More To The Story

Introducing More to the Story

By Eliza Berman

Senior Editor, TIME

Are you wondering what a Lupin is or whether Olivia Rodrigo's more Swiftian or Avril-esque? How The Suicide Squad (2021) is related to Suicide Squad (2016) or whether a Golden Globes-less world is a better one? Which of the dozen new podcasts this week are worth soundtracking your Sunday cleaning blitz, and which of the umpteen recent celebrity memoirs to pack for your next vacation?

We are living in a time of unprecedented fragmentation of our cultural landscape. There's a new streaming service with every wax and wane of the moon. TikTok stars are invading Netflix, Netflix is invading the world, and the algorithm just keeps serving up more of what it thinks we like, even if we've already shouted at the TV a million times that our Selling Sunset obsession was just a phase. (Or was it?)

The water-cooler TV show may have died with Daenerys, but there's still plenty within the realm of culture for us to chew on collectively. Enter More to the Story, TIME's weekly entertainment newsletter, where we'll break down the latest news, releases, controversies and Twitter scuffles and serve up recommendations for what to watch, read and listen to—delivered to your inbox every Friday morning.

What you'll get

Some weeks we'll address the most serious and pressing issues facing the entertainment industry today, from the evolution of the #MeToo movement to the continued fight for representation of underrepresented groups across all art forms. Other weeks, we'll keep things light, poking for plot holes in the Fast & Furious Cinematic Universe or parsing the genius of a new Cardi video.

Per our tagline—the context you need for the pop culture you love—we'll dig deep, go beyond the headlines, dip a toe into history and make it all make sense. Expect to hear from our film critic, Stephanie Zacharek, our TV critic, Judy Berman, and a rotating cast of TIME's dedicated entertainment reporters covering everything from Mare of Easttown to Maren Morris.