Josh O’Connor steals the spotlight in 'Wake Up Dead Man'

Watching

• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Though we don’t get one every year, people seem to look forward to every installment of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series. This year, Josh O’Connor steals the show as a feisty but dedicated priest. Read more.

• Fallout. The second season of Fallout begins with a bang: Mr. Robert House has joined the fold, with Justin Theroux taking on the role. For those unfamiliar with the video games, here’s everything you need to know about Mr. House and what his arrival on the scene might mean for Season 2.

• Emily in Paris. Another season of Emily in Paris, another will-they-won't-they cliffhanger ending. The ending of season 5 might actually be sowing the seeds for the endgame romance. Read more.

Reading

• Audition. Katie Kitamura’s novel resists simple description and it hardly gets easier to explain, no matter how many times a person may attempt to communicate the experience of reading it. Which is appropriate, given that Kitamura’s subject is performance itself, the ways in which we try, and often fail, to inhabit the roles we’ve been assigned. See all 10 of our best books of the year here.

• Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. Sarah Wynn-Williams was a true believer in Facebook and its potential when she pitched herself into a job as the company’s Manager of Global Public Policy in 2011. But what she once viewed as a dream role eventually gave way to a nightmare as she realized the extent to which what she describes as “a lethal carelessness” seemed to rule the company’s culture. Read more about this memoir and our best memoirs of the year here.

Talking About

• Filmmaker Rob Reiner, who was found dead on Sunday along with his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner, never did anything by half measures. Read more about his legacy here. If you’d like to watch his most beloved films, here’s where you can find them.

• Director Park Chan-wook’s latest film, No Other Choice, has been shortlisted in the Best International Feature Film category at the Oscars. We spoke to the director about how his darkly humorous, uncomfortably relatable tale of modern worker desperation came to be. Read more.

• In Emma Mackey's very first screen role, on the Netflix series Sex Education, she played a rebellious teen. As the star of James L. Brooks' new film Ella McCay, the British-French actor felt she truly had to grow up. We spoke to Mackey about her journey to her newest role here.