Ted Lasso Is Back. The Locker Room Isn’t the One You Remember, Jake Johnson and Ben Stiller Serve
Big Brother Week 5 Eviction: A Dramatic BB Blockbuster Win Flips the Entire House
OK. So the Dee gig is up and Devons was RIGHT ON after seeing Malory and I Forget in those Adam and Even suits. Those are fucking hot. It’s not even fair. Even Mallory is hot. That’s not even a punishment but anyway, now Dee and Devons are on the same level. That’s how it has to be to win.
I don’t understand what the deal is with regard to the flip vote. I do not understand what the big deal is because it did not affect any play or a blindside or anything like that. Haley’s face after that eviction last week confused me. I was like, is she shocked? At the 8-3 vote?
We have a good and solid Big Brother match this year. Most, if not all, of the players are good. Read the Full Sunset Daily Substack
Lioness Season 3, Episode 2: “No Sorrow Like the Survivor” Trades Explosions for Something Scarier
Still great. Went by fast, though. Faster than the premiere, honestly, and that’s not a knock, it’s just a different gear. Episode 2 pulls back from the battlefield spectacle that opened the season and gets uncomfortably close instead, and the result might actually be the stronger hour.
Here’s the structure. The episode splits itself across two timelines running in parallel, and the cutting between them is what gives the hour its momentum. One thread picks up immediately after the doorstep shooting at Joe’s house. The other jumps six months ahead, into a Joe already bloodied, already captive, already in the hands of Russian SVR operatives who want exactly one thing out of her. Read the Full Sunset Daily Substack
Ted Lasso: Season 4 (2026)
Ted Lasso Is Back. The Locker Room Isn’t the One You Remember.
Three years is a long time for a show to stay gone. Long enough that a comeback risks feeling like a cash grab dressed up in nostalgia. Ted Lasso Season 4 doesn’t take that risk. It takes a completely different one.
The season premiered August 5 on Apple TV, and the pitch alone tells you this isn’t a victory lap. Ted’s back in Kansas City, two years removed from walking away from AFC Richmond, when Rebecca Welton, Keeley Jones, and Higgins track him down stateside with an offer nobody saw coming. Not the men’s team. Not a return to the job he already conquered. Richmond’s brand-new second-division women’s side, the Lady Greyhounds, built from scratch, underfunded, overlooked, and in desperate need of exactly the kind of relentless optimism Ted’s spent his whole career weaponizing.
That’s the whole show now. A soft reboot hiding inside a familiar universe.
And honestly? It works better than it has any right to. Watch Now
Reacher Season 4 Doesn’t Just Return, It Comes Back Swinging Harder Than Ever
Do you guys get into the Jack Reacher’s at all? I love those films. I just watched the first three episodes of Season 4 of Reacher’s TV show and its great. It was so great that I just watched Season 3 over the last few days and they were all excellent. I now started Season 1 and I am in the second seen as we speak.
He is just actually talking for the first time in this episode but anyway, let’s get caught up and first things first, I am not sure where I know this guy from but I am thinking a fast and Furious and maybe an Avengers or something. Alan Ritchson in Reacher Season 4 is absolutely massive. He evidently jacked himeself even bigger this season to match the character in Lee Child’s original book.
Three fights before the credits even roll. That was Reacher season 4. That was Jack Reacher in Philly getting a cheese steak and on the way catching some music on the subway he sees a woman clutching her bag. He steps in to help. It goes wrong in a way the show has never attempted before, and it’s the moment every review of the premiere keeps circling back to. From there, two men outside the station reveal what Anna was actually protecting, a flash drive. Reacher, being Reacher, slaps the truth out of them, then pays a college student fifty dollars for a completely unrelated flash drive just to bait a meeting with whoever’s actually in charge. He also tracks down Anna’s brother Jacob, a Philadelphia patrolman who refuses to believe his sister would ever take her own life and mentions her college-age son Ben, who Jacob helped raise. By the end of the hour, what looked like an isolated subway tragedy has already widened into something with real teeth. Read the Full Sunset Daily Substack
The Challenge Cutthroat Just Sent Its Third Blue Team Player Packing, and Nobody Saw the Beatdown Coming
Three episodes in, and Team Blue can’t catch a break. Not a single one. Episode 3 of The Challenge Cutthroat , “Keep My Name Out Your Mouth,” aired on Wednesday, August 12, on Paramount Plus, and saw Blue Team losing their third player in three consecutive weeks. It was a bad day for the group that’s currently in last place at the Thailand villa challenge.
The teams played a quick, easy-seeming, but ultimately unforgiving, challenge known as Boat Swap this morning. Each team had three boats, two white and one color-corresponding one, floating in the water, and the objective was to switch them side to side as quickly as possible. Sounds simple enough, except these were not your average boats. These were fancy but unstable boats fit only for showing off, and one wrong movement meant getting tossed overboard with nothing but a floating dock to keep you from drowning. The entire swap, once the instructions were given, took under ten minutes. Blue Team, surprisingly, didn’t kill each other during the competition this week, and were just barely left in last place, behind winning Orange Team and second-place Gray Team. Winning control of the next elimination arena was the reward in first place, which went to Orange captains Johnny Bananas and Deb Chubb.
Meanwhile, on the Gray Team, tensions were high and votes were being secretly cast. Captains Cory Wharton and Nurys Mateo were the ones to toss rookie Keanu Soto into the arena for the first time, and he took it all in stride. Newcomers to the franchise rarely last long, and they know it. But the rest of Gray Team couldn’t decide on a vote, and it was up to captain Nurys to choose between Chris Underwood (Survivor winner) and Leonardo Dionicio to throw into the arena, as votes were deadlocked between them at 3-3. She chose to vote out Leo, and, in a heated exchange, accused Chris of stirring up drama in the game last week and then expecting her to clean it up. It seems, as this season has been going on, that the Thailand villa is intent on eliminating Big Brother alums first. Read the Full Sunset Daily Substack
Lioness (TV Series 2023)
Forget everything you thought you knew about how this show works. Lioness built its name on a single, tightly wound premise: send an American soldier undercover, get her close to a target’s inner circle, close the trap. It was intimate. It was surgical. Season 3 blows that formula up entirely and drags the fight straight onto the actual front lines of a real war. That’s not a small creative pivot. It’s Taylor Sheridan betting his most action forward series can survive without the thing that made it distinct in the first place.
Premiering Sunday, August 2 on Paramount Plus, the new season drops CIA case officer Joe McNamara, played once again by Zoe Saldaña with the kind of exhausted, wired intensity that’s become her calling card, into a story that finally lives up to the phrase “worlds colliding.” Instead of embedding a new lioness inside a cartel or a terror cell, this season sends the entire operation barreling into the Russia and Ukraine conflict, weaving in hidden networks, foreign operatives, and covert missions that eventually trace their way back to American soil. And just when Joe should be locked in on the most volatile theater of her career, the danger follows her home. Straight to her daughters. Straight to her front door. Watch Now
Tires Season 3 Proves Shane Gillis Built More Than a Joke, He Built a Franchise
A tire shop in the suburbs of Pennsylvania is not the most glamorous place to make a business empire. Fluorescent lighting, bland waiting room coffee, a floor manager who can’t control his cousin, who regularly humiliates him in front of customers: This was the premise of Tires for two seasons, and somehow it worked. The show dropped all twelve episodes of Season 3 this past Thursday, August 13th, and the joke has subtly shifted. It’s no longer a scrappy idea that just barely works – it’s a franchise. Now Shane and Will are not just employees; they are partial owners of the West Chester branch of Valley Forge Automotive Center. The stakes have changed in the third season of Tires , and it has changed for the better. Will’s nerves are just as frayed as ever, but with the addition of ownership stakes, he has to balance his unease with Shane with making sure the struggling local garage makes enough money to stay afloat.
Authenticity was prioritized in production, and apparently no one had a good time on set. Gillis has joked about it on late-night talk shows, noting that they made a “huge mistake” when the crew insisted on shooting at his real-life father’s tire shop in Pennsylvania, in the middle of winter. No special effects, no climate control: The cast and crew braved the cold in order to get realism. It’s one of those seemingly minor details that heightens production value, and it’s one of the reasons critics have positively highlighted this season in particular. The commitment to making Tires feel real, rather than a sitcom version of what a tire shop could be, is the reason why this scrappy six-episode experiment in 2024 has turned into critics’ best comedy of the year for Netflix, according to several early reviews. Read the Full Sunset Daily Substack
Jake Johnson and Ben Stiller Serve Up Apple TV’s Pickleball Comeback Comedy
Pickleball has spent the past several years quietly taking over the American backyard, and now the sport finally has the big, broad, unapologetically silly comedy it deserves. Apple Original Films is set to premiere The Dink globally from Apple TV on Friday, July 24, 2026, a summer sports comedy built around the collision of old school tennis pride and the paddle sport that has been steadily eating its lunch. Produced by Ben Stiller, who knows a thing or two about turning an underdog sport into a cultural moment after his work on Dodgeball, and led by a cast stacked with reliable comedic talent, the film arrives with the kind of pedigree that suggests Apple is treating this premise with far more care than a quick punchline about middle aged suburbanites and their paddles. Read More!