You know how I know Riz Ahmed and Emma D’Arcy are absolutely on the coconut cake list this year? Tom Cruise can choose to do press with his co-stars or go it alone, there is no “forcing” Tom Cruise to do a junket. He is choosing to do it with them.

The NYT released its list of the best shows of the 21st century and of course it’s a fight. These lists are always a fight because it is so arbitrary, which is kind of the point. I would absolutely rearrange the top 10 and remove one so I could add The Comeback. I won’t spoil where it landed but I think it’s too low, the final season, which focuses on AI in the writers’ room and beyond, is so underrated.

Nobody Wants This is such good case study: first season was a phenom (and the uneven storytelling was kind of overlooked because of the charming cast) and the second season was a struggle in creative choices. By the end of that season, I was thinking that the Joanne and Noah actually shouldn’t be together, which isn’t great for a rom-com. The trailer for the third season seems quite different tonally, a little more zany and everyone seems more “likeable”. One thing that really throws me off about this show is that Kristen Bell and Adam Brody (both in their mid-40s, but I have no idea how old their characters are supposed to be) are consistently gobsmacked by any mention of commitment or discussions of marriage. They are completely floored by that at their big ages.

Sarah Paulson is so funny, using Lisa Barlow’s first and last name on the red carpet. I think talking about Real Housewives has become a press angle for celebrities because it’s not controversial and fun and easy, but Sarah is a real fan. You can tell.

A few days ago, Lainey wrote about the confusing robots at Vogue World and how Anna Wintour has been taking her lumps. The “end” of Vogue has been talked about in media circles for years (this NYT story is from 2008). A lot of the conversation is focused on Anna Wintour because she has cultivated her image as the all-powerful editor (even though someone else is technically in that role now) but there was a whole slew of generational tastemakers like Grace Coddington and André Leon Talley and Tonne Goodman, Phyllis Posnick, to name a few, who really shaped Vogue. André and Anna were strained at the time of his passing, and the rest moved from having major roles to contributor titles (in other words, freelancers). It didn’t happen all at once but I think overall, this has chipped away at the quality.

Sophie Wilde, Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, Tom Cruise, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Emma D'Arcy at the London premiere of Digger

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