The Devil Wears Prada 2. This sequel, though darker than the original, is actually a better movie than its predecessor. This is one downer of a fashion fantasy—a film that’s bracingly honest about both the state of magazines and how that affects our perception of fashion today—but there’s also something pleasingly and realistically melancholy about it. Read more.

If Wishes Could Kill. With its clever mix of teen drama, tech horror, and occult mystery, this reimagining of an age-old ghost story is an intriguing blend of Korean folk tradition and modern tech anxieties that keeps viewers guessing until the very end. Read more.

The Audacity. AMC’s new tech-industry drama joins a voluminous canon of tech satires, thrillers, sagas, and philosophical treatises. Yet, in its portrayal of industry leaders panicking as consensus spreads that the billionaire founders who were hailed as geniuses and visionaries a decade ago have poisoned the world they claimed to be saving, this show feels the most contemporary of the bunch. Read more.

Earlier this week, TIME named the most influential companies of 2026. Among them: skincare brand Rhode, founded by model and influencer Hailey Bieber, and Beast Industries, founded by Jimmy Donaldson, the YouTube phenom known as MrBeast.

The Onion announced a deal last week to take over the conspiracy-fueled website Infowars as part of founder Alex Jones’s long-running bankruptcy case. The Onion’s parent company also announced that Tim Heidecker, a veteran of Adult Swim, would take over as creative director. TIME spoke with Heidecker about his plans for the famously satirical site.

Elizabeth Strout’s novels are just like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, except nothing happens and the multiverse is Maine. Strout’s newest work, The Things We Never Say, out May 5, departs from the Maineverse. But it doesn’t go far—just down the coast to Massachusetts. Things chronicles a short but life-changing period in the life of a 57-year-old high school history teacher. It’s a book about secrets, and how revealing them can bring liberation, as well as a whole different set of limitations.