This post contains spoilers for The Idol season finale “Jocelyn Forever.” Well, it’s over. After months of controversy, rumors, and alleged castings of Elizabeth Berkley, The Idol season 1 is over. Will there be a season 2? Who knows. Were there supposed to be six episodes? Not after Sam Levinson took over, apparently. Some previous questions did get answered. Dyanne did not get to release “World Class Sinner,” alas. Jocelyn does not care about any of her friends, or apparently lovers.

We Are Living in the Matrix A weeklong series about how a 1999 movie predicted kind-of-everything about life 20 years later. Are we, like Neo, living in a Matrix-like computer simulation of reality created by more advanced, possibly post-human beings? Almost certainly, at least according to the following evidence — ranging from the plausible, to the semi-plausible, to the maybe-not-so-plausible — under discussion at the endlessly delightful Are We Living in a Simulation?

There’s no question that Godzilla and King Kong are kaiju A-listers. Whenever the King of the Monsters and the Eighth Wonder of the World face off, it’s a big deal. Their first bout in the ’60s was one of the most important fights in cinema history, and their rematch in 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong was one of the first blockbusters to do solid business after the pandemic. They’re set to share the screen again in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the latest MonsterVerse flick that will have them teaming up instead of fighting.

Fifteen years ago, Gavin & Stacey premiered on BBC Three, becoming a massive hit in Britain over the course of its three-series run. The show, which originally ran from 2007 to 2010, is a romantic comedy about an Essex boy and a Welsh girl whose long-distance relationship quickly turns into an engagement and then a marriage — blending their eccentric families in a culture clash equal parts charming and hilarious.

This week, the men and women of New York’s 99th precinct will gather one last time as Brooklyn Nine-Nine reveals its eighth and final season, capping off more than 150 episodes of consistent and impressive workplace comedy. The season was recalibrated in response to the events of 2020, and it still remains to be seen what this cop comedy will look like now that “copaganda” has become a familiar term.

Spoilers ahead for The Emoji Movie. As an attempt to turn the available intellectual property of text-message glyphs into a coherent narrative, The Emoji Movie is a failure. On a surface level, it tells a story of self-empowerment so bland and meaningless it was once literally titled EmojiMovie: Express Yourself. But as a disturbing example of what happens when you try to turn a brand into a movie, it’s darkly fascinating.

At first glance, Bob’s Burgers looks like any other adult animated comedy. The Fox series follows the Belcher family in their day-to-day lives as they hustle to keep their burger restaurant in business. The family – parents Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda (John Roberts) and children Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman), and Louise (Kristen Schaal) — lives in the apartment above their restaurant in an unspecified East Coast beach town, where lobster fests and seaside parades dominate the town activities.

White House Down, Roland Emmerich’s latest piece of cinematic destruction, features a good-hearted, gun-toting guy trapped in a building with terrorists, and he alone can take them all down, one by one. This has led some to call it “Die Hard in the White House,” a shorthand that is insultingly reductive. These movies are nothing alike! It’s apples and oranges, Deep Impact and Armageddon, Due Date and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles!

Rap fandom is a peculiar pathology because it forces listeners to compartmentalize worlds of real and hypothetical violence, to revel in one while still finding the other jarring and unacceptable. This is not a distinction I gather the average American faces on a daily basis, barring fans of the bloodiest horror and action films, who retain the luxury of pawning all the guts and gore off as fiction.

24: Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) prepares to embark on a crucial mission Call out sick from work, take your dog to the nearest licensed doggie daycare facility, and strap on an adult diaper: You have until April Fools’ Day to watch any and all episodes of 24 you have yet to see, as Netflix will be removing the Fox show from their streaming queue next week. Luckily, Amazon Prime will still have all eight seasons of 24, which gives you plenty of time to catch up on all 202 aired episodes between now and the premiere of the show’s ninth season on May 5.