Brandon Yu

Has there ever been a greater collective need for the ethos of our beloved Ted Lasso? It’s probably why the Apple TV+ show about the unwaveringly optimistic football (the European kind) coach played by Jason Sudeikis became an unexpected sensation…

Toward the end of the seventh episode of last year’s hit documentary series The Last Dance, Michael Jordan considers the question of whether or not his infamous intensity came at the expense of being perceived as a “nice guy.” “When people see this,…

Over the weekend, Kid Cudi posted a photo on his Instagram donning the iconic bounty hunter Mandalorian helmet. The hubbub that ensued, though, was not related to the Star Wars-themed look, but the peace-sign he threw up in the photo, which revealed…

This past weekend, Kanye West held a much-whispered-about private listening party in Las Vegas, playing songs from Donda, his long-delayed album that is rumored to drop this Friday. Vague details have since permeated the internet, speculating about…

Three days ago, the rapper posted a Tiktok joking about his apparent court date this Monday over the selling of his “Satan Shoes," a special edition sneaker collab between Nas and the art collective MSCHF. The kicks stemmed from Lil Nas X’s viral…

The moment feels startlingly, painfully familiar. In the fourth episode of the new season of Never Have I Ever, our charmingly hotheaded protagonist Devi is stopped in her tracks when she is faced by a horrifying sight: another Indian girl has…

“Now, can we please talk about my [Emmy nomination]?” Somewhere, Bowen Yang is likely pleased to be able to say this now, with the hall pass to be as much of a diva as we know he can play. Among the recently announced Emmy nominations, a small crop…

The trailer for the next Pixar film, Turning Red, dropped today, and adults everywhere can prepare themselves for tears and probably a hard look inward. The feature-length turn from Domee Shi, the director of the beloved Pixar short, Bao, looks like…

Ahead of the festivities for this year’s MLB All-Star week, during which the league's unequivocally brightest star Shohei Ohtani will surely steal the show, analyst and resident ESPN loudmouth Stephen A. Smith issued a dubious take. "I don't think…

As if we needed another reminder that this summer is the season to release any and all pent-up inhibitions from the past year and a half, HBO Max just dropped the trailer for its new dating show, FBoy Island. The show, like its title, looks like a…

This story has small spoilers from the film The Tomorrow War. The first third of The Tomorrow War, the new alien-fighting Chris Pratt action flick from Prime Video, is among the roughest stretch of a blockbuster movie in recent memory. It is…

Ahead of her upcoming album, Pretty Bitch Music, the rapper Saweetie spoke candidly in a recent profile in New York Magazine about the tricky successes and trials of her quick ascent over the last couple years, including the complicated truth that…

Over the weekend, singer and actress Vanessa Williams unwittingly stirred up controversy over her performance during PBS’s annual A Capital Fourth event celebrating Independence Day. Alongside "The Star-Spangled Banner," the nation’s anthem,…

If there was any doubt we might actually have a summer in 2021, the impossibly resonant voice of Vin Diesel has declared it so. This past weekend, F9: The Fast Saga, the latest installment in the Fast & Furious soap opera of family, cars, and…

For those less tapped into the niche corners of the Internet, the presence of Doja Cat in 2020 may have appeared as the fantasy outcome of an industry plant: if you hadn’t encountered her rise via her more meme-ready, bovine-inspired work, she…

If the past year and a half has been universally and consistently spent on anything outside of doom scrolling, it’s daydreaming about the moment when the world opens back up. In those visions, we’d hug our friends and family tightly, never stay in…

iCarly is back. And it’s, well, maybe sadder than ever. Paramount+ recently released a trailer for the reboot of the popular Nickelodeon show that ended in 2012. Miranda Cosgrove, who plays the titular Carly, and two of the original core cast (Jerry…

About halfway through his new Netflix special, comedian/musician Bo Burnham insists: he’s not going to kill himself. Also, you shouldn’t either. He’s initially telling this to the camera in the single solitary room that his entire one-man show,…

It doesn’t take long for the new Hulu comedy Plan B to give us a sense of the kind of movie we are about to watch. The film opens with the archetypal teenage morning routine — the classic introductory montage, typically set over a bouncing,…