Editor’s note: The below interview contains spoilers for The Pitt Season 2 finale.

With Noah Wyle and R. Scott Gemmill‘s hit HBO medical drama The Pitt reaching its Season 2 finale this week, the thought of the doctors and nurses working this Fourth of July shift finally getting to enjoy some fireworks should be cause for celebration, right? Unfortunately, the season’s final hour, “9:00 P.M.,” doesn’t feel all that festive even once the staff is hanging out on the roof with lawn chairs and beer (except for that delightful mid-credits karaoke scene); everyone’s made it through a brutal gauntlet, and the future only holds more uncertainty.

Nowhere is that precariousness more evident than for Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi) in particular. Last week’s episode saw the new attending pull Dr. Robby (Wyle) aside in the closing minutes to assess the chart of a patient with a seizure disorder — and Robby’s keen eye immediately put two and two together about the patient’s identity: “Baran, is this you?” When the finale picks up where their conversation left off, Al-Hashimi’s admission that she’s had several seizures during today’s shift creates a perfect storm alongside Robby’s inner turmoil, and the resulting conflict spirals into an ultimatum from one doctor to another: if Al-Hashimi doesn’t report her seizures to hospital admin by Monday, Robby will do it for her, upcoming sabbatical be damned.

Ahead of the episode’s premiere, Collider had the opportunity to speak with Moafi about her character’s most pivotal moments in the finale, including when she learned about Al-Hashimi’s seizure disorder, the research she did to accurately portray the character’s seizures throughout Season 2, why Al-Hashimi goes to Robby for his opinion (and why his reaction confirms all her worst fears), which part of that crushing parking lot breakdown scene was left on the cutting room floor, and much more.

COLLIDER: When were you informed that Dr. Al-Hashimi had this seizure disorder?

SEPIDEH MOAFI: I found out right before I tested for the role. I had my initial self-tape that was three scenes, and then they added a scene for my callback. I haven’t tested for anything in person, flown out to LA to do an in-person thing, since 2015. I thought after that Zoom session that they would make their decision. Apparently, for every character, they’ve done a live testing thing, which I love. I love being in the room. So, they brought me to LA, and before that, they added one more scene, and that was a scene where I’m basically describing my condition, talking to Robby, in a casual way. Certainly not the way that you see in Episodes 14 and 15.

I knew early on. I did double-check with [creator R. Scott Gemmill] at the beginning of the season to make sure that that was still what we were playing, and that that last moment with the baby at the end of Episode 1 was indeed a seizure. When I got confirmation, then I knew how to work my way backwards from that final moment where I didn’t know what it would look like, but I knew there would be a reveal somewhere later in the season, and I understood how to pace myself throughout the season.

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“The thing that matters to me the most is the accuracy…”

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How much research did you personally do about the types of seizures that she’s having so that you could bring the necessary physicality to it?

MOAFI: A lot, a lot, a lot. The thing that matters to me the most is the accuracy, and I’m grateful that the show also places importance on medical accuracy, but for me, it’s doing right by a community. A lot of people don’t even realize what’s happening or the struggles that people who suffer from this condition, what they manage and have to navigate. I spoke to epileptologists. I spoke to the doctors that we have available to us. I spoke to every doctor that I knew, basically, and then also talked to specialty doctors. I had them send me medical journals about how these patients’ symptoms manifest. I watched videos of children seizing, of adults talking about their experiences with seizures or how they evolved throughout their lives. I listened to and read a lot of interviews with people who are talking about not just the event itself, not just the seizures themselves, but the fear and the moments leading up to them. It was a lot of collecting, hunting, gathering information.

As with most aspects of this character, you fill the tank, and then you put the walls up, and you hide. The seizures are so subtle. You’ll see people in real life who, when it’s happening, they’ll be in conversation just naturally, and then all of a sudden, they’ll kind of look off to the side. They’re still blinking. It’s like what Samira was saying to Doctor Al-Hashimi in the first episode, like, “Dr. Al, is everything okay?” It’s not like she’s staring off into space and looks like a zombie or something. She looks like she’s living and breathing. Unless you know what is happening, that it can be a seizure, you wouldn’t know.

The subtlety is everything with this. Every movement of the eye and how she’s coming out, and the blinking, it’s so subtle. I was on our doctors about, “If you don’t believe even a second of this, you have to tell me because it’s so important for me to get this right.” And it’s scary. It’s scary to do and go through that whole… The last three episodes for me were very intense. Very emotional.

There’s something interesting about the fact that Al-Hashimi goes to Robby with this. Is it doctor-to-doctor, “I need a different set of eyes on this, someone else to look at this that isn’t me”? Does she feel like she can be more honest with him at this point in the shift?

MOAFI: I think it’s all the reasons that you said. Most important is, in order to get closer to someone, you reveal part of yourself to someone. From the very beginning, they have been fascinated with each other. They recognize how talented and committed and devoted they are to the practice and to delivering the best care for patients and being the best doctors they can be with their respective backgrounds. They’re cut from the same cloth.

I think she is scared. She’s hid her whole life, her entire career, and there is part of her who thinks that maybe Robby has a genius intuition. Maybe he has some insight. “I do need an outside perspective,” she says. But more than the outside perspective, I think that she hopes that it will bring them closer and that he will humanize her a little bit. Because he’s been pretty dismissive of her, and yet it’s clear he admires her in ways, and it’s clear she admires him in ways. It’s kind of an opportunity to get them aligned with something, and get them on the same page.

It goes south. It’s not the outcome I think she hoped for, but I think it is a desperate attempt at being closer in some way. And she does hide in ways, but she doesn’t shy away from confrontation or from pain or difficulty, and she’s noticing she spent the last two hours hiding from him, basically, and she doesn’t recognize herself. She’s like, “What is this? I can’t lead by example if I’m hiding, and that’s the example that I’m setting.”

There’s something beautiful and kind of antithetical to the way that Robby deals with his trauma, which is that he continues to remove himself and withdraw. She recognizes this human impulse to withdraw, and something that’s very natural in a case like this, but it’s the childlike instinct to go and hide. Then the adult steps in, and she’s like, “No. You have to step up. You have to confront what is happening with you. This is an opportunity to express and embody vulnerability by example, and leadership with vulnerability.”

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“There were variations, but it stayed at that level, 12 out of 10 intensity, for every take we did…”

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The first time they talk about her seizures, Robby’s getting pulled in a million different directions, and there are people interrupting them, so it’s not really resolved. The second conversation has a very different tenor than the first. At any point, were there off-script moments where you were improvising in the fight, or was that all written?

MOAFI: It was scripted as a confrontation, but the first time we read through it, and we walked through it, it got so intense and so heated to the point where the crew started clapping. So what you see on camera in the reactions was genuinely everybody being like, “What the fuck is happening in there?” And after that first rehearsal, Noah and I just hugged each other like, “I love you. I’m sorry.” There were many takes, and I haven’t seen the episode yet, so I don’t know which take was used, but she’s trying to keep the conversation private and bring him into the room, but then the fucking switch flips, and he’s yet again undermining her, undercutting her. So that’s what flips in that moment, in the scene, and takes it into a really intense, dark direction.

We didn’t know that it would get that heated, but it did, and it stayed there. There were variations, but it stayed at that level, 12 out of 10 intensity, for every take we did, which was, in a way, also kind of cathartic, as the character, because she’s zipped up so much all season and he’s been so condescending. He’s cut her down in so many different ways, and to finally be able to just let it rip, to not be so concerned about being seen as a hysterical woman or whatever. I think a lot of women hold that fear of, like, you have to contain your emotions, or else people aren’t going to take you seriously, or they’re going to discredit you as being overly emotional or hysterical, and she spent her whole career doing that.

That wasn’t just a climax of the day, it was a climax of her career, of, “How much fucking harder do I have to work? How much more perfect do I have to be?” She is terrifyingly high-achieving, and that’s not enough. It’s never enough. She can’t be human. She can’t be flawed, but everyone else can, which is why the whole Langdon thing also sets her off. It’s like, “You were going to cover for him, but I’ve been validated by neurology that it’s okay for me to be here, and you were threatening me still?” It is crazy. It makes my blood boil when I think about it.

There’s that ultimatum that Robby leaves the conversation with, which is essentially, “If you don’t go to hospital admin about this, I’m going to do it for you.” The last scene that you have after that hits me every time I watch it, in the parking lot. Al-Hashimi gets in the car and only gets as far as backing out of the spot before breaking down. I’m curious about how you wanted to approach that scene with the deeper emotions that are at play for her.

MOAFI: So many emotions. Actually, prior to that emotional climax, there was a scripted portion. Because I think she’s acting out of character. It’s out of character for her to be confronted about something and run away and hide, as she did for an hour and a half or two hours. It’s out of character for her to know that she seized twice in the day and get behind the wheel. And I think part of that is reclaiming her own power and agency, and like, “Fuck you. You can’t tell me what to do.” Getting behind the wheel, she stops, and she realizes, or she has this image of driving her son, and that is what makes her think, “What am I doing?”

The part that didn’t end up in the edit was that she calls her ex-husband, and, basically pretending everything’s okay, she says, “Is it possible for him to stay overnight? I have some car troubles.” She is stifling tears as he says, “Do you need me to pick you up?” There’s a moment where she’s desperate to ask for help, and she cannot. She doesn’t trust anyone. Part of that is these paranoias that we carry throughout our lives from childhood: If I reveal this part of myself, then I will not be loved, then I will not be accepted, then I will be shunned, then I will be betrayed. She wants to say, “Yes, I need you,” and she cannot. Part of that is connected to Robby. He’s proof that if you show some of who you are, you will not be accepted. So, she gets off the phone with him and has that sort of meltdown, the breakdown.

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There’s a lot in that. It’s that you’ve worked so hard to uphold this exterior of competence and diligence and proficiency and intelligence and compassion, and all of these things that she is, and yet what’s inside is this five-year-old girl who feels cold hands on her back from a spinal tap, a five-year-old girl who’s seeing her mother sob while she’s on the hospital bed, and that never leaves your body. That experience of being that little girl who is sick, who is a burden, who is not good enough, who is seen in her father’s eyes as special needs because of it, and fighting that your whole life, and 35 years later, that fight means nothing because somebody who doesn’t like you or who feels threatened by you can just take it all away.

It’s not just her own personal frustrations and grief. It’s systemic frustrations and grief that, “No matter what, I am trapped in this container, and no matter how good I am, no matter how hard I work, no matter how much I prove myself repeatedly, there is always a way for somebody to undercut me and try to get me down.” There’s this saying of “I’ll let it spoil my dinner, but not my breakfast,” and I think this is, “I’ll let it spoil my week, but not my life.” I think this is much more consequential and heavy than anything she might have experienced personally in this way. Of course, she’s experienced grief and all of that, but just feeling sorry for herself in this way, she doesn’t give herself that time. But this is a moment of true grief for everything that you’ve worked for, and somebody just threatening you, and knowing that these are impossible hurdles to overcome. She will continue to fight and continue to overcome hurdles, but in this moment, it’s just a pure unraveling of the soul and self.

‘The Pitt’s Sepideh Moafi Discusses Her Future on the Show

“Do you resolve, do you keep that tension and the suspension alive for an episode, or for a season?”

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This season, so many of the doctors are being put through the wringer. Looking at the fireworks, it should be a moment of celebration, but it feels like they’ve all gone through this gauntlet, your character included. I know that there’s probably nothing you can tell me about what the future has in store for Al-Hashimi at this point, but given where Season 2 leaves her, do you hope that there’s more to come for her?

MOAFI: I don’t know what’s going to happen. I don’t know what they have planned. I think they’re in the writers’ room now discussing that. I don’t know what’s in store for her next season. I’m very curious. I haven’t seen it, but based on the scripts and based on what I did on set, what we captured, nothing is resolved, so how do you pick up from that? Do you resolve, do you keep that tension and the suspension alive for an episode, or for a season? Who knows?

With everybody, and with Robby, everything is just so up in the air. Personally, I would love to see how that dynamic continues to evolve and move forward, potentially, in another season. Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to share your insight on this episode, because it’s such a great one for your character. Honestly, it makes you look back on the whole season and changes your whole perspective of everything that we’ve seen leading up to that point.

MOAFI: That’s so cool. It’s cool from a character perspective, and I think it’s so gratifying from an artist’s perspective because it does the thing that I love more than anything about acting, which is you shatter people’s perceptions or expectations. You think you know someone on the surface, and we’re so quick to judge, and when you just scratch past the surface, you realize, “I don’t know anything.” Even your partner or your mother or your sister or your best friend, we don’t know what’s happening inside.

To have an arc like Dr. Al-Hashimi’s, where, in the beginning, everybody was so quick to judge, and everybody was so quick to be like, “Oh, I know that person. I’ve seen that person. I’ve dealt with that person,” and then see what it takes, actually. Instead of starting from the beginning with her condition and then working our way up to this hard exterior, it’s the opposite, which is deeply humanizing, and should be a reminder for us that this is how we should relate to everyone that we encounter — the grumpy coffee shop worker or the grumpy teacher, or the grumpy parent, or whatever. Something is going on, and it’s rooted so deeply inside of each person. Hopefully, that can help us be a little bit more compassionate and understanding of one another.

Both seasons of The Pitt are available to stream on HBO Max.

G Herbo has the ladies saying if men don’t come with the same energy he gives Taina Williams, they don’t want it! Taina dropped some fresh vacation flicks from her birthday trip on social media, and fans are living for Herb’s reaction to the flicks.

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G Herbo Goes Viral After Dropping THIS Comment Under Taina Williams’ Vacation Flicks

Recently, Taina Williams shared new photos from her birthday trip to the Dominican Republic on Instagram. She celebrated her special day with a full-on tropical getaway alongside her close friends and fiancé G Herbo. In the new carousel, Taina gives her followers a look at what went down in the DR. The slideshow also included some baecation moments with her and Herb, showing them looking cozy in the pool. Another shot shows him carrying her on his shoulders.

Herb ended up peeping the pics and slid straight into Taina’s comments, saying he loves when she pops off on him and still posts him on social media anyway. “When you curse me out then post me I be happy.” That one comment had fans living for his energy, saying they enjoy seeing him love her out loud. Then he dropped another comment saying he’s ready for them to run it back and take another trip soon. “I think we should go back somewhere like in 2 week f**k it.” 

The TL Is Lovin’ G Herbo’s Energy For Taina

After The Shade Room shared Tain’s photos and Herb’s response, the comment section was filled with heart-eye emojis. Some folks said they love seeing them together, while others said they’re manifesting this type of love.

Instagram user @only1calib wrote, “I love this kind of love 😍” 

Instagram user @_themarriedmom wrote, “She is naturally gorgeous😍” 

While Instagram user @myanicolee___ wrote, “I like them together ❤️” 

Then Instagram user @beautiful_lexi_ wrote, “I love that he said he wanted to do better and did better ❤️” 

Another Instagram user @ricorecklezz075 wrote, “🙌🔥🔥🔥dat man doin his thang n we proud of em.” 

Instagram user @jessgabriellea wrote, “Herb love his wife OUT LOUD 😍” 

Then another Instagram user @kellenmarcus wrote, “Ima tell my kids this was Will and Jada in college 😂” 

Finally, Instagram user @iamdonjuan wrote, “I love both them together…. Let it last forever.” 

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Tain and G Herbo have taken over the internet with baecation photos and moments from their trip to the DR. Most recently, Herb had timelines on lock when Taina dropped pics of them locking lips. Fans couldn’t miss her engagement ring, but they still peeped Herb’s fresh face tattoo — Taina’s name sitting right by his sideburn. The ink had folks saying he’s deep in his lover boy era and standing ten toes down behind queen, period!

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A 3-year-old boy, Armani Deshawn Lyons, was in the care of his babysitter, Barbara Edwards, when a fatal shooting took his life on April 5, Easter Sunday. Reports say authorities have charged Edwards in connection to Lyons’ shooting and took her into custody, while a second suspect reportedly remains at large.

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Babysitter Faces Charges After 3-Year-Old Child Is Fatally Shot

Officers responded to a call about a shooting around 12:37 a.m. on April 5 near the 900 block of Washington Street SW in Atlanta, Georgia, according to PEOPLE. When they arrived, they found a young boy suffering from a gunshot wound. Paramedics rushed the child to the hospital, but doctors later pronounced him dead after he suffered a gunshot wound to the head.

CBS Atlanta identified the child as Armani Deshawn Lyons. At the time of the shooting, Armani was allegedly with his babysitter Barbara Edwards. Homicide investigators later established probable cause and secured arrest warrants for Edwards and 35-year-old Jermaine Hardeman, who authorities believe remains the second suspect at large.

More About Barbara’s Charges & What’s Next For Her?

CBS News notes that the investigation remains ongoing. However, authorities have reportedly charged Barbara Edwards and Jermaine Hardeman with murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and cruelty to children in the second degree. Officers took Edwards into custody on April 13 after responding to a home on Landrum Drive. Per reports, Hardeman has not yet entered custody.

Armani’s Mother Speaks Out After His Tragic Passing

Following Armani’s death, his mother reacted his tragic passing. She said it breaks her heart to know she will never see him again.

“I’m not gonna see him again. No more laughing. No more playing. No more nothing.”

Additionally, an alleged GoFundMe for Armani shares that he was full of life and would’ve been celebrating his fourth birthday on May 3. “Our hearts are completely broken… Armani was full of life, joy, and innocence. No family is ever prepared for a loss like this,” the GoFundMe statement read.

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Kristin Cabot has revealed where she stands with Coldplay’s Chris Martin after she was caught in an awkward position with her then-boss, Andy Byron, on a kiss cam at the singer’s concert.

The former Astronomer HR executive has been speaking out about the fallout and how she is working to rebuild her public image.

In recent appearances, Kristin Cabot has reflected on the intense online attention that followed the incident and says much of the context around her personal life was misunderstood.

Kristin Cabot Says Chris Martin Never ‘Reached Out’ To Her, But It’ll Be ‘Great’ If He Did

Cabot, the former Astronomer HR executive at the center of last year’s viral Coldplay “kiss cam” moment, says she is distancing herself from the incident and the singer who put her in the spotlight.

While speaking with TMZ after her appearance at the PRWeek Crisis Communications Conference in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Cabot reflected on the fallout from the moment that showed her alongside her then-boss, former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron, during a Coldplay concert.

She noted that despite the attention the clip received, she was never contacted by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin about how she was doing.

When asked if the singer “reached out” to her, Cabot responded with a sharp, “Nope, No, Never did,” adding that it would be “great” and she would appreciate it if he did.

The Former HR Chief Says She Will Never Attend A Coldplay Concert Again

Cabot also didn’t mince words when asked if she would ever attend another Coldplay concert.

“Uhm, no,” she said, before seeking clarification on the question by asking, “Coldplay or any concert?”

This prompted her to reiterate her stance that she would specifically never go to another show by the brand: “No, I’m all set.”

Her viral moment with her former boss, Byron, happened at the singer’s music event, during a special moment highlighting fans on the Jumbotron.

This triggered widespread attention and criticism online, leading Cabot to later frame her public response around reclaiming control of her story.

She is currently headlining talks about “Taking Back The Narrative,” focusing on reputational recovery after digital backlash.

Cabot has also maintained that her personal circumstances were more complex than online reactions suggested, stating that her estranged husband was already aware of her relationship with Byron at the time of the kiss cam incident.

Kristin Cabot Called Out Her Former Boss, Andy Byron, For Lying To Her About His Marital Situation

In earlier comments shared with Oprah Winfrey, Cabot said she felt Byron had not been truthful about his marital status, claiming she believed he was going through a separation at the time they knew each other.

“He wasn’t the person he represented himself to be, to me — and lying is a non-negotiable for me,” she said, adding that she felt there was a “big miss on honesty and integrity.”

Cabot also revealed that she herself was already in the process of ending her marriage during that period, and said she eventually cut off all contact with Byron.

She argued that the situation later spiraled online in ways that far exceeded its original context, blaming social media platforms for turning private moments into viral content that generates profit while leaving individuals to deal with the fallout.

Pressed by Winfrey to clarify what she meant by dishonesty, Cabot declined to go into detail. “I wanna be really careful, because the world spoke for me and on my behalf, and I don’t wanna do that to somebody else and their family,” she said.

The Ex-HR Chief Raises Concerns Over Social Media Impact As Andy Byron Remains Silent

Cabot’s remarks to Oprah about Byron lying to her marked the first time she had ever made such an allegation against the former tech executive, despite breaking her silence on the matter in two major interviews with The New York Times and The Times of London back in December.

She also spoke about the wider impact of viral attention during her chat with Oprah, saying platforms like TikTok “feed off the pain” of people’s distress, while pointing to how the moment drew over a billion views.

According to Cabot, “The more pain someone like me is in, the more money they are going to make. And it fuels it and feeds it. I think there is an accountability there that needs to be looked at.”

Meanwhile, Byron has not publicly responded to the viral “kiss cam” incident. Following the event, he was later spotted with his wife still wearing his wedding ring, hinting that they were working on fixing their marriage.

Kristin Cabot Recalls Unexpected Near-Encounter With Her Estranged Husband During Coldplay Concert

Cabot revealed that an unexpected near-encounter with her estranged husband, Andrew Cabot, almost took place during the viral Coldplay concert in July 2025, confirming that he was present at the show.

She told Winfrey that as she arrived at the venue, she received a message from her daughter mentioning that both she and Andrew were at the same show.

“My daughter messaged me and said, ‘Oh, it’s so great that you and Andrew are both at Coldplay,” Cabot explained, adding that she hadn’t been aware her husband was also attending.

She said the realization briefly made her consider whether she might run into him while she was there with Byron.

“In my mind, I thought, well, that’s — is this going to be weird if he sees me with Andy [Byron]? Like … if I run into him,” she recalled. “But then I was like, I’m in Gillette Stadium, there’s 55,000 people here, I’m probably not going to run into him.”

Looking back, she added that “That would have been better at the end of the day if I’d just run into him.”

Netflix clearly knew it had something gloriously ridiculous on its hands with Thrash, and instead of playing it safe, the streamer went full chaos. The new shark-infested disaster movie has exploded straight out of the gate, debuting as Netflix’s No. 1 movie with 37.7 million views in its first tracking week. It’s the biggest film on the platform right now and has become one of the service’s strongest film launches of the year. That kind of start already would’ve been enough to make Thrash feel like a streaming event, but Netflix didn’t stop at the numbers. It built an entire shark-frenzy moment around the movie and basically turned the launch into its own mini-cultural phenomenon.

If you’re not informed on the sheer wonder that is Thrash, let us fill you in. Directed by Tommy Wirkola, Thrash stars Bridgerton breakout Phoebe Dynevor as Lisa, an expectant mother trapped in a flooded coastal town as a Category 5 hurricane brings rising water and hungry sharks at the worst possible moment. Yes, imagine being on the brink of giving birth, trapped on your way out of town, and stranded right in the path of a pack of bull sharks looking for their next meal.

The film also stars Whitney Peak and Djimon Hounsou, and Netflix pitched it in the simplest possible terms: if the storm doesn’t kill you, the sharks will. That’s the kind of hook that lands perfectly with viewers who want something fun, exciting, and thrilling that doesn’t ask audiences to overthink its premise. It begs the question: how would I survive a flooded town full of sharks while pregnant? We don’t know the answer to that, but it’s fun to think about.

When you have a movie that demands attention, Netflix churning the waters ahead of time primed Thrash for a blockbuster debut. The trailer arrived with a creepy spin on “Baby Shark,” and the streamer followed that with eye-catching stunt marketing that placed remote-controlled shark fins in waterways, including the Chicago River and the San Antonio River Walk, prompting enough confusion online that Instagram reportedly had to clarify the footage was not AI. That’s very good publicity, because it gets people asking who was crazy enough to do that?! And there are plenty of interesting social clips to watch. Top “viral” videos included @kyliecreativity (TikTok – 11.6M views), @siempresantonio (Instagram Reels – 5.1M views), @offairjake (TikTok – 4.8M views), @stickaforkinme (Instagram Reels – 3.6M views), and @visitsanantonio (Instagram Reels – 3M views).

Netflix went above and beyond for Thrash, calling upon real sharks and researchers at the Bimini Shark Conservation Lab in The Bahamas to blend the film’s thrilling horror elements while raising awareness of climate change’s impact on humans and sharks alike. Sensing your shark cravings, Netflix has also dropped a new collection titled “Shaaark!” spotlighting titles like Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3, Under Paris, Shark Whisperer, and All the Sharks. Between the chart-topping debut and the full-blown shark branding blitz, Thrash just swallowed Netflix whole.

Thrash is streaming on Netflix now.

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Billy Ray Cyrus is explaining why he performed or worked for presidents of both the Republican and Democratic parties.

“My dad was a Democrat and served in the Kentucky legislature for over 20 years. But my dad always said, ‘When the president asks you to do something, you do it, son,’” Cyrus, 64, told Sky News in an interview on Tuesday, April 14. “So I’ve had both democratic and republican presidents. Served with Bill Clinton, with President [Barack] Obama, Mr. [George W.] Bush, Mr. Bush’s dad [George H.W. Bush] and Mr. [Donald] Trump.”

He continued, “Being president’s a tough job. I pray for our country. I pray for our president and I pray for our world.”

Cyrus made headlines in 2025 when he headlined the Liberty Ball, which was one of the celebratory parties in honor of Trump taking office again. After facing technical difficulties, Cyrus concluded his set with an acoustic rendition of his 1992 track “Achy Breaky Heart.”

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“Check? Is anybody awake? Y’all want me to sing more or you want me to just get the hell off the stage?” he said during the broadcast. “In life, when you have technical difficulties, you just gotta keep going. Or as President Trump would say, ‘You gotta fight.’”

One day after the performance, Cyrus defended his decision to participate in the event.

“I wouldn’t have missed the honor of playing this event whether my microphone, guitar and monitors worked or not,” he said in a statement to People at the time. “I was there because President Donald J. Trump invited me. I had a ball at the Liberty Ball last night.”

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He added, “I’ve learned through all these years when the producer says, ‘You’re on,’ you go entertain the folks even if the equipment goes to hell. I was there for the people and we had a blast. That’s called rock n roll!!!”

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Cyrus was not the only performer at the inauguration events, with Carrie Underwood, Christopher Macchio, Lee Greenwood, Jason Aldean, Gavin DeGraw, Rascal Flatts, Parker McCollum, Kid Rock, the Village People and the Liberty University Praise Choir also taking the stage.

“This was the most fun part of the Liberty Ball! And if you didn’t see it … you just had to be there,” Cyrus wrote via Instagram at the time, sharing footage from Fox News’ broadcast of the event and quoting his song “Achy Breaky Heart,” adding, “‘I just don’t think you understand.’”

A miniseries is a perfect kind of viewing: you can binge-watch it within a day, and you don’t have to wait for another season after the first one ends on a cliffhanger. It’s a standalone story that satisfies the craving for a long watch, but finding the perfect show for the entire group is the most challenging part.

If you’re not interested in watching some of the well-known and raved-about miniseries but would rather dive into something a little more obscure but still good quality, here are the stellar miniseries that are 10/10, but no one remembers today. For fans of some long-forgotten and buried content, this list could help extend your watchlist.

‘The Escape Artist’ (2013)

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It’s rare for David Tennant to pick a bad show, and The Escape Artist is just one more proof of that. This three-part BBC miniseries is a perfect crime thriller gem that stars Tennant as a tenacious, vulnerable defense attorney and Toby Kebbell as a vicious, chilling villain. With only three episodes, it seems overly short, but each episode is presented as a different genre, keeping viewers glued to the screen; it runs like a longer feature film, combining everything from thriller and horror to character drama and tragedy.

The Escape Artist follows Will Burton (Tennant), a brilliant barrister who specializes in defending the accused and has never lost a case. However, after he successfully acquits a charismatic sociopath named Liam Foyle (Kebbell), Foyle becomes obsessed with him, launching a psychological terror campaign against Burton’s family, culminating in a second murder trial—this time with Burton as the accused. The show is a suspenseful legal thriller that was potentially forgotten because of a fairly generic title but is definitely worth a watch—a forgotten classic that deserves to be rediscovered.

‘The Good Lord Bird’ (2020)

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The Good Lord Bird is one of Showtime’s most brilliant and overlooked series; in fact, many people have probably never heard of it until now. Fans of Westerns and/or Ethan Hawke will have the time of their life with this seven-episode series based on history, and its 98% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes further proves the show’s worth. Even if you’re not too keen on Hawke, this show will make you a fan; he delivers a career-best performance in a series he also created and produced. The Good Lord Bird doesn’t fall into the trap of being a dry history lesson, rather embracing a mischievous, quirky, and strange energy that makes a 19th-century story feel urgent and alive.

The Good Lord Bird is told from the point of view of Henry “Onion” Shackleford (Joshua Caleb Johnson), a fictional enslaved boy and follows him meeting the radical abolitionist John Brown (Hawke) in the years leading up to the American Civil War. After a chance encounter, Onion is swept into Brown’s eccentric and violent crusade against slavery, from the “Bleeding Kansas” conflict to Brown’s legendary attack on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. The Good Lord Bird was released at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and suffered from a lack of publicity, preventing it from becoming the lockdown hit it deserved to be. The series was largely overlooked and faded from the cultural conversation, but its rave reviews are justified and make watching it worthwhile.

‘Show Me a Hero’ (2015)

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If you like The Wire or anything that David Simon created, you’ll love the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero with Oscar Isaac in the lead. It feels like a masterclass of socially conscious storytelling, and it was based on a true story about the youngest mayor ever elected in New York. Isaac delivers a layered performance as the troubled mayor, bringing to life a story about a big moment in American history that’s rarely been heard of before this miniseries. Show Me a Hero is an empathetic and frustrating portrait of a system in crisis, and it has a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Show Me a Hero is a six-episode miniseries about Nick Wasicsko (Isaac), the youngest mayor elected in Yonkers, New York, in 1987. When a federal judge orders the predominantly white, middle-class city to construct 200 units of public housing on its east side as a desegregation measure, it ignites a political firestorm. Despite Wasicsko being elected on a platform that opposed the plan, he finds himself supporting it and struggles to balance his relationships with politicians and the public. Despite being an HBO production with a major star and a cult creator, Show Me a Hero is vastly underrated. Aside from Isaac, the incredible ensemble cast includes Alfred Molina, Catherine Keener, Winona Ryder, and Jon Bernthal.

‘Catch-22’ (2019)

Joseph Heller‘s seminal novel Catch-22 may have felt impossible to put to the screen until Hulu created a miniseries based on it. The iconic characters of John Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, and Doc Daneeka were brought to life in this darkly comical and visually stunning masterpiece; unlike the 1970 feature film starring Alan Arkin, the series does a better job of encapsulating some of Yossarian’s most important moments, including the feeling of being stuck in the “catch-22” situation. Nothing can fully depict how it feels to read Heller’s novel, but this series complements it beautifully.

Catch-22 has six episodes that follow Capt. John Yossarian (Christopher Abbott), a WWII US Air Force bombardier who doesn’t want to be a part of the war at all. He is trapped by the infamous “catch-22”: a soldier can be grounded for insanity, but asking to be grounded for insanity proves he’s sane enough to understand his mental health, so he has to keep flying. As his missions become more dangerous and the bureaucracy more absurd, Yossarian must find a way to survive in his increasingly maddening surroundings. The cast is stacked with stars, including George Clooney, who executive produced the series; critics praised it for being an “almost perfect series,” capturing both the humor and the tragedy of Catch-22. For unknown reasons, the show remains swimming in a sea of underrated series, but fish it out and give it a try—you’ll love it.

‘The Honourable Woman’ (2014)

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Those who’ve seen The Honourable Woman with Maggie Gyllenhaal probably remember it in a fairly fresh and positive light—it was made during a decade defined by intense political series, and it feels just as relevant some twelve years later. Written and directed entirely by Hugo Blick, The Honourable Woman is a dense slow burn that captivates the attention easily. Blick, in an interview for the BBC said, “To a backdrop of the seemingly irreconcilable, this is a story about personal reconciliation,” adding that he is “certainly not offering any actual, specific answers to such a complex and emotionally provocative issue.” Using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a backdrop for a story of personal struggle feels like Blick just couldn’t win, which may be why the show was sent to the back of the TV schedule after airing.

The Honourable Woman follows Nessa Stein (Gyllenhaal), the daughter of a murdered Jewish arms dealer who has reinvented her father’s company into a telecommunications empire dedicated to connecting Israel and Palestine. As she navigates the sensitive politics of the Middle East, she is kidnapped, and in the aftermath unravels a conspiracy involving several intelligence agencies and her own family’s dark secrets. The story jumps between present-day negotiations and flashbacks to her childhood and the kidnapping, slowly revealing what really happened. Gyllenhaal won a Golden Globe for this performance, and critics called the show “most satisfying” and “intricate.”

‘Bodies’ (2023)

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Bodies is one of Netflix’s most ingenious sci-fi thrillers, but it went as quietly as it came. Based on a graphic novel by Si Spencer, Bodies is a masterclass in complex storytelling. It depicts different timelines with a distinct tone and aesthetic, yet they all feel cohesive and connected to follow the story’s unusual thread. The show respects its audience’s intelligence, rewarding close attention with dozens of “aha” moments. The cast is uniformly excellent, with Stephen Graham delivering a chilling performance (as always). Bodies is the kind of miniseries that demands an immediate rewatch.

Bodies follows four detectives in four different time periods—1890, 1941, 2023, and 2053—as they discover the same dead body on Whitechapel Street. As they investigate, they discover a centuries-long conspiracy that connects them to each other. They can’t see how and why they are connected, but going toward the solution turns out to also mean preventing a dystopian future. Bodies never really cracked the top 10 for longer than a week, but word of mouth still keeps it on the top for dedicated mystery fans. Interestingly, the four detectives seem to represent four different genres: Victorian Gothic, wartime noir, modern police procedural, and sci-fi thriller, giving the series a very interesting shift from episode to episode.

‘The Lost Room’ (2006)

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The Lost Room is a cult phenomenon that never went beyond its few episodes, despite devoted fans begging for a revival for so many years later. The Lost Room has exceptional world-building that focuses on things called Objects, which all have a specific, consistent power. The show’s creator, Christopher Leone, co-created the show with the idea of everyday objects possessing supernatural powers, and reviewer David Yates interestingly connects its lore with the origins of creepypasta in his review of the show.

The Lost Room follows detective Joe Miller (Peter Krause), whose young daughter disappears while he’s investigating a mystery. He discovers that Room 10 of the Sunshine Motel exists outside normal space and time and that the room’s ordinary objects possess impossible powers. Joe must find a way to get his daughter back before a secret society of collectors, who hunt these everyday objects, find him and stop him. The Lost Room is a SyFy original, and while it’s rarely available to watch today, it remains a word-of-mouth sci-fi legend that deserves another chance 20 years later.

‘ZeroZeroZero’ (2019–2020)

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ZeroZeroZero was based on Roberto Saviano‘s nonfiction book, the same author whose novel inspired the critically acclaimed series Gomorrah. It’s an operatic, globe-spanning masterpiece with a 94% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus calling it “an addictive thriller whose greatest weakness is that it is at times too withholding.” The series was shot in five countries across the globe and stars Gabriel Byrne, Andrea Riseborough, and Dane DeHaan as the Lynwood family; they give brilliant, career-best performances, together with a sprawling international cast. ZeroZeroZero is a nihilistic, stunningly shot crime epic that will stick with you long after watching it.

ZeroZeroZero opens with the leader of the Calabrian mafia ordering a single massive shipment of cocaine—5,000 kilos of the purest grade (000). The series follows this cargo as it travels across three continents and three overlapping perspectives: the corrupt Mexican cartel that makes it, the Italian syndicate that distributes it, and the Lynwood family, a fading American shipping dynasty from New Orleans that serves as the deal’s broker. As the shipment travels from Monterrey across the Atlantic, the story unfolds in a non-linear fashion, jumping between timelines and continents, forcing viewers to piece together the complete picture through the world’s grim, vicious, and devastating underbelly. ZeroZeroZero got lost in the shuffle of the streaming wars, and despite its massive budget and a cast of major stars, it failed to reach mainstream audiences—but it’s worth the time.

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Sometimes the terror inked from the pen of Stephen King strays from supernatural horror and personifies the worst in human nature. When the legendary author published Misery in 1987, he not only introduced readers to the human monster Annie Wilkes but also proved himself to be a sort of unwitting prophet.

The novel, and the 1990 film adaptation that followed, were grim predictors of fan behavior in the coming digital age. King’s work was a forerunner of what some social scientists refer to as “toxic fandom,” playing out on the page and on screen with chilling accuracy.

Toxic Fandom Depicted In Misery

For those who need a refresher, Misery follows romance novelist Paul Sheldon as he finishes the manuscript for what he hopes will be his first success in another genre. Shortly after leaving the remote mountain cabin where he was working, he loses control of his car on an icy road and crashes. He is rescued by the reclusive Annie Wilkes, who pulls his unconscious body to safety and takes him to her nearby house to recover. With a snowstorm closing off the area, Paul is stranded with Wilkes as she nurses him back to health. She reveals that she knows who he is and proclaims herself his “number one fan.” But when the final book in his romance series is read by Wilkes, her treatment of her snowbound patient takes a dark and twisted turn.

Annie flies into a mad rage when the principal character of the series dies at the end. During a long rant at his bedside, she tells the writer that no one knows he is there and that he is stuck with her. Determined that the latest romance novel will not be the final entry, Annie forces Paul to write a new installment featuring the same main character (aptly named Misery Chastain), while also coercing him into burning the only copy of his new manuscript.

Destroying A Life Is Fair Game

Annie’s treatment of her captive author turns savage quickly. She withholds pain medication as punishment and breaks both of his ankles with a sledgehammer in an act she refers to as “hobbling.” In the novel, her punishment is much more brutal and irreversable. As the story progresses, Paul discovers he is being held prisoner by a former nurse whose license was revoked after the deaths of infants in a local hospital.

No spoilers on the ending here. But what can be gleaned from Annie’s attitude and actions seems to mirror, symbolically anyway, the toxic fandom culture that exists across multiple forms of media and is prevalent in film franchises and the music industry. A rabid fan feels disenfranchised by the direction their beloved book series has taken and decides to assert herself to change the artist’s mind.

In the days before social media, Annie took a literal hands-on approach to fulfill this ideology, with devastating consequences. In the book and the film, the toxic fan is the maniac with the sledgehammer (or axe) and fairly easy to identify. But how do you recognize toxic fandom in today’s real world when you see it?

Toxic Fandom Could Be Cured By Touching Grass

Very Well Mind defines toxic fandom as a group of fans who “work to display negative and harmful behaviors, often online,” which often leads to targeted harassment of other fans, creators, and studios. While many fans consider their love and devotion to a particular film franchise or entertainer part of their identity, a toxic fan base dedicates itself to bullying others, mostly online, in an attempt to accomplish one of two things: assert authority over others and/or change the direction of the creator’s intent.

The last decade has been full of stories about the subset of Taylor Swift followers that turn toxic. Likewise, the worst offenders who have dedicated their adult lives to the Star Wars franchise reared their ugly heads immediately after the 2017 release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, taking bullying and harassment to new levels.

Some toxic fans, angered by the film, launched petitions to have the installment removed from the official Star Wars canon, arguing that it ruined earlier entries. Others demanded a total do-over. But the worst behavior was the sexism and racism that toxic fandom unleashed on the film’s co-star, Kelly Marie Tran. The Vietnamese American actress was harassed so relentlessly on social media by trolls that she left the platforms altogether. Her character’s entry on Wookieepedia was also edited by toxic fans with remarks that were horribly misogynistic, racist, and extremely vulgar. Tran quickly gained support from her fellow cast members and other celebrities, but the damage had already been done.

Stems From An Overly Entitled Sense Of Self

Toxic fans have no respect for the art or the artist. Rather than appreciate, or respectfully disagree with, what has been presented to them for entertainment, they allow their perceived fan superiority complex to take over rational thought and go into attack mode. While they aren’t literally taking sledgehammers to the ankles of writers, the actions they take online are just as violent symbolically. Threatening to derail an entire franchise because of an installment they didn’t feel was up to snuff, or because they don’t care for the casting choices, is ludicrous and speaks to the overly entitled sense of self at the core of toxic fandom.

Most anyone who has followed a film series, a TV show, or a musician has felt some level of disappointment along the journey. Die-hard Seinfeld and Game of Thrones fans can bond over their hatred of their respective finales, early Metallica fans are still fuming about how 1991’s The Black Album took the band in a direction they hated, and, to be quite honest, the powers that be behind the Police Academy films really should have stopped after the third installment.

What separates a normal fan from a toxic one is how each reacts to and acts on disappointment. A normal fan will still love the remainder of the art and move on. The toxic fan will make that disappointment part of their identity and refuse to let it go.

In the end, it’s all just for entertainment purposes. Why take any of it so seriously?

Former Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax and Cerina Fairfax had been separated at the time of their apparent murder-suicide.

“This has been an ongoing domestic dispute surrounding what seems to be a complicated or messy divorce. So far what we know is what you know,” police chief Kevin Davis said in an April 2026 press conference. “There seems to be divorce proceedings that have been ongoing.”

According to Davis, Justin was “recently served some paperwork” associated with his divorce from Cerina.

“That apparently led to the incident,” Davis told reporters, claiming that Justin shot Cerina “several times” in their house before shooting himself. “Both of their children, teenagers … were in the house when it happened. That’s horrible news for the family, certainly a traumatic event for those children to live through.”

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Former Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax and his estranged wife, Cerina Fairfax, died in an apparent murder-suicide. News broke in April 2026 that Justin shot Cerina “several times” inside their home. He allegedly shot himself moments later in a different part of the property. “This has been an ongoing domestic dispute surrounding what seems to […]

Davis further stated that Justin and Cerina’s divorce had yet to be finalized at the time of their deaths. Keep scrolling for more details on their separation:

Justin Fairfax and Cerina Fairfax Were Married From 2006 to 2025

Justin Fairfax and Cerina Fairfax, who met while attending Duke University, got married in June 2006. Justin and the dentist were married for two decades and welcomed two children, Cameron and Carys, before separating in 2025.

According to court documents viewed by Us Weekly, Cerina filed for divorce in July 2025. She claimed that she separated from Justin in June 2024 while they continued to reside under the same roof.

Justin Fairfax Asked to Dismiss Cerina Fairfax’s Divorce Petition

Justin Fairfax, an attorney representing himself in the divorce, filed an opinion letter in January 2026.

In the letter viewed by Us, Justin objected to Cerina’s petition and claimed that she failed to disclose her intentions to “permanently separate” when they physically separated.

“[Justin] asserts that [Cerina] was required to expressly state in her complaint that she intended to permanently separate from him on June 1, 2024,” the court letter reads. “Instead, she pled only that June 1, 2024, was the date of separation. [Cerina] responds that she need not plead her intent and may prove her intent at trial.”

Justin further pointed out that a Virginia resident can only file for divorce after “having lived separate and apart without interruption” for one year and “prove an intent to permanently live separate.”

The court agreed to Justin’s request for a demurrer. The rest of the complaint had not been settled when Justin and Cerina died.

Justin Fairfax and Cerina Fairfax Were Involved in a Domestic Dispute 4 Months Before Deaths

Justin Fairfax called the Fairfax, Virginia police department in January 2026 over an alleged domestic violence altercation with Cerina Fairfax. The police chief revealed in an April 2026 press conference that Justin claimed at the time that Cerina physically assaulted him.

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Law enforcement officers were dispatched to the scene, finding several security cameras mounted in the home.

​​”We reviewed the cameras [in the home] and we corroborated that the alleged assault never occurred,” police chief Kevin Davis said in an April 2026 statement. “There was no arrest made, there was a report written but the allegation that Mr. Fairfax made in January that Mrs. Fairfax assaulted him was proven to be untrue.”

If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential support.