yourself, you could be.” before season 1 has even debuted. Coming off That Everyman quality is one of the things that attracted showrunners Carl- the streaming service’s success with the Golden ton Cuse (Lost) and Graham Roland (Fringe) to both the character and Krasinski. Globe-winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Jack “There’s a relatability about Jack Ryan that you don’t find in the Jason Bournes Ryan will serve as a cornerstone of Amazon’s or the James Bonds,” Roland says. Unlike other well-known heroes, Jack Ryan next round of original series, which also doesn’t wear a cape or carry a hammer forged in the heart of a dying star. He’s includes the Julia Roberts-led Homecoming. not going to kill five men with his bare hands and then order a martini. Rather, Sitting in downtown Manhattan in early Jack is a guy whose biggest weapon is his brain…and who also happens to know July, Krasinski—best known for playing Jim how to shoot a gun. At the time of casting, Krasinski had just finished playing a Halpert, the king of the reaction shot, on former soldier in the Michael Bay film 13 Hours, for which he underwent the NBC’s The Office—is coming off one of the best biggest physical transformation of his career thus far. “We wanted to start our years of his career. The Boston native directed story with this guy who was just an office worker who was being pulled into and starred in the critically acclaimed box something that he had never done before, and that was a journey that John was office hit A Quiet Place, which also starred his making in his career, going from a guy working on a sitcom based in an office to wife, Emily Blunt. “I don’t think I would have more of an action hero,” Roland says. “It felt like he was the perfect guy.” gotten A Quiet Place without Jack Ryan,” Kra- And when Jack Ryan premieres, fans will meet a young Jack, less than four

/AMAZON sinski says, reﬂecting on his recent success. years into his work at the CIA and earlier in his career than most of Clancy’s It was during preproduction on the new books portrayed him. “We tried to adapt Clear and Present Danger,” Roland series that producers Brad Fuller and Andrew says. “About a month into it, we realized the reason the Clancy books worked

PHILIPPE BOSSÉ Form asked if the father of two would be so well was because they were relevant for the time that they were written. So

AUGUST 3, 2018 EW.COM 31 LOOKING BACK AT JACK(S)

The first big-screen adaptation of Jack Ryan, featuring Baldwin and Sean Connery in a fight against the Sovi- ets, was based on Tom Clancy’s 1984 novel.

A sequel to The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games introduced Ford as an older, retired Ryan. He reprised the role in the next film.

Affleck starred alongside Morgan Freeman in a franchise reboot that returned to a younger Ryan tasked with stop- ping an impending nuclear war.

then were picked up in a black car and ﬂown to all these crazy places in the world that you didn’t think you were going,” Krasinski says. “That’s basically what Jack experiences in this show.” In other words, even Jack Ryan is hoping

he can become the action hero people need him to be. COLLECTIO EVERETT PINE: AFFLECK, FORD, BALDWIN, The only film not adapted from a Clancy Thankfully, he isn’t on this journey alone. Sitting next to Jack on that last- novel, it served as another series reboot, minute plane ride to Yemen is James Greer (The Wire’s Wendell Pierce), one with Pine stepping into of two supporting characters that made the jump from Clancy’s novels. (The Ryan’s shoes to battle a Russian tycoon. third is Cathy Mueller, Jack’s love interest, played by Abbie Cornish.) But while other adaptations have shown Greer at much higher positions in his career, here he has just returned to desk duty after a scandal gets him removed from the field. Needless to say, Greer’s not too happy about the career move, and from the moment they meet, he isn’t exactly Jack’s biggest fan. “Jim Greer is a complex person, but he lives by a code of selfless service,” Pierce, 54, says. we had to take the spirit of what he did and cre- “Even though [he and Jack] butt heads, they have a common ground in love of N (4); ate our own original story.” The result is a country.” As for Krasinski and Pierce, their common ground seems to be a love RYANJACK prequel of sorts, with the very green analyst of the other’s work. “Really, the reason why I did the show is to be best friends seemingly stumbling his way into the field with Wendell Pierce,” Krasinski jokes of the veteran actor. : PHILIPPE BOSSE/AMAZON (2) when he flags some questionable financial On screen, Greer will help Jack navigate life in the field. With Jack’s brains transactions that lead directly to a man who and Greer’s experience, they’ll work to track Suleiman, the aforementioned could very well be the next Osama bin Laden. terrorist. Played by Palestinian actor Ali Suliman, he is as dangerous as they “Imagine if you were in your desk job and you come. But he also appears to deeply love his family, and in contrast to many got called to come outside the building, and Hollywood portrayals of Middle Eastern terrorists, this one’s a bit more ( Left ) Krasinski with Haaz Sleiman as Ali; ( above ) strong and complex.” For Roland, who served in Dina Shihabi and Ali the U.S. Marine Corps from 2000 to 2006 and Suliman was deployed to Iraq for one tour, it was of paramount importance that they show the many different types of individuals who can find themselves entangled in these kinds of situations. “In my experience being in Iraq, the majority of the Arab people that I interacted with were good people who just wanted to provide for their families and live a safe, happy life,” Roland says. Suleiman’s story, along with Jack’s mission to capture him, will play out over the course of season 1’s eight episodes, which Amazon will drop all at once, allowing audiences to view the series complicated. “A lot of terrorist stories are as Cuse and Roland intended—as one long really one-dimensional,” Cuse says. “We movie. “The pitch to me from the showrunners wanted to make sure our story was about a bad was, maybe movies weren’t the best place for guy, not a bad culture.” And even that bad guy Jack Ryan to be in the first place,” Krasinski says. MAYBE will have his reasons. In fact, in the entire sea- “Maybe this long-form television is what we’ve son, there’s only one character whose story been waiting for to explore Jack.” That story- MOVIES includes flashbacks, and that’s Suleiman. telling approach also gives the writers a clean “This is something I haven’t seen in any slate heading into season 2, which has already WEREN’T other projects when Middle Eastern characters begun filming in South America. “We want every are involved,” Suliman, 41, says. “You see the season to be its own close-ended story,” Roland THE BEST many sides [of this character].” One of those says. “So if you didn’t see the first season, just sides features the introduction of Suleiman’s like you can go into a bookstore at the airport PLACE FOR wife, Hanin, played by 28-year-old Dina Shihabi. and pick up any Clancy book, you’re going to be In the first couple of episodes, Hanin is seen able to enjoy the story and feel like there’s noth- JACK RYAN playing soccer with her children, loving her hus- ing that you missed.” But if we’re talking about a band, but also struggling with the man he has hero’s journey, you will have missed something. TO BE IN become. “I’m from Saudi Arabia, so I audition You’ll have missed the moment Jack Ryan first THE FIRST for a lot of Arab characters,” Shihabi says. steps foot in the field, the moment he says good- “Ninety-nine percent of the time, the women bye to life behind a desk. Because even in the PLACE.” are victims and the men are terrorists, and it’s series’ opening hour, as Jack sits on that plane to very black-and-white. But you get to see Hanin Yemen, his path is clear: Jack Ryan is going to be as a human being, as a mother. She’s smart and an action hero. Eventually.

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KENNY CHESNEY SINGS SONGS FOR THE SAINTS After storms devastated the Caribbean, the country star is putting his music—and his money—where his mouth is

BY SARAH RODMAN @SARAHARODMAN ILLUSTRATION BY BORIS PELCER

IF KENNY CHESNEY ACTUALLY WORE SLEEVES, HE Indeed, as the 50-year-old East Tennessee native would be wearing his heart on one of them. As it is, the recounts the tale of the “apocalyptic” storms—while singer-songwriter’s emotions are apparent from his red sitting on his tour bus on a recent, scorchingly hot day eyes as he chokes up discussing the circumstances sur- in Phoenix—nearly 50,000 fans are filing into Chase rounding the recording of his new album, Songs for the Field, sold in part on Chesney’s tales of easy, breezy Saints, out July 27. island life. The guitars-and-tiki-bars flavor of hits like “I wasn’t prepared for the amount of destruction I “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems,” “When the Sun saw,” says Chesney, reliving the moment he returned Goes Down,” and “Pirate Flag,” as well as his high- to his part-time home on St. John following the havoc energy live shows, have helped Chesney win a combined wreaked in the Caribbean by Hurricane Irma in Sep- eight CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year trophies, tember 2017. “My heart broke for all those people that making him among the most bankable stadium acts in I had lived with and loved with. A huge part of my adult any genre of music for more than a decade, and coalesc- life was—and still is—spent down there.” ing a massive fan base known as No Shoes Nation. But last September, he wasn’t contemplating margaritas or the roar of and members of his team—repeatedly sent his per- the crowd. He was in Nashville, worried sick about his friends and family, sonal plane, loaded with supplies, down to the 17 of whom were hunkered down in his house on St. John, which held islands. In addition to friends (many of whom used together long enough for them to emerge unscathed. his Nashville home as a way station), Chesney came “I was constantly on the phone,” he recalls. “I was glued to the Weather to the aid of strangers, including the injured, the Channel. I was in the middle of such elevated anxiety.” So he turned to music elderly, pregnant women, more than 250 dogs, and to exorcise his stress. “This is a strange record for me because I’ve never basically “anyone that had to get off.” made a record in the moment. I just started to create. Two days after the storm “It was a strange and chaotic time,” says Chesney, hit, I wrote ‘Song for the Saints,’ ” he says of the meditative title track, a love still clearly viscerally connected to the memories of letter to the resilience of those living in the Caribbean. “The next day I wrote handing out sleeping bags to storm-weary friends ‘Love for Love City,’ and I just kept going. It was a form of therapy for me.” arriving in Music City. “I was in the studio singing While Songs for the Saints differs in tone from some of its blockbuster some of these songs after we cut them, and I was predecessors, it dovetails neatly with what is arguably the best album of getting texts from people getting on my plane, say- Chesney’s career, 2005’s similarly island-inspired Be as You Are (Songs From ing thank you. These people I knew and loved were an Old Blue Chair). Suffused with acoustic guitars, steel drums, and wistful coming to my house [in Nashville].” melodies, the record is both buoyant and melancholy, toggling between A silver lining did emerge from the storm clouds moods like the uplift of “Love for Love City,” featuring Ziggy Marley, and when two of Chesney’s core beliefs were confirmed: the world-weariness of a cover of Jimmy Buffett’s “Trying to Reason With that the people who inhabit the islands are an Hurricane Season,” featuring Buffett himself. (The album was also mixed extended family who help one another in times of at Buffett’s studio in Key West after Hurricane Maria. “I wanted these songs need, and that music is medicine. to soak up all the ocean’s energy,” says Chesney.) To that end, Chesney also flew down five truck- Chesney wrestled with the tracklist, which includes five songs he co- loads of musical instruments and sound equipment wrote, and debated including the bouncy, radio-friendly first single, “Get to donate to the battered St. John School of the Arts. Along,” unsure whether the paean to finding common ground in an increas- “There’s a lot of restoration that needs to happen, ingly divisive world fit the record’s introspective atmosphere. but not just physically,” he says, emotion welling up Friend and frequent collaborator Mac McAnally, who co-wrote “Island again. “I mean, the human spirit. Everybody’s soul Rain” on the new album, says the sessions were “as far away from business needs to heal. That’s where music comes in.” X as usual as you could get in the studio at this particular day and time.” The nine-time CMA Musician of the Year award winner, who is also a member of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, meant to stay for two songs and ( From top ) Kenny Chesney in the studio with Ziggy Marley; ended up playing on the entire album. Normally, says McAnally, a session performing live player’s mission is to make a song a hit. Chesney had other plans. “As soon as we got in the door and ran the first song, Kenny’s like, ‘No, this project needs to match this event. This is about helping these storm victims.’ It was straight out of his heart.” Ultimately, the inclusion of “Get Along” proved fortuitous: It just

became his 30th No. 1 Billboard Country Airplay hit, and Chesney is donat- MCINTYRE EMMA CHESNEY: CHESNEY; KENNY COURTESY & MARLEY: CHESNEY ing all of the proceeds from the album to his Love for Love City Fund for island relief. “I knew I was gonna give it all away when I started making it,” he says of the financial gesture. Chesney had left his longtime home at Sony and signed with Warner Music Nashville in January. He offered to release Songs for the Saints some other way, knowing the label might not be keen to have its first album from him be a musical-outlier benefit release. But Warner was happy to accommodate its newest signee. “We’ll get around to making money [eventually], so I’m thrilled that he’s donating the proceeds,” says John Esposito, chairman and CEO of Warner Music Nashville, who recalls a time 13 years ago when Chesney rescued him during a storm on the islands when the singer had no idea who Esposito was. “He drove us in the middle of the night, and I just thought, ‘Wow, this big superstar is carrying my bags,’” says Esposito with a laugh. “When I

reminded him of that, he said, ‘Oh my God, that was you? I had no idea. We IMAGES /GETTY just had so much fun listening to music for two days.’ ” Chesney is not only giving away the proceeds from Songs for the Saints. In the midst of its recording, he also—with the help of an army of volunteers

36 EW.COM AUGUST 3, 2018 ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY CAST REUNIONS BREAKING BAD EXCLUSIVE ORIGINAL EPISODE

10 YEARS AFTER THE PREMIERE THE CAST REUNITES

NOW STREAMING ON DEMAND PEOPLETV is a registered trademark of Time Inc. vies

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Tom Cruise hangs out

his fingernails from a Russian cargo plane Mission: as it barreled down the runway and took flight. Mission: Impossible—Fallout has a half Impossible—Fallout dozen of those scenes. At 56, Cruise won’t be satisfied until the audience cries “Uncle” STARRING DIRECTED BY Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Christopher McQuarrie or he winds up in traction. Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby What makes these films so wildly entertaining is how they offer more than just RATING LENGTH REVIEW BY

PG-13 2 hrs., 27 mins. Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty daredevil, without-a-net thrills. They’re MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE loaded with narrative switchbacks and triple-crosses. Twenty-two years after MUCH LIKE ITS AGELESS STAR, THE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE Cruise ﬁrst rebooted the hokey TV espio-

series shows no signs of running out of gas six movies nage series, it’s time to start a conversation - FALLOUT in. It’s the rare franchise that seems to just get better, about whether M:I has eclipsed the Bond

twistier, and more delirious with each new installment. movies. Speaking of 007, writer-director PICTURES : PARAMOUNT By now, we’ve become accustomed to these ﬁlms’ sig- Christopher McQuarrie’s Fallout is the clos- nature money shots—that one stunt where Tom Cruise est the series has come to Ethan’s own risks life and limb for our armchair amusement. Ghost Skyfall or On Her Majesty’s Secret Service— Protocol (2011) had Ethan Hunt scaling Dubai’s Burj the chapter that ﬁlls in Ethan’s backstory (2) Khalifa, and 2015’s Rogue Nation saw him hanging by and the emotional sacrifices he’s made

38 EW.COM AUGUST 3, 2018 Sasha Lane in The Miseducation of Cameron Post

REEL Pigging Out John Mulaney NEWS will voice the porky superhero SEQUELS Spider-Ham in Spider-Man: THAT ARE Into the Spider-Verse. BETTER The Naming of Cats Tom Hooper THAN THE will direct a Cats movie, starring ORIGINAL Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, BY CHRIS NASHAWATY and, reportedly, Taylor Swift.

1 chasing villains. It’s a film with not only action but stakes. Briskly hopscotching from Belfast to Ber- THE GODFATHER: : FILMRISE PART II lin and Paris to London and Kashmir, Fallout 1974 Sasha Lane pairs an old foe, Rogue Nation’s mad anar- This decades-span- chist Solomon Lane, with a new threat. ning sequel and prequel gets the edge HoldsHerPost Played by Sean Harris with a shaggy Una- thanks to the addition of De Niro and The 22-year-old American Honey star discusses her latest bomber beard and an insinuating Peter tragic fall of Fredo. film—the gay-conversion-therapy drama The Miseduca- Lorre rasp, Lane has hooked up with an tion of Cameron Post (out Aug. 3)—plus queer anonymous doomsday zealot named John representation and her first big studio film, Hellboy.

THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST BY PIYA SINHA-ROY Lark who’s after a cache of plutonium to 2 launch a nuclear attack on the world. Hunt’s You were asked about inclu- She pushed past a fear and mission—should he choose to accept it—is sion of the queer community gave that film her all. : WARNER BROS.; to stop Lark, with the help of Luther (Ving THE EMPIRE in filmmaking and making Rhames) and Benji (Simon Pegg). STRIKES BACK sure that portrayals are How are you navigating 1980 accurate at the film’s Sun- your career after your 2016 A psycho wants to nuke Earth’s popula- A darker, richer dance premiere, where you American Honey breakout?

THE DARK KNIGHT DARK THE tion? Again? Yes, but there are so many chapter exploring said you were gay. What do For four months I just sat here terrifically clever gotcha fake-outs along the more ominous cor- you think about that topic? and wrote poetry because no ners of the galaxy There are so many times film interested me, not one way, there’s no time to raise an eyebrow or far, far away. More that certain characters are single script.... I was being than kids’ stuff. : ROBERT PENN; an objection. Plus, you’re too busy trying to portrayed in a certain way sent things that were about figure out the new characters’ angles. One is that’s not true, not real to people my age, written by ALIENS how everyone interacts or people who are twice my age Henry Cavill’s Walker—an ice-cool CIA feels or thinks. Being gay, and have no f---ing connection brute assigned to shadow the IMF crew. 3 it’s not a f---ing personality to what we’re talking about, Another is Vanessa Kirby’s White Widow— trait, so why are you going thinking about, interacting to have an actor go play with.... I will sit on my couch a femme fatale as deft with a butterfly knife this gay person when all and write poetry until I find a ALIENS

:© & TM LUCASFILM, LTD.; LUCASFILM, TM & :© as she is mysteriously motivated. And then 1986 they’re doing is trying to act role, and let my money dwin- froufrou? We need to have dle, because it’s survival for there’s Rebecca Ferguson’s returning Ilsa, Alien is a slow-burn that real representation me. I cannot do something I who may or may not have switched sides. classic. But James Cameron’s sequel and real inclusion. don’t feel. The plot is so elaborate, I could barely pumps up the action keep up with its moving watchwork parts. and Sigourney What did Chloë Grace You play Alice Monaghan Weaver’s heroine. Moretz bring as Cameron? in the upcoming Hellboy, Thankfully McQuarrie and Cruise keep And what are your thoughts your first big studio film.

E V - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK throwing crazy set pieces at you as distrac- about her as a straight In the beginning—I’m not tions: skydives through lightning storms, actress playing the role of going to lie—I was very a person who’s a lesbian? against it. In the comics, she 4 adrenalized Ronin-like car chases, and a jaw- That is not my place to is his love interest, but in this, dropping climax that’s literally a cliﬀ-hanger. talk about. As an actor, I help his ass, I saved his ass; STAR WARS:STAR EPISOD At this point in Hollywood’s franchise- I don’t remember signing it’s cool, and she’s a scrappy THE DARK KNIGHT a contract that said I need Londoner. What’s really dope fatigue cycle, it’s rare to see a sequel (never 2008 to tell the world how I live is that I get to be a character mind a ﬁfth one) one-upping itself. But Fall- Thanks to Heath my life and what I do, so I’ll that my sister can look up to out is the exception that will restore your Ledger’s sick clown, let her speak on that. What and say, “I want to be like this is, was, and will I know is that she f---ing A Alice.” The fact that it would faith in summer blockbusters. continue to be the killed that role; she did so be a studio film and since I alpha and omega of much research, she met was so against it, it was like, all Batman movies. DID YOU LOVE FALLOUT? You might also like North by with multiple people who go challenge yourself. And

THE GODFATHER: PART II: PHOTOFEST; Northwest (1959) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). have truly experienced this. they let me keep my locs.

AUGUST 3, 2018 EW.COM 39 Piglet, Winnie the Pooh, Rabbit, Roo, Kanga, Tigger, and Eeyore CHRISTOPHER ROBIN

The Voices Behind Christopher , CUMMINGS, SHEEN, MOHAMMED: DISNEY (4); GARRETT: JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOC Robin’sFurryFriends

“THEY CALL THEM STUFFIES.” THAT’S HOW EWAN MC GREGOR replace all that later. “I loved looking at that bear,” McGregor describes Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and the other cud- says. “They would have to do [camera] passes without him, dly woodland creatures who populate the world of the new and when they took him out, it just was never the same.” But live-action film Christopher Robin. While portraying the grown- the puppets and the animation are only part of the equation up boy who is revisited by these creatures from his youth, that brought Pooh and friends to life. Director Marc Forster McGregor would perform a scene with an actual stuffed animal (Finding Neverland) explains how he chose the actors to give manipulated by a puppeteer, although animation would these “stuffies” a voice. —Anthony Breznican K; OKONEDO: DAN WOOLLER/REX/SHUTTER

WINNIE THE POOH EEYORE KANGA AND ROO PIGLET RABBIT AND TIGGER With a voice as deep Voiced by Sara British actor and come- Forster recruited an The voice of the honey- and doleful as an aban- Sheen, baby Roo nes- dian Nick Mohammed old friend, Doctor Who loving bear is a Hundred doned well, Brad Garrett tles close to mama (The Martian,theforth- star Peter Capaldi, to Acre Wood veteran: Jim was the easy choice Kanga, played by coming The Nutcracker voice nerve-racked Cummings, who has for this doomsday don- Sophie Okonedo (Hotel and the Four Realms) Rabbit, and often played Pooh bear in Dis- key. “Ultimately, Eeyore Rwanda, The Secret brings suficient angst played him of of Toby ney cartoons since 1988. represents depression, Life of Bees). “She is to the little porcine wor- Jones’ overconfident “For me, it was the key and you obviously want very maternal and care- rywart. “He has a very Owl. “Those actors are TANG/WIREIMAGE KARWAI CAPALDI: STOCK; because of that mixture to emotionally connect taking,” Forster says high-pitched voice but very close, so I put of toddler and old man,” with [Brad,]” says of Kanga. “It was very can very easily fill it with them both in the booth Forster says. Chris Forster. The Everybody important to me that anxiety,” Forster says. together when we O’Dowd was originally Loves Raymond star it was a very caring, “Sort of this, ‘Oh, oh recorded,” Forster says. cast as the springy, brings warmth to motherly type.” dear...’ When we first “I said, ‘Let’s do the sprightly Tigger in Chris- Eeyore’s blues. met, I knew this was the scripted version but topher Robin but was right voice for Piglet.” also an improvised ver- later replaced by Cum- sion,’ because both mings, who voiced the are so brilliant in that.” character starting in ’89.

40 EW.COM AUGUST 3, 2018 Puzzle

STARRING Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan

DIRECTED BY Marc Turtletaub

RATING R | LENGTH 1 hr., 42 mins.

REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats

AGNES (KELLY MACDONALD) IS the kind of woman who seems invisible even at her own birthday Kelly Macdonald and Irrfan Khan fit it all together party, fetching oblivious guests’ drinks with downcast eyes and sweeping up smashed The first she has no interest in, at least ini- explore anything particularly new in domestic dishes in a drab little dress with a leafy tially. The second she finds herself surprisingly drama, or in a tentative romance with Khan’s pattern best described as “sad houseplants.” good at and increasingly drawn to—more wealthy, idiosyncratic Robert. But director She’s a sad houseplant, a sort of unpaid than she has been to anything in years, or Marc Turtletaub pulls thoughtful, carefully stay-at-home maid for her gruff husband, maybe ever. Her new obsession leads her to shaded performances from Denman, Khan, Louie (Logan Lucky’s David Denman), and a specialty store in big, noisy New York City, and, most of all, Scottish actress Macdonald two teenage sons (Austin Abrams and Bubba and an ad by an anonymous puzzle master (Boardwalk Empire, No Country for Old Men), Weiler), filling her days with lonely grocery looking for a partner. (Enter iPhone and Bol- who refuses to let Agnes be an easy avatar for

/SONY PICTURES CLASSICS/SONY runs and the ladies’ church league. But a pair lywood superstar Irrfan Khan.) midlife longing and suburban discontent. of birthday presents—the only ones she’s The movie’s modestly scaled, slow-paced With her ﬁerce, strange energy at the center, been given, apparently—promise to change story line, based on the award-winning 2010 the ﬁlm builds quietly toward its own small

LINDA KALLERUSLINDA that: an iPhone and a 1,000-piece puzzle. Argentinean breakout Rompecabezas, doesn’t revelations, piece by piece. B+ Movies

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Amandla Stenberg MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN and Harris Directed by Ol Parker Dickinson Starring Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep W With a heart of gold and a plot of polyester, Mamma works hard to be the feel-giddy movie of the summer—and mostly Minds of succeeds in its own glittery, aggressively winsome way. B TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES Directed by Aaron Horvath and Peter Rida Michail Resistance Starring Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Will Arnett W Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson welcomes The Titans star in a musical, self-aware send-up of the over- the topical parallels between current politi- saturation of superhero movies. Silly and sweet, it works for young fans of the animated series and newcomers alike. B+ cal protest and her new movie, The Darkest Minds (out Aug. 3). BY ANTHONY BREZNICAN

LEADING MEN THE DARKEST MINDS TEEN TITANS TO GO! MOVIES THE

KIDS SEPARATED FROM THEIR FAMILIES DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT and placed in detention camps. Teens rising Directed by Gus Van Sant GREEN/AMAZON; up, pushing back against an oppressive gov- Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara L ernment. A year ago—when the YA Although Van Sant uses humor to avoid the pitfalls of a : DANIEL MCFADDEN schmaltzy Lifetime-movie recovery story, he still seems adaptation The Darkest Minds was filming— afraid to confront John Callahan in any meaningful way. B– THE EQUALIZER 2 such scenarios seemed like dystopian BROS.; : WARNER HOT SUMMER NIGHTS | Directed by Elijah Bynum fiction. Now this film about young people Starring Timothée Chalamet, Maika Monroe, Alex Roe L /FOX; whose onset of superpowers makes them Chalamet is the best reason to see this stylized pile of screen- MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN GO WE HERE MIA! MAMMA

writing clichés, about a disafected teen discovering WILSON/SONY; : GLEN seem like a danger to society has an unex- FOOT FAR ON GET WON’T HE WORRY, DON’T sex, drugs, and trouble one Cape Cod summer circa 1991. C+ pected contemporary resonance. THE EQUALIZER 2 | Directed by Antoine Fuqua “It’s actually quite bizarre,” says director Starring Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders W 2 Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Kung Fu Panda and Washington’s one of those actors who can’t not be inter--

3). “As we were writing the script for the esting, but Fuqua seems determined to put him to the test MCQUEEN with uncharacteristically grim and low-key direction. C movie, the possibility that people would be : JONATHAN PRIME/UNIVERSAL; putting children into internment camps def- BLINDSPOTTING | Directed by Carlos López Estrada STREET RAY/BLEECKER : ANN Starring Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal L initely was not something that we had While the occasionally melodramatic script overflows with intended as a parallel.” Still, the ﬁlmmaker a lot of ideas—probably a few more than it can comfortably : SCOTT PATRICK embraces the similarities. The Darkest Minds shoulder—its sucker-punch force is undeniable. B is a resistance story, starring Amandla Sten- berg as a young woman who develops the DOCUMENTARIES power to literally change minds. She ﬁghts back alongside friends who can manipulate MCQUEEN | Directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui electricity and levitate objects, a battle that’s Starring Alexander McQueen L a metaphor for a timeless conflict: a new The troubled, extraordinary life of the late fashion designer is traced through close friends, family, and his own generation clashing with elders who would words in this intimate if ultimately incomplete doc. B+ rather they be unseen and unheard. DARK MONEY | Directed by Kimberly Reed L “What we really tried to do in this movie Money’s subject—the shadowy influence of corporate is to encourage a sort of uplift, that sense of spending on American politics—may feel supremely PBS taking your destiny and your life in your own (which it is), but this taut documentary is also damning, clear-eyed, and as gripping as any John Grisham thriller. A– hands and to be empowered to believe in what you personally are capable of doing.”

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ONE OF THE B EST SHOWS OF THE YEAR—SO FAR

Issa Rae and Yvonne Orji, that’s what’s up

she’s drifting into her 30s. Professionally, Insecure she’s stalled: reduced to a desk job at edu-

DATE TIME NETWORK REVIEW BY charity We Got Y’All, part-timing in the gig Premieres Aug. 12 10:30 p.m. HBO Darren Franich @DarrenFranich economy as a Lyft driver. Her romantic life is worse than messy. It’s boring. Ex- boyfriend Lawrence is nowhere in sight. THE BROADEST PLOT DESCRIPTION OF INSECURE She’s couch-crashing with Daniel (Y’lan sounds sitcom-sacred: Young People Hang Out Together. Noel), her own personal It’s Complicated, But the genius of HBO’s stylish, uproarious comedy is how who spends most nights having loud sex meticulously it captures a certain era of no-longer-so-young while Issa tries to sleep in the living room. adulthood. The characters exist in a constant state of trans- It’s a low point. But the first four epi- formation. Their lives are ever-shifting. You could say sodes of Insecure’s third season are all MERIE W. WALLACE [pushes glasses up nose] that these people lack security. highs, pushing the characters in new direc- The ﬁrst time we met Issa (creator Issa Rae), she tions. Previously, Daniel was a tantalizing

was coping with turning 29 and feeling stuck in a rela- temptation. Now he’s a three-dimensional /HBO tionship with Lawrence (Jay Ellis). As season 3 begins, character, and I love how Noel shades his

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LOGLINES Shonda World Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland expands with eight shows coming to Netflix, including one based on Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novel series. Killer Role Penelope Ann Miller joins Riverdale as T.G.I.F.F. the attorney prosecuting Archie (KJ Apa) for murder. Every generation knows the story. An overworked mom and her rebellious teen daughter get brain-swapped. Antics (and mutual understanding) ensue. How does Disney Channel’s new Freaky Friday (premiering Aug. 10 at 8 p.m.) pursuit of rap-game success with nerdish stack up against its predecessors? BY DARREN FRANICH sensitivity. (Forget those played-out bass FREAKIEST beats, Daniel’s all about the strings!) The second episode follows Issa and Daniel to a nightclub, a perfect venue for their unique will-they/won’t-they/what- they dynamic. No show on TV does “going out” as well as Insecure: the embarrassing chitchat, the struggle to look like you’re not 1995 Ace diver Gaby Hofmann struggling to look cool, the seductive pos- switches bodies with divorced sibilities of drinking (responsibly) and designer Shelley Long in this criminally unstreaming telefilm. dancing (irresponsibly). Director Melanie Mayron As a performer, Rae has a tangible com- stretches a low budget with long 2003 takes and grunge chic, wide- Pop-punk guitarist Lindsay edic awkwardness that masks a deep well of angle lenses. Long’s a second- Lohan (sigh) switches bodies self-confidence. She’s well matched by wave feminist facing single- with psychologist Jamie Lee mom stress, smoking anxiety Curtis one day before Mom’s Yvonne Orji, who plays Issa’s best friend cigarettes like no Disney Channel marriage to perfect human Molly with brash assurance that can’t hide parent ever will again. Some Mark Harmon. The two leads diving-team drama becomes a have wondrous chemistry, and her burgeoning confusion. Molly’s starting study in female power. They sell although Mark Waters’ film is stripy-plaid kids’ clothes to Sandra a fizzy delight, it also puts an a new job at an all-black law ﬁrm, a seem- Bernhard. This was the ’90s. emotional focus on the mother- ingly utopian workplace with its own brand I was a kid then, so I must grant daughter relationship. It hasn’t this an objective, unbiased A. all aged well, with cringeworthy of politics. And she’s still seeing Dro (Saru- fortune cookie gags about mind- nas J. Jackson), Mr. Open Marriage, so swiping “Asian voodoo.” But the new millennium began when Von that’s another It’s Complicated. Dutch-wearing heartthrob Chad Michael Murray asked Lindsay Insecure juggles these complications, Lohan if she liked the Hives. B+ blending swoony-sexy swagger with laugh- out-loud cringe comedy. I love when Molly

DISNEY; (2018): DAVID BUKACH/DISNEY CHANNEL THE GENIUS and Issa go Full Squad with Tiﬀany (Amanda 1976 Seales) and Kelli (Natasha Rothwell, so hilar- OF HBO’S Ace water-skier Jodie Foster ious she’s heroic). The ﬁrst four episodes see switches bodies with domestic STYLISH, ultra-mom Barbara Harris in the the characters make some life decisions— first adaptation of Mary Rodgers’ UPROARIOUS novel. Young Foster is so chill none more radical than the ladies’ plan to you get a contact high. Harris is a 2018 attend a certain desert music festival beloved COMEDY wacky charmer. But, er, this isn’t Demi-hipster Cozi Zuehlsdorf really a story where you want, switches bodies with catering by the worst people on Instagram. Holy Hip- IS HOW like, sexual tension, and there’s momtrepreneur Heidi Blicken- ster Hell, can Insecure survive Coachella? I an unmissable ick factor in this staf—on Mom’s wedding day! METICULOUSLY eerily randy kid flick. Dad John It’s an adaptation of Bridget can’t watch. I must watch. A Astin likes it when his wife calls Carpenter’s modernized stage IT CAPTURES him “Daddy.” Neighbor Marc musical, which means kids sing McClure is a pubescent teen liv- an inspirational anthem about THIS SHOW CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING: A CERTAIN ing a Mrs. Robinson fantasy. The a smartphone app. It’s the least vibe is Disney’s Ice Storm. Epic freaky Friday ever, replacing all ERA OF car chase, though. You stick it to the spiky generational rivalry with those cops, Young Jodie! C+ an encompassing preachy, sac- RIDESHARING GONE COMPLEX RAP (1976): MOVIESTORE/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; (2003): RON BATZDORFF/ RGW WRONG CRI INSTRUMENTATION NO-LONGER- charine sweetness. In 2041, some current kid will claim this film is SO-YOUNG perfect. They will be wrong. D LEIMERT PARK TOURS “POST-MOONLIGHT LPT PMA AMERICA”

FREAKY FRIDAY ADULTHOOD. JUST ANOTHER MANIC MONDAY

AUGUST 3, 2018 EW.COM 45 TV Super Women CW stars Caity Lotz and Candice Patton are looking to empower women through their new global initiative, Shethority. BY SAMANTHA HIGHFILL

ON SCREEN, DC’S LEGENDS OF Tomorrow’s Caity Lotz and The Flash’s Candice Patton help save the world on a weekly basis, battling metahumans, aliens, and even the occasional demon. But of screen, the actors are focused on a diferent battle: combating the notion that women should see one another as competition. “Society has pitted women against each other,” Lotz says. “There’s always this feeling of ‘There’s only one seat at the table, and if you want it, you better tear that other girl down.’ But if we want to reach equality, we have to lift each other up.” In order to do that, Lotz and Patton founded Shethority, a digital space where women can come together and, quite simply, talk. The idea was solidified during the filming of the 2016 Arrowverse crossover event, which brought together characters from four CW superhero shows—Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash,and Supergirl. While their characters teamed up in front of the camera, the women found themselves talking more and more between takes. “It’s usu- Caity Lotz, Emily Bett Rickards, Juliana Harkavy, Candice Patton, Chyler Leigh, and Melissa Benoist ally one or two women on each show, and all the sudden there Less than a year later, She- about what’s afecting them, way more in common than we were five or six of us, and we thority has more than 120,000 and they encourage fans to have diferences.” started really talking,” Lotz followers and is feeling timelier do the same. So far, members After launching Shethority’s explains. What resulted was a than ever. “There’s been this have posted about everything oficial website on July 16, conversation that had so much movement of female empower- from gun violence to body they’re looking for ways to con- impact that the actors decided ment and women standing image. “There is no substitute tinue the conversation. Ideas they wanted to involve others. up and asking for what they for the authenticity of actually range from Shethority conven- In October 2017, they launched deserve and demanding talking to one another,” Arrow tions to book clubs, but with social media handles for She- respect and equality,” Patton star and Shethority member everything, the goal remains to thority. “We want it to be a safe says. “Shethority came around Emily Bett Rickards says. show that women are stronger space for female-identifying the time of #MeToo and all of “You’re continually learning together. “So often we smother humans,” Legends star these other movements, and about yourself and the people our own lights, and we allow and Shethority member Maisie I think it has to do with where around you.” Patton adds, society to smother our lights,” CAITY LOTZ CAITY Richardson-Sellers says. we are in our society.” Lotz, “We found that the more Richardson-Sellers says. “Part “People can come, share their Patton, and other women use women speak to each other of Shethority is just giving peo- stories, and be heard.” the Shethority pages to talk and speak truthfully, we have ple permission to shine.”

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© 2018 Novartis 5/18 US-DTM-18-E-0924 TV BAD-DERCALLSAUL Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul returns for season 4 (premiering Aug. 6 at 9 p.m.), and as the two worlds start to merge, new sides of Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill emerge. BY DAN SNIERSON

IT’S MONDAY MORNING IN ALBUQUERQUE, AND Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn are playing Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler, who are playing a dopey brother–frazzled sister team, who are playing an employee in a local-government office: Their elaborate ruse involves crutches, a leaking container of breast milk, and stealth document swap- ping. “It’s the classic breast-milk con,” deadpans Odenkirk during a break. “It’s been done for so long—since they discovered breast milk.” “Same as the shell game, really,” adds Seehorn. Surveying the shady scene, co-creator Vince Gilligan coyly offers: “It’s one small slip for Jimmy, one big one for Kim.” The next day, the scheming has been replaced by screaming. Jimmy leaps out of his beat-up Esteem on a parking-garage roof and drops some life-altering news on Kim. When Kim’s reaction falls short of expecta- tions, he lashes out, and things are said by both that may forever change this intrigu- ing, important, and ill-defined relationship. “If they’re on a roller-coaster ride this season, this is that last terrifying drop,” teases Gilligan. “You’re not sure if the wheels are going to come off or not.” As you see, each day of Better Call Saul’s fourth season brings a different vibe—and the audience a step closer to the troubling transformation of Slippin’ Jimmy into snaky, oily lawyer Saul Goodman. A transfixing character study mixing melancholy, mis- chief, and malevolence, AMC’s Breaking Bad prequel has formulated its own identity, as evidenced by 23 Emmy nominations. And now, as exacting restaurateur/drug kingpin Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) eyes more cartel Bob Odenkirk photographed exclusively for EW by Dan Winters on April 14, 2018, in Los Angeles power and further aligns with world-weary

48 EW.COM AUGUST 3, 2018 PHOTOGRAPH BY DAN WINTERS ex-cop/parking-lot attendant Mike (Jona- than Banks), things are looking Bad-der than ever. “This is the darkest, most dramatic season of Saul,” declares co-creator Peter Gould. “Some of the relationships go to very fraught, dramatic places that are shattering and exciting and maybe more than a little disturbing.” Adds Odenkirk: “The Breaking Bad world within our world is growing. It’s going to swallow us—and that’s okay with me.” The question of when and how Saul will swallow Jimmy looms larger, especially after he learns that his disapproving brother Chuck (Michael McKean) has self- immolated. In the season 3 finale, Chuck leveled his sibling by saying that Jimmy never mattered to him—and that he should embrace his destiny as a delinquent. “I think those words turn the whole series,” opines Odenkirk, who dreads Jimmy’s inev- itable transformation: “It’s hard for me when he’s Saul—and that’s what he’s becoming. I’ve enjoyed the fact that Jimmy has a conscience.” According to Gould, killing Chuck was the hardest decision that the writers made in the first three seasons (though he’ll return in flashbacks), and Jimmy’s reaction “was maybe the most dif- ficult thing we had to figure out this season,” (Fromtop)Rhea Seehorn and Bob Odenkirk; Giancarlo Esposito and Jonathan Banks he says. “The moments when the characters surprise us are the moments I treasure, and like she loved Jimmy despite him being a con.” plans.” Esposito warns ominously: “Macho Jimmy rocked me this year.” Elsewhere, Mike isn’t content cashing a Nacho doesn’t really realize how dangerous To that end, don’t expect Jimmy to softly paycheck as a Madrigal security consultant Gus is—and he is going to find out.” commune with his grief. “A massive com- in name only. “He takes that very seriously,” Danger lurks not just in the past, but the partmentalization goes on in his heart and hints Banks. Chuck’s ex-partner Howard future. Odenkirk hints that Cinnabon boss in his mind,” shares Odenkirk. “It’s like a (Patrick Fabian) carries “a burden of guilt Gene is “on the run.” And the time-tinkering fracture inside of the character.” Cracks in that will cause him to do some things he show will unveil Saul scenes set in Bad times. his new veneer will surface, however. wouldn’t have done before Chuck’s death,” “We have a subplot that very squarely gets us “Everywhere he looks, and every person says Gould. Gus must alter his revenge plan into Breaking Bad territory,” says Gilligan. who says something that could be con- for cartel partner Hector (Mark Margolis), “The Breaking Bad world comes shuddering strued as critical, is Chuck, staring at him,” who was temporarily felled by vengeance- against the Better Call Saul world—much like he adds. The suspended lawyer bides his seeking henchman Nacho (Michael the Titanic and the iceberg.” time in a new line of work that exposes him Mando). “We’re going to see him take mat- While you brace for impact, Gould leaves to underworld figures—perhaps one or two ters into his own hands in a very direct way,” this cryptic hint about season 4: “Keep your from Breaking Bad—and he has more sides teases Gould, “and we’re going to see him lay eye on the tequila.” Best to keep the other of himself to show before Saul metastasizes. down one of the cleverest, most indirect one on the breast milk. “You’re going to see some faces [of Saul] this season that you haven’t seen yet,” says

/SONY PICTURES TELEVISION/AMC (2) TELEVISION/AMC PICTURES /SONY Gould. And that also might apply to fellow IT’S HARDFOR MEWHEN HE’S SAUL—AND lawyer Kim, who has been resetting her pri- orities post-accident. “Her lines in the sand THAT’SWHATHE’SBECOMING.”

NICOLE WILDER are bizarre,” notes Seehorn, adding: “It’s not —BOB ODENKIRK

AUGUST 3, 2018 EW.COM 49 TV ENTERTAINING WEEKLY BRINGING POP CULTURE TO YOUR KITCHEN BY RUTH KINANE @RUTHIEKINANE WATCH YOUR RN UTHE SO MANNERS HOSPITALITY Fixin’ to throw a Southern-style SPECIAL soirée? Take hosting tips from these flicks to show your guests a darling time, complete with seersucker and sweet tea.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS Nothing embodies that small-town community vibe like this 1989 weep-

fest. BYO hair curlers and Kleenex. AND HUNGRYSOUTHERN TOO’S FRIED GREEN TOMATOES GREEN FRIED BOURBON PECAN PIE: FOOD NETWORK; PHILLIPS: STEVE ZAK PHOTOGRAPHY ZAK STEVE PHILLIPS: NETWORK; FOOD PIE: PECAN BOURBON

FRIED GREEN TOMATOES : ITV/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; Skip the barbecue tips (unless you’ve got a vicious ex you need to get rid of) Share a Slice of the South and soak up all the Whistle Stop charm.

Queen of kitchens below the Mason-Dixon line, Southern and FORREST GUMP Hungry’s Damaris Phillips serves a warm and gooey helping of Southern hospitality with this Chocolate-Bourbon Pecan Pie : CARUSO/PARAMOUNT; PHILLIP

FORREST GUMP 1 Make crust: In a with a fork. Line with 4 Sprinkle chocolate The Oscar-winning film shows just how INGREDIENTS food processor, pulse foil and fill with pie morsels and remaining far Southern manners can take you—all 1¼ cups flour, granu- weights or dried pecans evenly onto the way to the White House, in fact. 1¼ cups plus 2 tbsp. lated sugar, and salt. beans. Bake on bot- bottom of piecrust. all-purpose flour, Add butter; pulse tom rack of oven for 12 Gently pour filling into divided until mixture forms minutes. Remove foil crust; place pie on a /WIREIMAGE; ½ tsp. granulated sugar THE BLIND SIDE small peas. Gradually and pie weights; return foil-lined baking sheet. ½ tsp. salt 8 tbsp. cold unsalted add ice water; pulse pastry to oven and butter, cubed until dough comes bake for 5 minutes. 5 Bake at 350°F for 35 STEEL MAGNOLIAS

2–4 tbsp. ice water together into a ball. Cool completely on a to 45 minutes or until BROS.; NELSON/WARNER : RALPH ⅓ cup firmly packed Flatten dough into a wire rack, about 30 set. Cool pie com- light brown sugar disk, wrap in parch- minutes. Reduce oven pletely on a wire rack. THE BLIND SIDE 3 large eggs ment paper, and chill temperature to 350°F. ¼ cup coconut oil, SERVES 6–8 Sandra Bullock takes Southern hospi- ©TRISTAR COLLECTION; PICTURES/COURTESY EVERETT : for 1 hour. tality to a whole other level as a wealthy melted Active Time 40 minutes 3 Make filling: Beat ¾ cup sorghum Total Time 3hours,40 mother who adopts a struggling teen. molasses 2 Preheat oven to brown sugar and minutes 3–4 tbsp. bourbon 400°F. On a lightly eggs at medium 1½ cups coarsely floured surface, roll speed with a stand “Pecans, sorghum syrup, THE HELP chopped toasted out pastry to an mixer for 2 minutes and bourbon are all quintessentially Southern pecans, divided 11-inch circle. Place until flufy. Add coco-

½ cup dark chocolate things,” says Phillips. ROBINETTE/DISNEY : DALE pastry in a deep-dish nut oil and remaining and morsels “This pie has them all 9-inch pie plate. Fold 2 tablespoons flour, it’s a pie! It just doesn’t get under edges of pastry and beat for 2 min- more Southern than that.” and crimp, as desired. utes. Add sorghum THE HELP Pierce bottom and and bourbon, and Southern and Hungry airs Mondays at 9 p.m. on the Don’t copy Minny’s pie-making prow- sides of crust evenly beat until blended. Cooking Channel ess, but do appreciate the true heroes Stir in half of pecans. behind those perfectly run households.

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Season Finale Series Debut Dietland Making It 9–10PM | AMC 10–11PM | NBC The extremist group “Jennifer,” which kills This crafting competition is like men and takes no prisoners, is becoming The Great British Baking Show more violent, and Plum is “moving in [the] with glue guns. The joy comes direction” of radicalization, teases star Joy from watching hosts Nick Everyone will Nash. Similarly afected is Kitty (Julianna Oferman and Amy Poehler’s be talking about Margulies), the driven, narcissistic magazine interactions with the artists, it tomorrow editor who lost her empire. And now that and their silly games like craftingg Jennifer is targeting women, no one is safe. pun-ofs (“No way, crotchet”). “Jennifer is going to do what they have to to Even if you don’t know appliqué make people listen,” Nash says. “Not that it’s from decoupage, Making It will right, but they don’t feel like they have any add some beauty to your world. other option.” —Dana Schwartz B —Kristen Baldwin

Love & Bananas: Series Debut Frontline An Elephant Story Hard to Kill 10–11PM | PBS 9–10:19PM | STARZ 10–11PM | DISCOVERY This in-depth, The Last Exorcism actress Ashley Tim Kennedy—a Peabody Award- Bell directed this powerful doc Green Beret and winning doc series Special Forces following Asian elephant conser- goes to the U.S.– sniper, and pro MMA vationist and Time magazine Mexico border and hero Lek Chailert on a riveting fighter—travels the into Central America rescue mission in Thailand. Bell’s country putting his for “Separated: reporting—guided by a mix of life on the line as he It’s okay to let Children at the profound excitement and help- attempts dangerous these build up lessness—propels the nature jobs, including as a Border,” an episode on your DVR doc above most. The film will test pilot escaping investigating the break your heart, mend it, and a burning plane from efects of both the have you questioning your next 20,000 feet. And Obama and Trump trip to the zoo. A– —Joseph Longo we thought window administrations’ washers had it bad... immigration policies.

Casual MAKING IT STREAMING | HULU

Hulu’s underrated gem about two emotion- HASTON/NBC; : CHRIS ally stunted adult siblings struggling to find fulfillment is coming to an end, as all eight season 4 episodes debut July 31. The soulful

premiere launches the show’s first time-jump, STORY invigorating key story lines as real change : MAX RITTER/STARZ; : MAX finally appears possible. For new Casual LOVE AND BANANAS: AN ELEPHANT Devour viewers, star Michaela Watkins recommends beginning with season 1’s fourth episode, it all at once in which her character Valerie has a cringingly funny hookup with a (much) younger guy— “It makes me want to barf every time I think CASUAL about it,” she cracks—and season 3’s second episode, a piercing stand-alone about regret : HULU and loss. —David Canﬁeld

52 EW.COM AUGUST 3, 2018 *TIMES ARE EASTERN DAYLIGHT AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE What to Watch FUNNY FARM Season 3 of HBO’s Animals. premieres Avenger Anthony Gosford Park and David Harbour and Mackie voices Best in Show’s Bob Edie Falco play Aug. 3 at 11:30 p.m. a really long drug- Balaban portrays a a couple named Here are some fun facts store receipt in rapping rat, named Hawk and Psycho. about the new episodes. multiple episodes. Bob Balaban. Enough said.

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Season Premiere Season Finale The Sinner The Four: 10–11PM | USA Battle for Stardom After an 11-year-old (Elisha 8–10PM | FOX Henig, giving creepy-innocent DJ Khaled, Sean demon-child vibes) apparently “Diddy” Combs, and murders his parents, Detective Meghan Trainor Ambrose (Bill Pullman) finds a crown the season 2 hometown full of secrets—and winner, who gets a sad flashbacks. The plot twists record contract, the are absurd, but the fine cast title of iHeartRadio simmers, especially Carrie Coon “On the Verge” artist, as a mysterious matriarch and and more. Maybe Mindhunter’s Hannah Gross as host Fergie will throw a lost soul. B —Darren Franich in some M.I.L.F. $.

Series Debuts Series Debut Outback | Wonders of Mexico Bachelorette Weekend

MARVEL'S 8-9PM | 9-10PM | PBS 11PM–12AM | CMT These series combine the reliability of On this new series—which is nature docs with a touch of “travel show.” not a Bachelor/Bachelorette

: PETER KRAMER/USA On Outback, viewers see the rugged spin-of—a Nashville company Kimberley region of Australia. While not plans celebrations for brides- a tourist destination, the country’s north- and grooms-to-be...and honky-

THE SINNER THE western area is ripe with attractions, tonks are just part of the fun. ;

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KEY OF SEA COMESAILAWAY, COME SAIL AWAY, COME SAIL AWAY WITH ME!” —KRISTEN BELL AND KELSEY GRAMMER, while, appropriately, on a cruise, giving the karaoke treatment to the Styx classic in Netflix’s Like Father. More below (deck). LIKE FATHER : CARA HOWE : CARA

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ROCK THE BOAT Season Premiere Season Finale Cold Justice Food Network Star FOOD NETWORK STAR Like Father 6–7PM | OXYGEN 9–100PM | FOOD NETWORK STREAMING | NETFLIX This true-crime Afteera“pretty intense” Kristen Bell and docuseries is back seasson of this culinary Kelsey Grammer star and is as thrilling as commpetition, Giada De as an estranged ever. Former prose- Laurentiis, who : FOOD NETWORK; Everyone will daughter and father cutor Kelly Siegler cohosts with Bobby be talking about who, on what & Co. try to solve Flayy, promises a it tomorrow should’ve been her the 1982 murder “reallyfun finale” honeymoon cruise, of a devout wife withh a“very bond thanks to some and mother of two. diveerse” final QUANTICO drinks, some laughs, Emotional and threee.To the win- and, presumably, ner, wesay: Saluti! high-stakes, with : GIOVANNI RUFINO/ABC; some Dramamine. chilling results. A– Alsoo, we’re hungry.

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The spy drama’s last Filmmaker/artist It’s harder to keep up with this clan now KARDASHIANS THE WITH UP KEEPING episode features Terence Nance that Kylie, Khloé, and Kim have new babies! a fight in Ireland uniquely blends But family is priority No. 1 for momager Kris that’ll test Alex’s animation, music, Jenner: “We get to work and spend time (Priyanka Chopra) vérité documentary, together doing what we love.” How do you abilities and leave and more on this get baby spit-up out of Gucci? —Dana Schwartz It’s okay to let her in “a really good late-night show place,” EP Michael that tackles such these build up Seitzman teases. thought-provoking

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GOLD STANDARD Santigold mined Afro-Caribbean influences for her surprise new mixtape, I Don’t Want: The Gold Fire Sessions. She speaks with EW about how it all came together. BY LEAH GREENBLATT

Your new record has a much sunnier, looser vibe than your previous ones. Where did that come from? I was in the studio with [producer] Dre Skull, and we were actually writing for someone else. He was playing me all this stuf he had done, and I was like, “I love that!” So we just decided,

“Let’s do a mixtape!”… To me, CRAIG WETHERBY a real mixtape has songs with other people, but this is my version of a mixtape—just shot from the hip, you know?

56 EW.COM AUGUST 3, 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY BIJOU KARMAN NOTEWORTHY MMMBop in A Major Hanson announced a sym- phonic tour and LP featuring new and old songs. Bowie and Butter David Bowie’s first demo was found in an old bread basket in London.

Afro-Caribbean music hasn’t be a little bit easier if I was a little necessarily been at the bit more successful in that way, SANTIGOLD ON center of your sound, but your because it’s really hard. I’ve been HER 5 FAVORITE RL Grime relationshipwithitgoesa doing it for a long time, and after AFRO-CARRIBEAN TITLE NOVA ways back, right? a while the grind kind of wears ARTISTS

It’s always been part of my musi- you down. But at the same time, LABEL WEDIDIT | GENRE EDM calDNA.AnyrecordI’vedone all my favorite bands are the since 2010 I’ve made at least ones that had to grind. So I’m not REVIEW BY Gerrad Hall part of in Jamaica. And my dad saying I love the grind, but I like @gerradhall played all kinds of stuf at home the music that comes from that, when I was growing up, from you know? ALPHA BLONDY consciousness reggae like Steel AFTER LIVING LARGELY Pulse to, obviously, Bob Marley, Youhavetourdatescomingup “I’ve been listening to (and successfully) on him since I was 11.” but also Fela Kuti and Ali Farka with Lauryn Hill, who famously the club and festival Touré. Even in college when stepped away from the industry circuits—gaining a cult following I was a music major, I was a hand to raise her family. How does for his progressive, hybrid trap drummer. [Laughs] I studied this feel for you, with a 4-year- sound and banger remixes (see: West African music and Haitian old and newborn twins? Kanye West’s “Mercy” and Rihan- and Cuban drumming. So the It’s really hard juggling, trying na’s “Pour It Up”)—RL Grime way that the rhythms lock I find to carve out a time to have returns with NOVA, his most main- WIZKID really interesting. a family and be a mom and have stream album yet. “His stuff sounds pop a career, especially a creative [with] a lot more Highlights here include the On the cover of your last album, career. I have all these friends African influence.” repeat-friendly dance anthem 99¢, you were literally shrink- now who have similar situa- “Light Me Up,” which has a slow, wrapped under plastic. Are you tions. Like, I went to see the Yeah sensitive build with a bouncy drop breathing any easier now? Yeah Yeahs at the Hollywood and chorus, and is enjoyably Four months ago I had twins, Bowl recently, and I was so reminiscent of the Chainsmokers’ and I also just moved to L.A., proud of Karen [O] because she hit “Closer.” The song also features so I’m not really breathing easier. had a baby a couple years

TI: WARING ABBOTT/MICHAEL OCHS ABBOTT/MICHAEL WARING TI: assists from singer-songwriter Julia [Laughs]Actually,I’mmoreunder ago, right around when I did, SHELLY THUNDER Michaels along with R&B enigma plastic than I was before. And and she’s such a strong, badass “‘Kuff’ is an amazing Miguel (the latter of whom provided that’s why this was so quick. woman on stage that I almost dancehall song. I love vocals on RL Grime’s biggest song that she uses her The way I’m used to approaching started crying.... There’s not voice as an instrument.” to date, 2017’s “Stay for It”). UNDER: JANETTE BECKMAN/GETTY IMAGES an album is so thought-out— much support for that. I read Elsewhere, singer Daya pops up a really long process where somewhere that the birth rate in for a collaboration on the already I overthink everything and come the U.S. had gone down drasti- released hit “I Wanna Know” (it up with a concept and tie it all cally because we don’t really try broke at No. 1 on the iTunes Elec- together with the artwork. And to help women have families tronic chart), while Jeremih and this is, like, 100 percent opposite and work. Tory Lanez give life to “Undo,” of that. I just wanted to make a FELA KUTI a xylophone-heavy track with plucky summertime record, like, boom! It’s been 10 years since your solo “My dad took me to see synth production and a thumping debut, Santogold.Isitniceto him when I was 7. bass beat. Both songs, as well as You’ve worked in the studio look back on, or do you cringe It was very formative.” the radio-ready “Take It Away” with stars including Drake and like it’s a yearbook photo? (featuring Ty Dolla $ign and TK Christina Aguilera, and toured No, I really like it! And the thing Kravitz), showcase Grime’s knack with everyone from Coldplay to is that I don’t feel like that about for integrating hip-hop influences Kanye and Jay-Z. Do you envy anything. I’m the type of person with a more pop-heavy direction. thatlevelofsuccesswhenyou who doesn’t have any tattoos NOVA fits the dictionary defini- /SAMSON/GAMMA-RAPHO/GETTY IMAGES; WIZKID: JOSEPH OKPAKO/WIREIMAGE; KU OKPAKO/WIREIMAGE; JOSEPH WIZKID: /SAMSON/GAMMA-RAPHO/GETTY IMAGES; see it up close, or not so much? because I know that I will not like tion of its title: a bright star packed Well, I don’t really envy the fame. them later. But I’m really proud YELLOWMAN with vivid, undeniable energy— I wouldn’t want to be at the point of it, I can still listen to it and “He’s one of those artists one that sets the stage for the who are super rhythmic where I couldn’t walk down the enjoy it. I mean, not often, but like in their delivery.” DJ-producer’s consistently evolv- BLONDY: CATARINA BLONDY: ARCHIVES/GETTY PETER NOBLE/REDFERNS/GETTY YELLOWMAN: IMAGES; TH IMAGES; street. But I imagine that it would every four years. [Laughs] ing sound. B–

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PLAYBACKTHE A rundown of notable box sets, compilations, and reissues. BY ALEX SUSKIND

Amanda Shires The violinist-singer-songwriter and recent recipient of an M.F.A. in creative writing muses ERIC B. & RAKIM about the poetic and dark influences of her THE COMPLETE COLLECTION | Urban Legends new record, To the Sunset. BY KATHERINE TURMAN William Michael Grifin Jr. had a partnership that was set his sights on playing col- recently memorialized in On how poetry afected the “Break Out the Champagne.” lege football before Louis a career-spanning box set, new album “I was on a plane that lost Eric Barrier knocked on his which includes their four Shires admits that her grad- an engine flying from Dallas door. Barrier, a local DJ and studio albums (Paid in Full, uate studies had a huge to England,” says Shires. producer, was searching for a Follow the Leader, Let the impact on To the Sunset.“A “I thought I was gonna die.” talented MC to work with and Rhythm Hit ’Em,andDon’t lot of it was the scolding I But her wry humor remained, had heard that Grifin could Sweat the Technique)on got from [professor] Andrew and she transformed the rhyme. He came to the right vinyl, along with photos, Hudgins that remains in my whole experience into a place. Barrier not only discov- interviews, and a collection ears like a tiny sock puppet memorable song of her ered a gifted lyricist that of rare remixes. SHIRES: ELIZAVETA PORODINA; ERIC B AND RAKIM: MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVE OCHS MICHAEL RAKIM: B AND ERIC PORODINA; ELIZAVETA SHIRES: saying, ‘Is it nailing Jesus on Monday-morning-quarter- day in 1985, he found a once- The release showcases the cross for you to use backing the incident. “I in-a-generation talent and how Rakim, with his quick a comma, Shires?’ ” she turned it into a party, and musical partner in crime. couplets and witty repartee, says. “Also, learning about everybody would have some Hip-hop’s cultural omni- and Eric B., with his cutting, the way you break lines up fun while the plane would presence was built on the percussive beats, set a new on the page and the efect either go down...or not.” sweat of its heralded Golden course for rap. That much that has as you read it. That Era, a period where Barrier is clear from their first single, can really help my songs, On the diference between and Grifin—better known “Eric B. Is President,” which about where to put the most poems and songs as Eric B. & Rakim—were includes a Honeydrippers valuable words and expres- Songs aren’t just poems set its undisputed kings. It’s sample and the oft-repeated sions. The thing that I’m try- to music, says Shires. “There lines “I came in the door, ing to accomplish is to tell are a lot of poetic things in I said it before/I never let the the stories and my feelings songwriting, for sure. But I micmagnetizemenomore/ in ways that are relatable. think they’re two completely But it’s biting me, fighting me, But at the same time, I’m so diferent animals. Musicians inviting me to rhyme.” tired of hearing the same old have the luxury of being Six years later (the duo crap. Bring some freshness able to lean on their sonic split after their last LP), Eric if you can.” landscape. [Writers] have B. & Rakim had cemented

only got this white piece of themselves on rap’s Mount IMAGES S/GETTY On turning fear into art paper and whatever color Olympus, where they still It was a scary flight that of ink you use that day. To get reside today. And that ain’t sparked the album’s inspira- your point across, you have no joke. tional and raucous gem to be so precise.”

19 WORDS ON R. KELLY’S 19-MINUTE SONG “I ADMIT” > This loaded and loathsome single has the embattled R&B singer attacking his “enemies”

58 EW.COM AUGUST 3, 2018 Prince, Bon Jovi, Madonna, Martika, Boobbyy STRAIGHT Brown, annd Simply Reed SHOOTER CHART FLASHBACK After forays into prog and disco (really), and spending time producing other artists, Shooter Jennings is heading back to the honky-tonk. Reunited with producer Dave Cobb—and with an assist from Randy Quaid(!)—he’s created a rollicking self-titled LP (out Aug. 10) that would’ve made dad Waylon proud. BY SARAH RODMAN

SHOOTER JENNINGS’ FANS HAVE BRANDI CARLILE 1989 to thank for his new album. The Americana singer-songwriter reunited Jennings with his old pal Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell) On the Hot 100 29 years ago, a teen actress cried for “Toy Soldiers,” Prince to produce her superb latest album, By the Way, I Forgive You. “We were just having so much fun gave bats a soundtrack, and Bon Jovi got handsy. BY LEAH GREENBLATT doing that record we didn’t want to stop, so we just did my record, too,” says Jennings of his vin- tage-sounding, nine-song collection, Shooter. 1 MARTIKA 6 SIMPLY RED Jennings says he approaches each record “TOY SOLDIERS” “IF YOU DON’T KNOW ME BY NOW” like he has something new to prove. Having LA, LTD./WIREIMAGE; LA, Step by step, heart to heart, we all The ’80s had a real run of white guys gone so far afield with Countach, his 2016 fell down for the lace bodysuits and with questionable hair—et tu, Mick Huck- tribute to disco genius Giorgio Moroder, he deep Casio melodrama of Kids Incor- nall?—singing songs by black artists. figured the most radical thing he could do was porated’s Martika. We also did not But blessings (and royalties, we hope) tap back into his inner outlaw. know this song was about cocaine. A to Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. B “A lot of dudes nowadays are cutting these adventurous, psychedelic Southern-rock

2 PRINCE 7 BON JOVI records, and I felt like nobody’s doing a Hank “BATDANCE” “LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME” Jr. record, and I could do one because I love Trust Prince to find the winky, freaky A spangly double-entendre come-on that style, that era.” camp in such a fundamentally uncool naughty enough to make carpool moms From the fleet-footed opening boogie of idea. Why would Batman have a grip the steering wheel extra hard, “Bound Ta Git Down” to barroom weepers like dance? Can Lex Luthor calypso? Does but godly enough to be covered by Dolly “Rhinestone Eyes,” Jennings is not only channel- HS ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES; MARTIKA: RON GALEL the Joker do the Dougie? No. B+ Parton on her 2014 gospel album. B+ ing his inner Bocephus but tipping a cap to artists like Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as Jennings’ dad. Speaking of outlaws, one track on Shooter 3 MADONNA 8 GREAT WHITE “EXPRESS YOURSELF” “ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY” got its name courtesy of actor Randy Quaid,

/GETTY IMAGES; JENNINGS: OHN SHEARER/GETTY IMAGES PORTRAIT Just everything a girl ever needed to A little heavy on the shark metaphors, after the pair struck up a Twitter friendship and know about sexual equality and self- these guys. Still, a not-bad artifact began corresponding. When the Vacation star respect and never ever settling for satin of leather-pantsy skeeze ’n’ cheese. B signed of one note “Here’s to fast horses and sheets or second best, with cowbell.A+ good hideouts,” a song title was born. 9 DINO “I LIKE IT” 4 LOVE AND ROCKETS “SO ALIVE” Hair-gel disco. But it is fun to picture These British libertines’ vague, sexy Dino muttering, “That’s the way it has menace exactly represented all the to be, cuz that’s the way I liiiike it” amazing things that happened on MTV under his breath every time he rolls up after you had to go to bed. A– for his iced macchiato at Starbucks.C+

5 BOBBY BROWN 10 RICHARD MARX “ON OUR OWN” “RIGHT HERE WAITING”

/WIREIMAGE; BON JOVI: KEVIN MAZUR/WIREIMAGE; MADONNA: MICHAEL OC Poor Bobby. Ray Parker Jr. had Either a fantastically romantic promise already nailed the theme to the first (Wherever you go! Whatever you do! Ghostbusters; where could the He will be right here waiting for you!) sequel song go? A bunch of squiggly or kind of a terrifying one (Wherever synths and a Donald Trump cameo, you go! Whatever you do! He will be PRINCE: PAUL NATKIN BROWN: RAYMOND BOYD/GETTY IMAGES; HUCKNALL: DAVID REDFERN/REDFERNS that’s where. B right here waiting for you). B and vociferously denying sex-cult allegations. D– —ALEX SUSKIND Books

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IT ONLY TAKES A MOMENT FOR anyone’s world to tip sideways, irretrievably: a flash of anger, a spur-of-the-moment turn, a life snufed out. But no moment ever stands alone, of course; it’s just OUTSIDEVOICES the flash point on a path laid down, purposefully or not, by the Two dazzling new novels, R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries and David Chariandy’s Brother, thousands that came before it. find fresh currency in tales of love, loss, and the immigrant experience—and prove that R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries some of the best fiction still comes in small packages. BY LEAH GREENBLATT and David Chariandy’s Brother are

60 EW.COM AUGUST 3, 2018 BETWEEN Done Deal The new nonfiction book Rising Water will THE tell the story of the Thai cave rescue for young readers. LINES Long Overdue Marjorie Liu (Monstress) won the Eisner Award for Best Writer, becoming the first woman to receive the honor in the comics award’s history.

but loving mother, who works hard to keep them cared for even when she’s too exhausted to stand. Home is rust stains and FORBOTH cracked asphalt and watchful neighbors, a place where “they PROTAGONISTS, spoke diferent languages, they ate diferent foods, but they were WritingtoRun THEPAST all from one colony or another.” It’salsothe1980sofMr.Tand Several high-profile Democrats—and potential IS ANOTHER LL Cool J, and the street bona 2020 presidential players—have books on the way, fides that come so easily to just in time for election season. BY DAVID CANFIELD COUNTRY— Michael are also what help doom him. Chariandy (whose previous LITERALLY. novel was released only in Canada) ELIZABETH WARREN BY ANTONIA FELIX traces that loss in paragraphs so AUG. 28, 2018 clean and pared down, every sen- The U.S. senator is building buzz: This YRE/GETTY IMAGES tence feels like a polished stone. sweeping, pointed biography comes just hardly the first novels to wrestle Like Brother, Kwon’s short, a year after the publication of Warren’s with the strange confluences of sharp debut really belongs to autobiography. Author Felix previously wrote fate and consequence—or even more than one person; it’s also books on Laura Bush and Condoleezza Rice. the first to frame their stories narrated by Leal and the boy through the eyes of characters who loves Phoebe, Will Kendall. BECOMING BY MICHELLE OBAMA whose identities lie at least partly A scholarship transfer from NOV. 13, 2018 on another continent. But they a dead-end exurb of San Fran- Sure, it’s a long shot—the former First Lady each do it with such shrewd cisco, he has abruptly aban- has certainly been clear about her intentions insight and graceful economy that doned his born-again faith to not run. But she is the Democrats’ preferred the result feels gratifyingly new. and the Bible-school education candidate, per recent polling, and this inspir- REN: ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES; EMMA MCINT Their protagonists start out that went with it. And he can’t ing memoir won’t change that. from vastly diferent places: The help but be seduced by the gin Incendiaries’ Phoebe is a piano gimlets and jewel-colored polo WHERE WE GO FROM HERE BY BERNIE SANDERS prodigy raised in the sun-dappled shirts of his glamorous new NOV. 27, 2018 privilege of Los Angeles; Brother’s classmates, “the lotus-eaters Another activism manual from 2016’s Demo- Francis is scraping by as a big-box who sprawled on the lawn.” cratic primary runner-up is on the horizon. worker in the grim grayscale of But it’s Phoebe who is his In his latest, Sanders outlines his eforts Toronto’s working poor. For both, obsession, even as her growing to oppose the Trump agenda—which should the past is another country, liter- fundamentalism leads to a come in handy come campaign time. ally—South Korea for her, Trinidad violent act she can’t take back. for him. But it’s Phoebe who falls If Kwon’s often intoxicating prose THE TRUTHS WE HOLD BY KAMALA HARRIS first, and furthest; convinced that has a fault, it’s that her charac- JAN. 8, 2019 she’s to blame for her mother’s ters all tend to speak in the same Days after The New York Times reported death, she loses herself in sex and feverish, convoluted syntax of that Harris was eyeing a 2020 bid, Penguin parties at her elite East Coast an M.F.A. grad. (These are smart Press announced the U.S. senator’s memoir— college before pivoting abruptly kids, but still; Will’s an econ a story about unity, ambitiously (and to an extreme religious group, major.) In the end, neither book tellingly) subtitled “An American Journey.” a sort of campus cult led by an seems especially interested ex-student–turned–self-styled in definitive answers or happily PURSUING JUSTICE BY ERIC HOLDER /NBCU PHOTO BANK/GETTY IMAGES; OBAMA: ERIKA GOLDRING/WIREIMAGE; WAR guru named John Leal. ever afters. What they ofer JUNE 11, 2019 Francis never had much of instead are stories that don’t Described as “provocative,” Holder’s a net below him to begin with. His try to outline or erase otherness memoir will revisit some of the major trans- safe place was always family: his but illuminate it, beautifully. formative work he did as President Obama’s brother Michael, one year older The Incendiaries B+ attorney general. If he runs, expect racial

SANDERS: LLOYD BISHOP and infinitely cooler, and his strict Brother A– issues to move to the election’s fore.

AUGUST 3, 2018 EW.COM 61 LITERARY (FAN)FICTION Rihanna’s Hopeful Place Alexia Arthurs’ first book, the short-story collection How to Love a Jamaican, brilliantly reimagines RiRi in a poignant tale of immigrant life, familial bonds, and the trappings of fame. BY DAVID CANFIELD

TUCKED WITHIN comfortable with the idea of writing one of the sum- from her point of view.” mer’s most exciting The more research Arthurs did, BREAKING literary debuts is a the more inspired she became. She beautiful—and dis- was fascinated by an episode of Oprah armingly afecting— in which Rihanna gave the TV host a slice of Rihanna tour of her old hometown. (“They’d fanfiction. stop and talk to people in the neigh- BARRIERS The book is How borhood like they weren’t Oprah and to Love a Jamaican, Rihanna!”) She learned that Rihanna Black, gay, and a pop culture a sublime short-story collection from has stayed best friends with her child- fiend, Michael Arceneaux newcomer Alexia Arthurs that explores, hood bestie into adulthood. She even tells his life story with humor through various characters, a specific scanned Rihanna’s mom’s Instagram. and heart in a sharp series of strand of the immigrant experience. All of this made it into “Shirley,” essays. BY DAVID CANFIELD Though this is the author’s first book, if only implicitly. “At its essence, [the the prose is assured and textured, story] is about what wealth does, and enlivened by a personal touch— Your book, ICan’t “sad black gay.” But [suddenly] having all of these options,” Arthurs’ own life, growing up and Date Jesus,issubti- I struggled with the Arthurs says. “But that small place living as an undocumented immigrant tled “Reasons I’ve Put reality of my life. Writ- she comes from—the human power in the U.S. until the age of 24. My Faith in Beyoncé.” ing about my father at home—is what she comes back to.” I’m all things Beyoncé did make me cry, and Jamaican’s final tale marks a slight Indeed, the power of “Shirley” is in my mind. I’ve been it was dificult to write departure from what comes before it, derived not from its real-world paral- stanning for her for about my mom and centering on a mega–pop star named lels but from the way it fits into the 20 years. I mean, I’m that gray area we still Shirley, who has overcome any and broader tapestry that Arthurs weaves a gay man from Hous- have—how, as much all material dificulties associated with in Jamaican—the themes of regret, ton, Texas! [Laughs] as I love her, she’s still her immigrant identity by ascending dissonance, and, most potently, long- not totally accepting to the pinnacles of fame and wealth. ing. Shirley and Rihanna may come It also gets at a larger of my sexuality. She’s rich and beloved—and based from small places, at least compared idea in the book, on none other than RiRi herself. But with the glitzy American music indus- about pop culture’s David Sedaris is an the story, titled “Shirley From a Small try, but as Arthurs’ vibrant take on the importance to you. influence for you. Place,” is hardly a frothy celeb portrait. Caribbean-immigrant experience Yeah. Pop culture is Where do you difer? It’s a loving study of a woman seeking reminds us, it’s anything but hopeless. how I learned how to Well, it took me years privacy while living a be myself. People like to get this published! battling depression a Janet Jackson and Lil’ It’s easier for people grieve the death of a Kim taught me about to consume white She winds up back in sex. Thinking about gay men doing this. birth—Jamaica—facin my body and the feel- Often we consume judgmental mother a ings I was having—I otherness solely in learned that through terms of pathology; that’s come to idolize them. I’m grateful to it’s like, “I’m black At first, fictionalizi my parents and I love and gay, so it must born Rihanna for Jam my family, but we be so awful to be Arthurs. “I felt so dist didn’t talk about a lot. me.”Theideaofme imagination of a pop being able to make says. “I couldn’t ima Your voice is comic, fun of my trauma— to enter her consciou but you don’t avoid [publishers] didn’t how, over time, I bec darker stuf you’ve think there’d be an lived through. Why? audience for that. I was adamant about But thankfully, we’re not wanting to be the proving that there is. Rihanna

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A DOUBLE LIFE BY FLYNN BERRY THRILLER ECA Berry’s debut, the delicious murder-mystery Under the Harrow, won her the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Now she’s back with another page-turner, this time unfurling a saga that begins with the image of a woman dashing into a pub, desperately seeking help—and covered in blood.

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BY Laura van den Berg The award-winning writer (Husband of a Fanatic) and Vassar professor follows several classic forms—the story of a young PAGES 209 | GENRE Fiction man’s sexual awakening, the coming-to-America tale, the autobiographical-novel-as-diary—in his latest, which REVIEW BY David Canfield @davidcanfield97 reads less like pure plotted fiction than an impressionistic, occasionally extraordinary collection of loose thoughts.

CLARE SEES DEAD PEOPLE. DEBUTS A widow wandering the streets of

Havana, a tourist surrounded by GHOSTED BY ROSIE WALSH ROMANCE ECA tourists, she locks eyes with her late hus- Walsh’s mysterious love story, about a perfect new couple band, a horror-film scholar named Richard, pulled apart by a deep secret, is already a global hit in the making, with rights preemptively sold in 30 countries. in broad daylight. She came to Cuba to THE SHORTEST WAY HOME screen a zombie film in his honor; she stays BY MIRIAM PARKER FICTION EA to observe a zombie of her own. Whether This one screams smart beach read: A woman on the cusp he’s haunting her or alive and merely hiding of everything she wants in life—dream job, committed boy- from her becomes, in this nightmarishly friend, luxe apartment—suddenly decides to let it all go. vivid novel, beside the point. The Third Hotel could be fairly described as TRUE STORIES a meditation on grief, or marriage, or travel; fresh insights on each materialize regularly. THE DEATH OF TRUTH BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI CRITICISM EA But in her second novel, van den Berg (Find The lauded former New York Times chief book critic offers rigorously researched and brilliantly argued essays that Me) gets under your skin and hits bone. Hers tackle “falsehoods in the age of Trump.” is a terror tale as mercurial as life, veering NOW MY HEART IS FULL BY LAURA JUNE MEMOIR EA between the grisly and the gentle. There’s talk /CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES, POSEY: RACHEL MURRAY/GETTY IMAGES RACHEL MURRAY/GETTY /CORBIS/GETTY POSEY: IMAGES, One of the more acclaimed writers in the parenting space, of cats killing themselves and random finger- June traces the link between her mother’s alcoholism and being swallowed, baked into a story of her own struggles as a parent in this bracing new memoir. ying marriages, sleepless nights, life’s WHEN YOU’RE ON AN AIRPLANE er-unfinished business. Clare’s bumpy, BY PARKER POSEY MEMOIR ECA ul relationship with her husband is over, Celebrity intrigue, meditations on aging in Hollywood, handmade collages, long monologues about her dog— et it continues. Its mystery is propelled Posey’s memoir nicely reflects her sharp yet zany persona. stinct, of an atmospheric logic realized n den Berg with bloodcurdling realism. tting near Richard one day, Clare won- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (ISSN 1049-0434) IS PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A MONTH EXCEPT FOR TWO ISSUES IN JANUARY, MAY, AND JULY AND FOUR ISSUES IN NOVEMBER BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY INC., A SUBSIDIARY OF TIME INC. TIME INC. IS A WHOLLY OWNER SUBSIDIARY OF MEREDITH CORPORATION. PRINCIPAL why he’s still invading her world: “You OFFICE: 225 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10281. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT NEW YORK, NY, AND ADDITIONAL MAILING OFFICES. POSTMASTER: PLEASE SEND ALL UAA TO CFS (SEE DMM 507.14.5.2); NON POSTAL AND MILITARY FACILITIES: SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, P.O. BOX 62120, ead.... How could you have forgotten?” TAMPA, FL 33662-2120. FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE CALL 1-800-274-6800, OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.EW.COM/SUBSCRIBERSERVICES, OR WRITE US AT ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, P.O. BOX 62120, TAMPA, FL 33662-2120. CANADA POST PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40110178. GST 888381621RT0001. ©2018

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