Jake Johnson and Ben Stiller Serve Up Apple TV’s Pickleball Comeback Comedy Begins Streaming on Friday,“Deepthroat”: Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness Episode 4 Goes After RFK Jr., Henry Ford
Steven McBee Jr. and Cooper Dawson Make the Most of Their WWHL Moment: Accountability, Boatmance Loyalty, and a Crush List That Makes Sense
That’s right, folks. This so-called after show is now about to talk about an after show. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Season 23, Episode 119, which aired on July 20, brought together two cast members from very different corners of the Bravo universe. Cooper Dawson, the Below Deck Mediterranean deckhand whose relationship with Kat Johnson has become my season’s favorite storyline, and Steven McBee Jr., the oldest McBee brother carrying the full operational and emotional weight of his family’s ranch business while his father serves a federal sentence, are on the show tonight. They complemented each other in the way that WWHL sometimes manages when the booking decision turns out to be a real conversation rather than just two people sitting next to each other playing funny games. I did feel that Dawson was looking to Steve for acceptance, but at the same time, it wasn’t obvious, so it gets a pass. Plus, I get it. Chef Dave by the way, from an earlier Below Deck was at bar last night.
Steven McBee Jr. and the Allie Eklund Reckoning was great for me at least. The Allie Eklund situation has been one of the more complicated personal storylines running through The McBee Dynasty Season 3, and Steven Jr.’s willingness to address it directly on WWHL without deflecting or minimizing is the most significant thing to come out of his Clubhouse appearance. He and Allie Eklund broke up in April 2026, and the circumstances of that breakup included Steven publicly posting about cheating allegations on social media, a decision that produced a significant wave of fan backlash once the private texts involved became more widely known. He was asked about it on WWHL, and he did not try to relitigate the cheating question or reframe the public blowup as a reasonable response. He said directly that he regrets publicly insulting Allie, named it as the kind of thing hindsight makes obvious, and acknowledged the fan backlash as fair. The problem is an obvious one. They will never feel real if he approaches them that way. Read the Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
The McBee Dynasty Season 3 Episode 6 Is the Season’s Most Consequential Hour — and It Exposes Everything the Show Has Been Avoiding Saying Out Loud
The episode is titled “First Impressions and Final Farewells,” and it earns both halves of that title in ways that are genuinely difficult to watch, not because the production has done anything wrong, but because the actual events documented in this hour carry real weight. I also did not know of so called break up when I watched this episode last night. Steve McBee Sr. reported to federal prison on this episode. His family drove five hours through a bleak, wintry stretch of Missouri and South Dakota to bring him there. Steven Jr. cried on camera and called it “a top three hardest day in my life.” And before the family got on the bus, Steve Sr. called a company-wide meeting and unveiled an organizational chart that nobody in the room expected, naming his ex-wife Kristi McBee as interim president of McBee Farm and Cattle Co., the company his sons had been running under the assumption that one of them was going to take over.
That is the episode. Before getting into the review, though, there is a broader context worth establishing, because the episode cannot be separated from the specific industry the McBee family built their lives around, and that industry is the one that makes the entire viewing experience complicated in a way the show does not acknowledge. It is why I wanted to stop watching it and talking about it but I did not articulate it properly last week. Read the Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
SPOILER ALERT: Big Brother 28 Week 2 & Live Feeds Through Tuesday Late Afternoon: Rick Devens Holds Both the HOH and the Veto, Rome Seymour Is Walking Out Thursday, and Sunday’s Nomination Ceremony Was Already One for the Books
Live feed spoilers follow throughout this piece. If you are watching exclusively through the CBS broadcast and want to be surprised, stop here and return after Thursday’s eviction episode.
Sunday’s Episode 6 of Big Brother 28 delivered something that felt genuinely old-school in the best possible way, a nomination ceremony that turned into a screaming match, an egg detective costume, a backdoor plan that was already locked in by the time the cameras rolled back to their broadcast positions, and the specific chaotic energy of a house that has divided itself cleanly and is no longer pretending otherwise. By the time the episode ended and the live feeds delivered the subsequent days of fallout, Week 2 had produced more compacted drama than most Big Brother seasons manage in a month.
Rick Devens won the Week 2 Head of Household competition, a Wild West-themed endurance challenge that aired in Sunday’s episode, securing back-to-back power for the Toolshed alliance after Dee Valladares won Week 1. Devens described himself in the Diary Room as a “chaos missile,” which is both accurate and the kind of self-assessment that makes you wonder whether the man is entirely aware of what a chaos missile does to everything in its path, including the people on the launcher’s side. He is aware. He just does not appear to find it concerning. Read the Full Article on the 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!
“Deepthroat”: Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness Episode 4 Goes After RFK Jr., Henry Ford, Bob Woodward, and James Buchanan in Its Most Politically Pointed Hour
The fourth episode of Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, which aired Friday July 17 on HBO under the title “Deepthroat,” arrives as the season’s most explicitly political half-hour tonight, and it saves its sharpest material for last. The episode moves through four sketches covering four distinct periods of American history, and three of them do exactly what the show has been doing all season, place Larry David’s persona in a consequential historical setting and observe what happens when the most important thing going on around him is not, as far as he is concerned, the most important thing going on around him. The fourth sketch does something different. It uses the historical setting not as a frame for David’s social grievances but as a direct vehicle for contemporary political commentary, and the target is specific, the parody is unambiguous, and the personal dimension underneath it is genuinely complicated in ways the episode does not shy away from.
Before getting to that closing sketch and the full weight of what it contains, it is worth accounting for the first three, because “Deepthroat” is the show’s most balanced episode in terms of distributing its material across all four segments rather than building toward a single centerpiece. Read the Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
Below Deck Mediterranean Season 11 Episode 7 Recap: Luke’s Exit, Cooper’s Medical Crisis, and the Charter Where Everything Went Wrong Simultaneously
“Match Me If You Can” is the official title of Below Deck Mediterranean Season 11 Episode 7, and it refers to the charter guest’s primary objective for the week. Suzanne arrived aboard the M/Y Akira One with a matchmaker, an elaborate preference sheet, and the goal of finding love for herself and, separately, for her dog. These are the stated priorities. What actually happened during the episode was a medical emergency involving anaphylactic shock, a formal marine report filed against a deckhand for an incident involving a bosun’s bedsheets, and a tearful resignation speech delivered to Captain Sandy that cut to black before she could respond. The matchmaker storyline is, relative to everything else, the most straightforward part of the episode.
Nathan, the Sheets, and the Formal Report. The episode opened in the immediate aftermath of what happened last week, Nathan Gallagher learning, definitively and in specific detail, what Luke Brumer and Gen had done in his bed. The Bravo Daily Dish coverage confirmed that Nathan described to Captain Sandy what he had found in terms that left no ambiguity about the nature of the contamination. His sheets were not simply slept in without his permission. He woke up sick. He had been sleeping in a contamination Luke and Gen left behind and did not clean up, did not mention, and made no move to address until the situation became unavoidable. Read the Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!