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Early in December of 1941, the United States government descended with terrible speed upon the Japanese immigrant community. By executive order, families were rounded up, forced to leave their homes and belongings, and confined within inland internment camps. Confined by barbed wire and armed guards, assailed by demands for loyalty oaths and rampant disease, Japanese-American citizens languished throughout much of the war.

I broke my cardinal rule of the #TooMuchTV era with the first season of Succession. I had, and have, no patience for any show that “gets good around episode four.” Or, as was the case with the now Emmy-nominated HBO drama, episode six. Six!!! Who has the damn time? Even a member of the show’s Roy clan would scoff at the idea of investing in an entity so slow to return on capital—in this case, your precious hours.

When Geena Davis’s daughter was two, she did what most mothers do: She started to show her children’s movies and TV shows. What she never expected was to be horrified. Watching these movies alongside young Alizeh, she noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters, by an obscene number. It was so obvious, she thought, that surely others have noticed, too.

The practice of thirsting for hot, shirtless men captured on moving film predates the term “movie” itself: Bodybuilder Eugen Sandow, then known as “the modern Hercules,” flexed and stretched in a tiny pair of posing shorts for three silent, seconds-long short films before the dawn of the 20th century.

With the Wednesday premiere of BH90210 on Fox, Beverly Hills, 90210 is the latest in a long line of iconic television shows and movies to receive the revival treatment. It joins the likes of Charmed, The Twilight Zone, The Hills, and All That. Just last week, Mindy Kaling’s remake of iconic rom-com Four Weddings and a Funeral premiered on Hulu to lukewarm reviews.

Trevor Noah dispensed with the script and spoke directly to his audience on Monday following the pair of mass shootings that claimed dozens of lives in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio over the weekend. The Daily Show host began by using a controversial tweet from Neil deGrasse Tyson to examine how some people have tried to downplay the severity of gun massacres by saying they are just one of many deadly problems in American. For Noah, it all comes down to “trying.

If in late July, for whatever reason, some internet user found themselves in need of an in-depth review of the Sycamore tree and its definitive ranking on a scale from one to five stars, they might have come across a 24-minute piece of audio titled: “Air Conditioning and Sycamore Trees.” As reviews go, this clip isn’t especially straightforward. It offers no judgements on leaf-shape or bark-feel, or whatever one might expect from the world of tree criticism.

In the opening episode of season two of the runaway Irish hit Derry Girls, the show’s gang of lovably dorky Catholic school girls (plus their sole male tag-along) prepares for a wilderness retreat mixer with students from a nearby Protestant school.

On the question-and-answer website Stack Exchange, a recent post made an entire generation of internet-users feel very, very old. “What is the purpose of this ‘red room’ in Stranger Things?” a user wrote, referring to the darkroom. “We frequently see Jonathan go inside this to “refine” his photos or something.

Note: This story contains spoilers for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Nothing about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s fairy-tale ending should go down easy. The film coils together so many meta layers of reality—from real-world film history, from writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s past and personal foibles, and from our own grim knowledge of what really happened on Cielo Drive on August 9, 1969—that its final minutes become something of a cinematic Rorschach test.