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I, like, know that I watched the second season of Westworld. I’m positive I did. Every episode, in fact. Just in case, I double-checked. Yep, wrote thousands and thousands of words about it. Confirmed. Westworld season two? Watched it. Yessiree. So why don’t I remember a damned thing that happened? Part of the reason is circumstance.

It’s up for debate whether money is the root of all evil, but on the basis of Dirty Money it’s certainly the motivation for an overwhelming amount of fraudulent, corrupt, and vile behavior. Executive produced by prolific documentarian Alex Gibney, Netflix’s docuseries returns for its second season on March 11, delivering six new hour-long stories about the wretched lengths people will go to accumulate wealth—as well as the clout and influence that comes along with it.

Political allegories come in all sorts of outlandish shapes and sizes, and yet few are as downright weird as Bacurau (in theaters now), a social critique that’s at once straightforward and completely off the wall. A familiarity with Latin American politics will no doubt aid those interested in parsing this out-there madness.

How did Ben Affleck become a walking portmanteau? Maybe it started when he hooked up with Jennifer Lopez; their relationship was, after all, the first to earn a tabloid nickname. (R.I.P., “Bennifer.”) But the wordplay didn’t stop there. When Affleck married Jennifer Garner a year later, tabloids attempted to brand their union “Garfleck.” (It never quite caught on.

At last, The Bachelor producers are ready to really make amends to Clare Crawley. Sure, she appeared on both Bachelor in Paradise and The Bachelor Winter Games after competing for notoriously horrible Bachelor Juan Galavis’ heart back in 2014—but after what Juan Pablo put Clare through, there was only ever one way to really make things right. And sure enough, on Monday morning, Clare confirmed on Good Morning America that she will be our next Bachelorette.

There’s been a question to grapple with in recent years, as certain TV shows spike a rare, rabid mass popularity: Is the series that everyone is obsessed with actually good, or is it just on Netflix? Love Is Blind, the deranged reality TV dating series that launched at the end of February and has since inspired a flurry of binges, memes, group texts, and social media fascinations, is the latest test case.

Pete Davidson? Playing a dirtbag on Saturday Night Live? Color us shocked! After the debut of his Netflix comedy special, Davidson complained during an interview this week about the way the show treats him. “I personally think I should be done with that show,” he said, “because they make fun of me on it.” He said he’s tired of being portrayed as a stupid jerk.

With her latest music video for fan-favorite Lover track “The Man,” Taylor Swift takes aim at all of the men she has a beef with by donning (very convincing) drag and reenacting as many sexist double standards as she could fit in four minutes and 14 seconds. And trust us when we say that there are a lot.

As concerns about the coronavirus continue to spread, Howard Stern has called out a member of his own staff for making a racist remark about the Korean pop band BTS possibly carrying the disease. Stern, a noted germaphobe, first brought up coronavirus on Sunday by sharing an anecdote about longtime staffer Sal Governale, Variety reports.

Duffy, the Welsh singer whose album Rockferry won the Grammy award for best pop vocal album in 2008, has been missing from the public eye for nearly a decade. In 2011 she decided to take a break after releasing her most recent album, 2010’s Endlessly. On Tuesday, she returned to Instagram to reveal a horrific experience: She says she was drugged, raped, and held captive. “You can only imagine the amount of times I thought about writing this,” the post reads.