The year's best TV featured dazzling debuts, first-rate farewell seasons, and the funniest show about an organ-harvesting ring you'll see all year. Even though the TV industry was shut down for 192 days this year due to a pair of strikes, it was still remarkably hard to narrow this best-of-2023 list …
EW critics rank the films that stood out for both good and bad reasons this year. The movie theater became a party again, and not just because the patron saint of cinemas Nicole Kidman declared it so. Barbenheimer, Tom Cruise, the Eras and Renaissance concert film extravaganzas, and the TikTok …
From Miley to Kylie to a 45-year-old unearthed gem, here are the tracks that made our year. Music in 2023 never stopped surprising us. The TikTok-famous became Top 5 famous. A trio of folk-rock darlings proved they had the range and a sense of humor. With the help of technology, some late great icons …
From Olivia Rodrigo's triumphant return to Victoria Monét's Grammy darling, here are the records that made our year. If this musical year taught us anything, it's that women rule (and that André 3000 really likes the flute). Art-pop queens Mitski and Lana Del Rey returned with entrancing — and wildly …
2023 was full of surprises. Whether we're talking about scripted twists — character deaths, time jumps, cannibalism — or unscripted madness — we're looking at you, Vanderpump Rules! — or even something that happened off-screen entirely — hi, strikes! — this year kept television fans on their …
Great episodes this year featured apocalyptic romance, creatures from outer space, and a top-notch Taylor Swift needle drop. 2023 was a good year for television — and a great year for the television episode. In a TV landscape cluttered with “12-hour movies” and shapeless streaming binges, we want to …
It's the inevitable truth of being a television fan: At some point, you're going to have to say goodbye to the show you love. (Unless that show is, like, Grey's Anatomy, because that's never ending.) But the biggest question surrounding said goodbye is how you're going to part ways. Will your show …
EW rounds up our 10 favorite pieces of theater to hit the Great White Way in 2023. Another openin', another show... 2023 found Broadway back in full force, after creeping back to life in the aftermath of the unprecedented pandemic-induced shutdown. The year was jam-packed with starry revivals …
From fairytale retellings to historical escapes, there was plenty to love on romance shelves in 2023. Every year, it seems as if our need for escape and happy endings only grows. 2023 was no exception, with a host of real-world events often making the real world a depressing place to be. Thank …
"The Summer I Turned Pretty" stars Lola Tung, Christopher Briney, creator Jenny Han, and more unpack fan-favorite beach scenes. This is 100 percent your look, The Summer I Turned Pretty! The Summer I Turned Pretty season 2 took us on a roller coaster of emotions when it came to the …
Co-casting directors Jeanie Bacharach and Maggie Bacharach talk adding Jamie Lee Curtis, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, and more stars for that season 2 episode. Christmas came early this year thanks to The Bear. But the holiday-set flashback episode "Fishes" was less of a joyous celebration and more …
Plus, that revelatory, jaw-dropping road trip. Warning: This article contains spoilers from Saltburn. It says a lot about how wild Emerald Fennell's Saltburn is that EW has written in-depth break downs of the film's erotic cemetery scene and "post-coital triumph" of an ending, and there's still more …
From Minnie Mouse locking Whoopi Goldberg in a wind machine to Joy Behar calling an Italian woman a bitch, "The View" is TV's greatest gift. Artificial intelligence, phantom noises, raging rivers of water that seemingly appear out of nowhere, Siri, tidings of the apocalypse, dead alien bodies, …