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Mark Ruffalo Peter Kramer\/HBO <\/p>\nThis week: A handy fall what-to-watch guide.A little note about Diane Keaton.A love letter to a Broadway show. A Wicked guessing game.A word of thanks for Gwyneth Paltrow.Here\u2019s What I\u2019m Loving Right Now<\/p>\n
It\u2019s leaf peeping season! It\u2019s sweater weather! It\u2019s \u201cplease don\u2019t try to make plans with me and make me feel guilty for burrowing in the corner of my couch with a cozy blanket for 13 hours a day\u201d time!<\/p>\n
The glut of fall TV shows is here, and there are a bunch that I\u2019m really digging\u2014both of the prestige TV and the please-don\u2019t-judge-me-for-watching this variety. <\/p>\n
Mark Ruffalo Peter Kramer\/HBO <\/p>\n
Last Sunday\u2019s episode of HBO\u2019s Task<\/a> is, in my opinion, the best episode of TV this year. It begins with an intense, stressful 20-minute shootout, with the emotional aftermath unfolding\u2014and devastating\u2014throughout the rest of the hour. I\u2019ve seen this weekend\u2019s finale, and I\u2019ll just say that it sticks the landing, and Mark Ruffalo should start writing his Emmy speech.<\/p>\n Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy<\/p>\n I hate the trend of serial killer TV series. They are resoundingly distasteful, at best, and downright offensive at worst. Peacock\u2019s Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy<\/a> is a refreshing antidote to all of that, a series that centers the victims and the tragedy rather than fetishizing sociopathic criminals.<\/p>\n The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City<\/p>\n If there is a hill to die on, it is that The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City<\/a> is the greatest gift Bravo has given to society\u2014and you will find my corpse at the top of it. Every episode of the season so far has been a chef\u2019s kiss, to the point that the chef has taken out a restraining order against me.<\/p>\n Ghosts<\/p>\n There\u2019s something about CBS\u2019 long-running comedy Ghosts<\/a> that just feels like fall\u2014and not just because its characters evoke the stars of spooky season. The humor and the heart, not to mention its familiarity now in its fifth season, is just the right amount of cozy.<\/p>\n Dancing With the Stars<\/p>\n Am I just old now, or is Dancing With the Stars, like, cool again? This season\u2019s cast of rando celebrity-ish contestants is really fun, and the performances have been legitimately great, to the point that I\u2019ve seen them going viral online. During this week\u2019s episode\u2014I\u2019m not kidding\u2014I\u2026wept? <\/p>\n Matlock<\/p>\n I\u2019m at the point of running up to strangers on the street and shaking them by the shoulders while screaming in their faces, \u201cDo you know how good Matlock is?!\u201d The first season of the CBS reboot\/remix<\/a> was so clever, anchored by a gripping \u201chow long will she get away with this?\u201d storyline and a career-capping triumphant Kathy Bates performance. Season 2 just started, and it\u2019s already delivering the goods.<\/p>\n The Lowdown<\/p>\n Ethan Hawke is having the year of his career, between his Oscar-tipped performance in Blue Moon<\/a>, his turn in this weekend\u2019s Black Phone 2, and his incredibly fun turn on FX\u2019s The Lowdown. It\u2019s a wild ride of a show, one that I\u2019m happy to have buckled in for.<\/p>\n Well, La Di Da, La Di Da, La La<\/p>\n A week spent revisiting Diane Keaton<\/a>\u2019s life, work, and irresistible joie de vivre has been profound and poignant; the reason for it is devastating, but the experience of it could not be more fulfilling. <\/p>\n You spend a lifetime watching movies and you sometimes don\u2019t understand why there are certain people that seem to have a special spotlight put on them seemingly just for you, as if some higher cinematic being is trying to tell you, \u201cHey, watch this one! This one is going to matter to you! This one is going to make you feel something!\u201d You start to, for lack of a better word, \u201cget\u201d yourself, because you recognize something in what you\u2019re watching\u2014and who\u2014on screen. <\/p>\n For so many people, that was Diane Keaton. Her mesmerizing, culture-shifting turn in Annie Hall was like watching sparks fly from a wire on the fritz\u2014uncontrolled in a way that could be unsettling, but absolutely electrifying. (One of my favorite social media posts after Keaton\u2019s death was that everyone gets one free pass to revisit a Woody Allen movie in her honor.) <\/p>\n She was never, in any of her work, just kooky, something that was entirely validating. Quirky people have depth, too. They feel deeply. They have pain and they have empathy, in just as much resource as they have their endearing goofiness.<\/p>\n I loved Diane Keaton characters\u2014and I loved watching Diane Keaton interviews\u2014because they and she were a reminder that the oddball can and should be beloved. A person just has to allow themselves to love, welcome that love in, and give that love back in equal measure. That\u2019s what Diane Keaton meant to me.<\/p>\n One of the Best Musicals I\u2019ve Seen<\/p>\n I got goosebumps so many times while watching the new Broadway revival of Ragtime<\/a> that cartographers are updating New York City maps to account for the mountain range that just rose up inside the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. <\/p>\n It\u2019s a show that musical theater fans adore for its absolute bangers that make up its score, which, when arranged as sumptuously as they are in this production and sung with as much gusto as fervor, can be moving to the point of actually overwhelming. <\/p>\n The numbers\u2014\u201cWheels of a Dream,\u201d \u201cTill We Reach That Day,\u201d \u201cBack to Before,\u201d \u201cMake Them Hear You,\u201d and the title number, among so many others\u2014are performed so exquisitely in this production that people familiar will the show will likely start to feel the warm sensation bubbling up into tears at the opening notes to particular songs, just at the sheer anticipation of what\u2019s to come. <\/p>\n Broadway is so expensive, not to mention the cost of getting to New York to watch productions if you don\u2019t live there. But if you\u2019re able to do it, this version of Ragtime is a must-see.<\/p>\n The Year\u2019s Most Anticipated Stunt Casting<\/p>\n Wicked: For Good director Jon M. Chu teased<\/a> that a major actor voices the Cowardly Lion in the upcoming sequel, and that, when the celebrity is revealed on the premiere\u2019s red carpet, \u201cIt\u2019ll be wild.\u201d <\/p>\n \u2018Wicked: For Good\u2019 director Jon M. Chu teases surprise voice actor for the Cowardly Lion to @Deadline<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cMan, wait until the red carpet when the actor who gave us the Cowardly Lion\u2019s voice steps foot on it. It\u2019ll be wild.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/Y7hXGzT9AG<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n Speculation has run rampant on who it might be. Someone with an instantly familiar voice, like a Morgan Freeman or a Hugh Grant, or perhaps, gender blind, Tilda Swinton or Emma Thompson? An icon with connection to Wicked and The Wizard of Oz, like Liza Minnelli, or Joel Grey from the original Broadway cast? Or will we be terrorized with the usual go-to for stunts like this: James Corden? <\/p>\n Personally, I say go outside the box. If that lion doesn\u2019t open its mouth and either Miss Piggy or Fran Drescher\u2019s voice come out of it, I\u2019m leaving the theater. <\/p>\n This Is Forever a Gwyneth Paltrow Fan Club<\/p>\n If you\u2019re not obsessed with this anecdote Gwyneth Paltrow told<\/a> about meeting Marty Supreme co-star Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet for the first time, we can\u2019t be friends: <\/p>\n \u201cI first met him at the costume test. I was asking him questions, trying to get to know him. Everyone makes fun of me because I don\u2019t know anything. I was like, \u2018Do you have a girlfriend?\u2019 And he was like, \u2018I do.\u2019 He mentioned that she had kids and I was like, \u2018That\u2019s so cool. I really love to hear that [from] a young man like you.\u2019 It\u2019s a cool choice to go out with a young woman who has two kids. I respect it. I think it\u2019s kind of punk rock. But my point is I didn\u2019t know [it was] Kylie Jenner\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n More From The Daily Beast\u2019s Obsessed<\/p>\n How Severance star Michael Chernus got inside the mind of John Wayne Gacy. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ethan Hawke tells Obsessed all about his award-worthy performance in Blue Moon. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n Director Colin Hanks breaks down the heartbreaking revelations from his new documentary John Candy: I Like Me. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n What to Watch This Week<\/p>\n Black Phone 2: Just the press images for this movie<\/a> creeped the hell out of me. (Now in theaters)<\/p>\n Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy: A rare serial-killer series endorsement<\/a> from me. (Now on Peacock)<\/p>\n Mr. Scorsese: A fittingly epic docuseries<\/a> about one of cinemas GOATs. (Now on Apple TV+)<\/p>\n What to Skip This Week<\/p>\n The Astronaut: Sometimes the astronaut should just stay out in space<\/a>. (Now in theaters)<\/p>\n The Road: Imagine watching a reality competition starring Keith Urban in this climate! #TeamNicole! (Mon. on CBS\/Paramount+)<\/p>\n![\"Diane](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WIIIWI7B3RD5BMFH54RODT7YMM.gif\")
Diane Keaton in ‘Annie Hall’ Giphy <\/p>\n![\"Diane](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3MSJFDU5UFBTVFS5R3PVYIQJ4U.gif\")
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Brandon Uranowitz Matthew Murphy\/Matthew Murphy <\/p>\n