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The new Apple TV+ show follows a self-hacking security android known as “Murderbot,” who is horrified by human emotion, yet drawn to its vulnerable “clients.” Security Units, or SEC Units like “Murderbot,” were designed to make human life easier, making them glorified babysitters for humans of the future.

And “Murderbot,” played by Alexander Skarsgård, known for playing tech billionaire Lukas Matsson in the HBO drama series “Succession,” is not having it.

“Murderbot must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe,” AppleTV+ said in a news release.

Hint: The popular actress is even married to a cast member.

According to official “SNL” social media pages, Scarlett Johansson will host Episode 19 of Season 50.

Married to “Weekend Update” co-host Colin Jost, Johansson is returning to host the long-time, award-winning comedy show for a seventh time. She first hosted on Jan. 14, 2006.

Johansson, who stars in the upcoming film, “Jurassic Park Rebirth,” met her “Weekend Update” co-anchor hubby on the “SNL” set. The pair married in 2020 and share one child. Johansson shares another child with ex-husband and businessman Romain Dauriac.

The former “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star, who shared earlier this year that she had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in her brain and lungs, revealed during a May 14 episode of her podcast that her body was responding to treatment, but she’s not out of the woods just yet.

“Last time, they had checked solely my brain, and those tumors are shrinking,” she said on “Two Ts In a Pod,” the show she co-hosts with fellow “Real Housewives” alum Tamra Judge. “Then, today I had the scan, where they checked my lungs and they are shrinking and one of them has shrunk so much you can barely even see it.”

While she said her “body is responding to everything,” Mellencamp, 43, did reveal that she will need to rely on immunotherapy for the next two years.

The horror series famous for elaborate death scenes, in which characters are killed in freak accidents related to everyday situations, rises from the dead with “Final Destination Bloodlines” (in theaters May 16), the first installment since 2011 and first to be filmed for IMAX. In keeping with franchise tradition, the marching orders were clear for directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, series newcomers best known for the sci-fi thriller “Freaks”: Make more daily activities terrifying.

“The key thing is starting with something that’s very relatable, that all of us experience every day, that’s not fantastical − it’s something that you’ll run into during your daily life,” Lipovsky says. “And then figuring out how to ruin that for you, so that anytime you ever experience it in your life again, you think of ‘Final Destination.’ “

After seeing “Bloodlines,” he warns, “every time you put on your wedding ring, you’ll think twice.”

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The controversial TikToker is back in a new Netflix documentary from the “Untold” series. “Untold: The Liver King” sees the influencer and YouTuber rise and fall, including coming to terms with his 2022 steroid use controversy. The Liver King built a multimillion-dollar supplement empire following his viral success during the pandemic, among a wave of internet personalities promoting a raw meat “ancestral lifestyle” and intense, primal workouts.

The documentary features his wife, Barbara aka the Liver Queen, and his two sons, who also helped promote the ancestral lifestyle to his millions of followers across platforms.

Here’s what you need to know about the king and his dethroning.

Who is the Liver King?

Now-disgraced TikTok influencer the Liver King, born Brian Johnson, went viral during the pandemic for his promotion of an “ancestral lifestyle” centered mainly around a raw meat diet and daily intake of liver, purportedly to increase energy and improve digestion. Such benefits aren’t backed by science, however, and the recommendation to eat raw beef isn’t supported by any health agency either.

People are eating raw beef on TikTok. Here’s why you shouldn’t try it.

Johnson promotes what he calls nine “ancestral tenets” as the foundation of his lifestyle, mimicking how early humans supposedly lived.

The embattled music mogul is facing potential life in prison if convicted on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

He is also fighting a Justice Department forfeiture action that could cost him much – if not most – of an empire that prosecutors allege he used as part of a criminal racketeering enterprise from 2008 to the present. His lawyers have hired as a consultant the former deputy chief of the Justice Department’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, USA TODAY has learned.

So what are Combs’ assets, and what could be seized if he is convicted?

Diddy’s net worth

In 2024, Forbes magazine estimated Combs’ net worth at $400 million – a significant drop from its 2019 figure of $740 million. Both Combs and his team later claimed he was a billionaire, Forbes said, despite offering no documentation to back up the claim.

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Enter Prime Video’s “Overcompensating” (all eight epiosdes now streaming, ★★★½ out of four), a rolling-on-the-floor-laughing new comedy created by and starring comedian Benito Skinner (known online as “Benny Drama”) about two lost and confused college freshmen at an elite university. There’s Benny (Skinner), struggling with a closeted sexual identity he doesn’t even understand, and Carmen (Wally Baram), a formerly shy high school outcast trying to find, as the kids would say, her “main character energy.” They’re thrown into the inferno of hormones, beer and twin beds that is the college experience, and start tripping over their mistakes and insecurities on day one.

Hilarious and deeply authentic, “Overcompensating” is set in a modern-day, Gen Z, TikTok-laden college campus, but feels like it can describe any experience of late-stage adolescence (and in fact, some of the references betray a distinctly millennial point of view in the writers’ room). Benny and Carmen are underdogs worth rooting for in a comedy that has the potential to break out this summer like “The Bear.” The series has a complete disregard for order and subtlety, just like the college frat parties it depicts. If it sometimes feels somewhat shallow, that’s just one more instance of form following function.

In an interview with People published May 14, the “Forrest Gump” actor opened up about leaning on his family after walking away from Hollywood in 2019 to help care for his son Mac, who was diagnosed with bone cancer.

“Mac left us things that are beautiful,” he told the outlet of his son, who died in 2024 at age 33. “I want people to know who he was.”

Mac’s diagnosis arrived shortly after Sinise’s wife, Moira, was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, which, for the “Apollo 13” actor, felt like “a one-two punch.” While Moira eventually recovered after chemotherapy, Mac did not, and the stress of his condition pushed his father to the brink, People reports.

“Ketamine therapy is supposed to reset a lot of past traumas or habits you’ve created,” Jen says, nodding to her turbulent relationship with Zac. “Ketamine is in a gray area when it comes to the church.” The pair put on big headphones and eye masks; have IVs filled with ketamine placed in their arms; and relax in lounge chairs under cozy blankets. An hour later, and they’re done.

But what exactly is ketamine, and how does ketamine therapy work?

What is ketamine?

Among our brain’s communication signals are neurotransmitters. One of these neurotransmitters is called glutamate. Glutamate helps neurons fire a “go” signal. But glutamate can’t work without unlocking what is known as the NDMA receptor. Think of this as the mechanism that turns a traffic light from red to green. This process is vital for learning and memory and for being conscious and aware. 

However, there are some situations when you don’t want to be aware – like if you are in severe pain from an injury or if you are undergoing an operation. In these situations, it’s like all traffic lights are green – you would just get signal after signal that you are hurt and you are in pain.