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Kid Rock's Super Bowl of Spite
While Bad Bunny threw a halftime party for everyone capable of feeling emotions other than outrage, TPUSA counterprogrammed with a jorts-clad Bob Ritchie phoning it in. This is how you lose a culture war, writes GQ columnist Chris Black.
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BTS Begins Again
In the nearly four years since they went on break for mandatory military service in South Korea, the members of BTS have grown as artists and men, launching distinct solo careers to huge success. Now, the biggest band in the world is reuniting with a fifth studio album, a massive global tour, and a definitive answer to whether they’re stronger alone or together.
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The Pitt Season Two Just Locked In
After five episodes of slow-building tension, the HBO Max hit’s Fourth of July shift bids a tragic farewell to a series regular—and delivers its first truly great hour.
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Is the Prettiest Show on TV
It's set in blood-soaked Westeros. It's also a comedy. But the Game of Thrones spinoff isn't afraid to stop and admire a beautiful landscape.
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Why Internet Stars Are Chinamaxxing
On the other side of the Great Firewall, there is no YouTube, but there are more than half a billion people who watch streamers. What happens when America’s top creators introduce themselves?
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The Best Android Movies, Definitively Ranked
A.I. might be coming for all of our jobs (and maybe our lives), but we welcome our new humanoid-robot overlords—onscreen, if not in real life.
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Yep, A24 Is Dropping a Marty Supreme Ping Pong Table
You can also now own table tennis balls and paddles branded with the Oscar-nominated movie’s logo.
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The Love Is Blind Global Franchises, Definitively Ranked
Forget the Olympics—which country has the best version of Love Is Blind? As season 10 of the US series hits Netflix, we’ve ranked the finest LIB incarnations from around the world.
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Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show Was a Love Letter to Latin Memory
A Spanish-language performance that channeled shared nostalgia made history as the most-viewed halftime show ever.
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Bad Bunny Turned Super Bowl Halftime Into a Benito Bowl Win
Putting on for Puerto Rico with a dizzying one-banger-after-another performance, the Super Bowl's real superstar didn't waste a minute of his moment on the global stage, writes GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe.
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The Adventures of Cliff Booth Super Bowl Teaser: David Fincher Takes on Tarantino
In a grindhouse-ready surprise teaser, the late-'70s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel looks like a Big Kahuna burger of pure vibes.
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Charlie Puth Kicked Off the Charlie Puth-aissance at the Super Bowl
That National Anthem performance is just the latest sign that our premier Dad-pop auteur is due for a reconsideration.
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Justin Bieber Shredded the Competition at the Grammys, Awards or No Awards
His guitar-and-boxers “Yukon” performance was a reminder that—even on Music's Biggest Night—less is sometimes more, writes GQ columnist Chris Black.
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Isn’t the Next Game of Thrones. That’s Why It’s Working
AKOT7K showrunner Ira Parker on making a hangout show set in the same universe as one of Peak TV's bloodiest dramas.
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How Pillion Perfected the Sub/Dom Rom-Com
In a horny post-Heated Rivalry cultural moment, a comedy about guys in a BDSM relationship tests the mainstream's appetite for unapologetic depictions of kink.
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Why Twin Peaks Transcends Time and Space
Thirty-five years after ABC unceremoniously cancelled the original series, Dale Cooper and Laura Palmer are TikTok-famous and the late David Lynch is a Gen Z icon. We talked to Scott Meslow, author of the new Twin Peaks history A Place Both Wonderful and Strange, about the unlikely afterlife of a cult classic.
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J. Cole’s ‘What If’ Invokes Rap’s Greatest Beef to (Maybe) Address His Own
On The Fall-Off, his first new album since tapping out of the Kendrick/Drake feud, Cole imagines an alternate reality in which Biggie and Tupac patched things up.
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The 2026 Super Bowl Commercials Are Here, and They're Weird
The Super Bowl: It's, like, the Super Bowl of advertising! Here's a comprehensive guide to this year's best, worst, and most random Super Bowl commercials.
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Fallout Star Walton Goggins Says the Season 2 Finale Was All About 'Hope'
After a major final episode, especially for The Ghoul, the actor joined GQ to unpack the biggest twists and turns—and told us about what he'd be excited to see in season three.
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The Great Ticket Crisis: How Attending Live Events Became a Luxury Sport
It's not just you: It's never been harder to buy a reasonably priced ticket to a major concert or sporting event. Taylor Swift tours, World Cup matches, the Super Bowl, you name it... We dug in to the complex systems of the live-events market to explain why buying tickets feels like such a colossal mess right now.