Spoiler Room: Scoop onWestworld,The Flash,The Blacklist,and more

Want scoop on your favorite shows? If you want spoilers on a specific show, send Qs to my Twitter:@NatalieAbrams. Season 2 has been awesome so far! Credit: John P. Johnson/HBO; Shane Harvey/The CW; Peter Kramer/NBC What do you have onThe Flashfinale? Guess well need to,ahem, put on our thinking caps! What can you tease for the final episodes of the season? AlyIts all hands on deck as the team scrambles to find Samar after her abduction....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 326 words · Marilyn Johnson

SpongeBob SquarePantsbrings Bikini Bottom to Broadway: EW review

Translating a cartoon to the Broadway stage is strange business (unless, of course, youre Disney). SpongeBob (newcomer Ethan Slater) is a compact, yellow-shirt-wearing young man with impressively square-looking broad shoulders. Humongous threaten to obliterate their home and their lives. Credit: Joan Marcus If that sounds like a lot… it is. Not everything works, and theres often too much going on onstage at any given moment. On TV, the shows outlandish wackiness is smartly confined to two 11-minute segments per episode....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 94 words · Clinton Hansen

Spotify debuts star-stuffed holiday music collection — see exclusive studio photos

Listen to their festive recordings here It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas on Spotify. Credit: Glenn Weinrich; James Barber Glenn Weinrich James Barber.James Barber Glenn Weinrich James Barber.James Barber

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 31 words · Miss Elizabeth Smith

Spotify slapped with $1.6 billion copyright lawsuit over Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks songs

Asfirst reportedby theHollywood Reporter, Wixen is seeking at least $1.6 billion in damages. A Spotify spokesperson declined to comment on the lawsuit. The Swedish-based streaming service was also hit withtwo more copyright lawsuitsin July. Credit: John Medina/WireImage Randall Wixen, the company’s president, added, “We’re just asking to be treated fairly. We are not looking for a ridiculous punitive payment.

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 59 words · Allison Kaiser

Spring Awakeningwriters created a new song forRise

Jason called me and asked if Duncan and I would consider writing a new song, Sater recalls. I said, Do you mean a new song forRiseor a newSpring Awakeningsong? And he said, Both. Credit: Virginia Sherwood/NBC I was intrigued, but I had to think about it for a while. After all, Sater and Sheik hadnt worked onSpring Awakeningsince what Sater estimates was 2007. Yet the more they talked to Katims, the more they could envision what the new song could offer....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 170 words · Jennifer Gibbs

St. Vincent'sMASSEDUCTIONis a near masterpiece for our age of anxiety: EW review

MASSoffers 13 soundtracks for sleepless nights and social-media voyeurs, self-medicating and slow discos. But Clark is way too intuitive, and too human, not to pull herself back from the brink. (Is he the same Prince Johnny and John from past albums? Credit: Loma Vista Recordings In a recent BuzzFeed interview,she pointedly wouldnt say). If theres an easy way to live in the world,MASShasnt found it. Instead she stays, insisting its not the end over and over in a quavering falsetto....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 97 words · Evelyn Hill

Stacey Abrams talks the shared values of her political campaign and writing romance

Under the name Selena Montgomery, Abrams penned eight romance novels beginning with 2001sRules of Engagement. I dont know how not to write, she tells EW. Its a pivotal part of how I think about the work that I need to do. Credit: ERIK S LESSER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Youre a lawyer and a politician. Was writing romance also always a life goal of yours? I knew Id read espionage stories with women as primary characters and with women front and center....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 414 words · David Weiss

Stan Lee through the years

Remembering Stan Lee Stan Lee, the comics legend behind Marvel Comics' most beloved superheroes,has died at the age of 95. In a six-decade career as comic-doms reigning creative, Lee helped cast the template for the modern caped crusader, conjuring up hundreds of heroes including Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, and Thor. Keep clicking for more photos of Lee (seen here in 1975, in the dark sweater) from throughout his life and career....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 434 words · David Wright

Stan Lee's cameos outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Don’t I know you from somewhere? Hes the Godfather of Marvel, and Stan Lees acting resume aint too shabby either. Here, a look at the king of cameos. Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images In a multi-episode arc he guest-starred as a benevolent janitor (and original S.H.I.E.L.D. member) at Peter Parker’s high school. Heroes, 2007 Who’s driving the bus? Disney XD via Getty Images Naturally, an animated Lee appeared as a hot dog vendor....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 190 words · Erica Love

Stan Lee'sSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Versecameo is a poignant tribute to the late icon

WARNING: Spoilers for Lees cameo inSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Versefollow. But his main appearance comes as the owner of a costume shop who sells Miles a cheap Spider-Man suit. We were friends, you know. Credit: Sony Pictures Animation; Inset: Jun Sato/WireImage And we were just trying to pass that on. We are all still playing in his imagination. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verseis in theaters now. Sony Pictures Animation

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 67 words · Paul Walsh

Stana Katic previews new thrillerAbsentia, opens up about 'harsh'Castleexit

Below, EW goes in-depth with Katic about her new project and about herCastleexit. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was it aboutAbsentiathat really attracted you to this project? STANA KATIC:I liked the idea of telling a story about an anti-hero survivor. Sony Pictures Television What kind of story should be on the lookout for?" I said, “Listen man, the mom thing, no.” And they’re like, “Why?” And what I ended up getting instead was someone that had all of those qualities and then some....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 477 words · Mario Oliver

Star Trek: Discoveryactor on that surprising death

And whether they could someday return… Warning: This episode contains spoilers from Sundays episode ofStar Trek: Discovery, Whats Past Is Prologue. Isaacs spoke to EW about his role, his send-off, and his future prospects in theTrekuniverse. So why would you believe anything I say now? There are not many homeopathic cures that can help that. When did you know Lorcas secret backstory?I knew before I took the job. It was pitched to me that he was from the Mirror world....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 523 words · Steven Turner

Star Trek: Discoveryalmost blew itself up. Should it go further?

STEP TWO: Punch, high-kick, shoot, and stab everyone. STEP THREE: Profit. Oh, and also, a spaceship blew a roof off the place. This episode was directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, who has a real flair for visceral science-fiction action. (He previously worked on TNTsFalling Skies,which costarredDiscoverys Doug Jones as adifferentpoignantly endearing alien). Wait, never mind: Michelle Yeoh killed a man with a sword. In last years Chapter One,Discoverywas expensive-looking, sincere, ambitious, long-winded....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 382 words · Amy Buck