Billions Beg, Bribe, Bully Season 5 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Billions Beg, Bribe, Bully Season 5 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Before we even set eyes on any character in “Beg, Bribe, Bully,” the opening track, Cat Stevens’s classic “Father and Son,” has already laid out tonight’s theme.

Billy Zabka Few actors have portrayed a bully quite as convincingly as William Zabka, a.k.a. Billy Zabka. Starting with 1984’s The Karate Kid, in which he played Johnny Lawrence, a headband-wearing rich kid making life a living hell for Ralph Macchio’s pipsqueak underdog, Zabka became Hollywood’s go-to preppy goon, also stealing scenes via pitch-perfect bitchface performances in 1985’s Just One of the Guys and 1986’s Back to School. More recently, the 48-year-old actor has endeared himself to a new generation through small parts in the 2010 comedy Hot Tub Time Machine and the long-running TV shows How I Met Your Mother and USA Network’s Psych.

stunt awards Mar. 6, 2023 The Audacity of Albert PyunThe legendary B-movie director made peanuts look like a five-course meal. Imagine if he didn’t have to.ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57wK6roaeiZK%2Bzrc2dpqdlo6m%2FpsHSrKWin18%3D

Mandy Patinkin. Revisit our previous coverage of the WGA’s strike against the AMPTP as it hits 101 days. Hollywood royalty is on the side of labor. The Writers Guild of America called for a strike on May 2 after negotiations for fair pay and streaming-era regulations broke down, leaving late-night and variety television immediately impacted, the future of your favorite show an open question, reality and animated TV the only sure things … and no Pete Davidson–hosted SNL episode.

Are we ready to receive a rap album about quitting drugs and cigarettes and staying at home? In a late capitalist hellscape where bots sway elections, and brands prattle like listless teenagers on social media to humanize corporations whose mergers push them closer and closer to the trust nightmares Bill Taft and Teddy Roosevelt sued half of creation to halt, the most defiant thing you can be is independent.

Following the relaunch of her beloved podcast, Call Chelsea Peretti, earlier this month, the titular Chelsea Peretti took to Vulture Festival 2023 for a live episode recording. But this wasn’t just the Peretti you know and love from Brooklyn Nine-Nine or her recent directorial debut, First Time Female Director. This was Playwright Peretti, holding a reading of her new play, Thacher Island — about a family living on an island off the coast of Massachusetts — with the help of her theater group Pacific Playwrights Horizons (John Early, Kaitlin Olson, and Xosha Roquemore).

Chuck Lorre, co-creator and executive producer of The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon and Mom, is already worshipped at CBS. But what if, one day, Lorre-a-mania extends far beyond the couches of America, and into our very souls? Lorre dropped his 600th wordy vanity card (a two-parter!) across his current CBS shows. 600A aired after The Big Bang Theory, and 600B aired after Young Sheldon and Mom. Lorre has been using his production shingle to pen little missives to the pause button freaks of the world for more than 20 years.

At least, we assume that “Charlie Brown,” which the band debuted last night at a Jimmy Kimmel–hosted Los Angeles concert, refers to the beloved Peanuts sad sack and not some glow-stick-happy friend that Chris Martin met at a rave once. The lyrics aren’t too much help: There’s a reference to “a cartoon heart” and something about scarecrow dreams, which sound like the sort of thing that might haunt Charlie? (Or maybe Charlie is supposed to be the scarecrow, and there’s a whole Wizard of Oz thing happening here, too?

This Wired profile on Community creator and showrunner Dan Harmon explains and explores some of his unusual methods of plotting out what happens on the show: Harmon rigorously maps out character arcs in an eight-point cycle and refers to these story ideas as “embryos.” That obsessiveness and ritualism make a little more sense at the end of the story, when Harmon explains that he has a form of Asperger’s. He says he started researching the disorder as part of exploring Abed’s character, but the information wound up hitting surprisingly close to home.

David Lynch. Will we ever find out what happened to the gang from Twin Peaks in the last 25 years? Probably, but David Lynch may not be involved in the show’s reboot. It was announced in October that the cult hit would return in 2016 for a nine-episode run on Showtime, but on Sunday night the director said he’s pulled out of the project. “I left because not enough money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be done,” he explained on Twitter.