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The Guide #199: Such Brave Girls shows that grown-up gross-out comedy is thriving

Kat Sadler’s brilliantly bilious BBC sitcom doesn’t disgust and offend for the sake of it, but follows the likes of Always Sunny in making a deeper point through its off-colour gags

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The Guide #198: Finally, Superman meets his match

In this week’s newsletter: It’s the villains, not the heroes, that make a superhero film, and this week’s impending blockbuster looks to have enough of them to reboot the legendary franchise

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The Guide #197: Your front-row pass to who the performers will be watching at Glastonbury

From punk trios to folk icons, performers share their Glastonbury picks – and it’s not who you might expect

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The Guide #196: How blockbusters, streaming and risk-averse studios shaped the last 25 years of cinema

In the last of our miniseries, we look at how Hollywood has become a franchise machine. But in a sea of superheroes and sequels, there is still room for cinematic artistry

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The Guide #195: How Reddit made nerds of us all

In this week’s newsletter: Happy 20th birthday to the forum that reshaped fandom and is one of the internet’s most eccentric collaborative spaces

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The Guide #193: Meet Ernesto, the viral America’s Got Talent contestant … who doesn’t exist

In this week’s newsletter: Millions have watched the AI-generated singer’s sob story on social media – even weirder, many don’t even mind if it’s fake

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The Guide #192: How reality TV and streaming has shaped 21st-century TV

In the second of our new miniseries looking back at the last quarter-century of pop culture, we chart the transformation of television since 2000

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The Guide #191: After three decades, Tom Cruise is done with Mission: Impossible – so what’s next?

In this week’s newsletter: In retiring his messianic action hero schtick, a return to challenging, messy roles could lead to a late-era flowering of his career

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The Guide #189: Your new celebrity best friend? It’s just a deepfake trying to con you

AI impostors are charming fans out of fortunes – here’s how TV’s Scam Interceptors catch the criminals

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The Guide #188: How 25 years of music has shaped the charts from monoculture to mass playlists

In the first in a new miniseries, we look back at the biggest songs of the 21st century to trace how music – and the way we consume it – has evolved

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The Guide #187: The Pitt, the medical drama that’s the best show you can’t watch

This gripping ER successor has been a slow-burn sensation in the US – why isn’t it available anywhere in the UK?

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The Guide #186: Five rules to keep your podcast feed Marie Kondo tidy

In this week’s newsletter: with so many compelling podcasts out there, how do we manage the audio oversupply?

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The Guide #184: Is Seth Rogen’s The Studio one last hurrah for the A-list cameo?

In this week’s newsletter: Apple TV+’s Hollywood satire skewers the industry’s obsession with brand IP and awards while serving up outrageous star turns

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The Guide #183: How cinemas are shifting from multiplex to miniplex

In this week’s newsletter: Mainstream movie theatres are struggling, so independent film clubs in local venues are stepping up to fill the gap, and they need our support

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The Guide #182: Is Severance one of the most unlikely TV hits ever?

In this week’s newsletter: Despite its huge budget, Apple’s series has all the hallmarks of an offbeat, slow-burn cult show – not the cultural juggernaut it’s become

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The Guide #181: TV has given up on live music – but social media won’t let it die

In this week’s newsletter: The days of Top of the Pops every week and MTV Unplugged are long gone, but a slew of archive gold is now coursing through the internet

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The Guide #179: How National Theatre Live brought the magic of the stage to the cinema

The project bringing live-capture versions of the theatre’s shows to international audiences has been a resounding success. We talk to those who translate the immediacy of the stage to the big screen

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The Guide #178: How AI took over the commercial break

In this week’s newsletter: Usually, we’d rather make a cup of tea when the ads come on, but the Super Bowl slew of A-listers flogging AI products smacks of desperate PR

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The Guide #177: Son of a Century is a gripping, timely series – and maybe the end of the antihero drama

In this week’s newsletter: Joe Wright’s show on the rise of Mussolini feels like the last of a breed centring morally dubious men

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The Guide #176: Seas of smartphones and bulky backpacks: the worst things about going to gigs

This week, our inbox filled up with critics’ and readers’ least favourite things about live music, from the death of the cloakroom to two-day drum solos

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The Guide #172: Will Severance be worth the wait, and seven more culture storylines in 2025

In this week’s newsletter: From the return of Apple’s hit thriller to the most open Oscar race I can remember, this year has so much in store for us culture vultures

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The Guide #175: The Traitors – terrific escapism or flawed format?

In this week’s newsletter: As the series reaches its finale we ponder who is going to win, who deserves to win – and if anyone really listens to ‘Traitor pop’

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The Guide #173: In praise of The Brutalist’s bladder-friendly intermission

Brady Corbet’s three-hour American epic has a helpful 15-minute break – with Hollywood’s ever-escalating runtimes, shouldn’t this be the norm?

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The Guide #173: Why Netflix and Spotify don’t seem to care if we are paying attention

In this week’s newsletter: From Spotify’s bland ghost artists to Netflix’s ‘will this do?’ roster of movies, have audiences succumbed to the age of distraction?

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The Guide #168: What does my true crime obsession say about me?

In this week’s newsletter: From Dahmer to Sweet Bobby, the commodification of suffering is big business. I’ve looked into why we can’t get enough of other people’s misery

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