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ALL THE WAYS BACKSTREET’S BACK

BRIAN LITTRELL & AJ MCLEAN

The two singers tell EW's Samantha Highfill how the larger- than-life band plans to celebrate 25 years of making music and playing games BACKSTREET BOYS: IMAGES (2); KEITH JEFF LITTRELL: KRAVITZ/FILMMAGIC GRINER/GETTY (with our hearts)

THE NEW SINGLE

“Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” dropped May 17. BRIAN LITTRELL We’ve recorded maybe 12 songs, and this one just hit. It screams Backstreet Boys. AJ MCLEAN To me, it sounds like if you were to mash up the Weeknd with the Bee Gees. It’s reminis- cent of old-school Backstreet Boys, like Millennium days, with a more modern twist. ; MINDY MCLEAN: SMALL/FILMMAGIC

“DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART” BY BACKSTREET BOYS No, you’re not dreaming—the ’90s band proves its musical mettle in 2018 with this catchy single (no relation to Elton John) that announces, triumphantly, that Backstreet’s returned. All right?

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THE NEW ALBUM

BSB’s 10th studio album drops this fall. THE MIDDLE MCLEAN The album is slowly starting to take shape. There’ve After nine seasons of hilarious pratfalls and been songs that are awkward family moments, The Middle comes pop-country, songs that are straight to an end on ABC on May 22. We’ll sure as hell urban R&B, songs miss the Heck family, but there’s no better way that are borderline to honor this endearingly average clan than to EDM. We’re fans of start all over again and begin rewatching one all walks of music. LITTRELL That was of the purest TV underdogs of the decade. a great answer, AJ. I’m not even going to attempt that one.

THE VEGAS RESIDENCY

The Boys return to Sin City in July. It’s so inssane to MCLEAN Nine shows think theeshow was the original deal, would haavealeg- g then we added nine acy, that I could be more, and nine more, part of something and then an addi- that people will tional 52. It’s become think about beyond a second home. this moment. If you LITTRELL [Vegas is] think of your favor- a perfect fit for ite finale and the us. I hope we keep feeling it evoked, going, because it’s I think [our finale] a cool thing to be so captured that. We close to fans, doing had a party, then three shows a week. I went to the ward- THE TOUR robe station to take the Sue rejects. I spent hours going In March 2019, they through all the hit the road. clothes, and I took MCLEAN This tour will quite a bit. I didn’t commemorate 25 feel bad, because it years together. Obvi- wasn’t special to ously we’re going to anyone but me. It do the hits and then felt good.” some stuf from our —EDEN SHER, new album. We’re ON SAYING GOODBYE going to try to knock TO SUE HECK it out of the park.

THE OTHER ALBUM?

Something special is planned for late 2018. LITTRELL The fans might get two albums this year. PRETEND I’M DEAD You’re going to get by Jen Beagin a 10th album with all-new material, and The author won a prestigious Whiting Award for maybe a few sur- her spiky first novel, a portrait of a young

: MICHAEL ANSELL/ABC; SHER: MICHAEL TULLBERG/GETTY IMAGES prises on another cleaning woman whose romance with a junkie— album—who knows? referred to, exclusively, as Mr. Disgusting—ends Never count the in tragedy. It’s dark stuf, to be sure, but Beagin’s

THE MIDDLE THE Backstreet Boys out. prose is ultimately breezy and scathingly funny.

MAY 25, 2018 EW.COM 9 9 WORDS ON GLEE’S 9TH ANNIVERSSARY No, YOU still listen to Glee’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.” “THISIS AMERICA” BY CHILDISH GAMBINO

Childish Gambino’s Murai-directed music new stand-alone single video, which raises mixes gospel and trap dificult questions to create a striking about gun violence, rumination about life in black culture, and this country; however, more. Donald Glover the genre-blending has definitely leveled track is immediately up with this one. elevatedltdbt by theh provocative andbleak visuals of its Hiro CHILDISH GAMBINO: WILL HEATH/NBCU/GETTY IMAGES; MICHELE: PATRICK ECCLESINE/FOX

DAMN, I WISH I WAS YOUR GLOVER

In 2011, Community the Wall-reminiscent mode as Lando Cal- star Donald Glover track “Saturday” rissian in Solo: A Star described himself as when he served as Wars Story on May a “Renaissance man host and musical 25, and by Septem- with a Hollywood guest on SNL on ber he’ll embark on buzz” on the Childish May 5. While the the 18-city This Is Gambino song “Not stunning second America tour. (Plus, Going Back.” Well, season of his Emmy- don’t forget that he’s that buzzy hum has winning FX comedy set to star—along- crescendoed into Atlanta concluded side Beyoncé!—in a loud, inescapable on May 10, its chal- Disney’s remake of roar as Glover is lenging episodes The Lion King next everywhere right (including the award- year.) Yes, summer is now. In addition to worthy “Teddy Per- sure on its way—but the viral “This Is kins”) are still inciting Glover season is America,” Glover conversation. He’ll already in full swing. debuted the fun, Of go full superhero —CHANCELLOR AGARD

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THE HIGH SEASON by Judy Blundell 13 We can’t think of a better beach read to kick of the dog days. Blundell’s adult debut has it all: glamorous Hamptons intrigue, REASONS cutting satire, and a woman scorned—strug- gling to keep her crumbling life together over one delectably unhinged summer. WHY

HOW TO One of 2017’s most controversial BUILD A BEACH READ shows is back for a twisty second season as Hannah’s story collides (BLUNDELL’S 3 TIPS) with the expanded lives of her KEEP THE PLOT JUICY BUT NOT JUMBLED classmates. Season 2 takes a min- ute to get going, but if you look “Twists and turns [should] come pretty past its overly instructive moments, often. One wall in my ofice was just made up of index cards, and Post-it notes, and color- you’ll find plenty of reasons why coded Sharpies...the inside of my crazy brain!” it’s ultimately a success. (Netflix) TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE HEAT Before high school student coming to terms with her “Everyone approaches summer in this Hannah Baker committed sexual assault; tortured way where they’re going to turn a page in suicide, she recorded 13 tapes athlete Justin left town; loner their life.... It’s also a concentrated 30- chronicling the many people photographer Tyler was period of time for things to go wrong.” SECOND and events that led her down collecting guns; and sheriff’s RECAP that path—and by the end son Alex shot himself. And then GET YOUR HERO TO A BREAKING POINT of season 1, Hannah wouldn’t there’s quiet protagonist Clay, be the only one affected: still just trying to make sense “Good novels are always about bad choices.” Cheerleader Jessica was of it all. Welcome to season 2.

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they make a point to see it your personal 2001—how gentrification, ERICA PARISE/STARZ in this special format? did that feel? The entire film is so and Latino much more heightened, identity. (Starz, 20012 is one of the most It’s daunting. You can’t the color particularly. Sundays, radical movies ever make a serious science- There are things that made. It broke all the fiction film about appear to you in a reve- 8:30 p.m.) ruules for how films could journeying out into the latory way. I would have tell a story, and it shows, universe that doesn’t to point to the visual more than any other acknowledge the exis- efects, though—they CHRIST film, that movies can be tence of 2001.Itwasa are so stunning, and anything. What we’re process of not watching that first shot where NOLAN doing is putting it out it for several years while you see that revolving there in its original working on Interstellar. space station as “The 70mm photochemical But the wonderful thing Blue Danube” starts The director geeks out analog glory to give about this project is that up, it gets me every about restoring 2001 to audiences in 2018 the I got to watch the film time. It’s remarkable. its 1968 roots. same experiences that again, and it was a joy to You cannot believe this BY PIYA SINHA-ROY audiences had in 1968. come back to it. film is 50 years old.

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Writer-director Coralie Fargeat’s rape-revenge thriller calls “Time’s Up” on the genre’s more misogynistic tropes by declining to depict the

initial crime that sets this LIFE YOUR OF REST THE FOR FORGET WILL YOU EVENING AN juicy film into motion but devoting plenty of time to the ensuing retribu- tion. Learn the name of actress Matilda Lutz, who unforgettably transforms from left-for-dead victim to vengeance-seeking angel of death. Three other Netflix comedy specials STAND-UP & DELIVER to stream right now : NETFLIX; WONG: KEN WORONER/NETFLIX; NOTARO & MULANEY: NETFLIX (2)

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 after being axed by ABC. Fans mocked Fox ( Clockwise from left ) for ditching the critical darling Brooklyn for C Lil Rel Howery, the prosaic Tim Allen sitcom, but the num- Jay Hernandez, Andy Samberg, bers make sense. (Standing was averaging Nathan Fillion, CLOSE CALLS DON’T COME MUCH CLOSER THAN THIS. THINGS Lauren Cohan, 8.3 million viewers to Brooklyn’s 2.7 mil- went down to the wire this year as network execs waited until the Tim Allen, lion.) And then there’s the whole Roseanne Charmed’s last minute to decide the fate of many beloved shows before reveal- Melonie Diaz, Effect, with Fox executives admitting Madeleine ing their master plans for the 2018–19 season to advertisers this Mantock, and ABC’s ratings success with the revival was MANTOCK: TARA ZIEMBA/FILMMAGIC; MELONIE DIAZ: PHILLIP FARAONE/WIREIMAGE

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week—and at least two shows were outright resurrected after a factor in their decision, while downplay- MADELE ARCHULETA/FILMMAGIC; PAUL JEFFERY: SARAH MICKSHAW/FOX; receiving fatal death blows. ing Allen’s conservative political beliefs. First, Fox canceled Brooklyn Nine-Nine after five seasons, a deci- “Tim’s personal politics are not a big fea- sion the network says was made because of low ratings and a schedule ture of the show,” noted Fox TV co-CEO that’s getting tighter due to adding college football onto Thursdays Gary Newman. in the fall. The level of outrage from Twitter took the industry by And Fox had two other close calls of surprise, with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda among those note: Gotham was expected to be a goner urging a reversal: “I only watch like 4 things, this is one of the things.” but snagged a shortened fifth (and final) BROOKLYN NINE-NINE Executives at NBC, whose studio actually owns Brooklyn, took season that will air next year and focus on notice and moved quickly to snatch the comedy up for their mid- Bruce Wayne becoming the Caped season schedule. “If we knew Andy Samberg was going to be cast in Crusader, while action-drama Lethal that show,” NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt told Weapon was in serious jeopardy until : FOX; reporters, “we never would have sold it to Fox.” American Pie actor Seann William Scott REL

But the rescue of Brooklyn wasn’t nearly as shocking as Fox signed on at the last minute to replace : RAY INE reviving Last Man Standing—a show that was dead for a full year series star Clayne Crawford, who was

*AT PRESS TIME, THE FATE OF SOME SHOWS (LIKE TIMELESS AND LA TO VEGAS) HAD YET TO BE REVEALED. THE PASSAGE (FOX)

R.I.P.TV After seven years in development—first as a You can cancel yourseason feature film, then as a TV show—author passes for these shows* Justin Cronin’s postapocalyptic vampire horror drama will air midseason with Mark- 1 9JKL Paul Gosselaar as an FBI agent trying to (CBS) protect a 10-year-old girl (Saniyya Sidney) 2 ALEX, INC. (ABC) who has special powers.

3 THE BRAVEE CHARMED (THE CW) (NBC)

4 THE CROSSING The 1990s favorite is getting a woke-witches (ABC) makeover from Jane the Virgin showrunner 5 DECEPTION Jennie Snyder Urman that shifts the spell- (ABC) casting to a college town where a trio of 6 DESIGNATEED SURURVIVOR (ABC) sisters are fighting demons and “toppling the patriarchy.” 7 THE EXORCCIST (FOX) MAGNUM P.I. (CBS) 8 GREAT NEWS (NBC) CBS has a good track record for rebooting 9 KEVIN CAN WAIT cop dramas (Hawaii Five-O, S.W.A.T.), and (CBS) now Jay Hernandez (Scandal) will be 10 THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (FOX) climbing into the Ferrari for a reenvision- ing of this 1980s classic. 11 LIVING BIBLICALLY (CBS) MANIFEST (NBC) 12 LUCIFER booted from the series in the wake of alle- (FOX) “It’s like Lost in reverse.” That’s the pitch gations of poor on-set behavior. 13 LIFE SENTENCE for this drama about a commercial plane Other shows weren’t so lucky. In addi- (THE CW) that goes through heavy turbulence before tion to scores of canceled dramas (see 14 ME, MYSELF AND I its passengers (including Once Upon a sidebar), there were some high-profile (CBS) Time’s Josh Dallas) discover four and a half : FOX titles in development that won’t make it to 15 MARVEL’S INHUMANS years have suddenly passed. air—such as CBS’ Cagney & Lacey reboot (ABC) 16 THE MICK starring Sarah Drew and Michelle Hurd, and WHISKEY CAVALIER (FOX) (ABC) The CW’s Supernatural spin-off, the female LAST MAN STANDING MAN LAST ensemble Wayward Sisters. Then again, if 17 THE NIGHT SHIFT The Walking Dead’s Lauren Cohan comes (NBC) this season has shown anything, it’s that to broadcast in this dramedy about a CIA 18 RISE you can never count any show out. (NBC) badass who teams with Scott Foley’s FBI Here is just a sampling of some of the agent (whose code name is—what else?— : CRAIG SJODIN/ABC; 19 SCORPION new series that networks will be airing in (CBS) “Whiskey Cavalier”) to regularly save the the coming months: world while navigating office politics. 20 SUPERIOR DONUTS (CBS)

WHISKEY CAVALIER THE ROOKIE (ABC) REL (FOX) 21 TAKEN (NBC) Castle star Nathan Fillion returns to his Get Out comic relief Lil Rel Howery 22 TEN DAYS IN THE VALLEY former network to solve new crimes, this (ABC) stars along with Sinbad in this semi-

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THE ROOKIE THE at the LAPD. a divorce. X 24 VALOR (THE CW)

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N OMERSO SARA VILK BY SON LKOMER IESE @VI OE PUGL RAPHS BY J PHOTOG @JOEPUG The cast of GLOW photographed on the set exclusively for EW by Joe Pugliese on Jan. 24, 2018, in Los Angeles Kia Stevens and Betty Gilpin

are desperately seeking the rights to. Says Flahive: “Madonna, if you are reading this, please know we are going to ask anyone who has ever run across you in the street to help us. We worship this song.”) GLOW is a sneaky Trojan horse of a show. Ostensibly, it’s the fictionalized origin story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, in which a band of misfits—led by Ruth (Alison Brie), a frustrated under- employed actress, and Debbie (Betty Gilpin), a former soap star in mid– existential crisis—learn the wrestling ropes under the gimlet eye of washed-up director Sam (Marc Maron). Its quick and quippy dialogue, slick synth soundtrack, and retro big shoulders and bigger hair, all packed into a half hour, lull one into think- things. But the roomful of roughly 15 ing they’re watching a lighthearted people—including Kohan, who serves as comedy. But GLOW is also up to some- executive producer—engages in a lively thing else. In many respects it secretly back-and-forth until GLOW’s creators, Liz shares common ground with The Hand- Flahive and Carly Mensch, have the quiet, maid’s Tale. Both are shows about women’s final word. Every bit of minutiae on the bodies and empowerment; both tell an GLOW, they definitely sweat the small ’80s-set series receives the same careful urgent contemporary story set in a stuff. All of the small stuff. Take, for exam- consideration—from the music to the (granted, wildly different) genre setting. ple, an early-April scene at Jenji Kohan’s clothes to ensuring that the wrestling “When people say GLOW is hilarious, I’m Tilted Productions offices in Los Angeles. moves are historically accurate—as Fla- like, ‘Oh, really? I feel like I’m ripping out The creative minds behind the Netflix hive and Mensch put the finishing touches my soul,’ ” says Gilpin. “I think of the cast dramedy are poring over an episode, on season 2, which premieres June 29. of The Handmaid’s Tale and the cast of laboring to pinpoint the precise second “We are interested in the micro- GLOW as two groups of women that live a high-pitched wail (from the period- details,” admits Mensch with a laugh later in all of us. Like, hey: I’ve got a team of appropriate Bronski Beat hit “Smalltown that afternoon, sitting alongside Flahive in Sylvia Plath cannibals and I’ve also got a Boy”) should play. It’s not a particularly her office. (Their current musical white team of feminist Muppet clowns, and this pivotal moment in the grand scheme of whale is a certain Madonna classic they whole time I’ve just been pretending to be Marcia Brady zoning out at brunch.”

t a café in Silver Lake, Alison KNOW Brie and Marc Maron tease each other affectionately over 4 YOUR 6 9 15 lunch. “How much of that are 5 11 GLOW! you going to eat?” Maron asks Brie, help- 3 12 14 Who are the Gorgeous ing himself to food off her plate. “I know 2 Ladies of Wrestling? Meet the “faces” and the “heels.” her eating habits,” he says to EW with a 1. 7 Marianna Palka 13 2. Shakira Barrera grin. Their characters’ undefined relation- 3. 4. 1 Ellen Wong Kia Stevens ship—is it romantic or a deeply connected 5. Rebekka Johnson 16 6. Kimmy Gatewood platonic friendship?—one of the many 8 10 7. Gayle Rankin 8. Jackie Tohn 9. Kate Nash 10. Sunita Mani pleasures of the first season, continues to 11. Sydelle Noel 12. Betty Gilpin be explored. “I believe Marc and I have 13. Alison Brie 14. Marc Maron 15. Britney Young 16. Britt Baron (PHOTO SHOOT) COSTUMES: BETH MORGAN, HAIR: THERAESA RIVERS; MAKEUP: LANA HOROCHOWSKI; PRODUCTION: STEPHANIE WEED/LIZ LANG PRODUCTION; (THIS PAGE) BETH DUBBER/NETFLIX; (OPPOSITE PAGE) ERICA PARISE/NETFLIX in each other’s life. That adds magic and depth—even in our darkest places, we’re always playing that we love each other so much.” This season the GLOW universe expands. Now that GLOW—the show within the show—has been picked up by late-night cable, there are even more challenges to hurdle. Debbie insists on becoming a producer, only to be thwarted by a boys’ club; Ruth has a flirtation with a camera operator, much to Sam and Debbie’s discomfort; one character has a sexual epiphany; another is a victim of a startlingly 2018-resonant sexual- harassment situation; and one of the wres- tlers is injured in the ring. “It’s mind-blowing to me,” says Maron. “Real s--- goes down on the screen, but it’s tempered. Even the heaviest episodes don’t get pulled down by the weight of the emotional darkness.” Maron—previously best known for his stand-up and his pod- cast, WTF—appears to be relaxing into the mantle of Actor. In January, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where his work was recognized with an individual nomination and the series was up for best ensemble, he was understandably thrilled when Frances McDormand told him how much she loved his performance on GLOW. ZOYA! “I thought to myself, ‘I kind of just won. I think I really can do this,’ ” he says with Alison Brie a laugh. “This season I was much more comfortable and tried to be more con- scious of doing things like an actor would.” real chemistry, and the writers are super He smiles. “I’m really just in awe of the attuned to all the actors on the show and whole thing—the process of it, and having write to their strengths,” says Brie. “But the opportunity to see so many women really, Ruth and Debbie is the will-they- working together. I’m not normally privy or-won’t-they of the show.” The women— to that s---, you know?” Brie nods and, whose friendship came to a dramatic referring to the added resonance of a show halt in the pilot when Debbie discovered such as GLOW during the #MeToo and that Ruth had slept with her husband— Time’s Up movements, adds: “I feel like continue to dance gingerly toward with all these terrible stories coming out rapprochement in season 2. “It’s two steps and reading about people’s traumatic forward and one mile back,” Brie says. experiences, you catalog your own and “Betty and I talk all the time that being on decide what effect they had on you. But [the wrestling show] is important to then you do look around our set, and it’s Ruth and Debbie because they want to stay the most welcoming, safe place to work. It Sydelle Noel and Britney Young EW.COM Alison Brie as her heel alter ego, ( Top ) Gilpin and Brie twist and Zoya; ( bottom ) shout in the ring

relief.” She knows it is an extraordinary set of circumstances for a TV show. “It could have been a nightmare,” she says. “But we’re friends. We text. We like each other. You have different women from different backgrounds and different LIBERTY! ethnicities and body types. Liz and Carly, BELLE they look out for the show, they look out Betty Gilpin for the actors and for the people behind the scenes. No one is more or less impor- tant than anyone else.” feels...nice to be on a set like this while all true. “The way society is set up, people During the actual wrestling, there’s no this is happening. That starts with our think there’s no way that 15 of us should slinking off to trailers in between takes— female showrunners and our characters be as close as we are,” says Britney Young, instead the cast tends to gather around to and us as actors. The women on the show who plays Carmen, a.k.a. Machu Picchu. watch the action in the ring whether they really do take ownership of the set, and “People think, ‘There’ll be so many cat- are on camera or not. “There’s a lot of feel comfortable and powerful and not fights!’ But there’s none of that, there’s so times we call cut and the girls swarm the objectified. We’re comfortable in our much love and support.” Just like the start stage yelling,” says Flahive. Adds Mensch: bodies, comfortable in our costumes, and of the show’s first season, the actresses “Season 1, when they were happy with comfortable with ourselves.” attended a grueling monthlong wrestling what they did in the ring, they would chant, There is also some major meta mojo at boot camp to prepare for season 2. “It felt Never cut, never cut, always roll. This season ERICA PARISE/NETFLIX (2) ERICA PARISE/NETFLIX work on GLOW. The series depicts a group like we were coming back home,” says it just turned just into Ho-ly s---. Ho-ly s---,” of women coming together to learn to Sydelle Noel, who plays tough stunt- she says, laughing. wrestle, and in the process learning about woman-turned-wrestler Cherry. “This is a And for the actresses—much like their themselves, forming a tight and fierce sisterhood. It’s a family, and when we got characters—learning to wrestle has been bond. Behind the scenes this is every bit as back together, I think there was a sense of nothing short of life-changing, a new way to think about their bodies after so much where her role is simply to look pretty and Hollywood-ingrained insecurity. “A lot of roll her eyes with affectionate exasperation sets can feel like they’re more interested at the male lead. “Yeah, I don’t want to do in the poodle side of things—like, let’s that anymore.” make you as poodle-y and porny and THE WOMEN ON THE SHOW There’s no word yet on whether shiny as possible,” says Gilpin, pointing REALLY DO TAKE OWNERSHIP the series will get picked up for a third sea- out that most actresses hide away parts OF THE SET, AND FEEL son, but Mensch and Flahive definitely of themselves that they fear don’t fit the have more stories to tell. “We want to GLOW COMFORTABLE AND POWERFUL model. “ is really about getting AND NOT OBJECTIFIED. really meet every person on the team,” that trapdoor open. The wrestling train- says Flahive. And 2018 certainly feels ing rips that door right off its hinges! WE’RE COMFORTABLE IN OUR like the perfect time for GLOW. Says Like, don’t exercise to get thin, exercise BODIES, COMFORTABLE IN OUR Mensch: “When we were pitching it, to support your knees.” COSTUMES, AND COMFORTABLE we still thought Hillary Clinton was going She pauses. “I never thought about my WITH OURSELVES.” to be president. Then it took on a different knees as things to help me walk around. resonance and we took solace in our ALISON BRIE The last time I thought about knees was storytelling.” She smiles. “The opportu- feeling knee shame when, years ago, I was nity is even bigger now that the times in a short skirt and they had to touch up seem to need it.” my purple and red and white Irish knees. And now I’m like, ‘Knees, thank you so much for 31 years of carrying me.’ Wres- tling has changed the way I stand, it’s changed the way I walk around New York City. I’m using muscle groups that I’m supposed to, instead of doing, like, my Joey–from–Dawson’s Creek slump that I adopted when I was 12.” The moves and the empowerment are real, and so too is the occasional injury. Gilpin, for example, attended the SAG Awards while still suffering from a con- cussion sustained during the filming of the season 2 finale. But under the careful supervision of professional wrestler Chavo Guerrero Jr. and stunt coordinator Shauna Duggins, the cast has learned to take some literal leaps of faith. “Who you are in life is who you are in wrestling,” says Gilpin. “It’s so crazy! I’m hard on myself and want to take myself out of the game before the game takes it out of me—and that’s how I am in wrestling, too. Some people go too fast, and they’re like that in their life.” The rawness of wres- tling, she adds, only aids the actors when it comes to emotional scenes that require heavy lifting: “It’s easy to transition from a body slam to a sobbing-at-the-sky scene.” The idea of following GLOW with a more typical Hollywood job feels impossible. “Oh, I can never go back,” says Gilpin with SAM a laugh, talking about the kinds of scripts she’s used to receiving (“Bimbo Barbie or SYLVIA! ron Connecticut Brunch Lady”) and the others Marc Ma

EW.COM The stars of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT and creator Mitch Hurwitz on reuniting after five years, a more traditional season 5 (which, yes, includes JeffreyTambor), and a missing banana stand.

BY DAN SNIERSON Jessica Walter, Jeffrey Tambor, David Cross, and Will Arnett

PAGE daughters’ old playroom (where a Bluth’s Original Frozen Bananas poster hangs) until 3 a.m., rearranging a sequence of reaction shots of a suitcase (for a Tony Wonder gag) or sneaking another subtle look or line from Jason Bateman into a deeply nuanced, ultra- awkward run-in between smug man-of- reason Michael (Bateman) and his skittishly earnest son, George-Michael (Michael Cera). Mitch Hurwitz doesn’t make Arrested Development—he lives and bleeds it. “A lot of the people that have come across this process have totally looked at me like

I was crazy,” he continues, shaving milli- (PREVIOUS AND SPREAD THIS SPREAD) SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX (3) seconds from a pause by failed therapist– turned–failed actor Tobias (David Cross), ABSURDLY PLEASANT MAY NIGHT IN L.A., AND MITCH HURWITZ IS SPENDING CINCO DE CUATR0— who’s responding to dismissive Bluth matri- the holiest of Arrested Development holidays—the way he has spent every single arch Lucille (Jessica Walter). “It’s obses- day and night for the past four months: studying a triptych of monitors, stitch- siveness, and it’s just feeling really bad until ing together footage from the zany-brainy comedy’s upcoming season, and it’s funny.” As Hurwitz scans scenes—includ- hand-wringing laughs out of every frame. ing one in which delusional illusionist Gob “You can’t believe how many things you can put in a show after it’s shot,” he (Will Arnett) tragically bungles a speech— observes, his eyes glinting more mischief than fatigue. It pains the quip-smart he says with pride and amusement: “These creator on a molecular level to think that he might’ve left a joke on the table,  people are not as bad as they seem. They Walter and which is why he is now manning an Avid machine in his home. After long days of Jason don’t necessarily have good hearts, but a lot supervising editing at a nearby postproduction facility, he holes up in his Bateman of their other organs are just top-notch.”

28 EW.COM MAY 25, 2018 This flagrantly flawed family of narcissistic rival, Lucille 2 (Liza Minnelli), who’d vanished save for some bloody prints. Soon ne’er-do-wells first won hearts, minds, and after the fourth season concluded, Hurwitz began gathering ideas for a fifth. In 2015 funny bones 15 years ago, and Hurwitz he reconvened the writers to brainstorm a new story revolving around the Bluth knows that fans await this next chapter with Company’s attempt to erect a wall on the U.S.–Mexico border. And then…presiden- hopes almost as high as a Lucille jazz-handed tial candidate Donald Trump announced his plan to build such a wall. “It’s like, scream of delight. After all, it’s not every year ‘Well, now it looks like a really bad parody of Trump,’ when in fact it anticipated that the saucy, subversive, Emmy-winning him,” says Hurwitz. That plot would be scaled back, though it’s winked at and fac- comedy offers up new episodes—more like tors into later episodes. (And if you think parallels won’t be drawn between the two every five or seven years. (“I’m surprised it entitled, legally troubled real estate families, you’ve made a huge mistake.) came together this quickly,” deadpans Time slipped by, with everyone focused on other projects, yet the Bluths Arnett.) Following a low-rated three-season remained on the brain. “It’s this living entity run on Fox, Arrested burgeoned into cult leg- that takes different forms, but it’s never “THE BLUTHS end, before Netflix revived it in 2013 with a really gone,” says Arnett, who recalls how fourth-season deconstructionist experiment Arrested story ideas would surface in the DON’T HAVE that was wildly ambitious and innovative, yet Flaked writers’ room, which included Hur- GOOD HEARTS, fell short of many fans’ expectations as the witz and AD executive producer Jim Vallely. Bluths spiraled off into disjointed individual “The truth is, we’re always on the verge of BUT A LOT journeys with few group gatherings. But now ‘about to do it.’ ” Suddenly, last summer, Bal- OF THEIR OTHER that the gang’s all back together again boa Towers finally reopened for residency. (including Jeffrey Tambor as George Bluth “Seeing that set rebuilt once again, down to ORGANS ARE Sr.; more on that later), Hurwitz believes the nails in the walls—it was surreal five that this family reunion will feel more famil- years ago, and it was surreal now,” Walter TOP-NOTCH.” ial, more…familiar. “I went back to a more says of her penthouse return. “It was quite MITCH HURWITZ traditional show, just because it seemed like overwhelming actually, because this show the only other place to zig while everybody means so much to me. Capital S-O.” else was zagging,” he says. “What, am I going Also overwhelming: coordinating the to tell the story backwards this time?” actors’ stuffed schedules. Kyle Mooney, The Bluths are indeed moving forward, who has a sizable guest role, was available only during SNL hiatus weeks, while but where these 16 new episodes (the first all of Bateman’s scenes needed to be filmed before he departed for season 2 of eight arrive May 29) find the clan circa 2015 Ozark. Similar to season 4, scenes were shot wildly out of sequence or written might resonate in this bifurcated socio- on the fly. Meanwhile, exiting Scandal, Portia de Rossi (who plays hypocritical political climate. “The Bluths forget but socialite Lindsay) planned to step away from acting to focus on a new business, never forgive,” sums up Hurwitz. “You just so the writers reduced a story line about her wallmongering congressional bid. carry around all this anger, but you don’t Hurwitz was grateful to secure her for a limited time—“she always wanted to deal with it. And that is the starting point: do it”—though it meant that Lindsay is featured less prominently than the Nobody has quite dealt with the mess others. “There was a level of limberness that one needs to bring every day when they’ve made. It makes me think of what you’re doing this show,” says Bateman. “A different process would be a differ- was going on with America. We’re all grow- ent writer, and no other writer would be as good for this show as [Mitch].” ing—we’re finally having an African- Filming on season 5 ended in November with a relieved brow wipe—but also American president, we’re finally acknowl- with uneasiness, as Tambor’s former assistant and a Transparent actress accused edging transgender people and allowing gay the actor of sexual harassment. “It was very jarring,” recalls Hale. “That was not marriage—and then it’s like, ‘No, let’s pre- my experience at all with him.” After a three-month Amazon investigation, tend none of that happened. Let’s just go back to what it was! It’s just easier!’ So that’s  a big undercurrent in this.” He laughs. Bateman and Tony “Which is also funny, because it’s what the Hale fans want: ‘Just go back! Make it great again!… Make Arrested Greedy Again!’ ”

WHEN WE LAST CAUGHT UP WITH THE BLUTH BUNCH, cinco Cinco de Cuatros ago, George-Michael over-emancipated himself by punching a deceitful Michael, and Buster (Tony Hale) was on the hook for the murder of Lucille’s Tambor, who won two Emmys as transgender woman Maura Pfefferman, was (RON HOWARD VOICE) fired from Transparent. While Tambor conceded that he can be “volatile and ill- tempered”—in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he admitted to lashing out at Walter—he strongly denied the allegations in a November state- ON THE PREVIOUS ment, saying: “I have never been a predator—ever. I am deeply sorry if any action of mine was ever misinterpreted by anyone as being sexually aggressive or if I ARRESTED ever offended or hurt anyone.” What would Netflix and Arrested Development do? After months of silence, Net- DEVELOPMENT… flix announced in early May that Tambor would appear in season 5. Hurwitz tells BY HENRY GOLDBLATT EW that he discussed the accusations with the actor when they surfaced in November, and that “he was as surprised by it as I was.” He says, “Jeffrey has never evinced that kind of behavior,” adding that he hadn’t received any sexual- harassment complaints about Tambor from the Arrested cast and crew, and when pointing a finger at himself. Speaking he checked with Netflix and the show’s studio, 20th Century Fox Television, they of which, Buster’s missing-appendage saga hadn’t either. Hurwitz emphatically states that “we all stand with victims of sexual takes a chilling turn when his government- abuse,” and he acknowledges that Tambor—with whom he’s worked for 20 years experiment superhand melts, leaving him and whom he considers a friend—can be “difficult” and “a grump.” That said, “Am with its skeleton. “It was a well-built thing,” I going to cut Jeffrey out of the show, based on allegations that he disputes, that says Hale of the puppeteered contraption. Amazon hasn’t shared, and that we have never experienced any complaints about? “[But] I’d be doing a line and look down, and No, of course I am not going to.… I’m going to support Jeffrey.” three fingers would fall off or five bolts would Bateman, Arnett, and Hale expressed similar sentiments to EW, while Tambor unscrew. Or I’d feel a jolt of electricity.” declined to participate in this story. (Netflix also would not comment, but in a In a slightly less shocking development, recent statement, chief content officer Ted Sarandos called Tambor “totally profes- Gob has been reinstalled as president of the sional.”) Walter, his onscreen wife, says she is still “privately processing my Bluth Company. (“I guess he’s Don Jr.,” says feelings about the way I was treated by him,” referring to that season 5 outburst. Hurwitz. “They do line up pretty well.”) And She does note that she “never saw anything from him that crossed the line” in after last season’s bizarro bedroom hookup, terms of sexual harassment. “I have great empathy for the courage of people who “Gob’s desire to understand his relationship feel they have been harassed in any form speaking out—and sympathy for people with Tony Wonder [Ben Stiller] takes us to who have been unjustly accused,” she says. “It’s a very difficult situation for every- new heights,” hints Arnett. one involved.” Lucille will forge a relationship—perhaps romantic, perhaps not—with a lawyer- REGRESSION IS ONE WORD HURWITZ USES TO DESCRIBE SEASON 5. HERE ARE THREE OTHERS: WHERE IS turned-surfer played by Dermot Mulroney, she? She (not her?) is vertigo sufferer/Buster luster Lucille Austero, a.k.a. Lucille 2, which will make Buster and George jealous. last seen lying on the stair-car stairs. A determined detective named Lieutenant “She really evolves,” teases Walter. “There’s Toddler (Rebecca Drysdale) is hot on the case, so Lucille 2 “better get back here, a humanity there.” Meanwhile, Michael because Buster is the one paying the price for her disappearance,” says Hurwitz. (who’s teaching family self-defense classes, Unfortunately, the loopy man-child is bad at clearing his name; in fact, he keeps as in how to defend yourself from family members) longs to repair his relationship with George-Michael, which imploded over their romances with Rebel (Isla Fisher). “As much as he postures as the only goddamn smart one in this cage of monkeys, he’s just as dumb and as dysfunctional as the rest of them,” says Bateman. “He really gets exposed, though, when he’s around his son.” Lindsay is prodded by Lucille into run- ning for Congress, and her ex, Tobias, desperately tries to remain in the family, toiling as Lucille’s therapist. Slippery,

testosterone-deficient George Sr. is secretly ADYANI/NETFLIX SAEED scheming ways to kill himself, while master-  Mitch of-disguise-and-lies Maeby (Alia Shawkat) Hurwitz with has a tight wig game and hides out in a Arnett retirement community.

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In other news, the Bluths give themselves a Family of the Year award, the banana stand has pulled a Lucille 2 and gone missing, and

: SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX some non-maritime courtroom drama will 7895 introduce confused-yet-killer district attor- ney Lottie Dottie DA (Frances Conroy). 1/ LINDSAY finds out, he punches (PORTIA DE ROSSI) his dad. Michael’s afec- Through much of these adventures, you’ll Daughter Maeby has tion for Rebel doesn’t been secretly pimping stop him from proposi- see literal togetherness from the Bluths, one ARRESTED DEVELOPMENTARRESTED out Lindsay to aspiring tioning Lucille Austero of the reasons that Walter calls this the best congressman Herbert (a.k.a. Lucille 2) so that Love (Terry Crews). the Bluth patron will for- season yet. “I just made the show like we REIMAGE; I When Love doesn’t show give a $700,000 loan. always did,” says Hurwitz. “It usually began up for a rally—vengeful Buster’s robotic hand 10 7/ BUSTER and ended with the family together.” knocked him out—Lind- (TONY HALE) say embraces her inner The boy who put the boy So, is season 5 the end? While Hurwitz has Bluth (even though she border wall is worthless. in Motherboy confronts seeds for more misadventures—“It flows so was almost a Sitwell) Worse news: He has the Lucille 2 for manipulat- and launches her own estrogen levels of a “very ing him into missing his easily out of this cast, it’s hard not to want to conservative congres- healthy woman in the mother’s trial; later, he is do more”—it may be another epic wait. sional campaign. throes of her menses.” arrested for her murder Note: This plot was after security footage “We’ve always been underdogs,” he says. 2/ TOBIAS brought to you by the shows him next to her (DAVID CROSS) year 2013, long before lifeless(?) body. “Nobody ever got cocky, really. We’re still The analrapist and now Donald Trump’s wall or just trying hard. So actually, the every-few- convicted sex ofender Transparent. 8/ MAEBY (hey, he was only trying (ALIA SHAWKAT) years thing works great for me, because it’s 5/ GEORGE-MICHAEL to see his daughter!) Maeby, who has repeat- hard to get a laugh through to that screen.” mounts his Fantastic (MICHAEL CERA) edly repeated her senior Four musical at Cinco de Michael’s son has taken year of high school, That may not sit well with the woman who Cuatro with as much a fake name—George meets Perfecto, who she success as you’d expect Maharis—and created a believes is an undercover doesn’t care for the Sitwells. “I’ll be too old in ETT: SMALLZ AND RASKIND/NETFLIX (9); MINNELLI: ROBIN MARCHANT/W from an analrapist and fake company: Fake- cop. Turns out he’s 17 five more years,” quips Walter. Bateman is now-convicted sex block, privacy software and his “badge” was for ofender. that promises to scrub preventing bullying. In a open to a Bluth-ercise video: “It would be a all traces of your exis- plot twist involving Andy combination of small muscle exercises that 3/ LUCILLE tence from the internet. Richter, Maeby becomes (JESSICA WALTER) (In reality, the app is a a convicted sex ofender, Michael knows how to do. Lot of shoulder She uses a part in mallet hitting a wood- just like her dad. Tobias’ Fantastic Four block.) And in one of lifts with his workbag—you can probably musical as a Trojan horse many Arrested plotlines 9/ GOB work your traps pretty well,” he says. But to escape rehab so she ripped from Greek (WILL ARNETT) can board a boat to flee mythology, he and his Ex-fiancée Ann (her?) Arnett is thinking bigger. And darker. “I like her legal troubles. At dad are dating the same tricks Gob into sleeping the idea that we’re all working towards Cinco de Cuatro, she woman, Rebel Alley (Isla with his magician (sorry, runs into George Sr. and Fisher). illusionist) rival Tony Arrested Development: Last Bluth Standing,”he asks him for a divorce. Wonder (Ben Stiller). 6/ MICHAEL Some gay panic ensues. says. “Mitch has written out versions where 4/ GEORGE SR. (JASON BATEMAN) each one of us is the last person, depending (JEFFREY TAMBOR) Dating Rebel just like his 10/ LUCILLE 2 Bad news: The land he son, except Michael (LIZA MINNELLI) on who lasts the longest, and I predict it will planned on selling to knows the score while Splayed out and bloody be me. Yeah, I’m going to outlive everybody.” the U.S. government in George-Michael doesn’t. on the Bluthmobile’s

ROSSI, CROSS, WALTER, TAMBOR, CERA, BATEMAN, HALE, SHAWKAT, ARN order to build a Mexican When George-Michael stairs. Or at least that dove in Gob’s jacket. X

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- EDWARDS-BARRIS: ROYAL BINION RAINBOW EDWARDS BARRIS, WIFE OF BLACK-ISH CREATOR KENYA BARRIS (AND THE REAL-LIFE INSPIRATION FOR THE TV FAMILY’S MATRIARCH, PLAYED BY TRACEE ELLIS ROSS), DISHES ON HER NEW PARENTING BOOK—AND JUST HOW MUCH OF THE SHOW’S SEPARATION STORY LINE IS BASED ON TRUE EVENTS.

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32 EW.COM MAY 25, 2018 N-word, and that’s provided Edwards- the script, staying within the world of the Barris with a starting place to engage in show while shifting to the mom’s point complex conversations with her six chil- of view. “Just like Kenya takes and shares dren, ages 1 to 18. It’s only natural that her these experiences that we’ve had, I really new child-rearing guidebook, Keeping Up do the exact same thing,” Edwards-Barris With the Johnsons, is written from the per- explains. The book contains anecdotes you spective of her fictional alter ego, Bow could easily imagine in a black-ish episode, Johnson (Tracee Ellis Ross), who, like as they comically blend imperfection with Edwards-Barris, is a doctor. Since so much good intentions—Bow oblivious to the need of black-ish is taken from real life, its plots— for a nursing bra while breastfeeding, for even with the sitcom spin—resonate instance—and they’re taken straight from deeply: “When you take these real-life situ- Edwards-Barris’ life: “In writing the book, ations where life is happening every day, what I did is tell my story.” viewers feel like they know this family— With that simple mission, Edwards- because they can say they are this family.” Barris’ book has opened up a whole new One such example: black-ish recently world within the black-ish universe to ended its fourth season with a harrow- explore. And as the show heads into its fifth ing portrait of Bow and Dre’s (Anthony season this fall, she expects the expansion Anderson) marriage nearly falling apart. to continue: “When you’re sharing your life, Edwards-Barris clarifies that the story line you can never run out of material.” X isn’t reflective of her marriage right now but is rather an amalgamation of challeng- ing moments from their past—and a necessary reminder that even the tightest unions can reach a breaking point. She told Barris as the separation plot was being con- sidered, “I think you owe it to your viewers

to show this.” It’s not often that Edwards- (Fromtop)Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross Barris weighs in on a story line, she assures, on black-ish; Rainbow Edwards-Barris’ book “AWKWAR D.” but here she felt compelled to maintain the spirit of the show, its essence of truth. Ross’ Bow has moved increasingly to That’s the best way Rainbow Edwards- black-ish’s fore, even as Dre remains its Barris can describe the first time she central character. “Because so many of the watched black-ish, the acclaimed sitcom stories are situations very exact to our life,” her husband, Kenya Barris, created. Barris’ Edwards-Barris notes, “Kenya cannot help conception of the show was autobio- as a writer but to make the character of graphical—a black family navigating Bow more prominent [and] important.” upper-middle-class American life—and An early season 4 episode explores Bow four full seasons in, he still regularly mines struggling with postpartum depression his family’s actual experiences for plot. after the birth of her fifth child, Devante. Watching intimate stories about their Though told from Dre’s perspective, it’s marriage and children play out on the handled with unflinching honesty and sen- screen, as if reflected in a fun-house mirror, sitivity. It’s also based—exactly—on often made for uncomfortable family Edwards-Barris’ experience. “It was a very viewing. But over the years, Edwards- scary time for all of us,” she reflects, before Barris has chosen to use that discomfort adding that she found it healing to see it to her benefit. “I started to say to my depicted on black-ish. “We all go through family, ‘Let’s make this a little bit more so many of the same things, and [the epi- therapeutic for us,’ ” she says. “Now I’m sode] said, ‘You’re not alone.’ ”

: RON TOM/ABC/GETTY IMAGES really grateful to have this [show].” Still, black-ish remains a series observed ABC’s black-ish tends to tackle tough through the lens of a black family patriarch.

BLACK-ISH topics, from police brutality to use of the It’s why Keeping Up With the Johnsons flips

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HE WAS PREPARED FOR ANOTHER OF THOSE ACCUSING stares, but Terry only glanced at him briefly, and with no expression at all, before turning his attention to Bill THEGOOD COP IN A Samuels, who had taken a seat in one of the three chairs on the other side of the table. Studying Samuels now, Ralph began to get an idea of how he had risen so high so quickly. While the two of them GOOD COP/BAD COP were standing on the other side of the one-way glass, the DA had simply looked a bit young for the job. Now, facing Frankie Peterson’s rapist and killer, he looked even younger, like a law office intern who had (due to some mixup, prob- ably) landed this interview with a big-time perp. Even the SCENARIO, SO HE little Alfalfa cowlick sticking up from the back of his head added to the role the man had slipped into: untried youth, just happy to be here. You can tell me anything, said those wide, interested SIMPLY STOOD LEANING eyes, because I’ll believe it. This is my first time playing with the big boys, and I just don’t know any better. “Hello, Mr. Maitland,” Samuels said. “I work in the county DA’s office.” AGAINST THE WALL Good start, Ralph thought. You are the county DA’s office. “You’re wasting your time,” Terry said. “I’m not going to talk to you until my lawyer gets here. I will say that I see a sizeable wrongful arrest suit in your future.” OF THE INTERVIEW “I understand that you’re upset, in your position, anyone would be. Maybe we can iron it out right here. Can you just tell me where you were when the Peterson boy was killed? That was on last Tuesday afternoon. If you were some- where else, then—” ROOM,LOOKING ON. “I was,” Terry said, “but I intend to discuss that with my

36 EW.COM MAY 25, 2018 Having gotten what he assumed was the last word, Samuels almost strutted to the door (Ralph guessed Terry’s comment about the cowlick still rankled). Before he could open it, Terry said, “Hey, Ralph.” Ralph turned. Terry looked calm, which was extraordinary under the circumstances. Or maybe not. Sometimes the really cold ones, the sociopaths, found that calm after the initial shock, and buckled down for the long haul. Ralph had seen it before. “I’m not going to discuss any of this until Howie gets here, but I want to tell you one thing.” “Go ahead.” That was Samuels, trying not to sound eager, but his face fell at what Terry said next. “Derek was the best drag bunter I ever had.” “Oh, no,” Ralph said. He could hear the rage trembling in his voice, a kind of vibrato. “Don’t go there. I don’t want to hear my son’s name come out of your lawyer before I discuss it with you. His settlement large enough to pay for what mouth. Not tonight, not ever.” name is Howard Gold. When he gets here, you sorry sons of bitches did tonight—not Terry nodded. “I can relate, because I I’ll want to talk to him privately. I assume just to me, but to my wife and girls—but I never wanted to be arrested in front of my that’s my right? Since I’m presumed inno- intend to find out.” wife and daughters and a thousand other cent until proven guilty?” Samuels sat where he was for a moment people, many of them my neighbors. So Quick recovery, Ralph thought. A career longer—leaning forward, innocently hope- never mind what you don’t want to hear. criminal couldn’t have done it better. ful eyes locked on Terry’s—and then he Just listen a minute. I think you owe me “It is indeed,” Samuels said. “But if you stood up. The innocent look disappeared. that for doing it the nasty way.” haven’t done anything—” “Okay. Fine. You can confer with your law- Ralph opened the door, but Samuels put “Don’t try, Mr. Samuels. You didn’t bring yer, Mr. Maitland, that’s your right. No a hand on his arm, shook his head, and me here because you’re a nice guy.” audio, no video, we’ll even draw the cur- raised his eyes slightly to the camera in the “Actually, I am,” Samuels said earnestly. tain. If you two are quick about it, maybe corner with its small red light. Ralph closed “If there’s been a mistake, I’m as interested we can get this squared away tonight. I’ve the door again and turned back to Terry, in getting it straightened out as you are.” got an early tee time in the morning.” crossing his arms over his chest. He had an “You have some hair sticking up in back,” Terry looked as if he had misheard. “Golf?” idea that Terry’s idea of payback for the Terry said. “Might want to do something “Golf. It’s a game where you try to knock public arrest was going to hurt, but he knew about that. It makes you look like Alfalfa in the little ball into the cup. I’m not very good Samuels was right. A suspect talking was the old comedies I used to watch when I at it, but I’m very good at this game, Mr. always better than a suspect clamming up was a kid.” Maitland. And as the estimable until his lawyer arrived. Ralph didn’t even come close to laugh- Mr. Gold will tell you, we can Because one thing had a way ing, but one corner of his mouth twitched. hold you here for forty-eight of leading to another. That he couldn’t help. hours without charging you. It Terry said, “Derek couldn’t Momentarily put off-balance, Samuels won’t actually be that long. If have been more than four-ten raised a hand to smooth down the cowlick. It we can’t clarify this, we’ll take or -eleven back in Little laid flat for a moment, then sprang back up. you for arraignment bright and League. I’ve seen him since— “Are you sure you don’t want to clear this early on Monday morning. tried to get him to play for City up?” Samuels leaned forward, his earnest Your arrest will be statewide last year, as a matter of fact— expression suggesting that Terry was mak- news by then, so there will be and he’s grown six inches since ing a bad mistake. plenty of coverage. I’m sure then. He’ll be taller than you “I’m sure,” Terry said. “And I’m sure the photographers will get Stephen King’s by the time he graduates from The Outsider will be about the suit, too. I don’t think there’s a your good side.” out May 22 high school, I bet.”

MAY 25, 2018 EW.COM 37 Ralph waited. Ralph didn’t nod or give any sign at all He laughed more, and wanted to hang “He was a shrimp, but he was never that he cared about this, but he knew what around after the games were over instead of afraid in the batter’s box. A lot of them are, Terry was talking about. He had cheered just heading for the car with his head down but Derek would stand in even against the plenty of those bunts, and had seen his kid and his glove dangling. kids who’d wind up and fling the ball with fly down the line like his hair was on fire “He did most of it himself—practiced no idea of where it was going. Got hit half a and his ass was catching. like a mother until he had it right—but I dozen times, but he never gave in.” “It was just a matter of teaching him the was the one who talked him into trying it.” It was the truth. Ralph had seen the right bat angles,” Terry said, and held up his He paused, then said, very softly, “And you bruises after some of the games, when D hands to demonstrate. They were still do this to me. In front of everyone, you do peeled off his uniform: on the butt, on the smudged with dirt, probably from throwing this to me.” thigh, on the arm, on the shoulder. Once batting practice before tonight’s game. Ralph felt his cheeks heat up. He opened there had been a perfect black and blue “Angle to the left, the ball squirts up the his mouth to reply, but Samuels was escort- circle on the nape of his neck. Those hits third base line. Angle to the right, first base ing him out the door, almost pulling him had driven Jeanette crazy, and the batting line. Don’t shove the bat, most times that along. He paused just long enough to say helmet Derek wore didn’t comfort her; does nothing but send an easy pop-up to one thing over his shoulder. “Ralph didn’t every time D stepped into the batter’s box, the pitcher, just give it a little nudge at the do it to you, Maitland. Neither did I. You she had gripped Ralph’s arm almost hard last split-second. He caught on fast. The did it to yourself.” enough to bring blood, afraid the kid kids stopped calling him Swiffer and gave Then the two of them were looking would eventually take one between the him a new nickname. We’d have a runner through the one-way glass again, and Samu- eyes and wind up in a coma. Ralph assured on first or third late in the game and the els was asking if Ralph was all right. her it wouldn’t happen, but he had been other team knew he was going to lay one “Fine,” Ralph said. His cheeks were almost as glad as Jeannie was when Derek down—there was no faking, he’d drop the still burning. decided tennis was more his game. The bat across the plate as soon as the pitcher “Some of them are masters at getting balls were softer. went into his motion, and the kids on the under your skin. You know that, right?” Terry leaned forward, actually smiling bench would all be yelling ‘Push it, Derek, “Yes.” a little. push it!’ Me and Gavin, too. And that was “And you know he did this, right? I’ve “A kid that short usually gets a lot of what they called him that whole last year, never had a case sewn up so tight.” walks—as a matter of fact, that’s sort of when we won the district. Push It Ander- Which bothers me, Ralph thought. It didn’t what I was hoping for tonight, when I let son. Did you know that?” before, but it does now. It shouldn’t, because Trevor Michaels bat for himself—but Derek Ralph hadn’t, maybe because it was Samuels is right, but it does. wasn’t going to get cheated. He’d flail at strictly a team thing. What he did know was “Did you notice his hands?” Ralph asked. just about anything—inside, outside, over that Derek had grown up a lot that summer. “When he was showing how he taught his head or in the dirt. Some of the kids Derek to bunt, did you see his hands?” started calling him Whiffer Anderson, then “Yes. What about them?” one of them changed it to Swiffer, like the “No long pinky fingernail,” Ralph said. mop, and that stuck. At least for awhile.” “Not on either hand.” “Very interesting,” Samuels said, “but “TERRY LOOKED CALM, Samuels shrugged. “So he clipped it. Are why don’t we talk about Frank Peterson, you sure you’re all right?” WHICH WAS EXTRAORDI- instead?” “Fine,” Ralph said. “I just—” Terry’s eyes remained fixed on Ralph. NARY UNDER THE The door between the office area and the “Long story short, when I saw he detention wing buzzed, then banged open. CIRCUMSTANCES. OR wouldn’t take a walk, I taught him to bunt. The man who came hurrying down the hall- Lot of boys his age—ten, eleven—they MAYBE NOT. SOMETIMES way was dressed in his Saturday night won’t do it. They get the idea, but they relaxing-at-home clothes—faded jeans and THE REALLY COLD ONES, don’t like dropping the bat over the plate, a TCU tee-shirt with SuperFrog hopping on especially against a kid who can really bring THE SOCIOPATHS, FOUND the front—but the boxy briefcase he was it. They keep thinking about how much carrying was all lawyer. THAT CALM AFTER their fingers are going to hurt if they get hit “Hello, Bill,” he said. “And hello to you, with their bare hands out front like that. THE INITIAL SHOCK, AND Detective Anderson. Would either of you Not Derek, though. He had a yard of guts, like to tell me why you have arrested Flint BUCKLED DOWN your boy. Besides, he could really scoot City’s 2015 Man of the Year? Is it just a mis- down the line, and a lot of times when I FOR THE LONG HAUL.” take, one we can perhaps smooth over, or sent him up to sacrifice, he ended up get- have you lost your f---ing minds?” ting a base hit.” Howard Gold had arrived. X

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handsome Canadian human named Wade, Deadpool 2 now a heavily scarred vigilante whose altered genes have awakened the power to, among STARRING DIRECTED BY other things, constantly regenerate himself. Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, David Leitch But there are limits to what even he can fix. Josh Brolin, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller So when his happily-ever-after with longtime RATING LENGTH REVIEW BY love Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) goes side- R 1 hr., 59 mins. Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats ways, he returns to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters—and soon meets Russell (Julian Dennison), a lost and angry young mutant DEADPOOL 2 MIGHT NOT BE EXACTLY THE SEQUEL WE who literally burns for justice. need, but it feels like the one we deserve. If the first out- The dumpling-shaped Russell may or may ing was a scrappy, self-referential riff on the noble tropes not be the inaugural member of a new crew TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX of superherodom, the second is all that again, squared: a Wade has dubbed—in a generous nod to mega dose of meta (or is it a meta dose of mega?) rolled gender neutrality—X-Force. Auditions yield in radioactive goo and stuffed inside a cinematic piñata more hopefuls, including the acid-vomiting of fourth-wall breaks, severed limbs, and Yentl jokes. Zeitgeist (Bill Skarsgård, marginally less ter- Ryan Reynolds returns as the titular scamp—once a rifying out of his IT clown paint); a friendly

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dad-bod passerby called Peter (Catastrophe’s brilliant Rob Delaney); and Domino (Atlanta star Zazie Beetz), whose special gift, she

claims, is good luck. They’ll need some to  Deadpool 2’s regular dude Peter, played by Rob Delaney take on Cable (Josh Brolin, making his second Marvel-villain appearance this year after Avengers: Infinity War’s genocidal Thanos). Cable—a fierce, leathery slab of DEADPOOL 2 man granite with a bionic arm and a Nike- shaped scar under one eye—has come from the future to set perceived wrongs right. BURNING QUESTIONS Which cannot stand, of course, without Dead- pool’s permission. And that’s about as much Screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick—who co-wrote the sequel plot as any reviewer can prudently reveal. with star Ryan Reynolds—reveal intel about the unexpected cameos, Rob Delaney’s breakout role, and if Deadpool 3 will happen. BY TIM STACK What doesn’t count as spoilers: Several characters, including Colossus, Negasonic

Teenage Warhead, and Blind Al, are back This movie has huge sur- REESE It was Ryan’s idea Ryan recently told EW (so is T.J. Miller’s wry sidekick Weasel, prises and guest spots. to have somebody that he didn’t think there though the actor’s recent personal troubles How did you keep the who didn’t have any would be a Deadpool 3. secrets in this film with- superpowers. Then we What do you think? have already gotten him nixed from the next out anything getting out? thought, “What if it’s REESE When the Fox exec- installment). Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick PAUL WERNICK There’s very a truly average guy who utives read your inter- also return as coscreenwriters, alongside few people who are in the works in payroll with a view, I think they all had inner circle. When we’re mustache and dockers?” a collective heart attack. Reynolds, though director Tim Miller has writing the script, it’s gen- We were talking about X-Force will come next. been replaced by David Leitch, a longtime erally just Rhett, myself, me playing the part, and The appetite for Deadpool stuntman who honed his wham-bam-on-a- and Ryan, and obviously thank God that never 3 is certainly there, but [director] Dave Leitch was happened, because Rob we all need to put our budget style with last year’s Atomic Blonde. seeing pages as they were Delaney is about thinking caps on and talk Blonde was deliberate pulp, but its fight being written. Actors and 10,000 times better than about what sets it apart scenes had a messy, bone-crunching veracity agents never got sent I would have been. from Iron Man 3 or scripts. It was always that Spider-Man 3. We’ll likely that DP2 mostly trades in for chaotic cartoon you come into the ofice At the end of the film, you find that. violence. There’s a numbing sameness to the and read the script. set up X-Force. Will this WERNICK There may not casual bloodshed here that makes the RHETT REESE We treat our- be the same team in the be a Deadpool 3, but selves like spies behind DrewGo Goddardddard film?film? there will definitely be viewer almost long for the relative calm of enemy lines at all times. REESE WegaveDrewthe a Deadpool 4.[Laughs] the first film’s lengthy pop culture digres- You do have to pretend pieces to play with, but sions. It’s in Deadpool’s DNA to channel the like you’re in the CIA. I thinkk healso has the  freedoomtodropcharac- Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese wild id of a 12-year-old boy—a very clever One of the breakout new ters and add new ones to one who happens to love boobs, Enya, and characters is X-Force X-Forcce. Whether it will be blowing stuff up. Which is dizzy fun for a candidate and regular that existing six or seven dude Peter [Catastro- that walk of at the end of while, like eating Twinkies on a Gravitron. phe’s Rob Delaney]. our movie remains to be Eventually, though, it just wears you out. B Where did he come from? seen, but I think Cable, WERNICK It’s based Dominno, and Deadpool on Rhett Reese himself. will deefinitely be there. DID YOU LOVE DEADPOOL 2? You might also like Kick-Ass

JOE LEDERER/FOX (2) LEDERER/FOX JOE (2010), Zombieland (2009), and Hot Fuzz (2007). ex-gay program that his Baptist parents sent him to after he was outed during his first year at college. Edgerton not only BUILDINGUP co-wrote and directed the film, he also costars as Victor Sykes, the head of Love in Action, a role based on former director John Smid. To play the outed college student ABOYERASED (renamed Jared Eamons), Edgerton tapped Lucas Hedges, who’s fresh off In an exclusive reveal of Joel Edgerton’s adaptation of Boy Erased: A Memoir, critically acclaimed supporting roles in the director-actor and Nicole Kidman explain their emotional approaches to a young man’s real-life journey through gay-conversion therapy. BY PIYA SINHA-ROY the award-winning films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird. “I find Lucas just to be a really beautiful JOEL EDGERTON TELLS EW THAT HE’S “The film satisfies the dramatic and blank canvas. There’s a sensitivity to him always been fascinated by prisons, cults, salacious stuff that interested me, but it in his observation in the world. There’s a and religious extremism. But what drew also had an emotional resonance to certain quiet nature that he can convey the Australian actor and director most to it that I felt didn’t just make it a dark on screen,” the filmmaker says of the adapting Boy Erased—writer Garrard and nihilistic story,” Edgerton says. 21-year-old actor. Conley’s 2016 memoir about his time in “Garrard’s story is so full of redemption.” Edgerton recruited two fellow Aussies, gay-conversion therapy—was the oppor- Boy Erased, in theaters Sept. 28, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe, to tunity to explore the author’s relationship follows Conley’s experience at Love in portray Jared’s mom and dad, Nancy and with his devoutly Christian parents. Action, a California-based Christian Marshall Eamons, on this tumultuous

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journey (it also marks the first time the two Oscar-winning actors have costarred). Kidman and Crowe spent time with their real-life Conley counter- parts to understand the nuances of their relationship with their gay son, whom they raised in Arkansas. Kidman wanted to bring love rather than maliciousness to the role of Nancy. “The way in which she and her husband feel about putting [Jared] into conver- sion therapy, I wanted that to come from a place of a mother thinking it’s the right thing to do. Nothing that she did was vindictive, which is probably why they have such a strong relationship now.” At  Candice Bergen and Diane Keaton dine with their eyes least forming a bond with Hedges came easily, as the actress describes how Book Club quickly they connected: “Obviously he’s pale-skinned and slightly redheaded, so STARRING Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen

that definitely warms me to him,” she DIRECTED BY Bill Holderman | RATING PG-13 says with a laugh. LENGTH 1 hr., 44 mins. | REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats Throughout his memoir, Conley often tries to understand why his parents IN AN INDUSTRY THAT DEFINES “MATURE AUDIENCES” made the decisions that they did. “He as anyone old enough to vote, a movie centered entirely on has a deep compassion for other people’s women over 65—a sex comedy, no less—feels like some point of views,” Edgerton says. Conley kind of small Hollywood miracle. Book Club probably won’t go down details the close bond to his mother and as a career highlight for any of its stars; there are way too many Oscars his deep respect for his father, a car and Emmys between them to pretend otherwise. But even a surfeit of salesman who was about to be ordained boner jokes and Barbra Streisand-style Vaseline on the lens can’t ruin as a Baptist minister when he discovered the novelty of watching four of the best actresses of their generation that his son is gay. splash around in a film that actually lets them live, not just tastefully Marshall urged the filmmaker to pre- fossilize in some designated elder-citizen corner of the screen. sent him on screen “in an honest way.... The monthly meetup of the title is mostly an easy device to bring its He was happy for me to show his inability four wildly different protagonists together: flinty federal judge Sharon to fully grasp his son,” Edgerton says. (Candice Bergen), a confirmed cat-and-chardonnay divorcée; skittish There are some adjustments that widow Diane (Diane Keaton), devoted to her two grown daughters; Edgerton makes to Conley’s story for the bubbly chef Carol (Mary Steenburgen), desperate to reignite the spark big screen. He fleshes out the characters with her taciturn husband; and winky libertine Vivian (Jane Fonda), of some of the other boys in the program a cherry-haired hotelier who devours men like pillow mints. with Jared, including ones played by Vivian’s the one, not surprisingly, who brings in Fifty Shades of Canadian actor-filmmaker Xavier Dolan Grey for the next group read—tapping E L James’ lead-foot prose and singer Troye Sivan. and light bondage to steer the ladies toward their own sensual Edgerton says he hopes he’s conveyed reawakenings. And so begins the vagina-and-Viagra punchline each person in the film the way he says jamboree, some jokes tired (can a sad housecat ever not be a meta- Conley did on the page, “with a lot of phor?) and some surprisingly sharp (a pretty great Werner Herzog empathy and compassion.” nod). That’s also where the cavalcade of hopeful suitors and “My approach and treatment of this conflicted exes—Andy Garcia, Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss, and story was that there were no villains, that Ed Begley Jr. among them—come in, but they’re mostly just there everyone thought they were doing the to look handsome, awed, or bewildered. At heart Book is strictly a right thing.” B MELINDA SUE GORDON/PARAMOUNT SUE MELINDA girls’ club: salty and silly and still crazy, after all these years.

MAY 25, 2018 EW.COM 43 Saoirse Ronan performs in more than one way in On Chesil Beach

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Two lovers (Keira Knightley and on theBeach James McAvoy) are torn apart by a family betrayal in this lush Writer Ian McEwan and Saoirse Ronan have once again joined forces, Oscar-winning drama. more than 10 years after the actress earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in Atonement. In On Chesil Beach, McEwan adapted his own novel for the screen, another tale of sexual misunderstandings and tragic missteps. BY MAUREEN LEE LENKER SUNNYMARCH TV/MASTERPIECE FOR BBC ONE; ON CHESIL BEACH What attracts you to each McEWAN I didn’t want anyone Your characters Briony other’s work? else to adapt this particular in Atonement and Florence IAN McEWAN Saoirse has a won- story. I could see a thousand in On Chesil Beach experi- ways to make it more exploit-

derful analytical intelligence. ence tragedy because of : ROBERT VIGLASKY/BLEECKER STREET (2); She also is a joy to write for ative, semi-pornographic, or an misunderstandings surround- THE CHILD IN TIME (2018) because she is supreme at oversentimentalized story…. ing sex. Why is that a theme giving the full-on quality of I very much wanted to do it you each return to? Benedict Cumberbatch and Kelly Macdonald are both excellent an inner life. Movies do sufer myself. Writers doing their own RONAN The experience of as a couple coping with the from not being able to give work tend to hug the shore making Atonement was com- disappearance of their daughter. you the inside of someone’s a little. That is something one pletely diferent because LOVE ENDURING head—Saoirse just turning has to fight. I’ve done it enough so much of the subject matter away, saying nothing with a times now to know when went over my head. I played look, can do all that for you. to head to shore and when a character who was on the

SAOIRSE RONAN One of the to head out to open seas. outside looking in and made a DOVE; : NICOLA things that I’m really drawn to RONAN [It’s fantastic] to have conscious decision to alter the ATONEMENT in his work is the delicacy. the person who’s written it in world that these people lived It always shows how easily a the room with you and to know in, whereas for Florence this : ALEX BAILEY/FOCUS FEATURES (2); FEATURES BAILEY/FOCUS : ALEX relationship or a connection can that if there needs to be any is completely out of her con- THE GOOD SON fizzle out or fade if you don’t changes, you can just refer trol. It was much more complex back to them and know that it protect it; how one decision can this time round because of the ENDURING LOVE (2004) completely alter someone’s fate will be authentic. There’s no type of character I was playing. forever. The idea that a life can doubt there at all. McEWAN Novelists have redis- Daniel Craig and an unhinged : MIKKI ANSIN/20TH CENTURY FOX/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK be that fragile is something we covered a thousand times Rhys Ifans are strangers don’t quite see enough of in film.  over that a sexual relationship broughttogetherbyadeadly McEWAN When I was writing the Ronan was 13 when she earned an becomes the kind of micro- hot-air-balloon accident. Atonement [On Chesil Beach] screenplay, it Oscar nomination for cosm of all human afairs. The THE IN CHILD TIME helped me to think of Saoirse love afair becomes inevitably delivering the lines. It was rather the central subject of so much improbable because at that literature. It is endlessly fasci- time she was about 16 or 17. But nating to us. Its permutations it was written for her—I really are infinite. If you think of liter- TELEVISION/ : PINEWOOD did type those words thinking ature as the exploration of the Saoirse would speak them. human condition, then the love afair becomes the field How does adapting your of play that best opens itself THE GOOD SON (1993) own novel change up to close, intimate, and the process for you both? tender analysis. Macaulay Culkin goes full demon seed in this campy thriller, from an original screenplay that was later so altered McEwan disavowed it. 44 EW.COM MAY 25, 2018 Movies

1948–2018 4CLASSIC KIDDER CHARACTERS The Canadian- American actress MARGOTKIDDER soared in more than 100 projects, with Superman and horror The famed Superman actress died on May 13 at the age of 69. “She absolutely led an films headlining her arc. unapologetic life,” says Cara Wilder, a personal friend. “She had no qualms about being BY KATIE HASTY exactly who she was, saying things very much out loud wherever she was.” BY CLARK COLLIS

DANIELLE BRETON SISTERS (1973)

130 big- and small-screen Kidder tallied up a projects, including many number of genre film horror movies, such as 1974’s characters through- Black Christmas and 1979’s out her career, with original The Amityville Horror, Danielle chief among them in Brian De a supposedly true tale whose Palma’s cult classic. based-on-real-events bona fides Kidder would later BARB COARD dismiss with typical straight- BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) forwardness as “hogwash.” Foulmouthed and She also appeared in Brian De skeptical were the Palma’s 1973 psychological benchmarks of thriller Sisters and 1975’s the actress’ fun role Robert Redford-starring The in this slasher. Great Waldo Pepper. LOIS LANE “She was a lioness. And SUPERMAN (1978), SUPERMAN II (1981), lionesses, as you know, are SUPERMAN III (1983), the leaders, not the lion,” SUPERMAN IV: THE The Red Maple Leaf director QUEST FOR PEACE (1987) Frank D’Angelo says of Kid- Christopher Reeve’s der. In 1996, she suffered caped superhero a much-publicized manic always got motivation episode and would subse- from his beloved quently be diagnosed with Lois Lane, as Kidder bipolar disorder. Following brought energy and earnestness to Lois. the incident, she rapidly returned to work for two KATHY LUTZ THE AMITYVILLE HORROR more decades of films and TV (1979) shows. These included Rob Zombie’s 2009 slasher sequel She earned this lead : EVERETT: COLLECTION Halloween II and the super- role after breaking hero series Smallville, one of through in the main- stream as Lois, countless projects to benefit thus solidifying her from the ever-growing inter- place in horror est in a genre Kidder had history with the OG THE SUPERHERO MOVIE scribe, a role she would reprise done so much to foster with Amityville movie. genre lost a genuine icon this in three sequels. At a time when her depiction of Lois Lane. week with the passing of special effects had barely SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE Margot Kidder, who died in her achieved takeoff, she helped  sleep on May 13 at the age of convince audiences that Margot 69. Cast as journalist Lois Lane a man—and his love—could Kidder opposite Christopher Reeve’s indeed fly. and Christopher Clark Kent in Richard Donner’s But Kidder’s intensity and Reeve in 1978 blockbuster Superman, rat-a-tat way with dialogue Superman IV: The Kidder’s no-nonsense portrayal weren’t limited to just super- Quest for remains, for many, the defini- hero films. The Canadian-born Peace

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DIRECTED BY Wim Wenders Gabrielle Union shines as a mom trying to rescue her kids from home invaders, but the film never rises to her level. C RATING PG | LENGTH 1 hr., 32 mins. TERMINAL | Directed by Vaughn Stein Starring Margot Robbie, Mike Myers, Simon Pegg L REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty

Think of this stylish but soft-boiled Cockney crime catas- TERMINAL trophe about a pair of dim hitmen (Dexter Fletcher and YOU NEEDN’T BE CATHOLIC TO Max Irons), a femme fatale (Margot Robbie), and a buck- find comfort in the message of toothed janitor (Mike Myers) as Sin City lite. Very lite. C– FILMS; : RLJE Pope Francis. Nor do you need to be a believer to see that his progressive DRAMAS ANYTHING ideas and plainspoken delivery make him a different kind of messenger. In the inspir- : PALADIN; SOLLERS POINT | Directed by Matthew Porterfield ing new documentary Pope Francis—A Man Starring McCaul Lombardi, Jim Belushi, Tom Guiry L of His Word, the humble priest from Buenos McCaul Lombardi plays a drug dealer released from house FIRST REFORMED Aires comes down from the gilded altar of arrest back onto the mean streets of Baltimore. St. Peter’s and speaks to the camera at eye ANYTHING | Directed by Timothy McNeil Starring John Carroll Lynch, Matt Bomer, Maura Tierney L level, addressing the challenges of the 21st : A24; century: family, poverty, social justice, the John Carroll Lynch brings tenderness and humanity to this otherwise clichéd love story, about a widower who moves BASQUIAT JEAN-MICHEL OF YEARS TEENAGE LATE THE REAL: FOR BOOM environment, and, yes, even the abuses of to L.A. and befriends a trans sex worker (Matt Bomer). B– the church he represents. It’s a refreshingly FIRST REFORMED | Directed by Paul Schrader timely dialogue from an organization that’s Starring Amanda Seyfried, Ethan Hawke L often been slow to step out of the past. Director Paul Schrader revisits the bleak existential themes that fueled his scripts for Taxi Driver and Rolling Directed by Wim Wenders and made Thunder, only this time he brings God into the picture as with the full cooperation of the Vatican, the Ethan Hawke’s small-town priest grapples with his faith. B film isn’t a biography of the man formerly known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Rather, it’s DOCUMENTARIES an intimate and rare audience with a com- passionate populist, tracing his spiritual THAT SUMMER | Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson relationship with his namesake, St. Francis Starring Lee Radziwill, Edith Bouvier Beale, Peter Beard L of Assisi (another environmentally minded Culled from footage lost for more than 40 years, the eccen- reformer), and tracking his travels across tric, intimate Summer feels like a holy relic for fans of the B+ PICTURES : ADLER/MAGNOLIA ALEXIS the globe, where he doesn’t just seem to Maysles brothers’ cult 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens. talk, he listens. Whether he’s washing the BOOM FOR REAL: THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT feet of prisoners in America, visiting sick Directed by Sara Driver Starring Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alexis Adler, Fab 5 Freddy L children in Africa, or praying with hurri- This thoroughly narrow portrait of the young late artist cane victims in Asia, Pope Francis doesn’t can be, at times, as raw and unwieldy as its subject. merely preach empathy, responsibility, and accountability, he lives it. A–

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WHO WEEPS FOR THE NETWORK- TV lawyers? Once upon a time, Sam Waterston gave every last big speech on Law & Order, and David E. Kelley ruled with sexy lawyers (who were serious) and funny lawyers (who were sexy). Gone, gone. Dick Wolf’s Chicago franchise couldn’t make Justice cool. Even with Shonda Rhimes’ backing, For the People isn’t. On cable, that nice lady from Suits is leaving America to marry a rich foreigner.

CBS’ The Good Wife was BA JUSTIN JUMBO, CUSH NYAMBI, NYAMBI BARANSKI, LINDO, MCDONALD, broadcast TV’s last great legal drama. Its spin-of, The Good Fight, lives on CBS All Access (a service you must sign up for— now, so you can watch Fight). The revelatory second season has a snappy procedural pace: cases start-to-finished hourly, smart people saying smart words in smart clothes. It’s also a stunning, avant-weird portrait of sanity in the age of Trump. On Fight,lawyersarean endangered species. They’re murdered, made obsolescent by technology, left behind by the

feeling that law is lawless. “I’ve PUGLIESE/CBS JOE LESLIE: ROSE (6); ECCLESINE/CBS PATRICK RTHA: spent the last six months in a haze of not knowing what was crazy and what was not,” says Diane Lockhart (Christine Baran- ski) in the May 27 finale. It’s an apt recap of the season. Co-creators Robert and Michelle King veer topical. The lawyers of Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart tackle the alt-right, social media, and sexual harassment. As an extension of what we must call the Goodverse, Fight regularly calls upon a vast PUTTING UP AGOOD FIGHT cast of familiar-face judges and lawyers. That heightens the feel- As season 2 of the CBS All Access drama The Good Fight draws ing of disruption when things to a close, Darren Franich reflects on the series’ response to real-life turn Trumpward. Suddenly our political scandal and unrest in the Trump era Gore Vidal-quoting attorneys are

48 EW.COM MAY 25, 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY PETER HORVATH  James Spader, man of mystery

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discussing tawdry absurdities, Russian prostitutes, and golden BEST OF THE showers. Amid farce, tragedy GUESTS BLACKLIST BREADCRUMBS strikes: Senior partner Adrian Season 2 featured Boseman (Delroy Lindo, a marvel a cavalcade of sharkish geniality) is shot. of guest stars Amid tragedy, farce strikes: Red’sDead?! Recovered, Adrian joins a gun- violence task force—alongside NO, SERIOUSLY. THE BLACKLIST ENDED ITS FIFTH SEASON WITH A an NRA advocate peddling shocking twist: The fedora-wearing criminal mastermind (James bulletproof briefcases. Spader) we’ve been following for five seasons has only been posing And amid all the glossy guests as Raymond Reddington. The real one is dead, and has been for MARGO (see sidebar), Margo Martindale years—a twist the series has been building to since the beginning. shined as a Democratic strate- MARTINDALE Returned as “If you go back and look, you’ll see numerous examples of us work- N/WIREIMAGE; SPADER: DAVID GIESBRECHT/NBC DAVID N/WIREIMAGE; SPADER: gist seeking a law firm to pursue her Good Wife ing toward this big reveal,” says EP Jon Bokenkamp, who points out impeachment. Sounds like lib- character, Ruth eral escapism, but the episode Eastman. Guest the clues the show’s left along the way. —NATALIE ABRAMS turned into a cynical, ravenous Emmy, please! political cartoon. Senior partner Liz Reddick-Lawrence (wry “PILOT” Liz asked Red “MR. KAPLAN: (SEASON 1, EPISODE 1) point-blank, ‘Are CONCLUSION” Audra McDonald) figured out (SEASON 4, EPISODE 22) you my father?’ why the DNC was auditioning “The impostor the- He said, ‘No.’ This their largely African-American ory can be traced “A frustrated Harold was the truth.” firm. “They want us to be street,” all the way back to Cooper stole Red’s she said—before playacting ALAN ALDA the first time Red bloodstained shirt The TV legend “DR. JAMES “Angry Black Woman” for the met Elizabeth Keen COVINGTON” out of the FBI pleasure of the client. was cleverly evidence locker, stunt-cast as a and told her, ‘I’m a (SEASON 2, EPISODE 3) The series treats liberal legal legend. criminal. Criminals [which had been “When Red first outrage as its own form of are notorious liars. sealed for 30 years]. laid eyes on his ex- ATHESON: GREG DOHERTY/GETTY IMAGES; BLACK: JENNY ANDERSO derangement, a cracked Everything about Of course, that wife, Naomi Hyland response to cracked times. me is a lie.’” blood confirmed This is partisan entertainment, (Mary-Louise that Red is Elizabeth Parker), he said, I guess, if you think “being anti– “GENERAL LUDD” Keen’s father. What white supremacist” is partisan. (SEASON 1, EPISODE 8) ‘You look so difer- the audience didn’t ent.’ To this she There are indulgent soap know is that the TIM MATHESON replied, ‘Not as dif- operatics—a marriage unravels “Reddington and Liz blood on that shirt A flirty bartender- ferent as you.’ From on the witness stand, an attor- were paying a visit belonged to activist who hates this we now know ney goes into labor in court— Trump? Diane to a plastic surgeon, the real Raymond Naomi Hyland was and the younger characters can can’t resist. Dr. Maltz [Andrew Reddington.” married to the real feel underwritten, millennials Dice Clay], when Raymond Redding- bantering through romance Red proclaimed, “MR. RALEIGH ‘What other secrets ton. She knows that SINCLAIR III” plots. But season 2 has brilliantly this have you just given is not the real (SEASON 5, EPISODE 14) situated 2018’s malaise as a away? Who knows Reddington. Naomi TV-historic decay: the Lawyer “Liz asked Red, about the work I’ve Hyland is one of the Show as Rome, Burning. The ‘You’ve gone to had done?’” very few people in finale references Stormy Daniels MICHAEL IAN therapy?’ Red confi- BLACK the history of our and All the President’s Men.It’s dently boasted: The comedy “ANSLO GARRICK, PART 2” series who knows paranoid—and oddly cheerful. vet played a (SEASON 1, EPISODE 10) the truth. The lin- ‘God, yes. Therapy MARTINDALE: MIREYA ACIERTO/GETTY IMAGES; ALDA: ANDREW TOTH/FILMMAGIC; M Our heroes can’t stop the fire, savvy campaign gering question: helped me become but they’ll make lovely music manager. “Before Reddington Why would she let an entirely diferent fiddling against the apocalypse. vanished for a spell, him into her life?” person.’ ”

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STARS SHARE THEIR PERSONAL STORIES ABOUT GIVING BACK

SEAN HAYES HELPS FIGHT CHILD POVERTY

CHARITY WHAT THEY DO Red Nose Day As part of Comic Relief, (rednoseday.org) which raises funds for those living in poverty, the campaign works to help impoverished children HAYES: RON BATZDORFF/NBC;

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NBC has partnered with the campaign since it launched in the U.S. in 2015. After Will & SHE-RARETURNS! SHE-RA Grace returned last fall, Hayes was eager to get involved and will appear on Hollywood The Princess of Power is back with a whole new look. Executive producer : NETFLIX (2); TOUSSAINT: JESSE GRANT/GETTY IMAGES Game Night during a night of Red Nose Day- Noelle Stevenson (the creator behind Nimona and Lumberjanes) themed programming on May 24. “It was so reimagines the classic 1980s animated series for today. BY PATRICK GOMEZ great to lend our time to such an important cause and in such a fun way,” says the actor, 47. “All you have to do is turn on the news NOELLE STEVENSON DIDN’T GROW to see the state of the world and know that of black-ish’s Marcus Scribner, up watching She-Ra: Princess of children everywhere need our help.” Dancing With the Stars champ Jor- Power, but she wishes she had. dan Fisher, and Young & Hungry’s “I was always looking for the WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Aimee Carrero. “She-Ra was ahead female characters in sci-fi and of its time,” says Stevenson. “I’m “Every single dollar goes to helping children fantasy who were more than just so excited to bring these stories of the girlfriend,” says the celebrated around the world,” Hayes says of the cam- female power and love and friend- cartoonist, 26. “I love the female paign, which has raised $100 million and ship back now when it seems like characters in She-Ra. There isn’t helped more than 8 million children over we need them more than ever.” another show quite like it.” the past three years. The original She-Ra—which fol- lowed Princess Adora, the twin HOW YOU CAN HELP sister of Prince Adam (a.k.a. He-Man)— debuted in 1985, more than six years Tune in to NBC’s special night of program- before Stevenson was born. But ming, which will include fund-raising now she’s executive-producing opportunities. Buy an oficial Red Nose a reboot, She-Ra and the Princesses at Walgreens—the proceeds go directly of Power, which will debut on Netflix to charity while broadening awareness later this year, featuring the voices of the event itself. —Maureen Lee Lenker

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to get their honest hard after so many answers and opinions. years in the business. And then I’ll have a desk segment. I won’t How did your experi- be interviewing anyone. ence at the WHCD It’s more like me and change you? WOLF PORTRAIT: LAUREN GOLIO/REDUX; a comedian ranting. It made me confident. It’s fun to stand in a Will you address room and deliver the the WHCD in the first jokes you wanted to episode? deliver. Also, I wore a I think that I’ve talked suit, and I totally under- about it as much as stand now why people I’m going to talk about like suits. A nice-fitting it. I don’t really like to suit makes you feel MICHELLE WOLF dwell. Hopefully, we good about yourself. SHOW DAILY THE can just keep doing that type of comedy but Was there a particular apply it to other things. call or email you received after the DINNER CORRESPONDENTS’ HOUSE WHITE IMAGES; ZIMMERMAN/GETTY : PAUL Late-Night’sNew When will each WHCD that made the episode drop? whole experience We’ll tape an episode on worthwhile? LeadingLady Thursday evening, and Every single comment they will be released warmed my heart a After slaying at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, at 12:01 a.m. PT Sunday million times over, from the Daily Show alum, 32, is launching a weekly series, morning. I anticipate my friends who are The Break With Michelle Wolf, May 27 on Netflix. BY LYNETTE RICE people will watch it Sun- stand-ups to the Ste- day mornings. phen Colberts and Dave Chappelles and All this attention Netflix. I think they monologue jokes, I turn Do you have a role David Lettermans. from the White House knew exactly who they them into stand-up bits. model in comedy? I always want to enter- Correspondents’ were getting. It will look more like a I really admire Chris tain my audience, but Dinnerhasbeengreat stand-up special than Rock. Clearly, he’s one I also want other comics for the launch of your What will the straight-to-camera of the funniest humans to like what I’m doing. Netflix show. Does it format be? delivery. We’re giving to ever live. I opened for You want approval from feel that way? your peers.

I call it topical stand- audience members little him for a portion of his IMAGES MAY/NURPHOTO/GETTY : CHERISS I think it’s awesome! up. Instead of the stan- voting machines. I ask last tour. It was inspiring If people hated what dard setup-punchline them questions and try to see someone work so Listening to you now, I did at the dinner, yyour voice isn’t that they’re really going high. Does the higher to hate my show. pitch onlycomeouton ITMADEMECONFIDENT.. IT’SFUNTO stage, like a character? Did Netflix do their STANDINAROOMANDDDELIVERTHEJOKES No, it’s just when I get research before they louder.WWhen I’m on the greenlit the show? YOUWANTEDTODELIVER.” phone I aalways try not I pitched the show to —WOLF ON HOSTING THE WHCD to hurt peeople’s ears.

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Crunch Time Treat your guests to a Memorial Day celebration to remember DESIGN A DIY DRIVE-IN with this faux-fried (it’s actually baked!) chicken sandwich “Hang a projection screen and from MasterChef’s Gordon Ramsay use a mini projector to play old movies after dark,” says Roth.

1 Preheat oven to 350°F. Stir remaining ⅛ tsp. pepper. Taste, INGREDIENTS together flour, ¾ tsp. of the salt, and add more vinegar if needed. and ⅛ tsp. of the pepper in a shal- 4 Split buns; divide avocado slices ½ cup whole-wheat flour low bowl. In a separate shallow among bottoms of buns and top MICHELLE/ PARISA RAMSAY: SMITH; ORLANDO JAMIE SANDWICH: CHICKEN 1 tsp. sea salt, divided bowl, stir together buttermilk, with lettuce. Top lettuce with ¼ tsp. freshly ground paprika, garlic powder, onion black pepper, divided chicken and drizzle with yogurt powder, and sage. Place pufed 1 cup buttermilk mixture and, if desired, hot sauce. rice cereal in another shallow 4 tsp. paprika Replace bun tops and serve bowl; crush lightly with hands 2 tsp. garlic powder immediately. 2 tsp. onion powder so that the cereal is broken down MAKES 4 or granulated onion slightly but not powdery. Active Time 1 tsp. dried sage 20 mins. 2 Total Time 45 mins. 6 cups pufed rice cereal Dredge chicken pieces, one at a time, in flour to coat; shake to 8 chicken tenderloins “The California ‘Fried’ Chicken Sandwich ⅓ cup plain whole-milk remove excess. Dip in buttermilk, couldn’t be easier to make,” says Ramsay, LET YOUR FRIENDS BE BALLERS Greek yogurt letting excess drip of. Dredge “and your guests will never know they’re Toss around a nine-foot-diameter ½ garlic clove, crushed in pufed rice, pressing lightly to actually eating well!” beach ball for guests to play with. 1 tsp. cider vinegar coat. Place chicken on a baking “It makes for great pics!” she says. 4 whole-wheat buns sheet. Bake in preheated oven 1 ripe avocado, peeled, Recipe adapted from Gordon Ramsay’s until golden and cooked through, Healthy, Lean & Fit, out September 2018. pitted, and sliced 2 cups shredded 25 to 30 minutes, turning halfway Season 9 of MasterChef premieres May 30 iceberg lettuce through cooking. at 8 p.m. on Fox. Hot sauce (optional) 3 Meanwhile, in a small bowl, stir IMAGES POLK/GETTY LOVATO: CHRISTOPHER NEWS; SPLASH together yogurt, crushed garlic, vinegar, remaining ¼ tsp. salt, and

1 “BROOKLYN IN 4 “SUMMER LOVE” 7 “I KNOW WHAT YOU YOUR SUMMER THE SUMMER” JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE DID LAST SUMMER” PLAYIST, LITERALLY ALOE BLACC SHAWN MENDES FEAT. 5 “SUMMER GIRLS” CAMILA CABELLO Salute the season 2 “SUMMER” LFO CALVIN HARRIS 8 of sun with this party 6 “SUMMERTI playlist of sizzling 3 “SUMMERTIME DJ JA TH TREE STUMPS songs, all of which SADNESS” THE he lumberyard and have the word LANA DEL REY Roth. “Paint the summer in the title as tables or seats.”

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SteveMartinandMartinShort: 9–11PM | TLC Laverne Cox still gets goose bumps talking AnEveningYouWillForgetfor about her genealogical discoveries in this ancestry docuseries’ two-hour premiere theRestofYourLife (Jon Cryer features in the first part). “Finding FRIDAY, MAY 25 | STREAMING | NETFLIX out my family history was about having a better understanding of how I came to be who I am,” the Orange Is the New Black star One of the alternative titles for Steve Martin and Martin Short’s says. Tracing her mother’s roots, Cox follows stand-up comedy special? “See Them Before They’re Dead,” Martin a path of public records to pre-emancipation days and a three-times great-grandfather says. The pair have been friends since starring as two of the Three whose life took a drastic turn after the end of Amigos in 1986. “We’ve known each other so long,” says Short. slavery, not to mention a revelation that left her “empowered”: “It felt consistent with “There’s this natural ease of working together.” An Evening You who I am on a cellular level.” —Gerrad Hall NETWORKS DISCOVERY COX: NETFLIX; SHORT: AND MARTIN Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life—which toured in various live iterations for four years—is a mix of comedy and music. “Cathe- rine O’Hara described it as a children’s show for adults,” Short shares. Adds Martin: “It’s the result of four years of work on a show—honing, and trimming, and figuring out what sort of show we wanted to do. Then it was in such a shape that we really wanted to film it, and so now we can start working on a new show.” As for their target audience? “People who are looking for a little intellect with their humor,” Short says, before Martin chimes in with a “...should go somewhere else,” to finish the sentence.

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Season Finale The Great WE’RE NOT-WORTHY Dancing With American Read the Stars: Athletes Tig Notaro 8–10PM | PBS Happy to Be Here 8–9PM | ABC Meredith Vieira STREAMING | NETFLIX Who needs an takes viewers on Olympic medal a journey celebrat- The stand-up when you can ing America’s 100 tackles marriage, have a Mirrorball favorite novels. parenthood, and trophy? Ice skater The list includes the thrill of being and fan favorite Catch-22, 1984, invited to an Ellen Adam Rippon Running Wild With Bear Grylls and Fifty Shades DeGeneres party. is the safe bet of Grey. Maybe that Our invite probably 10–11PM | NBC to take home the last one got in on got lost in the mail, prize, assuming Game of Thrones star Lena some “number-in- right, E? he can protect Headey has no shame about the-title”-related his kneecaps. getting dirty and running wild afirmative action? with Bear Grylls. “I like to do Season Finale Season Finale things that make me scared,” The Flash Series Finale American Idol says the actress. “Part of the fun The Middle 8–9PM | THE CW is that all along you’re thinking, 9–11PM | ABC 8:30–9:30PM | ABC ‘Oh, f---.’ ” Headey’s appearance Barry Allen has Judges Luke Bryan, on the show also provided her to prevent DeVoe After 215 episodes Katy Perry, and with a unique opportunity to from destroying and nine seasons, Lionel Richie seek impress her son—by facing Earth with dark it’s time for America to answer the her fear of spiders. “I thought, matter, but things to finally say good- question: Is it really ‘If I do the thing that he knows could be worse for bye to the Heck a comeback if no I’m terrified of, then I might the DC hero: Did family. The title of one actually noticed get him to do his homework.’” you see Infinity War? the final episode the show went away A total 180 from Cersei’s moth- He could be in the says it all: It’s been in the first place? ering strategy. —Derek Lawrence Marvel Universe. “A Heck of a Ride.”

WEDNESDAY MAY 23

Season Premiere Season Finale Brother vs. Brother Empire

9–10PM | HGTV 8–9PM | FOX Jonathan and Can Empire and the Lyons exist without Empire? That’s the possi- Drew Scott go bility facing the first family of music as Eddie (Forest Whitaker) head-to-head in seeks control of their company by blackmailing Lucious (Terrence a house-flipping Howard) over his involvement in the death of Shyne (Xzibit). “They competition, and really have a choice to make,” showrunner Brett Mahoney teases presumably also of the season 4 finale. “Either save the empire or lose one of their a competition own—what’s more important? This choice between family and the for who has the empire forces the Lyons to reevaluate what is most important in more dazzlingly their lives.” My guess: crazy drama. —Derek Lawrence white toothy smile. (Spoiler: Season Finale It is always a tie.) Survivor : CHUCK HODES/FOX CHUCK :

8–10PM | CBS EMPIRE “I liken this finale to a great boxing match,” : CBS; : says Jef Probst of Survivor’s 36th-season ender. “Those who are truly in it to win it go toe-to-toe.” Not only that, but the host SURVIVOR hints that this season’s theme of cursed items will indeed factor into the final result. “There are still a handful of Ghost Island relics in play,” says Probst. “The ability of these players to reverse the curse could be the diference between a million dollars and a seat on the jury.” Speaking of the jury, may the curse of Chris Noble’s rapping

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THURSDAYY MAY24 FRIDDAY MAY 2

Terrence Howard’s Fright Club Season Premiere My Last Days 8–9PM | FOX 8–9PM | THE CW The weirdness of this special— in which Terrence Howard Jane the Virgin star “superfans”(!) head to a New Justin Baldoni hosts Orleans mansion for a “filmed this docuseries about VIP experience”(!!) that turns the courageous out to be a haunted-swamp people defying the nightmare(!!!)—is something Red Nose Day odds in their battles to be celebrated. Howard has against terminal 8–11PM | NBC a grand old time in the control illness. So much for Miniseries Debut room cackling at his victims’ Before The Red Nose Day Special feeling productive Picnic at Hanging Rock terror, and while it’s a bit too pulls heartstrings at 10 p.m., for doing laundry STREAMING | AMAZON camera-ready to be true (once NBC is delivering the laughs last week. a voodoo zombie strolls into the with an A-list edition of Holly- Natalie Dormer stars as the living room, shouldn’t someone wood Game Night (9 p.m.), headmistress of an Australian realize they’re being punk’d?), all in the name of raising money boarding school for girls Fright Club is surprisingly funny for impoverished children. in 1900 where four women and unabashedly freaky. But the night kicks of with mysteriously vanish on a day B+ —Kristen Baldwin American Ninja Warrior, where trip gone wrong. “The thing cohost Akbar Gbajabiamila about Hester Appleyard is, finally gets in on the action. she is not what she seems,” “I talk about it all the time as says the Game of Thrones alum if it’s easy,” the former NFLer er character. “She has run says, admitting he was actually e other side of the world “super nervous” before starting invent herself, and as we the course. “On a scale of 1 to ney on these six hours, 10, I thought it was going to be facade starts to slip, and a 15, and once I started, it was you realize this woman is not RED NOSE DAY about a 9.” —Gerrad Hall who she says she is.” : HEIDI GUTMAN/NBC; : HEIDI

SATURDAY MAY 26 SUNDAY MAY 27

The Tale Series Premiere FURRY AND BLURRY The Break With

10PM–12AM | HBO ROCK AT HANGING PICNIC Michelle Wolf Finding Bigfoot Revisiting a seventh-grade story she wrote STREAMING NETFLIX 8–10PM | ANIMAL PLANET called “The Tale” inspired Jennifer Fox to | write and direct what she dubs “an investiga- Wolf had a star- Four researchers tion of memory,” merging fact and fiction to making turn as the continue their explore the complexities of her own child- acid-tongued host mission to find proof hood abuse. Laura Dern stars as Fox, who of the White House of the mythological : NARELLE PORTANIER/AMAZON PRIME VIDEO; insisted her real name be used for believabil- Correspondents’ creature in the ity. “As a survivor, I felt like you had to show Dinner. Even though Pacific Northwest what it really looks like,” she says. “It really is, Series Premiere Sarah Huckabee for their 100th in a very ordinary way, horror.” Fox notes the The Fourth Estate Sanders probably episode. Quick film’s release during the #MeToo era is a for- question: What’s 7:30–9PM | SHOWTIME won’t be watching, tuitous one: “It probably would have gotten we will! What are the taking so long? buried because it’s too strong and it’s too Two-time Oscar-nominated odds Wolf will be complex, but we are lucky that the doors are documentary filmmaker Liz rocking a smoky eye? already open.” —Maureen Lee Lenker Garbus knew “journalism would be under attack” when Donald Season Finale H ORHESTATE THE FOURTH Trump took ofice. So she’s The Good Fight CLUB FRIGHT responding with The Fourth Estate, an edge-of-your-seat STREAMING docuseries about The New York CBS ALL ACCESS :FOX ; Times covering the “adrenaline- : T.J. KIRKPATRICK/SHOWTIME : T.J.

filled days” of the president’s Challenges continue THE TALE first year in the White House. to mount for the “We are not a comprehensive partners of Reddick, : KYLE KAPLAN/HBO : KYLE history of the political year,” Boseman & Lockhart she clarifies. Instead, Garbus in Trump’s America. just might be the media’s best Diane clearly chose weapon against “fake news.” the wrong four years —Nick Romano to quit microdosing.

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COURTNEY BARNETT WILL SEE YOUNOW The Australian rocker is here to walk you through life’s daily anxieties with her new LP, Tell Me How You Really Feel (out May 18). She chats with EW about the album, Carrie Fisher quotes, and teapots. BY ALEX SUSKIND

COURTNEY BARNETT’S “NAMELESS, Faceless” is an emotionally lacer- ating track about the threat some men pose to women. But when the 30-year-old artist wrote the single—which appears on her upcoming album, Tell Me How You Really Feel—she unknowingly quoted a legendary expert on GHANA POONEH the matter: Margaret Atwood. “I didn’t know who she was. I read it in a news article,” says

60 EW.COM MAY 25, 2018 NOTEWORTHY Thinkin’ About Tomorrow Lindsey Buckingham said his sacking from Fleetwood Mac harms the band’s legacy. Aubrey & the Three Migos Drake announced a summer tour with opener Migos.

Barnett of her lyrical interpolation The hateful attitudes of of the author’s famed sentiment strangers is something Barnett that men are afraid women will touches on in album opener laugh at them and women are “Hopefullessness,” a song about afraid men will kill them. “trying to be hopeful when you But Barnett wouldn’t make feel hopeless”: “Y’know what KYLE the connection until it was time they say/No one’s born to hate/ to sign of on the record’s lyrics We learn it somewhere along TITLE Light of Mine and artwork. “It was kind of a the way/Your vulnerability is LABEL Atlantic | GENRE Hip-hop backwards discovery, but it’s stronger than it seems/Y’know such a powerful line,” she says. it’s okay to have a bad day.” REVIEW BY Alex Suskind “That’s why it stood out in the The song also includes a quote first place. It’s so strong, and it from another major pop culture ON HIS 2016 MULTIPLATINUM says so much with so little.” figure, the late Carrie Fisher (FYI, she eventually began (though this time Barnett knew single “iSpy,” KYLE (born watching The Handmaid’s Tale.) to whom she should attribute it). Kyle Harvey) established him- Like Atwood, Barnett has “I remember Meryl Streep said self as music’s newest happy-go-lucky been praised for her clear-eyed it” during the Golden Globes in MC (“I ain’t frown since ’06/I ain’t cried approach to writing. She first 2017, Barnett says of the advice exhibited it in the early 2010s “Take your broken heart, make since ’01,” he rapped alongside Lil with two critically acclaimed it into art.” “It’s such a powerful Yachty). But there’s more to the 25-year- EPs—I’ve Got a Friend Called line. It tied in with a lot of the old Ventura, Calif.-bred artist than just Emily Ferris and HowtoCarvea ideas I was playing with: turning carefree, singsong rhymes. His major- Carrot Into a Rose—and her that kind of negative energy into brilliant full-length debut, 2015’s something positive.” label debut, Light of Mine (out May 18), Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Her new album is drawn continues the cheerful thread of “iSpy” Sometimes I Just Sit. toward those everyday struggles— while also exploring the aspirations and Though the new record is her and the afirmation needed to anguish that come with overnight suc- first solo LP in three years, combat them. That’s part of the Barnett has been busy—“I don’t reason you hear a teakettle cess. He admits that money has put him really like complete downtime,” boiling at the end of “Hopefulless- I THINK A LOT in “a lot of awesome places” but hasn’t she says—making an album ness”: “I’d watched Eraserhead helped him achieve happiness (on with Kurt Vile (Lotta Sea Lice), while I was in the final stages OF THE IMPORTANT “Zoom”). And he looks back on his rocky recording and touring with her of editing lyrics,” says Barnett. partner (Jen Cloher), and cover- “I was slightly inspired by the STUFF, I GUESS, pre-celebrity days when he was “eating ing INXS’ “Never Tear Us Apart” sound design—the low rumbles JUST STICKS IN Wendy’s” and “still borrowing clothes” for an ad in support of same-sex and the dryness that constantly MY HEAD. YOU (on the 2 Chainz–and–Sophia Black- unions. Barnett was with Cloher put you on edge. I was trying featuring “Ikuyo”)—all over beats that in Austin when their home to capture that same feeling with KNOW IT’S GOOD country legalized gay marriage the synths and keyboards.” So snap and pop like a jack-in-the-box. in 2017—something she was what does that have to do with IF IT KEEPS Meanwhile, a talented roster of guests— ecstatic about, despite the less- tea? “The whistle on the kettle we COMING BACK.” Khalid, Kehlani, Alessia Cara—steps in than-satisfying way the Austra- boil in the morning stresses me —COURTNEY for quick assists. That many features on lian government went about it. out,” she says. “I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve BARNETT “The process was negative got to get that in somewhere.’ ” a debut might signal the work of an and a bit insulting,” she says. By the time the album closes unfocused or underdeveloped artist, but “They decided to make it a with “Sunday Roast,” those early on Light of Mine it’s the opposite. The public-opinion poll, which it just troubles have dissipated—at assembled group isn’t here to prop up shouldn’t be. It opened a bit of a least until tomorrow: “Ignore that KYLE but to accentuate his sound, prov- floodgate to homophobia and voice/It puts you down/You make people feeling free to voice their your choice/I’m here for you/ ing the young artist has more in his opinions on someone else’s life.” It’s all the same to me.” toolbox than just a one-off hit. B–

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Electric THE James Bay’s Feel Three years after his debut, Chaos and the Calm, PLAYBACK the English singer-songwriter is back with a new sound, a new style—and no hat in sight. BY RUTH KINANE A rundown of notable box sets, compilations, and reissues. BY SARAH RODMAN Electric Light [out May 18] I wanted to rattle some What were some of is sonically distinct from cages and people’s per- those records? your first album. Was that ception of me as an artist. Frank Ocean’s Channel intentional or did it just Orange, diferent David evolve that way? Everyone loves to put Bowie moments, some Both. I wanted to throw pressure on the sopho- Prince stuf, the Strokes’ myself of and paint my more album. Did that Is This It,allofLorde’s music in a diferent light— change the way you music. Blondie’s Parallel in a slightly corny way that approached it? Lines was a big one too. ties into the title. But there It’s fun for everyone else are moments on the to overhype the pressure, Did you go into this record that bridge the gap but the songwriting pro- album thinking there’d between the two albums, cess was just the same: be a cohesive theme? and that was just as inten- me writing verse, chorus, I don’t like to define what tional as [the song] “Wild verse, chorus, bridge, the record is supposed Love” sounding diferent. chorus. Still, the way that to be before I make it. I colored these songs in But after I wrote a lot of So,youchose“WildLove” was diferent: I did a lot of songs, I recognized it was OTIS REDDING as the lead single because listening to other records mainly about unity. I was DOCK OF THE BAY SESSIONS | Rhino it’s so diferent from what whilst I was writing, and exploring the importance This 12-track collection (out May 18 on we’d expect? then stepping back and of humans being with CD, vinyl, and digitally) compiles Yeah. For good or bad, revisiting what I’d written. one another in a physical previously released tunes—including capacity because we “Hard to Handle” and the ageless title reach each other in all track—from the soul legend’s final these high-tech ways sessions. A solid primer and a feeling now, and that distances of what could’ve been if Redding’s us from each other. voicehadn’tbeensilencedsoyoung. Ihavetomentionthe new haircut. Did you worry you’d end up like Samson when you chopped of your famed locks? [Laughs] If anyone thinks James my talent is in my hair, Bay they’re listening to the wrong dude. I suppose in a small way it was nice to do it to say, “Look, I’m an artist and I have to evolve.” I’ll test myself and push my own boundaries because I trust my fans, and if we’re going to have an exciting JERRY GARCIA relationship, then we need BEFORE THE DEAD | Round Records to push each other.

The latest from the seemingly bot- Like when you wore that tomless vault of Grateful Dead-related great pink, sparkly shirt music, this fascinating, painstakingly on Saturday Night Live? curated box (available on four CDs I’ve been getting a lot of or in a limited-edition set of five LPs) love for that shirt. You go PIANDOSI SARAH documents Garcia’s bluegrass and on SNL and play a song folk roots. Even die-hard completists called “Pink Lemonade,” will find new treasures here. you can’t really pass up the opportunity.

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 Kelly Clarksson, Mariah Carey, anda Gwen Steffani 2005CHART FLASHBACK

Come hollaback to the Hot 100, 13 years ago this week, when Gwen Stefani went bananas, Mariah pined, and the Peas got phunky. BY LEAH GREENBLATT

1 GWEN STEFANI 6 THE BLACK EYED PEAS “HOLLABACK GIRL” “DON’T PHUNK WITH MY HEART” Pop quiz, chart nerds: “Hollaback” is (A) Fergie had another year before she Gwen’s response to Courtney Love call- blew up solo, so there was still time STEPHENMALKMUS ing her a cheerleader; (B) the only No. 1 to rework a classic Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam to say “s---” 38 times; (C) B-A-N-A-N-A-S; hook and go along with will.i.am’s or (D) all of the above. Plus pom-poms. arbitrary spell-check overrides. C+ A– SPARKLES (Pro tip: The answer is always D.) 7 ROB THOMAS “LONELY NO MORE” The Jicks frontman and consummate 2 MARIAH CAREY “WE BELONG TOGETHER” After the bonkers success of the Santana indie rocker tells EW how he chose the A song so massive, Mimi only outdid duet “Smooth,” Rob cut of his Match- emphatically cheerful title for his herself, longevity-wise, with “One Sweet box Twenty curls, tightened his pants, group’s new record, Sparkle Hard. Day.” Also a prime video showcase and got all Timberlake-adjacent, which BY ALEX SUSKIND for the intense eyebrow acting of the actually worked pretty well for him. B+ broody guy from Prison Break. A– 8 KELLY CLARKSON “SINCE U BEEN GONE” “MY TITLES ARE DEFINITELY MORE CROWD- 3 CIARA FEAT. LUDACRIS “OH” Somewhere in the five stages of grief sourced. I write a lot of them, and I ask a Basically a banging slo-mo listicle of that follow a bad breakup—denial, certain cross section of people what they every trifling shorty Ciara will never anger, bargaining, depression, accep- like best. I ask some people at the label, I E; STEFANI: KEVIN MAZUR/WIREIMAGE; MALKMUS: GIOVANNI DUCA step to, which made exactly all of them tance—comes a sixth and crucial step, ask some writer friends, I ask my wife (she desperate to change her mind. B+ Clarksoning. It’s never the neighbors’ favorite, but it is very cathartic. A+ generally doesn’t like what I like), I ask the 4 50 CENT band—but they normally don’t have hard “JUSTALILBIT” 9 BOBBY VALENTINO opinions. In the end, we didn’t want to “SLOW DOWN” 50 was the Motorola Razr of the mid- sound too whiny for this age. We want to 2000s, so sleek and hard to get. But on A seminal R&B jam about the Sophie’s be kind of fun and declarative. It’s our this one he just sounds like the creeper choice between hoping a girl will stay telling you he’s cool to stop at third base turned away from you so you can check record, we get to tell you to ‘sparkle hard.’ and then boom! You’re pregnant. B out her butt and also really wanting to We’re not going to be kind of wishy-washy, see what’s up with her face. B+ we’re not going to be Trump-y. It’s easy to 5 THE GAME FEAT. 50 CENT “HATE IT OR LOVE IT” do a dark title now to match the times. In 10 AKON Even though they would spend most “LONELY” the end, we are just trying to pick the cool- of the next decade in a tense Mega Shark Remember how everywhere Akon used est and most fun title. Obviously [Sparkle vs. Giant Octopus standof, Game and to be? Well it all started here, with a 1962 Hard] is very meme-friendly. Though I did 50 still had this brief sweet moment of Bobby Vinton ballad jacked up to sad- notice that there’s a sex-positive sex club summer subwoofer domination. A chipmunk speed and a rain machine. B in London that has a night called that too.

CLARKSON: PETER KRAMER/GETTY IMAGES; CAREY: JAMES DEVANEY/WIREIMAG I hope that’s not a copyright issue.”

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1 THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH 1988

Chabon’s first published novel 2 features several themes he’s WONDER BOYS returned to throughout his 1995 career—particularly, chosen families and absent fathers. One of Chabon’s more indelible MICHAEL He started writing The Mysteries characters, Grady Tripp, is an of Pittsburgh at just 21 years author sufering from writer’s old, telling the story of Art block while weathering a per- Bechstein, the son of a money sonal storm: His wife has walked MY BOOKS, launderer trying to go legit. out, and his girlfriend is newly “I was at that age where you start MY LIFE pregnant. Grady wrestles with BOYSWONDER to leave the family you were impending fatherhood and born into,” Chabon says. The ultimately decides he isn’t ready CHABON novel was “very autobiographi- for it. Chabon completed cal” for him, with its estranged Wonder Boys just before his PICTURES/PHOTOFEST : PARAMOUNT The acclaimed best-selling novelist (and father-son dynamic—the first wife, Ayelet Waldman, became father of four) looks back at his biggest of many times that Chabon’s pregnant with their first child. books through the prism of parenthood— own sense of abandonment And he shared Grady’s lack of just in time for the release of his new essay (his father left home when he parental vision. “You don’t ever collection, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces. was 12) would filter into his work. see Grady being a parent,” BY DAVID CANFIELD Chabon explains. “Partly, I think that’s because I wasn’t ready to go there myself.”

64 EW.COM MAY 25, 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY KATE COPELAND BETWEEN More Archie Scholastic will publish new books tied to THE the CW series Riverdale, including guides and novels. LINES Catch and Kill Ronan Farrow is expanding his pivotal reporting on sexual abuse in a bombshell new book.

3 THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY 2000

In its latter half, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel constructs 6 a chosen family of Sammy, a gay MOONGLOW man; Rosa, the wife of his Navy- 2016 serving creative partner; and 4 5 Tommy, her young son. Chabon THE YIDDISH TELEGRAPH AVENUE Chabon describes the charac- had become a father by the time POLICEMEN’S UNION 2012 ters in Moonglow, a fictionalized he wrote Kavalier & Clay,andhe 2007 account of the wild stories his drew heavily from his—and his This tale traces another legacy grandfather shared before he Chabon had never mined wife’s—trials in parenthood. of absent fatherhood: Archy, died, as his “ultimate family personal material as painful as “Part of [how I] changed was my the protagonist, reckons with of choice.” He explains: “I blew what he did here—surprising, experience of seeing my wife as his father’s abandonment and my chance to know my actual given its sci-fi trappings. Detec- a mother—it was a close-up to his own parental failings when grandparents with the intimacy tive Landsman’s marriage to everything,” he says. “The bar his long-lost son resurfaces. that I could get to know a fic- Bina falls apart due to a shared is so much higher for mothers. But the theme’s recurrence in tional character. In [Moonglow], trauma: the termination of a Watching my wife wrestle with Chabon’s work is subconscious. I invented a whole new family for wanted pregnancy. Chabon that, I was able to try to approxi- The author calls it part of his myself and put myself into that went through the same thing mate and begin to approach… “toolbox,” a motif inherent to his family.” As such, it’s Chabon’s with Waldman, and he found some of that experience.” life that’s now part of his narra- most personally intimate book to it strangely organic to integrate tive arsenal. “Loss is the one date, stufed with his dreams and that grief into this “phantasma- thing I return to the most regu- anxieties—guilt over failing his goric, Yiddish-speaking, Alaskan larly,” Chabon says, referencing children, anger over losing his murder-mystery.” As he learned, the golden age of comic books father. “I was fully projecting my “genre fiction can actually be (Kavalier & Clay) and the Yiddish own feelings,” he says. “In a way, more conducivecon to allowing a language. “And that sense of it was almost like Method acting.” writer to get at some really dark, loss is so powerful that it can raw emotion.” extend beyond absent fathers.”

 Tobey Maguire and Michael Douglas (as Grady Tripp) in the film adaptation of Wonder Boys

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Can’t get enough of the royal wedding on May 19? Grab a Pimm’s Cup and indulge in these biographies that range from deliciously gossipy THEPRINCESS DIARIES BY MAUREEN LEE LENKER to as prim and proper as the Queen.

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MEOW Royal insiders initially Eugenie’s and Beatrice’s On Meghan’s alma mater, Harry’s first serious Meghan reportedly MOMENT feared Meghan was attire for Will and Kate’s Northwestern: “It is an girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, returned her wedding fame-hungry and the nuptials is compared extremely respectable ended their relationship and engagement rings whole relationship was to that of Cinderella’s university, and I doubt if by changing her Face- to her first husband via a “publicity stunt.” “beastly” stepsisters. Harry could get in.” book status to “single.” registered mail.

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GOOEY “There is a genuine At their engagement “She beamed and The PDA-happy couple Their union is “the DESCRIPTION sense with her by announcement, they looked up at him...with were given bunches crowning symbolic OF MEGHAN AND HARRY’S his side the best is are likened to “a pair adoration in her eyes of mistletoe by giddy achievement of the LOVE yet to come.” of terrestrial swans in and a wondrous expres- staf for their first special relationship a mating dance.” sion on her face.” Christmas tree. between a monarchy and a republic.”

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A seminal work of New Journalism, this story of the Merry Pranksters remains among the most vital Remembering depictions of ’60s counterculture. Tom Wolfe The author of The Bonfire of the Vanities built his reputation as an intellectual provocateur and a journalism pioneer. BY DAVID CANFIELD & STEPHAN LEE

TOM WOLFE WAS A LITERARY GIANT. additional years editing it into The Bonfire of The author, who died May 14 in a New York the Vanities. A sweepingly satirical look at The Right Stuf City hospital at 88 years old, first made a American life, the novel became a bona fide 1979 name for himself as a reporter, helping coin literary sensation. the term New Journalism while working on Wolfe’s work could be divisive. His 2004 Wolfe’s acclaimed best-selling a story for Esquire magazine in 1963. That novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons, about a story of the first American astro- nauts to conquer space was made led to his first book, an essay collection coed’s sexual experiences at an American into an Oscar-winning 1983 film. titled The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake university, won the Literary Review’s annual Streamline Baby. But it was what came next, Bad Sex in Fiction Award; his final book, the The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, a riveting nonfiction tome The Kingdom of Speech, drew account of the hippie Merry Pranksters backlash for its critiques of Charles Darwin band, that revealed Wolfe as a pioneer of and Noam Chomsky. He was nothing if not immersive, narrative journalism, and it provocative, commanding attention off the vaulted him to fame. page as well: He traded public barbs with

: EVERETT COLLECTION (2) EVERETT COLLECTION : In 1979, Wolfe published The Right Stuff, John Updike, Norman Mailer, and other leg- his classic account of the early space pro- endary authors, and set himself apart The Bonfire of the Vanities gram, and in the early ’80s he set his sights sartorially, always appearing in a signature 1987 on writing his first novel, only to run into white suit, worn year-round with a homburg nearly a year of writer’s block. He pitched hat and two-tone shoes. A true original, The movie version flopped, but Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner a work of Wolfe stayed defiantly himself to the end. Of Wolfe’s brilliant novel set in ’80s THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES , fiction that would run in installments over his personal style, he once said, “It is much New York still ranks among the decade’s quintessential novels. the course of a year. After Rolling Stone pub- more effective to arrive at any situation as a lished the excerpts, Wolfe spent two man from Mars than to try to fit in.” THE RIGHT STUFF RIGHT THE

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