Andrew Gruttadaro

It’s probably unfair to nitpick a couple of lines from a collection of 31 songs. I’ll admit that. Taylor Swift’s new double album, The Tortured Poets Department, is more than two hours long, and in that time she says a lot of words—10,663, to be exact. (I got that number by copying and pasting the lyrics of every song into a Google Doc and then clicking “Word Count,” an exercise that, in itself, took about 45 minutes, which is roughly 37 percent of a Taylor Swift double album.) She and Shakespea…

The Jerks Bracket final can be summed up in one image: That’s Shooter McGavin running off with a title that Cartman seemed to have in the bag. And this time, no one’s going to beat the ever-living hell out of Shooter—because this time, he actually won. Ladies and gentlemen, meet your champion jerk. It was an astounding final between two jerks who really separated themselves from the pack over the week. In the final, Cartman opened up early leads on the website, X, and Instagram—but Cartman held…

The first half of Thursday’s two-round jerk extravaganza, the Elite Eight, featured two blowouts and two close matchups. Apparently, nothing is going to stop Shooter McGavin and Cartman. The no. 1 overall seed coming into this Jerk-Off, Shooter has earned that distinction with rout after rout. After cruising through Caillou, White Goodman, and Top Gun’s Iceman with an average of 79 percent of the vote, he kept it going with a 73 percent to 27 percent victory over Office Space’s Bill Lumbergh. Th…

Succession is all about power—who has the most, who can wield it the best, and who is disastrously blinded by it. So, as we did last season, every week during Succession’s fourth and final installment, The Ringer will check in on how the hierarchy at Waystar Royco shifts with each passing episode. Even after Logan made a deal with GoJo (and screwed over his kids), it’s still safe to say everything is in disarray—and to steal a line from another HBO series, chaos can be a ladder. The man took his…

Order was more or less restored in Round 2, but a few Cinderellas remain as the higher seeds begin to clash

If the first round of The Ringer’s Best Pixar Character Bracket is any indication, there is a hierarchy for the toys, animals, superheroes, and waste-compacting bots that inhabit this film universe. At the top, there are the unassailable favorites; the main characters. Below them? Absolute, unsortable chaos. On Monday, the top 12 overall seeds in the bracket all advanced, most without much trouble. (Only the 2-seed Joy was mildly threatened.) But that’s where the chalkiness of Round 1 stopped: O…

Over the past three decades and 25 movies, Pixar has filled its universe with countless unforgettable characters. Ahead of ‘Lightyear,’ it’s time to celebrate them.

With the shareholder vote just days away, Kendall and Logan must set aside their conflict to secure the family’s control over the company

From ‘Ted Lasso’ to ‘Dune’ to ‘Succession,’ everyone is hocking major loogies. Why is this happening? No one knows—but at this point it’s unavoidable.

Fresh off his shocking press conference at the end of Season 2, does Kendall hold all the cards now?