Hot Takes

Everything we can’t stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in pop culture.

Scores of people turned off the presidential debate because it made them too stressed—to the point that TV’s most stressful show calmed them down.

We were expecting relentless chaos. Instead, we got a meditative tone poem. Love it or hate it, the start to “The Bear” Season 3 is certainly audacious.

Of all the terrible people on this show, this guy has landed on top of fans’ shitlists.

Taylor Swift has a famous history of dating celebrities, but no one has risen to her level of fame, influence, and enthusiasm like Travis Kelce—and she’s never seemed happier.

A guide to the week’s best and worst TV shows and movies from The Daily Beast’s Obsessed critics.

Audiences and critics are split on how to read the film’s ending. But its implications are clearer than they may seem.