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Colman Domingo On Returning To Comedy In ‘The Four Seasons’ On Netflix
‘The Four Seasons’ is a breath of fresh air for two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo.
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Netflix’s new dramedy, “The Four Seasons,” highlights love and friendship with a star-studded cast.
Released on May 1, the show follows six married friends who go on quarterly weekend trips. However, old tensions and new conflicts arise when one couple decides to end their relationship.
“The Four Seasons,” created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, is a reimagination of the 1981 movie with the same name.
“I’ve always loved this movie since I was a kid, and I do think that a series like this where you can really just expand things and take your time a little bit more felt like a perfect way to hang out with these characters a little bit longer,” Fey told The Hollywood Reporter.
Here’s what we know about Netflix’s “The Four Seasons”:
When and where does ‘The Four Seasons’ air?
The first season of “The Four Seasons,” which consists of eight episodes, is now available on Netflix. It premiered on May 1 at 3 a.m. EDT.
‘The Four Seasons’ episode list
- Episode One: “Lake House”
- Episode Two: “Garden Party”
- Episode Three: “Eco Resort”
- Episode Four: “Beach Bar”
- Episode Five: “Family Weekend
- Episode Six: “Ultimate Frisbee”
- Episode Seven: “Ski Trip”
- Episode Eight: “Fun”
‘The Four Seasons’ trailer
‘The Four Seasons’ gets mixed reviews from critics
According to USA TODAY TV critic Kelly Lawler, “The Four Seasons” “feels surface-level at best, unfunny and dull at worst,” adding that it ” is a big miss when it should have been an easy home run.” Read the full “Four Seasons” review.
The Guardian says the show is “full of properly funny lines, rooted in properly middle-aged experience. In its comedy and its drama it captures the warm, weary affection for life and each other that only old friends and enduring couples really know.”
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the miniseries has “some pleasantly sweet moments and some poignant ones, but few of them land with much weight since the characters are so thin.”
The show has a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes so far.
‘The Four Seasons’ cast
- Tina Fey
- Steve Carell
- Colman Domingo
- Will Forte
- Kerri Kenney-Silver
- Marco Calvani
- Erika Henningsen
Taylor Ardrey is a news reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her at [email protected].
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Bryan Cranston’s ‘Everything’s Going to Be Great’
‘Everything’s Going to Be Great’ movie unveils first trailer: Watch
Oscar nominee Bryan Cranston (“Trumbo”) plays bagpipes and rocks an excellent mustache in the first trailer for “Everything’s Going to Be Great.”
There’s no business like show business.
Take it from Bryan Cranston, who pulls back the curtain on the life of a working actor in “Everything’s Going to Be Great” (in theaters June 20). The “Breaking Bad” Emmy winner stars as Buddy Smart, a lifelong thespian who uproots his wife (Oscar winner Allison Janney) and sons (Jack Champion and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) to New Jersey to run a regional theater.
The feel-good dramedy follows Buddy as he tries to keep his family afloat while they pursue their respective dreams in a new town. The film is rounded out by an all-star cast that includes Simon Rex (“Red Rocket”) and Chris Cooper (“Adaptation”).
“Everything’s Going to Be Great” will be released by Lionsgate and premiere at the Tribeca Festival in New York on June 9.
The trailer premieres exclusively at usatoday.com, along with the first look at the movie’s poster.
Audiences “are going to recognize elements of these characters in their own life because it encompasses adventure, sorrow, joy, aspiration,” Cranston said in a statement to USA TODAY, praising screenwriter Steven Rogers’ “beautiful” script and the “imaginative creative mind” of director Jon S. Baird. “I couldn’t be happier. I’m very proud of this movie.”
For Baird, who last directed “Tetris” in 2023, “this film restored my faith in the creative process,” he wrote in his own statement. “This movie, at its core, is about the importance of family. We were so lucky we found such a supportive group to help us achieve even a little bit of hope in the darkest of times.”
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Lucas Bravo dating Shailene Woodley, go Instagram official
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Breaking up with a partner can be difficult, but losing a close friend can sometimes feel much worse. Dr. Ali Mattu explains how to move forward.
The early signs are in, and meteorologists are predicting a hard launch summer.
Lucas Bravo is taking the season seriously, heading to social media April 30 to treat fans to an Instagram-official announcement of his relationship with fellow actor Shailene Woodley.
The “Emily in Paris” heartthrob posted a carousel of photos, featuring one of the couple holding hands, one of the two sitting on the ground together while attending the Stagecoach music festival, and several of Woodley by herself enjoying the sights in nearby Slab City, California.
“Howdy Slab City,” Bravo, 37, titled the photo dump. The unincorporated California territory is just a few miles from Indio, where the Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals − both celebrity-packed affairs − are hosted.
USA TODAY has reached out to reps for Bravo and Woodley for comment.
Fans first began to speculate that Woodley, 33, was involved with Bravo when the pair were spotted together in Paris in March, in what appeared to be a PDA-filled outing.
Neither part of the duo has been particularly vocal about the new entanglement, though Bravo did offer a subtle confirmation earlier this month, responding to a question from People about the relationship by saying: “Yeah, I’m really happy.”
Woodley, who was previously engaged to football player Aaron Rodgers, has yet to post Bravo to her own grid.
Woodley, who first rose to fame as the lead in the book-to-movie adaptation of the popular young adult novel “Divergent,” has since become a mainstay on the film screen, and was recently tapped to join the cast of Hulu’s thriller series “Paradise.”
Bravo, best known for playing hunky Parisian chef and key love interest Gabriel on Netflix’s “Emily in Paris,” is an up-and-coming star. He has also appeared in several romantic comedies, including “The Honeymoon” and “Ticket to Paradise.”
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Ana Huang talks ‘King of Envy,’ AAPI representation in romance
As a young reader (probably too young, she admits), Ana Huang scouted her favorite romance books at the supermarket.
Her journey with the genre started, like many others, with Harlequin trade paperbacks. Here, Huang could find a guaranteed happy ending and arcs that made her favorite fictional characters feel real. But as a Chinese American reader, she rarely read any with characters who looked like her.
Now, Huang is dominating the romance genre herself, even solidifying a place on the Top 5 bestselling BookTok authors with over 1.47 million copies sold in 2024, according to Forbes. Publishing is still a largely white industry. Four out of those top five bestselling authors are white women – Huang is the only Asian author and author of color represented in the entire Top 10.
As we kick off Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, USA TODAY talked with Huang about the representation she wants to see in the romance genre and how she crafted her new dark, steamy novel “King of Envy,” out now from Bloom Books.
King of Envy is a ‘return to form’ for Huang
“King of Envy” is Huang’s 14th book and the fifth in her “Kings of Sin” series, each of which focuses on one of the seven deadly sins. The series uses the beloved billionaire romance trope – thank you “Fifty Shades of Grey” – often combining glitz and wealth with high-stakes action. In “King of Envy,” our pair is the tortured billionaire Vuk Markovic and renowned supermodel Ayana Kidane. When the novel opens, Ayana is engaged to Jordan, one of New York’s most eligible bachelors, but you quickly learn it’s a sham so that he can get his inheritance and she can get paid off enough to leave her abusive agency.
It’s a perfect plan, except for when she finds herself falling for his best man – Vuk. The story is teeming with tension and morally gray love interests and a healthy dose of the “touch her and you die” trope. While her recent projects have had “softer” leading men and themes, Huang calls “King of Envy” and its palm-sweating suspense a “return to form.” She listened to angsty songs like “Let the World Burn” by Chris Grey and “Moth to a Flame” by The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia to set the tone for “King of Envy.”
‘King of Envy’ – like any Ana Huang book – has plenty of spice
Having written many “spicy” scenes across 14 books, Huang knows a thing or two about how to convey sex on the page. It starts with the emotion, she says. Rather than structuring a bedroom scene on mechanics alone, she asks the characters what they need to get emotionally out of a sexual encounter.
But how do you keep it from being formulaic? She admits it’s harder to write steamy scenes the more books she writes.
“I tend not to be as liberal with the spice scenes as maybe my earlier stuff, just because I want to make sure they all serve a purpose. But also, I’ll be honest, sometimes I get a little bit tired,” she says, laughing. “I still love them, but it just takes a little bit more out of me.”
Still, there’s plenty of spice in “King of Envy.” Though romance is often dismissed as “fluff” or “guilty pleasure reads,” Huang says she’s proud to offer a safe space for readers (especially women) to explore their sexuality. Readers told USA TODAY earlier this year that spicy romance is empowering and even translates off the page into developing healthy sex lives. The genre is booming and driving the publishing industry. It’s so big, it’s crossing over to the silver screen with adaptations like “It Ends With Us” and Huang’s own “Twisted” series coming to Netflix.
“It’s a place for play and exploration,” Huang says. “And I love that romance is a genre that centers female desire and pleasure. They can take agency over that. You can’t really say that of a lot of other genres.”
In a video she made for Audible in 2023, Huang told the story of the time she told an Uber driver she wrote romance. He gave her a pamphlet of religious teachings. It’s an attitude many readers and non-readers alike have – that romance has no substance. But most of that is coming from people who don’t read the genre at all.
“It’s so frustrating, as an author, to see those conversations play out from people outside of the genre,” she tells USA TODAY. “Obviously, a lot of it is rooted in misogyny … but I think the romance community is strong. It’s been here for so long, and the umbrella is growing every day.”
Huang’s books prioritize diversity. She wants publishing to be the same.
A hallmark of Huang’s work is her diverse cast of characters across race, ethnicity and life experience. In “King of Envy,” Vuk is selectively non-verbal and uses American Sign Language, which Huang included because it’s a demographic she doesn’t often see represented in the romance genre. Because the Kings of Sin series is set largely in New York City, one of the most diverse major cities in the U.S., not creating a diverse cast of characters would be a “disservice,” she says.
She hopes to see the same reflected in publishing, at every level.
“At the end of the day, publishing is always about the bottom line,” Huang says. “But sometimes I find it a little frustrating because they’ll say, … ‘We published this book and it just didn’t sell that well and it just happened to be a diverse book by a diverse author.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, did you put as many marketing resources into this book?’
“This is something that needs to be at every level,” she continues. “You need to have BIPOC acquiring editors. You need that type of representation on the marketing team. It can’t just be like, ‘We acquired this book to say that we did it.’”
Clare Mulroy is USA TODAY’s Books Reporter, where she covers buzzy releases, chats with authors and dives into the culture of reading. Find her on Instagram, subscribe to our weekly Books newsletter or tell her what you’re reading at [email protected].
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Tina Fey comedy should be better
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Tina Fey. Steve Carrell. Will Forte. Two-time Oscar-nominee Colman Domingo.
When actors of that caliber get tother, you expect greatness. You expect to be doubled over in laughter as deep characters engage in high jinks and tomfoolery, but in a thoughtful way. Particularly when you hear Fey’s name, creator and star of “30 Rock,” “Mean Girls” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” Which is why the writer/actress’s new Netflix marriage comedy “The Four Seasons” (now streaming, ★★ out of four) is such a disappointment.
Based on the 1981 Alan Alda film, “Seasons” follows three couples on four vacations (one each season) as they deal with the difficulties of relationships large and small. Monotony, sex, divorce, parenting − it’s all wrapped up in a very picturesque package in a lakeside cabin, on a tropical beach, on an autumnal New England college campus and on a snow-capped mountain and ski lodge. The vacations may be polished and seasonally appropriate, but the relationships are distinctly messy and complicated.
Thought-provoking and relatable to anyone who has ever been in a long-term relationship, the setup seems perfect for the melodrama and conflict that makes for great relationship comedies. The original film had it all, including a series of manic tableaus brought to you by legends including Alda, Carol Burnett and Rita Moreno. But stretched out over eight half-hour episodes as a miniseries, “Seasons” feels surface-level at best, unfunny and dull at worst. (This marks the second attempt to bring the story to TV: CBS ran a series in 1984 that lasted only 13 episodes). “Seasons” is a big miss when it should have been an easy home run.
The three couples at the center each have at least one A-lister on board: Fey and Forte as dorky Kate and Jack, Carell’s smarmy Nick married to free-spirit Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver) and judgy Danny (Domingo), with artsy and emotional Claude (Marco Calvani). At the start of the series, when the group is at Nick and Anne’s lakeside house in springtime, everything seems as if it’s coming up roses. But the cracks immediately begin to show: Nick is thinking of leaving Anne for someone more “alive”; Danny is ignoring his health problems, much to Claude’s dismay; and dark humor and sarcasm don’t fully cover up the deep fault lines in Jack and Kate’s relationship.
The couples are set up to be ostensible powder kegs of emotion and pent-up resentments, and yet the series never satisfies us by showing the explosions. Most of the major relationship milestones and potholes happen offscreen between the seasonal vacays, leaving us to find entertainment and meaning in the puny aftershocks. And while Fey’s scripts, written with co-creators Lang Fisher (“Never Have I Ever”) and Tracey Wigfield (“The Mindy Project”), have occasional funny bits, you’ll find yourselves uncomfortably silent while watching what are meant to be jokes pass across the screen. And when the series takes an occasional serious turn, you’ll just be confused. All of this plays out to the familiar tune of Antonio Vivaldi’s concerti “The Four Seasons,” in case the series wasn’t on-the-nose enough.
“Seasons” is acutely reminiscent of Apple TV+’s “Palm Royale,” last year’s period dramedy starring Kristen Wiig. Like “Seasons,” “Royale” had an A-list cast, featuring Wiig, Allison Janney, Ricky Martin, Laura Dern and Burnett, but somehow it fell decidedly flat. The actors and the looks were there, but the jokes and the depth weren’t.
A few moments in “Seasons” speak to what the show could’ve (should’ve) been. It’s fun and illuminating to watch Anne, boxed in for decades as Nick’s wife and her daughter’s mother, forge a new identity. It’s not a remotely new story − there are dozens of TV shows, books and films about the divorced woman who finds herself − but it is definitely the best told one of the bunch.
The series has four hours to say something, anything, about marriage or aging or midlife crises, but by the end the show’s point of view is not at all clear. Is having a life partner meaningful? Worthless? Somewhere in the middle?
“Seasons” is, unfortunately, as clueless as its characters.
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See the trailer for Alec Baldwin's Western movie 'Rust'Movies
See the trailer for Alec Baldwin’s Western movie ‘Rust’Movies
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Alec Baldwin’s troubled movie at least looks great
‘Rust’ movie trailer: See Alec Baldwin as a Western outlaw
Alec Baldwin’s Western drama “Rust” is out May 2.
Watching “Rust,” it’s easy to be rattled by the gunshots.
Being a Western drama, naturally there’s plenty of gunfights, showdowns and old-school cowboy justice. But this is also a movie haunted by one shot in particular, the bullet that killed Ukrainian cinematographer Halyna Hutchins three-and-a-half years ago when a prop gun held by Alec Baldwin discharged. That shot is the hardest one to forget.
After years of lawsuits, criminal charges and controversies involving Baldwin, filmmakers, crew members and Hutchins’ family, writer/director Joel Souza’s movie (★★½ out of four; rated R; in theaters and on demand May 2) is finally finished and being released for interested moviegoers.
Storywise, it’s a solid if overlong tale of family and redemption – fans of “Yellowstone” or “Horizon” will find stuff to love. Where “Rust” stands out is in its look, a gorgeously shot production with an emphasis on contrasts and dark colors that’s a testament to the talents of Hutchins and fellow cinematographer Bianca Cline.
In 1880s Wyoming, orphaned 13-year-old Lucas Hollister (Patrick Scott McDermott) takes care of his little brother (Easton Malcolm), selling off valuable animals just to put food on the table. Lucas accidentally kills a man with whom he’s had a public beef and is sentenced to hang. As gallows are being built outside Lucas’ jail cell, his estranged grandfather Harland Rust (Baldwin), an infamous outlaw, shows up to break him out of jail and take him to safety in Mexico, murdering a couple of lawmen in the process.
His grandpa’s existence is a surprise in itself to Lucas – he believed the old man was dead – and even though the kid’s had to grow up fast, the odd pairing takes a bit to bond as Harland is hard on the youngster. “There’s alive and there’s ain’t. Try to focus on the former,” he says, attempting to get the youngster in a survival mindset.
Meanwhile, a bounty is put on the heads of both Lucas and Harland, which sends a wild-eyed and sadistic guy named Preacher (Travis Fimmel) hunting for them. U.S. marshal Wood Helm (Josh Hopkins) is tasked with tracking Harland down as well, though he struggles with leaving behind his ailing son.
Between the film’s strong opening and the bloody climax, “Rust” moseys along with subplots, side characters and various threats to Lucas and Harland’s well-being. Baldwin is positively gruff as the world-weary Harland, and he and McDermott fall into an interesting chemistry as the outlaw’s backstory and familial connection are slowly revealed. McDermott is aces as a kid who from the start is thrown into disarray, and Hopkins is pretty terrific as the good-hearted but troubled marshal.
It might surprise some that “Rust” was ever finished after the tragedy. Yet it’s clear that a good amount had to be redone. Because of scheduling conflicts, McDermott and Hopkins replaced original actors Brady Noon and Jensen Ackles in major roles. And Cline was tapped to finish the job as director of photography by Souza, who himself was wounded by the same bullet that fatally struck Hutchins. (The film is dedicated to Hutchins and includes a saying of hers at the end: “What can we do to make this better?”)
For someone not involved in the production, it’s a fool’s errand to try and pick out what’s Hutchins’ work and what’s Cline’s. Instead, let’s celebrate that the overall cinematic life that “Rust” conjures is exceptional. There are widescreen vistas aplenty and fantastic use of shadows throughout the movie.
There’s a stunning bit early on with Lucas at the graves of his parents seen from afar, and Baldwin’s character is a dark, unseen figure in scenes until he introduces himself to both Lucas and the audience. While people riding horses is a frequent trope for the genre, several moments set at dusk or against a cloudy sky deftly capture the movie’s melancholic mood.
There are uncanny echoes of real life in “Rust”: That an errant bullet and an accidental shooting death spur the main plot of the movie is remarkable, and the tale features several characters having to deal with the consequences of their violence. (Souza took out the scene that was the setting for Hutchins’ death.)
Like “The Crow” or “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” “Rust” is a film that’s forever tied to one fatal day. It’s not fair or perfect but finding beauty amid tragedy is something.
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Crossword Blog & Answers for May 1, 2025 by Sally Hoelscher
There are spoilers ahead. You might want to solve today’s puzzle before reading further! TV Sets
Constructor: Michael Berg
Editor: Jared Goudsmit
Comments from Today’s Crossword Constructor
Michael: Happy May Day everyone! In lieu of a maypole dance, I offer you this puzzle. I hope when you finish it you can say to yourself, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.”
What I Learned from Today’s Puzzle
- TATUM (63A: Celtics player Jayson) Jayson TATUM has played basketball for the Boston Celtics since 2025. The Celtics won the NBA Championship last year. Jayson TATUM was also on the gold-medal winning Team USA at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics. Add Jayson TATUM to the sports figures I’ve learned about from solving crosswords.
- KIM CHI (38D: “RuPaul’s Drag Race” contestant named after a Korean dish) KIM CHI competed on the eighth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and was the first Korean American contestant on the show. Although I wasn’t familiar with KIM CHI, the “Korean dish” hint in the clue helped me figure out the answer.
Random Thoughts & Interesting Things
- CACTI (9A: Spiny plants in Joshua Tree National Park) Joshua Tree National Park in southern California encompasses two deserts, the Mojave Desert and the Colorado Desert. As one might expect for a park with a desert ecosystem, there are multiple types of CACTI in the park. One type of cactus in the park is the teddy-bear cholla. Although this cactus looks soft – thus its name – it’s not a good idea to touch it. In one area of the park where there is a high concentration of these CACTI, multiple signs warn, “Unless you are a cactus wren, be careful as you walk the trail not to brush against the cholla cactus. The slightest touch can cause the cactus spines to penetrate your skin. Removing the embedded spines is difficult and painful.” When my husband and I were in Joshua Tree National Park, we definitely heeded these warnings!
- SIR (23A: Lancelot’s title) SIR Lancelot was a knight in Arthurian legend.
- NEURON (25A: Cell with dendrites) NEURONs are the cells that make up the nervous system. These excitable cells use electric signals, conducted through long slender projections known as axons and dendrites, to communicate with other cells. Hooray for science in the crossword!
- TEA (39A: Genmaicha or pekoe) Genmaicha is a Japanese TEA made of green tea mixed with roasted brown rice. Pekoe is a term used in grading black TEA based on the size of the TEA leaves. The term “orange pekoe” is sometimes used as a generic term for black TEA (which, interestingly, is not orange in color or flavor).
- FBI (43A: _ederal _ureau of _nvestigation) In this kind of fill-in-the-blank clue, each blank corresponds to one letter. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice.
- UVA (58A: Charlottesville sch.) The University of Virginia (UVA) is located in Charlottesville, Virginia. UVA alumni include Katie Couric and Tina Fey.
- WARRIOR (2D: Virabhadrasana aka ___ pose) In yoga, WARRIOR pose, also known as Virabhadrasana, refers to a group of standing poses that build strength in the legs, spine, and torso.
- UBER (7D: Rideshare company with a German name) UBER, founded in 2009, is currently the largest ridesharing company worldwide. In German, the word ÜBER has multiple meanings, including “over” or “above.”
- CANOE (9D: Innu boat) The Innu are Indigenous Canadians living in the eastern part of the country in the present-day province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Historically, the CANOE was a principal means of transportation for the Innu.
- CIA (11D: Spy org. in “Argo”) The 2012 movie, Argo, is a historical drama that tells the story of a CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) agent named Tony Mendez (portrayed by Ben Affleck), who led the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Iran under the guise of filming a science fiction movie. Argo was adapted from Tony Mendez’s 1999 memoir, The Master of Disguise, and a 2007 Wired article by Joshuah Bearman titled, “The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran.” Argo won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing.
- TAR (12D: La Brea goop) Hancock Park in Los Angeles, California was formed around the La Brea TAR Pits. For tens of thousands of years, natural asphalt has seeped up from the ground in this area. The TAR preserved the bones of animals unlucky enough to get caught in the pits centuries ago.
- RATATOUILLE (26D: Pixar film with the line “Anyone can cook!”) and EGO (30D: Anton ___ (26-Down critic)) RATATOUILLE is Pixar’s 2007 animated movie about Remy, a rat who possesses a heightened sense of taste and smell, and who dreams of becoming a chef. In the movie, Anton EGO is a cynical food critic.
- NSA (28D: Intelligence org. in the film “Enemy of the State”) Enemy of the State is a 1998 movie starring Will Smith as a lawyer who unsuspectingly ends up in possession of a video exposing the NSA’s (National Security Agency’s) involvement in the murder of a congressman. I notice this puzzle contains FBI, CIA, and NSA … just making an observation.
- SATURN (49D: Rhea’s planet) Rhea is the second-largest moon of SATURN. The number of confirmed moons orbiting SATURN is currently 274, following the recent confirmation of an additional 128 moons.
- OVENS (57D: Tandoors, etc.) and NAAN (60D: Tandoori bread) Tandoors are cylindrical OVENS made of clay or metal. Flatbreads such as NAAN are sometimes baked in tandoors.
- ELMO (61D: Muppet with a pet goldfish) ELMO’s pet goldfish is named Dorothy.
- TAP (63D: Dance like Savion Glover) Savion Glover is a TAP dancer, actor, and choreographer. He won a Tony Award for his choreography of the 1996 Broadway musical, Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk.
- A few other answers I particularly enjoyed seeing in the grid:
- DYNAMO (54A: Energetic person)
- AFFIRMATION (3D: “I am enough,” e.g.)
- DRAGON (36D: Mythical creature associated with Chinese New Year)
Crossword Puzzle Theme Synopsis
- TRIAL VERSION (20A: Demo product)
- TOURIST VISA (40A: World traveler’s document)
- TUNNEL VISION (59A: Single-minded concentration)
TV SETS: Each theme answer has the initials TV: TRIAL VERSION, TOURIST VISA, and TUNNEL VISION.
TV SETS (the kind you can watch shows on) are ubiquitous, so it was fun to see different things that could, theoretically, be referred to as TV SETS. My favorite theme answer here is TUNNEL VISION; that was a great find. Thank you, Michael, for this enjoyable puzzle.
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