Russell Crowe Turns Nightclub Owner Into Cartel Target, Wickedly Twisted Return to Form with Send Help (2026), How Larry David Just Rewrote 250 Years of American History — And Got Away With It
In the City Episode 8 “Caught in the Crossfire”: Kyle and Amanda Are Done, a DJ Tour Confirms It, and Connecticut Cannot Handle This Group
There comes a point in any dissolving relationship where the pretense of trying becomes more painful to watch than the dissolution itself would be. Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula reached that point weeks ago on In the City, and Episode 8 — “Caught in the Crossfire,” set at a Connecticut Friendsgiving that was friendly in name only, made it official in the way these things become official on Bravo, through a dinner table conversation where one person learns something enormous about the other’s future and realizes they were never part of it.
Kyle has a $250,000 DJ tour booked. Fourteen dates. Amanda found out about it when Gavin Moseley brought it up at dinner, in front of the entire group, under the apparent assumption that she already knew. She did not. She had not been told. Her husband announced a fourteen-date performing tour with a six-figure price tag to the room at large and to his wife simultaneously, and the cameras caught her face in the moment she understood what she was hearing.
“This man is planning his future without me in it,” she said in confessional. “No matter how many times he tells people he’s making efforts, his actions prove otherwise.” And then, “There’s something in my gut that tells me this is the end.”
That sentence is the episode. Everything else, the primary suite dispute, the Yvonne-Lindsay fallout, the revelation of additional indiscretions, is context. The center of “Caught in the Crossfire” is a woman sitting at a dinner table learning that her husband has built an entire future around something and at no point thought to mention it to her first. Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
Russell Crowe Turns Nightclub Owner Into Cartel Target in Derrick Borte’s Neon-Lit Crime Comedy
Russell Crowe has spent the back half of his career quietly building one of the most entertaining second acts in modern movie stardom, trading the weighty prestige dramas that once defined him for a string of gleefully unpredictable genre swings, and his latest, The Get Out, slots comfortably into that run. Released in select theaters on June 26, 2026 before moving to digital and video-on-demand platforms just four days later, the film reunites Crowe with director Derrick Borte for a neon-soaked Los Angeles crime story that trades the white-knuckle road rage of their previous collaboration for something looser, funnier, and considerably more chaotic. The result is a film built almost entirely around Crowe’s easy charisma, one that critics have described as a mixed bag on the whole but a showcase for an actor clearly enjoying himself in a genre he has quietly mastered over the past few years. Read More!
The Valley Season 3 Episode 15: Nobody Is Good Here, and This Week Proved It in Ways Nobody Expected
Episode 15 of The Valley Season 3, titled “It’s My Birthday and I’ll Cry If I Want To,” is that episode, not because it resolves anything, or because the drama reaches a satisfying climax, but because it drops three storylines onto the table in the same hour that together obliterate whatever remained of any character’s “good person” status in the Santa Clarita friend group. By the time Danny Booko sat alone at a bar after chasing away his wife and most of his friends on his own birthday and exclaimed “Best birthday ever!” to no one in particular, the season’s thesis was complete. There is nobody left to root for in any uncomplicated way. Everyone is a mess. Everyone is reacting to their own wounds and inflicting new ones. The Mexico trip is not a backdrop. It is the pressure cooker that forced all of it into the open.
Three things happened in this episode that require full accounting. Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
Inside Sam Raimi’s Wickedly Twisted Return to Form with Send Help (2026)
Seventeen years is a long time to wait for a filmmaker to come home to the genre that made him famous, but that is precisely the gap Sam Raimi closed with Send Help, the pitch-black survival comedy that has quickly become the standout theatrical event of 2026. Equal parts corporate satire, jungle survival thriller, and gleefully gruesome horror comedy, the film marks a genuine full-circle moment for the director who first terrified audiences with a cabin in the woods decades ago and now strands two office rivals on a nightmare island instead. The result is not a tidy return to any single lane. It is something stranger, funnier, and considerably bloodier than a simple nostalgia play, and it has given Raimi one of the most talked-about and financially successful films of his career. Read More!
Next Gen NYC Season 2 Episode 3 Is Already a Disaster
Next Gen NYC Season 2, Episode 3, titled “The Man in the LED Mask” and airing July 8 on Bravo, delivers an experience with a level of thoroughness that would be admirable if the experience itself were more enjoyable. I want to like these people, but honestly, it is becoming increasingly difficult. I also feel like it gets worse with every episode.
Seeing Georgia on WWHL showed me how much she, and honestly most of the cast, seem uninterested in anything outside of their own world. At the same time, it reminds me of Bam Bam from The Flintstones because they all seem to crave and require an incredible amount of attention. I have never seen anything quite like it. While many younger generations can sometimes come across as self interested, this group takes it to another level.
Georgia having notes about the people she was on the show with is incredibly condescending. You cannot even take an interest in another show on Bravo, or better yet, simply have a conversation without acting like you need cheat notes? Jennifer Lopez and many guests make no effort to hide that they do not know certain people or shows within the Bravo world. I understand that some people try to appear cool, detached, and unaffected by pretending not to know anyone or acting like they have forgotten names. Sometimes that is used as a way to project dominance or make themselves appear above others, but if it is not genuine, it becomes obvious. Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: How Larry David Just Rewrote 250 Years of American History — And Got Away With It
There is a version of America’s 250th birthday that involves soaring orchestral music, Ken Burns-style dissolves between sepia photographs, and a narrator who sounds like he is personally apologizing for the passage of time. And then there is the version where Larry David crashes the party, refuses to sit where he’s told, complains that nobody used a coaster on the wooden table of liberty, and accidentally derails the entire democratic experiment.
Guess which version HBO chose.
Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America arrived on June 26, 2026 — today, on the very cusp of the nation’s Semiquincentennial — and it is exactly as audacious, as bizarre, and as only-on-HBO as that premise suggests. Seven episodes. Four historical sketches per half-hour. One relentlessly cantankerous protagonist. And an official logline that reads like a warning label: “Those who don’t know history are doomed to watch Larry David repeat it.”
Welcome to the most unexpected birthday present America has ever received.
The Origin Story: When the Obamas Called Larry David….Read More!
Two Nights, Two Worlds: Stephanie Ruhle Runs the Bravo Clubhouse While Georgia McCann Reminds Us Why Reality TV Can Be Its Own Worst Enemy
Tuesday night on Watch What Happens Live gave us Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC anchor, former Wall Street executive, and a woman who is constitutionally incapable of not reading a situation with perfect accuracy. Wednesday night gave us Georgia McCann, Next Gen NYC cast member, twenty-something New Yorker, and a person who used her time on a national talk show to shoe how much she dpoes not care along side, Jesse Lally and Lacy Nicole from The Valley.
The contrast between these three people was obvious. Georgia acting like she had no clue about Jesse and Lacy, The Valley, or even Vanderpump Rules was stupid. Compounding the issue was her writing notes to remind herself who they were rather than making an effort to, you know, use her brain and remember something. Or, if she had never watched the shows, she should not have tried to hide it. Just act accordingly.
Now I understand why people do not take her seriously and why Riley contorted her face the way she did. Episodes 110 and 111 of Season 23, airing July 7 and July 8, are being written about together. I hope that’s cool. If it runs too long, I’ll split it up, but I want to discuss both episodes at the same time and get the hell outta here. Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!
Wednesday Night: Georgia McCann and the Art of Inadvertent Self-Exposure. The Wednesday episode brought in Jesse Lally and Lacy Nicole from The Valley, alongside Georgia McCann from Next Gen NYC, and the dynamic between Ruhle’s Tuesday performance and Georgia’s Wednesday appearance is the kind of thing that becomes more instructive the longer you sit with it.
Georgia came to the Clubhouse with an agenda, which is not in itself a problem, most Bravo guests do. The agenda, unfortunately, was entirely focused on positioning herself as the authoritative voice on Ava Dash’s motivations, specifically regarding the Hamptons photos of Ava and Kyle Cooke that circulated and became a significant conversation point.
She also acted like a floozy or something, pretending she did not know easy and obvious things, which I think was an attempt to make herself seem casual or laid back. Let alone trying to make it seem endearing that she needed to write notes on her hand in black magic marker, mind you, I noticed it the second she said hello. It felt like she wanted attention, so she acted clueless or something. It was odd. Read The Full Article on the Sunset Daily Substack!