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Multiple times per week, our TV and film experts will list the most important ten streaming selections for you to pop into your queues. We’re not strictly operating upon reviews or accrued streaming clicks (although yes, we’ve scoured the streaming site charts) but, instead, upon those selections that are really worth noticing amid the churning sea of content. There’s a lot out there, after all, and your time is valuable.

TIE: 10. Black Adam (Warner Bros. movie streaming on Amazon Prime/VOD)

This comic book movie happens to be the long-gestating passion project of The Rock, as he initially announced like seven years ago, but sh*t happens, and sometimes, you gotta wait for dream time to happen. The film didn’t deliver a billion dollars, but it’s taking flight on VOD, something that Warner Bros. Discovery has undoubtedly noted for the future. And now we’re getting Henry Cavill back as Superman, so The Rock’s antihero truly did work magic while James Gunn prepares to redeem the DCEU/DCU.

TIE: 10. Stutz (Netflix movie)

If you’re down for a more cerebral and humanity-affirming option, Jonah Hill directs this film that dives into the legacy (and The Tools) of world-leading shrink Phil Stutz. Hill gets very personal as well while revealing some of his struggles, and the doctor-patient pair delivers a therapeutic watch with plenty of multigenerational humor along the way. Mental health is important, y’all, so don’t ignore it.

9. Andor (Disney+ series)

Diego Luna returns as Cassian for the last time in this series that won’t leave the streaming charts. That’s happening for solid reason because (no offense to Baby Yoda) it’s nice to have a more grounded Star Wars star that isn’t awash in, well, the Grogu vibe. We’ll see that little guy again soon, but in the meantime, it’s time for the grownups to catch up on a story that’s somehow timely (showcasing the fight against fascism by a true rebellion hero) and barreling toward Season 2 as we speak.

8. Dead To Me (Netflix series)

This final season came and went too soon, but at least we got to see Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini heading into a sunset together, even if it was a bittersweet experience. These two enjoyed one of the best dynamics on TV in recent years, and Applegate’s MS threw several wrenches into her life and the production, but she fought like hell to get through it. That’s also what her character, Jen, would do, and surely, Judy would support her. As for James Marsden’s twins, those kind of dudes will come and go (and they should mostly go). Bring on the therapeutic rage metal for the final homicidal showdowns, please.

7. The Devil’s Hour (Amazon Prime series)

I don’t know about you, but if I began to wake up every day at 3:33am, I would start to wonder what’s up. Yet nothing has gone logically for Jessica Raine’s Lucy in ages, so let’s roll with it. Soon enough, she’s being tracked by a criminal and involved with a police investigation, and man, can a lady get some sleep already? Waking nightmares and sketchy neighbors swirl while Lucy helps to piece together clues. Peter Capaldi co-stars in this sinister story, and the whole season is there for the streaming.

6. Warrior Nun (Netflix series)

There’s a fairly sizable social media contingent who’s lobbying for a Season 3 of this show starring Alba Baptista as Ava, who is either the nun who warriors or the warrior who nuns. Or both! Seriously though, the show is about more than those two things, and Ava has literal Hell on her hands while aiming to rally the Sister-Warriors and end the unholy antics of Adriel. Maybe she’ll get to live a normal life one day? Oh, yet that would be no fun for us.

5. Tulsa King (Paramount Plus series)

Sylvester Stallone will be back again for Season 2 of this show that hails from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan, who has got his own darn universe by now. Who would have thought this would come of Deputy Hale from Sons of Anarchy? TV is all the better for this turn of events, and Sly appears to relish being a mafia boss who tears through town and shakes up the heartland. He’s not only gotta clean things up professionally after decades behind bars, but his personal life took a big hit, too. It’s a good thing that Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire) is here to wrap his directing arms around this odd place where livestock occasionally wanders onto city streets.

4. Fleishman Is In Trouble (FX series on Hulu)

Jesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes star as a pair of ex-spouses who aren’t co-parenting so well. More specifically, Claire’s character falls off the radar and leaves Jesse’s (yes awkward) doctor fumbling at being a solo dad while stumbling through dating. The whole doctor thing helps him a lot, but he’s not having the best time while grappling with how life didn’t turn out as planned. Fortunately, he’s got supportive buddies in Lizzy Caplan and Adam Brody. This is a remarkable story about human nature, and the Fleishman plight somehow doesn’t come off as self-indulgent, which says a lot about both Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel and the journey from book to screen.

3. The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special (Disney+ movie)

Guardians 3 will arrive next year for one last group rodeo, but before that happens, James Gunn has a nice little gift for you to keep under the tree for rewatches. (Spoiler Alert) People do feel pretty upset about one reference though! Enjoy the atmosphere that includes a seasonally-decorated Groot and most of the rest of the gang to keep Vin Diesel’s voice company. For some reason Kevin Bacon and Maria Bakalova are onboard, too.

2. The White Lotus (HBO series streaming on HBO Max)

Get ready for penultimate episode time, baby. Aubrey Plaza’s Harper has been seething for weeks, and she’s fed up, so even if she doesn’t end up being the murderer (and I don’t think that she will be), those looks could kill. Portia and Tanya must now reckon with some uncomfortable truths (and whatever the hell her husband is doing), and Daphne could end up winning this whole thing, meaning that I hope she gets rid of that dead weight known as “Cameron.” Somehow, everyone is still miserable in paradise, but hey, that’s potentially better than being simply alright in winter weather.

1. Wednesday (Netflix series)

The people have spoken. Netflix’s servers must have been taxed from this show’s record-busting peak week while everyone watched during Thanksgiving weekend. It’s also a goth-nostalgia resurrection worth noticing since it brings plenty of newness to The Addams Family table. Jenna Ortega’s riveting as the lead, and Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán had no difficulty slipping into Morticia and Gomez’s well-heeled shoes. There’s plenty of mystery afoot and also a protagonist worth caring about, even if she’d probably hate that.

In her second performance of the night, SZA debuted a new song on the Saturday Night Live stage. Her latest cut from her upcoming album, S.O.S., which is called “Blind,” according to the SNL Twitter account, first appeared briefly at the end of the “Shirt” video. It’s a downtempo cut, on which SZA reiterates her disdain for her ex, no matter how much she misses them.

“It’s so embarrassing / All of the things I need living inside of me / I can’t see it / It’s so embarrassing
All of the love I seek living inside of me / I can’t see, I’m blind,” she sings on the song’s chorus.

Earlier in the night, she revealed the release date for S.O.S., and it’s arriving much sooner than we expected.

While we don’t know a whole lot about the album’s overall theme, SZA recently opened up about her process in Billboard, and how she “created the person I wanted to see in the world. That ‘girl next door’ energy, we don’t get to see in Black music. It’s always like ‘homegirl next door.’ I don’t have to fit a phenotype.”

Check out the performance of “Blind” above.

S.O.S. is out 12/9 via Top Dawg Entertainment and RCA.

12/4/22 Update: It took five years, many pleas, and a lot more rumors, but at long last, we finally have a release date for SZA’s S.O.S, her long-awaited second album. During her performance on SNL, it was announced that the project will arrive on December 9, giving fans just five days to prepare themselves for SZA’s latest body of work.

11/30/22 Update: Staying on course with plans to release her sophomore album S.O.S. in January, SZA unveiled what appears to be the cover art for S.O.S. On it, SZA is sitting at the end of a diving board that’s above pure blue ocean waters. You can see the artwork for yourself below.

11/16/22 Original Article:SZA‘s long-anticipated sophomore album is finally on the horizon. In a recent interview with Billboard, SZA revealed that the album is titled S.O.S. and is currently planned to arrive sometime next month. The album marks her first in five years, following her 2017 debut, Ctrl.

Though she did not disclose an exact date, fans have already taken to Twitter to share their theories.

One fan on Twitter says he believes the album will arrive just before Christmas Day.

“The clock in the final minute of the “Shirt” video shows the time 12:21,” they said. “the license plate in the beginning says “NO CTRL, DEC 2022″. Argue in the comments.”

If SZA continues the pattern she established in 2020, a Christmas-time release date for S.O.S. shouldn’t be too far off. She surprised us on Christmas Day of 2020 by releasing her single, “Good Days.” In 2021, she dropped “I Hate U” on streaming platforms just weeks before Christmas. She has not confirmed if either of those songs, along with the Ty Dolla Sign-assisted “Hit Different,” which she released in September of 2020, will appear on S.O.S..

On December 3, SZA will perform on Saturday Night Live in an episode hosted by Keke Palmer. Ahead of the performance, she unveiled a teaser clip for a new song called “PSA.”

As for collaborators, SZA has kept rather mum, however, she revealed that she and producer Rodney Jerkins cut seven tracks in one day during the S.O.S. sessions in a recent interview with Complex.

“That was always my dream,” she said. “To work with [Jerkins] based on his work with Brandy and Amerie.”

S.O.S. is out 12/9 via Top Dawg Entertainment and RCA Records.

Ahead of her upcoming sophomore album, S.O.S., SZA stopped by the Saturday Night Live stage tonight for an evening of laughs and good music. In her first performance of the Keke Palmer-hosted episode, SZA delivered a captivating performance of her much-acclaimed single, “Shirt.”

During her performance, SZA donned a baggy Harley Davidson and two layers of jeans, as she was joined by a group of dancers, who danced on beat to the song, in front of a transcendent ocean-colored screen.

Toward the end of the performance, the screen revealed the release date for S.O.S.

While the album is near, we don’t know much else about it. In a recent interview with Complex, SZA was rather cryptic about the album’s overall vibe.

“I don’t even know what this album is about and what it sounds like. Which is why I had to go to the mode of what feels good to my brain and to my energy and the songs that I think are hot, I just have to go with them,” she said. “I have no idea what it sounds like to anybody else. I really don’t know. It’s so bizarre. It’s weird that I can’t put my finger on it. It’s a little bit of everything. It’s a little aggressive. Some parts are incredibly soft. Some of them are ballads. I don’t know. It’s all over the place. It’s just where my heart is.”

Check out a clip of the performance above.

S.O.S. is out 12/9 via Top Dawg Entertainment and RCA Records.

It’s been a busy year for Keke Palmer. This summer, she starred in the blockbuster thriller film, Nope, written and directed by Jordan Peele. Tonight (December 3), she hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time. During her opening monologue, she revealed even more exciting news.

“I’m especially glad to be here though, because there’s some rumors going around,” Palmer said. “People have been in my comments saying ‘Keke’s having a baby,’ ‘Keke’s pregnant,’ and I want to set the record straight. I am.”

She then unbuttoned her coat and revealed her pregnancy bump to a cheering audience.

“I’ve gotta say though, it is bad when people on the internet spread rumors about you, but it’s even worse when they’re correct,” Palmer said. “I was trying so hard to keep it on the down low, because I’ve got a lot of stuff going on. People kept coming up to me [saying] ‘Congratulations,’ I’m like ‘Shh! Can y’all stop, I’ve got a liquor sponsorship on the line. Let the check clear, then we can get to the damn baby shower.”

Palmer proceed to call her pregnancy the “biggest blessing” and expressed excitement about soon becoming a mother.

You can watch the monologue above.

The eyes of the football watching world were on the numerous college football conference championship games on Saturday. While those were going on, we got something truly incredible out of an unlikely source of footballing excellence: the Minnesota Class AAA title game between the Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Rebels and the New London-Spicer Wildcats.

DGF scored a touchdown with 24 seconds remaining in the game to put themselves up, 26-21. All they need to do was survive and they’d call themselves champions, and with four ticks left, things looked pretty good for them. New London-Spicer had the ball on the Rebels’ 48-yard line and needed a miracle, which they somehow got.

The Wildcats signal caller, Blake Schultz, threw up a prayer in the general direction of the end zone, which was brought in by Grant Paffrath. He was immediately wrapped up and tackled, but before he hit the ground, he had the presence of mind to look behind him, where one of his teammates had a head of steam. Brycen Christensen got the ball, sprinted towards the end zone, and despite a defensive back’s best effort, was able to score as time ran out.

While I am open to the possibility this ends up being wrong, I do not think we are going to have a better ending to a football game this year.

(h/t InForum)

It seems some new Kid Cudi music is underway.

This past week, the rapper took to Twitter to announce that he had recorded six new songs in the span of three days.

A few days later, he shared that he had recorded a total of 11 songs throughout the week.

“My goal was to do a whole new album worth of songs this week,” he said. “12 was my goal. Might get 14.”

Back in September upon the release of his 10th studio album, Entergalactic, Cudi revealed in an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe that he didn’t have any desire to make any more albums.

“I have other things I wanna do,” he said. “I do not see me never making music. […] But as far as getting in the studio and working on an album and then going and touring it? I just don’t have it in me.”

Last month, he revealed that he still had one more album left in his contract, though fans shouldn’t expect it within the next year.

“Im doin 1 more album and then im done w my deal and not sure what ima do after that but yea, 1 more,” he said. “Wont be next year. Keep u posted.”

He followed up on the album, saying, “This is for all my fans that have been ridin w me for so long. This will be all new music. The songs ive teased ill prolly put out as singles here and there to hold u over.”

The Minnesota Timberwolves only got nine minutes of work out of Rudy Gobert during Saturday night’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Early on in the game’s second quarter, Minnesota’s gigantic offseason acquisition saw his night come to a premature end due to an incident with Kenrich Williams.

Gobert went up to contest a runner by Williams, but he was unable to get all the way up to send the effort away and Williams picked up two points. In an extremely unusual sequence of events, Williams hit the deck as the ball was going in, which led to Gobert stumbling over him.

The two laid on the ground and Williams looked like he had something to say while he was getting up. This did not sit well with Gobert, who decided to trip Williams. Some pushing and shoving ensued before the officials got the chance to look at what went down, and ultimately, Gobert was assessed a Flagrant 2 and ejected from the game. Williams, meanwhile, got hit with a technical foul.

Prior to his ejection, Gobert scored six points and reeled in four rebounds on the night. The Timberwolves are already without the services of Karl-Anthony Towns, who is sidelined with a calf strain.

Britney Spears had her family on her mind on her birthday yesterday (December 2). Despite having been estranged from her sons. The “…Baby One More Time” hitmaker took to her Instagram page to honor the two of them in separate posts.

“To both of my boys … I love you … I would die for you !!! God speed my precious hearts !!! I would give anything just to touch your face !!! I send my love … Mamasita,” she said in each of the posts’ captions.

This may come as a surprise to fans, due to the fact that in September, Spears shared a now-deleted audio message expressing hurt after her kids had been icing her out.

“Since they’ve been gone, I’ve honestly felt like a huge part of me has died,” she said. “Like literally, I have no purpose anymore. They were my joy. They were my everything. I looked forward to seeing them. That was what I lived for. And then all of a sudden, they were gone. And I was like, ‘Did my heart just stop beating?’”

In other shocking news, Spears also expressed missing her younger sister, Jamie Lynn, whom she had previously accused of remaining complacent and cashing in on her conservatorship.

“It’s my b-day but you’re my heart so I’m thinking about you,” read the post’s caption. “Congratulations on being so brave, inspiring, and showing guts and glory in your show !!! You ain’t alone … if anybody knows what that feels like … I get it. My baby sister !!! I love you !!!”

Neither Jamie Lynn nor Spears’ sons have responded to her.

Rihanna and her intimates company Savage X Fenty have settled on a lawsuit that was filed this past August. Around that time, customers who had purchased lingerie or undergarments from Savage X Fenty claimed the company used deceptive marketing tactics and automatically enrolled them in a VIP subscription tier, against their knowledge. A suit was later filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court by Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles and San Diego counties, and the city of Santa Monica.

Earlier this week, news broke that Rihanna and Savage X Fenty have settled the lawsuit for $1.2 million.

“Consumers have a right to know up front what they are paying for and how often,” Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Deng said in a release issued by Santa Clara County upon the news of the settlement. “Businesses have a duty to be transparent about their automatic renewal charges.”

According to the terms of the settlement, Savage X Fenty will pay $1 million in civil penalties, $50,000 in investigative costs, and $150,000 in restitution. The restitution will be paid to Savage X Fenty customers who did not opt to “Skip the Month” or purchase an item after their initial membership enrollment, those who canceled their membership and did not receive a refund for the VIP membership charge. Eligible customers will receive a third-party claim administrator.

Neither Rihanna nor Savage X Fenty have commented on the reported suit.