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Sharon Horgan, Jay-Z in conversation, and A24’s Backrooms define HBO Max’s September

Some months arrive with a theme; this one arrives with three distinct creative statements. HBO Max's September lineup isn't organized around genre or audience segment — it's built around creators who committed to a position: a writer-performer who pushes her established instinct for discomfort further inward than before; a musician who agreed to excavate three decades of work with the one collaborator who might understand all of it; and a first-time feature director whose debut became the highest-grossing film in A24's history.

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Movies

Special Agent Wayne Strider (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) stands over a suspect in a Delta gun shop in Elegance Bratton's By Any Means (2026).

A Black FBI agent and a Mafia hitman hunt the Klan in Elegance Bratton’s By Any Means

‘Under Salt Marsh’ Season 2 Bets Everything on Rafe Spall’s Detective

Maia Reficco and Fernando Lindez on a boat off the coast of Mallorca in a still from The Last Sunrise

The Last Sunrise on Prime Video: Anna Todd trades the After universe for a Mallorca summer on a clock

Brett Goldstein, creator and star of the Prime Video comedy

Brett Goldstein’s post-Ted Lasso comedy runs on paid intimacy, with Tuc Watkins as a cowboy escort

TV Shows

Cast and jury of Nouvelle École (Rhythm + Flow France) Season 5 in front of a black truck reading SAISON 5 on a Paris street

Rhythm + Flow France Returns August 26 With SCH Gone and Two New Judges Beside SDM

SCH is gone and two newcomers join SDM on the jury of Rhythm + Flow France (Nouvelle École) — and the reshuffle changes the kind of French rap Netflix’s biggest star-making format is betting on. The €100,000 contest returns for a fifth season with weekly episode drops.

Key art for the Brazilian Netflix reality series Mom Knows Best?, premiering 26 August 2026

Mom Knows Best? on Netflix: nine mothers bet on children who don’t know they’re watched

Death of the Pastor’s Wife: Netflix reopens the Mica Miller case still in federal court

Hwang In-youp ends Dream to You as fans name him best second lead

A MiG-21 of the Indian Air Force in a hangar

The Last Salute on Netflix says goodbye to the MiG-21, the jet India called a flying coffin

Sports

Carlos Alcaraz hitting a forehand at the 2025 US Open

Carlos Alcaraz’s US Open Mixed-Doubles Cameo With Serena Williams Exposed Four Months of Rust

Carlos Alcaraz double-faulted on the first point and confessed he had ‘almost forgot how it feels.’ Paired with Serena Williams in the US Open’s glamour mixed doubles, the world No. 3 turned a low-stakes exhibition into a public shakeout of four months of rust — the loss to Bencic and Cobolli was the least of it.

Technology

Comic-style AI illustration of Bill Gates

Bill Gates: “AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice”

Nintendo Reinvented Splatoon as a Looter-Shooter. Players Already Rank It 7th Best Ever

Analysis

Music

Psirico, MC WS and Chelzinho no Beat — Jogando a Rabeta (Pra Paredão) single artwork

Science

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope rendered in space, showing its large solar panel array and near-infrared wide-field instrument

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NFL training facility aerial view showing practice fields and buildings

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