Walton Goggins is a very good bad guy. Boyd Crowder on Justified is about as great as a bad guy gets, from a TV fan’s perspective. Shane Vendrell on The Shield was a standout in a murderer’s row of these kinds of characters on that show. Hell, he’s so good at playing the type that Quentin Tarantino, of all people, decided he was going to be the go-to actor for him when casting such parts, which Goggins played exquisitely in Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight.

It was late 2013 and Obamacare was in trouble. HealthCare.gov, the website where people could sign up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, had been marred by major technical problems and there was concern in the White House that not enough people would be able to obtain health insurance ahead of the pending deadline.

Everyone loves a TV show with a spooky kid. Facts are facts. It follows, then, that this proverbial “everyone” would be glad to know that there’s a very good spooky kid plot line in Emergence, the new ABC thriller that premieres Tuesday night. A plane mysteriously crashes on a Long Island beach, and found hiding behind a sand dune next to a wreckage is—you guessed it—our central S.K. (spooky kid). She doesn’t have a mark on her.

The Emmy Awards followed in the Oscars’ footsteps this year and went without a host for the first time since 2003. When it came time for Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, who hosted the award show in 2016 and 2017, respectively, to present on Sunday night, they were quick to express their displeasure with the decision. “Well, well, well, how’s the whole ‘no-host’ thing going?” Colbert asked from the stage, adding, “What a joke.

Based on the early reviews, writer-director James Gray’s new space epic Ad Astra is at once meditative and exciting, with sweeping visuals, visceral action and a brooding performance by star Brad Pitt. The $80 million movie, which opens Friday, also is a public-relations coup for one of America’s biggest technology firms.

In a new documentary, Roy Cohn is called evil, ugly, corrupt, indecent, a hypocrite, a puppeteer, a liar, and a demagogue. And that is by his family and friends. Roger Stone, of all people, refers to him as “one of the most controversial people in the country.

Bill Burr has a habit of popping up in some unexpected places on screen. “That ended up becoming a recurring theme in my career,” he says on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast, “where I somehow get to paratroop into these great things and be a small part of them.” It happened with Breaking Bad nearly a decade ago when Burr joined that show in season four as Kuby, one of Saul Goodman’s fast-talking henchmen.

Beanie Feldstein, as 16-year-old burgeoning music critic Johanna Morrigan, sobs quietly in a bathroom. She’s just been laughed out of the office by the snobbish lads of an indie rock magazine, having submitted an agonizingly earnest review of the “Annie” soundtrack for print in their alt-weekly. She’s perched under the sinks when she hears a voice: It’s Björk, coming alive inside a framed poster on the bathroom wall.

It’s 10:30 pm on a Thursday and I’m watching Jacq the Stripper place dollar bill after dollar bill into the lime-green thong of a stripper at the Show Palace club in Long Island City. The stripper-comedian-activist was at this club a few months ago, when it was the film set for Hustlers, a movie based on the New York magazine article about a band of strippers who drugged their Wall Street clients to steal their money.

When Saturday Night Live announced it had hired three new featured players to join its cast for the upcoming 45th season on Thursday, comedian Paul F. Tompkins tweeted, “#RIP Their old tweets.” The show is bringing on board Groundling performer Chloe Fineman, current writer Bowen Yang—who will become the first East Asian cast member in the show’s history—and a stand-up comedian from Philadelphia named Shane Gillis.