Julian is starting to reveal the depths of his learned confusion and its consequences. Whatever strange mysticism he’s been taught about life and death, we now know why he could both murder two people in cold blood and simultaneously be absolutely horrified as it happens: “It wasn’t supposed to hurt.”

[The following discusses plot points from the finale of Westworld season two.]

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, August 15. All times are Eastern.

Gasper Noé doesn’t have much use for subtlety. The European arthouse provocateur (Enter The Void, Irreversible) is a stylist of the unabashedly gonzo, shooting for the sun while accepting that he may simply reach the moon. Each of his films has been ambitiously decadent in one form or another, and with his latest, Noé…

Note: This interview contains big plot points from tonight’s episode (season four, episode two) of Better Call Saul.

You may have seen every single Marvel film that’s been released so far on the big screen, but what if you could pay money to see them all again...on an even bigger screen? You know, after you’ve also rewatched them a bunch of times now on Blu-ray or airings on FX or whatever. Are you still in?

We’ve all had a lot of fun this past week dunking on the Oscars’ new “Best Popular Film” category, a.k.a. the “Okay you unwashed heathens, here’s a prize for your big shiny moron movies” award. But according to one Academy board member, there’s a different motive for it—and it’s Harvey Weinstein’s fault.

He’s been a dimwitted camp counselor, a dimwitted millionaire, a dimwitted sports reporter, a dimwitted surf instructor, a dimwitted drug lord, and a searingly honest portrayal of working-class ennui and frustration as a sensitive small-town fisherman. Oh, and also a guy who can communicate with ants.

Stop! Rumor time: If you’ve been paying attention to the ongoing uproar over director James Gunn being fired from Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 thanks to a right-wing hit job over a series of old, offensive tweets, then you know it looked unlikely he’d get his job back. Well, today comes the odd news that...maybe he…

Margot Kidder, actress and advocate for mental health issues, died back in May, of what was then reported simply as “unknown causes.” Now, that death has officially been ruled a suicide.

In 100 Episodes, The A.V. Club examines the shows that made it to that number, considering both how they advanced and reflected the medium and what contributed to their popularity and/or longevity. This entry covers Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., which has run for five seasons and 11o episodes from 2013 to now,…

Jackie Chan is an international treasure, an action-movie icon and lovable scamp whose commitment to almost dying in horrifying ways, over and over, for our entertainment, surely qualifies him for some sort of medal. Other than the lifetime achievement Academy Award he’s already received, we mean.

Through the howling void of purgatory that coexists alongside our reality, the creature shrieks with desire: The spirit of Colonel Sanders grows hungry again. Hungry for a fresh soul to devour, whereby it may then live anew in yet another hollowed-out body, and utter its dark encomiums to finger-lickin’ flavor.

When Marvel first announced Marvel Rising, its new foray into animation, it looked to deliver something largely missing from the big-screen MCU: a focus on the comic publisher’s younger crop of heroes, especially the women and people of color mostly relegated to sidekick status when it comes to the live-action films.…