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Netflix calls The Polygamist a supernovela, but the engine underneath is the Latin American telenovela: a melodrama built to end, be resold and be remade. How the format works, how Telemundo and Netflix reshaped it, and why it keeps topping global charts.

Alex Eala let a 4-1 lead slip against Maria Sakkari, then won the rain-broken Hong Kong Open semifinal anyway. It is the second time this season weather has stopped one of her biggest matches, and the second time she came back steadier.

Some American rockers have to cross an ocean before anyone takes them at their word. Elliott Murphy is the textbook case: the New York-born songwriter and novelist has lived in Paris for more than three decades, building show by show the kind of loyal European audience his home country only ever granted him in bursts. Now he is carrying that hard-won faith back across Spain, one of the places where his cult has always run deepest.