Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss sparked a nearly inseparable bond back in 2012, but their friendship appeared to take a turn for the worst over time.

The BFFs quickly hit it off after Swift mentioned Kloss during her January 2012 Vogue cover story, saying, “I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!” The comment caught Kloss’ eye, and a famous friendship was born.

Through the years, the duo put their connection on full display, both on social media and at high-power Hollywood events. Though it seemed like nothing could ever come between the two, their friendship seemingly hit a snag several years later when eagle-eyed fans noticed that Kloss was left out of Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” video, which featured a list of her remaining squad members.

Rumors of a falling out continued to swirl on and off — but Kloss consistently shut down speculation that she and Swift had grown apart. However, Swift hinted that things had gone south after penning a powerful essay for Elle ahead of her 30th birthday.

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“Something about ‘we’re in our young twenties!’ hurls people together into groups that can feel like your chosen family. And maybe they will be for the rest of your life,” Swift wrote in March 2019. “Or maybe they’ll just be your comrades for an important phase, but not forever.”

Years after the alleged friendship rift, fans were shocked when Kloss and her husband, Joshua Kushner, stepped out in New York City for Swift’s July 2026 wedding to Travis Kelce.

Scroll down to relive all of Swift and Kloss’ friendship highs and lows through the years:

NFL players Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce made history in 2023 when they became the first brothers to face off against each other at the Super Bowl.

When Jason, who is a center for the Philadelphia Eagles, and Travis, who is a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, cross paths on the football field, their parents are often caught in the middle.

In 2022, the duo’s mother, Donna Kelce, traveled over 1,200 miles in one day to see both of her sons play their Wild Card games. She watched Jason defeat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Philadelphia before hopping on a flight to Kansas City where she surprised Travis after the game.

At the time, the NFL celebrated Donna’s journey when they noticed her in the crowd. “She made it! Two games. One day. One amazing mom,” their official Twitter account read alongside a photo of her cheering.

While seeing both her boys in Super Bowl LVII was an exciting moment, Donna explained that it came with its complications. “You know, somebody’s gonna go home a loser, and neither one of them lose very well,” she told WJW’s PJ Zeilger in January 2023.

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Travis and the Chiefs narrowly beat Jason and the Eagles in the February 2023 championship, where Donna went viral for wearing a custom jacket dedicated to both of her sons’ teams.

When Travis and Jason married Taylor Swift and Kylie Kelce in 2026 and 2018, respectively, the brothers were one another’s Best Man.

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Survival films like Castaway and The Revenant need to make way for 2023’s Society of the Snow, a one-of-a-kind survival thriller. Based on the 1972 Andes flight disaster, this Netflix film will punch you in the gut and not let up until you’re weeping into your popcorn because there are too many emotions to even consider unpacking upon its conclusion.

Through the tremendous hardships that are portrayed throughout Society of the Snow, you’ll find yourself awestruck by the indomitable human spirit that is so expertly captured on-screen.

The Suffering Of Surviving

Society of the Snow’s story is primarily set in the Andes mountains after a plane carrying 45 passengers crash-lands, ripping the fuselage apart. In one of the most violent depictions of a plane crash in recent cinematic history, those who lived through the initial impact often wished that they had been spared from the suffering of surviving.

Over the course of 72 days, the remaining survivors were put to the ultimate test as they braved sub-zero temperatures with whatever clothes they had on their backs, while tending to the wide array of injuries they sustained.

After eight days of waiting for a rescue plane, a battered radio leftover from the crash broadcasts that search parties have been called off, leaving the traumatized and gravely injured survivors to their own devices and basic survival instincts. Many of the passengers never experienced snowfall, let alone being stranded in the frozen mountains.

A Terrible And Desperate Time

During the months leading to an eventual rescue, Society of the Snow compassionately points to the desperation that the survivors faced during this unthinkable time.

Enduring multiple avalanches that buried their shelter and meager food supply, they had to resort to cannibalism and had no choice but to rely on their friends’ corpses as a means to fight off starvation. It’s worth noting, however, that although such drastic measures had to be taken, their reluctance to commodify human life as a source of sustenance was one of many moral dilemmas they had to make peace with.

A Climb Through The Mountains

Arriving at the conclusion that nobody will ever find them while they’re still alive, Society of the Snow’s narrative shifts to Nando (Augustin Pardella) and Robert (Matias Recalt), who embark on a 10-day climb through the mountains after spending two months subjected to unimaginable living conditions with 14 other survivors.

With each passing scene that Society of the Snow delivers, the only thought that consumes your mind is “how can things get any worse?” The unforgiving mountains always find a way to deliver on this front up until the film’s conclusion.

Compelling Storytelling

Though Society of the Snow is a Spanish-language film, its storytelling is so compelling that you won’t mind the subtitles. In fact, the subject matter is so heavy that you’ll actually appreciate the storytelling on a whole other level because this layer of abstraction in the form of a language barrier will help keep you anchored.

Society of the Snow’s unrelenting storytelling won over audiences upon its limited theatrical release. Universally praised for its tense delivery of despair and insurmountable struggle, this survival movie garnered a 90 percent critical score against an 88 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

You’re not going to form an emotional connection with a volleyball named Wilson when you watch Society of the Snow, but this movie is a must-see if you are looking for a gripping and emotionally jarring survival film.

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If you have the stomach for it, it comes with strong recommendations that you watch Society of the Snow on Netflix today.

Barbie star Margot Robbie is set to headline an Ocean’s Eleven prequel, scheduled for release on June 25, 2027. Robbie will star opposite Bradley Cooper in the next installment of the beloved heist franchise, as the parents of Danny Ocean attempt to pull off an ambitious heist during the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix. It was recently announced that Wagner Moura, the star of The Secret Agent who recently earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, would join a slowly-building star-studded Ocean’s lineup.

Robbie is no stranger to starring alongside Hollywood’s best leading men, including the likes of Ryan Gosling in Barbie, and she joined forces with Oscar winner Will Smith (King Richard) at a time when he was one of Hollywood’s headline names, in the crime flick Focus. A slick and stylish tale of con artists who push their luck too far, the film received mixed reviews upon arrival, with Collider’s review of the film claiming that there is “no romance and no con.”

Although it didn’t hit the heady heights of other Smith or Robbie blockbusters, Focus was a quiet success at the box office, earning a global haul of $168 million against a reported budget of $65 million. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who previously dazzled with Crazy, Stupid, Love, Focus is an easy-to-watch film featuring two electric leads. If you want to try it out for yourself, you’re in luck, as the movie has just made its way to a new streamer. Starting July 1, Focus is available to stream on Paramount+.

Margot Robbie’s Recent Run of Movies Has Left a Lot To Be Desired

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Although she is one of the most famous actors on the planet, with plenty of top-tier performances in her filmography, Robbie’s recent run of movies has left a lot to be desired. In the past four years, she has starred in the likes of Amsterdam, Babylon, and A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, with her most recent project also proving underwhelming. Robbie teamed up with director Emerald Fennell and Euphoria‘s Jacob Elordi on a new interpretation of Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, although much of the backlash came from those who deemed the interpretation both misinformed and lacking.

Margot Robbie’s Focus is available to stream now on Paramount+. For more of the latest streaming stories, make sure to stay tuned to Collider.

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Every sci-fi fan has a show they’d go to war for that nobody else has heard of. It aired on some cable network that’s since been rebranded, it ran for maybe three seasons before getting axed on a cliffhanger, and it’s the first thing out of your mouth when someone asks for a recommendation. Streaming has made most of these shows easier to find than ever, which means there’s never been a better time to catch up on the weird, ambitious, canceled-too-soon series that built cult followings for a reason.

We’ve rounded up the best of these obscure sci-fi shows. They’ve all got inventive world-building, unfairly talented casts, and the kind of bonkers plotting that keeps you up until 3 AM muttering, “just one more episode.”

‘Dark Angel’ (2000–2002)

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Before she was running a billion-dollar company, Jessica Alba was Max Guevara, a genetically enhanced super-soldier on the run in a post-apocalyptic Seattle that James Cameron built for Fox’s Dark Angel. It was 2000, Cameron was fresh off Titanic, and he decided his next move was a cyberpunk television show about a bike messenger with cat DNA and an attitude problem. The show aired for two seasons and made Alba a household name, earned her a Saturn Award, and then got canceled because Fox moved it to the Friday night death slot to make room for 24.

The world-building is pure early-2000s grit. An electromagnetic pulse has crippled the U.S., Seattle looks like a tech-noir fever dream, and Alba’s Max navigates it all while searching for her fellow Manticore escapees, trading barbs with Michael Weatherly’s cyber-journalist Logan Cale, and outrunning government agents who want her back in a lab. Jensen Ackles joined the cast in Season 2 as a fellow supersoldier, and his chemistry with Alba gave the show a jolt it sorely needed. Dark Angel is a time capsule of a very specific era of sci-fi television, the kind that trusted its female lead to carry action sequences and moral complexity, usually in the same scene. We still miss it.

‘Killjoys’ (2015–2019)

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Before Hannah John-Kamen was fighting Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) in the MCU, she was Dutch, a lethally charming bounty hunter chasing warrants across a distant planetary system called the Quad with her partner Johnny (Aaron Ashmore) and his ex-military brother D’avin (Luke Macfarlane). Created by Michelle Lovretta, who also gave us Lost Girl, Killjoys ran for five seasons on Syfy from 2015 to 2019 and delivered a fully realized sci-fi universe where class warfare, body-snatching parasites, and interplanetary barroom brawls coexisted with surprising ease. Think Firefly if Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) were a woman with a mysterious past and significantly better hand-to-hand combat skills.

What makes Killjoys such a satisfying binge is its refusal to take itself too seriously. The world-building is dense but never homework-y: you’ve got a feudal corporate hierarchy, a caste system that spans multiple moons, and an ancient alien threat that unfolds slowly across the series, all woven into a show that never forgets it’s supposed to be fun. The chemistry between its three leads carries even the weaker episodes, and the fact that it actually got to end on its own terms, with a proper finale, makes it a rarity in the graveyard of canceled sci-fi.

‘Revolution’ (2012–2014)

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What if every piece of technology on the planet just stopped working and never came back on? That’s the question at the center of Revolution, Eric Kripke‘s post-apocalyptic NBC drama that aired from 2012 to 2014 and featured J. J. Abrams as executive producer and Jon Favreau directing the pilot. Set 15 years after a mysterious global blackout, the show follows a scrappy band of survivors navigating a fractured America where former U.S. states have become warring militia territories and arrows have replaced drone strikes. Billy Burke, fresh off playing Bella Swan’s (Kristen Stewart) dad in Twilight, reinvented himself here as Miles Matheson, a former Marine turned reluctant hero with a complicated past and a very big sword.

The cast is stacked for a network show that only lasted two seasons. Giancarlo Esposito, doing what Giancarlo Esposito does, plays a militia captain whose ambitions rival Gus Fring’s in a post-electrical world. Elizabeth Mitchell brings gravitas as the scientist hiding the secret behind the blackout. Tracy Spiridakos leads the early episodes as Charlie, Miles’ niece. Kripke himself later joked that if Revolution had been a streaming show with a bigger budget and shorter episode order, it would have been The Last of Us. He’s not entirely wrong.

‘Mutant X’ (2001–2004)

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Here’s a deep cut. Mutant X debuted in first-run syndication in 2001, created by Avi Arad under a Marvel Comics license, and it was immediately so X-Men-adjacent that 20th Century Fox sued Marvel over it. The lawsuit was settled, the show carried on for three seasons and 66 episodes, and it cultivated a following among fans who couldn’t get enough of the mutant-team formula on a weekly basis. The premise follows Adam Kane (John Shea), a geneticist trying to atone for his role in creating “new mutants” by assembling a team of them to protect others from a shady government agency. Victoria Pratt‘s feral Shalimar Fox, Victor Webster‘s electricity-wielding Brennan Mulwray, and Forbes March‘s density-shifting Jesse Kilmartin round out the crew.

Mutant X is not prestige television. The dialogue can be clunky, the effects are of the early 2000s variety, and the plotting sometimes feels like it’s making things up as it goes. But there’s something genuinely charming about its scrappiness, and the team dynamics carry it through the rougher patches. Lauren Lee Smith, who later turned up in CSI, adds a compelling energy as the tele-empath Emma DeLauro for the first two seasons. The show got abruptly canceled after Season 3 when its production company folded, leaving it on a cliffhanger that was never resolved, which is, at this point, basically a rite of passage for any self-respecting cult sci-fi series.

‘Falling Skies’ (2011–2015)

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Noah Wyle spent over a decade playing a mild-mannered doctor on ER, so naturally, his follow-up was a TNT series where he plays a mild-mannered history professor who picks up a gun and leads a guerrilla resistance against alien invaders. Falling Skies ran for five seasons from 2011 to 2015 with Steven Spielberg as executive producer, and it wears his fingerprints all over it: the Americana, the emphasis on family bonds under impossible duress, and the weird aliens. Wyle’s Tom Mason becomes the reluctant leader of the 2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment, and the show mines surprisingly effective drama from watching civilians figure out how to fight a war they were never trained for.

The supporting cast gives Wyle plenty to work with. Will Patton is grizzled and excellent as Captain Weaver, Moon Bloodgood brings gravity to the group’s medic, and Colin Cunningham is a scene-stealer as John Pope, an outlaw whose allegiances shift with the wind. The first three seasons are the strongest and the show’s willingness to keep introducing new alien species and political complications keeps the mythology from going stale. The final season rushes its ending, but the journey there offers one of the more satisfying post-invasion narratives cable TV has attempted.

‘Avenue 5’ (2020–2022)

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Armando Iannucci, the acid-tongued genius behind Veep, set his satirical sights on space tourism with Avenue 5, and the result is a two-season HBO comedy so viciously funny it makes you wonder how it didn’t find a bigger audience. Hugh Laurie plays Captain Ryan Clark, the reassuringly handsome figurehead of a luxury interplanetary cruise ship owned by Josh Gad‘s obnoxious tech billionaire, Herman Judd. When a technical malfunction throws the ship off course, what was supposed to be an eight-week pleasure cruise becomes a years-long ordeal, and the passengers, who are exactly as awful as you’d expect rich people trapped in a tin can to be, start losing it.

The comedy here is bleak and unrelenting, which is probably why it struggled to find its crowd during its initial run in 2020, a year when being trapped in an enclosed space with terrible people hit a little too close to home. Zach Woods is perfect as the ship’s incompetent head of customer relations, as is the supporting cast of Nikki Amuka-Bird, Suzy Nakamura, and Lenora Crichlow. The second season improved significantly, which makes HBO’s decision to cancel it in 2023 sting even more.

‘Dark Matter’ (2015–2017)

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Six strangers wake up on a derelict spaceship with no memory of who they are, so they name themselves One through Six and start trying to piece together why everyone in the galaxy seems to want them dead. That’s Dark Matter in a nutshell, a Syfy series that ran from 2015 to 2017 and delivered the kind of pulpy, character-driven space opera that the network hadn’t managed since the Battlestar Galactica days. Created by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, who spent years writing for the Stargate franchise, it’s a show built on the bones of everything those writers learned about making sci-fi on a budget feel lived-in and propulsive.

Melissa O’Neil is the standout as Two, the crew’s de facto leader whose backstory turns out to be far wilder than anyone’s, and Zoie Palmer brings a warmth and dry humor to the ship’s android that quickly makes her the fan favorite. The show’s three seasons build an increasingly complex web of corporate wars, alternate dimensions, and identity crises, and it got canceled on a cliffhanger that its fanbase has still not forgiven Syfy for. It never got the sendoff it deserved, but the ride to that point is engaging enough that it’s worth the frustration.

‘The 4400’ (2004–2007)

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USA Network’s The 4400 debuted in 2004 as a miniseries and was so well-received that it earned three additional seasons before the 2007 writers’ strike killed its momentum. The hook is irresistible: 4,400 people who vanished at various points over the last century all reappear simultaneously near Mount Rainier, dumped in a ball of light with no memory of where they’ve been and not having aged a day. The catch is that many of them come back with new abilities, and the government isn’t thrilled about it. Joel Gretsch and Jacqueline McKenzie anchor the show as the Homeland Security agents tasked with monitoring the returnees, but the real draw is the sprawling ensemble.

A young Mahershala Ali plays Richard Tyler, one of the 4,400 who disappeared in the 1950s, and Billy Campbell is magnetic as Jordan Collier, a charismatic millionaire returnee whose intentions stay murky right up until they don’t. The 4400 was doing the “ordinary people with extraordinary abilities and a shadowy conspiracy” thing years before Heroes made it mainstream, and its willingness to go truly dark with its mythology still holds up.

‘Continuum’ (2012–2015)

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Continuum is the kind of Canadian sci-fi export that flies completely under the radar in the U.S. and then slowly builds a following that will not shut up about it, for good reason. Rachel Nichols plays Kiera Cameron, a law enforcement officer from a corporately controlled dystopia in the year 2077 who accidentally gets transported back to 2012 Vancouver along with a group of terrorists she was supposed to be guarding. Stranded in our timeline, she teams up with a young tech genius named Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen) and a local detective (Victor Webster) to hunt down the fugitives while secretly trying to find a way home to her husband and son.

What elevates Continuum past its time-travel premise is the way it complicates its own morality. The “terrorists” Kiera is chasing, a group called Liber8, are fighting to prevent the corporate oligarchy that Kiera serves and protects. The show asks you to root for its protagonist while slowly revealing that her side might be the wrong one, and it threads that needle across four seasons without ever fully tipping its hand. Created by Simon Barry (who went on to make Warrior Nun), it aired on Showcase in Canada and Syfy in the States from 2012 to 2015, and while the truncated final season of six episodes means it wraps up faster than ideal, it does actually wrap up, which counts for something, right?

‘The 100’ (2014–2020)

The elevator pitch for The 100 sounds like every other CW show circa 2014: pretty young people, love triangles, post-apocalyptic setting, based on a YA novel series by Kass Morgan. And the first few episodes do lean into that formula hard enough that plenty of viewers bounced. Their loss. By the end of its first season, The 100 had evolved into something ruthless and morally knotty that regularly shocked even its most devoted fans. Eliza Taylor‘s Clarke Griffin starts as a reluctant leader and ends up making the kind of decisions that would give war-criminals nightmares.

Set 97 years after a nuclear apocalypse, the show follows 100 juvenile delinquents sent from a failing space station back to Earth as expendable guinea pigs. What they find down there, surviving ground-dwellers, a militarized mountain bunker, an AI that wants to end all human conflict by ending most humans, keeps escalating in ways that The CW rarely allowed. Bob Morley, Marie Avgeropoulos, and Henry Ian Cusick round out a strong cast, and the show ran for seven seasons. It’s a slow starter that rewards patience with one of the more ambitious sci-fi arcs network television has produced.

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Taylor Swift’s family may not be as famous as she is — but they’re pretty close to it.

The singer’s parents, Andrea and Scott Swift — who got married in 1988 — have become key members of the Swiftie fandom, while her brother, Austin Swift, is making a name for himself in Hollywood.

Taylor, for her part, referred to her parents as “unbelievable” for supporting her career during an interview with CBS Sunday Morning in 2019. Her family uprooted their lives in Pennsylvania and moved to Tennessee all in support of Taylor’s singing career.

“I buy them lots of presents,” Taylor joked when discussing how she thanks her family and brother.

Andrea, for her part, recalled the Swift family’s move to Tennessee, noting that it wasn’t about Taylor “making it” in the music industry.

“What a horrible thing if it hadn’t happened, for her to carry that kind of guilt or pressure around,” Andrea told Entertainment Weekly in 2008. “We’ve always told her that this is not about putting food on our table or making our dreams come true. There would always be an escape hatch into normal life if she decided this wasn’t something she had to pursue.”

Of course, that wasn’t at all the path that Taylor took. Various Grammy Award wins and multiple sold out tours later, the “Cardigan” singer has reached an untouchable level of fame — and her family is still by her side.

Keep scrolling to learn more about the Swift Family:

Andrea Swift

Andrea used to work as a marketing manager at an advertising agency but has always been Taylor’s No. 1 fan. Now, she’s often spotted backstage during her daughter’s sold out tour dates and often interacts with fans.

Over the years, Taylor has written multiple songs about her mom — “The Best Day” and “Soon You’ll Get Better.” The latter is about Andrea’s cancer battles. Taylor first revealed her mom’s cancer in 2015, writing a letter to her fans on Tumblr. Andrea’s second cancer diagnosis came years later in 2019 and a year later, Taylor revealed that her mother had been diagnosed with a brain tumor.

“Everyone loves their mom; everyone’s got an important mom,” Taylor told Variety in 2020. “But for me, she’s really the guiding force. Almost every decision I make, I talk to her about it first. So obviously it was a really big deal to ever speak about her illness.”

Scott Swift

Scott originally worked as a stockbroker and eventually became Vice President for Merrill Lynch. He definitely has the supportive (and embarrassing) father role on lock. In March 2023, Taylor shared a photo of the backstage pass” that Scott had designed himself.

“D.O.H. Pass (Dad of Headliner),” his lanyard read. Taylor posted a picture on Instagram, writing, “Made my Dad’s tour credential. We are a small family business.”

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From cowboy boots to Jimmy Choos! Taylor Swift has come a long way since her days as Nashville’s teen queen. Since moving to the Big Apple in March 2014 and embracing the city’s trendy style, the “Blank Space” singer became more fashion-forward than ever. See the pop singer’s amazing red carpet transformation through the years!

Scott has also been through a cancer battle as well.

“Both of my parents have had cancer, and my mom is now fighting her battle with it again,” Taylor told Elle in 2019. “It’s taught me that there are real problems and then there’s everything else.”

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Austin Swift

Austin graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2015 and has a budding career in the entertainment industry. Not only has he acted in a few TV and movie roles — I.T., Breaking for Whales and We Summon the Darkness, among others — but Austin is often listed as a producer on some of his sister’s projects.

“It is a singularly beautiful thing to see magic right in front of your eyes. After nearly three decades of that happening time and time again, the effect hasn’t worn off,” Austin wrote on Instagram of Taylor in December 2018. “I have always had a best friend, a role model, and a caring, tireless, dedicated champion in my corner. You have pulled me out of fires and carried me up mountains. The gift of getting to witness you become the wonderful person you are today has been the greatest privilege and honor of my life.”

When Taylor married Travis Kelce in 2026, Austin served as her “Man of Honor” in lieu of a formal bridal party.

2026 has been a stellar year for video games. With titles such as Pragmata and Resident Evil Requiem, the race for Game of the Year is going to be more challenging than ever, and that isn’t even including what is to come; hint, hint, nudge, nudge, Grand Theft Auto VI. But that isn’t the only game to look forward to in 2026, especially with a jam-packed September, which will put a serious dent in everyone’s wallets. E3 may be long and dead, but gamers are still thriving this time of year because of Geoff Keighley‘s Summer Game Fest, which is an assortment of events that showcase all the upcoming games to get excited about this year and in the future. Other companies, such as Xbox and PlayStation, also held presentations, revealing new games like Persona 6 and God of War Laufey.

However, if Xbox and PlayStation had their time to shine, then fans know Nintendo needs to get in on the action. A Nintendo Direct aired on June 9, mostly revealing more information about their upcoming games, such as Star Fox and Splatoon Raiders. However, Nintendo likes saving the best for last, and ended the direct with an announcement of a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The brief trailer didn’t show off much besides the stellar graphics, a glimpse of what Link looks like, and a 2026 release date. And with it being Zelda’s 40th anniversary, now is the perfect time for the remake, especially as the franchise has hit an all-time high, quality-wise. And yet, Ocarina is still the best video game ever made, and this highly anticipated remake will remind you why.

What Is ‘The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’ About?

Originally released in 1998, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was the first game in the franchise to enter the 3D realm, reinventing modern action games and establishing itself as the best Zelda game of all time. This N64 classic paved new ground by bringing the franchise into 3D and pioneering Z-targeting, which most action games have used since. Its influence is historic, still felt to this day in most mainstream fantasy efforts. When looking at its polish, innovation, quality for the time, and entertainment value today, it is hard to argue with its reputation as the all-time best game in the medium’s history, because Ocarina of Time holds up surprisingly well.

Set in the fantastical Kingdom of Hyrule, the plot centers on Link, a forest boy who lives a rather mundane life. All the other kids have a fairy companion, except for Link, until a helpful yet annoying fairy named Navi wakes him up, summoning him to the Great Deku Tree. It is revealed that Princess Zelda was kidnapped by the Gerudo King, Ganondorf, taking her away to an unknown land. Link is the only one who can save her, needing to go on an adventure through the past and future, conquering dungeons and defeating bosses in order to resurrect the sages. With the help of the sages, Link must defeat Ganondorf with the power of a third of the Triforce, making sure the evil king doesn’t get the remaining two pieces.

How Different Will the Remake Be Compared to the Original?

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time still holds up pretty well, even if the graphics are outdated and the controls can feel clunky at times. However, it’s already been remade once on the 3DS, which many fans consider the best Nintendo game ever. It made many quality-of-life improvements and gave fans updated visuals to make it more palatable. Still, the 3DS remake didn’t change the story, gameplay, or reinvent anything; it simply delivered an upgraded version of the original.

However, that begs the question: what will this remake look like? There are only so many ways Nintendo could go with this new game: it could be a simple graphics upscale that keeps everything else the same, or it could be a remake with some new mechanics and polished design, or it might be a complete reimagining with new dungeons, side quests, places to explore, and gameplay. Everyone wants something different, but most fans seem keen on something entirely new, with a reimagining being the best bet. At the very least, new graphics and better controls will bring Ocarina of Time into the modern age, where new fans can experience its brilliance.

The first glimpse showed a new look at Link with by far the best graphics in any Zelda game, supporting the claim that the Ocarina of Time remake will be more of a reimagining, maybe adding extra content, redesigning the world, or making it a new experience while keeping the spirit intact. This approach can’t help but worry some fans who want that nostalgic and classic feel again, with a reimagining potentially altering what we all know and love about the game. Either way, it is likely that this remake will be one of the best Nintendo Switch games, with it already being a system seller as many fans try to get a Switch 2 before the price increases in September. The potential price for the game is already raising some eyebrows, but for now, we all remain hopeful.

Will ‘The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’ Remake Win Game of the Year?

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Almost every game that was originally scheduled for the last few months in 2026 has been pushed up to September or delayed to 2027 in order to avoid the inevitable storm that is Grand Theft Auto VI. It seems that everyone will be playing this game come November, and with it being in development for so long, it is likely to be the eventual Game of the Year winner. It does have some competition, and its biggest rival is the newly announced Ocarina of Time remake. As a remake, it is unlikely that Ocarina of Time will take the award, but it is one of the few games capable of giving GTA VI a run for its money. Still, seeing these two juggernauts spearhead a hectic holiday season will be magnificent, as two of the greatest video games of all time come out at the end of 2026.

There aren’t many better games than Ocarina of Time, if any, and that is a legacy which has been kept for decades. A remake is a risky thing, because while it will sell well, what if it doesn’t live up to the original? The 1998 game redefined the modern age of gaming, and while the remake is unlikely to do that, the best it can do is to expand on what made the first game great. Remaking Ocarina of Time must bring something that the audience has seen before, while not straying too far from what made the first one good. Hopefully, it’ll mean new dungeons, voice acting, side quests, incredible visuals, and maybe some new areas to explore.

And yet, it’s hard not to think the remake will cement Ocarina of Time as the all-time greatest video game in the medium’s history. It is the perfect 40th anniversary present to fans, a huge ordeal that Zelda fans are excited about. Plus, with The Legend of Zelda movie coming out in 2027, fans are eating well. A movie and a remake within half a year is better than anything fans thought they would get, but that truly means Nintendo is putting everything into making this anniversary special. It would be surprising if the Ocarina of Time remake were disappointing. It may not surpass the original, but this reimagining is exactly what the franchise needs, further proving that this is the best year for gaming in a long time.

Fans can play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake sometime in 2026 on the Nintendo Switch 2.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are both on top of their games — and have the workout routines to back it up.

A source exclusively told Us Weekly in March 2024 that Swift trains with Kirk Myers at the gym Dogpound when she’s in either New York City or Los Angeles.

“He has helped her get in shape for her tour,” the insider explained to Us. “They have been working together for many years.

Swift had been performing her three-hour-long Eras Tour concert across the globe since March 2023.

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“Every day I would run on the treadmill, singing the entire set list out loud,” Swift previously told TIME in her 2023 Person of the Year profile. “Fast for fast songs, and a jog or a fast walk for slow songs.”

To help her train, Dogpound created a unique program that incorporates strength, conditioning and weights.

Pre-Eras, Swift also hit the dance studio to learn choreography, crafted by Mandy Moore, for her entire setlist.

“I had three months of dance training because I wanted to get it in my bones,” she added to TIME. “I wanted to be so over-rehearsed that I could be silly with the fans, and not lose my train of thought.”

Since Swift and Kelce started dating in summer 2023, they’ve hit the gym together. However, they engage in drastically different workouts.

Kelce, a NFL tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, works with multiple trainers throughout his football season and during his offseason hiatus. One of his trainers, Laurence Justin Ng, shared a peek into Kelce’s gym routine in an April Instagram video.

Per the video, Kelce’s regimen starts with the football star warming up his hip flexors before doing knee drives against the wall. Kelce also runs on a treadmill at an incline and sprints uphill in a parking garage.

Kelce’s football seasons typically start in July or August when he reports for training camp. Games begin in September and run through postseason the following January. The season ends with the Super Bowl in February. After the big game, the athletes are in their offseason until the next training camp.

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Kelce continues training even when his NFL commitments are over for the season.

“Bench? Right now everything’s been sort of high reps, low weights,” Kelce previously said in a 2015 YouTube interview with Stack magazine as he showed off his offseason weightlifting regimen. “I throw two 45’s and hit it for about eight to 10 and just do more of the isolation hold to really work the shoulders, so that when I actually do throw some weight on there, I’m not injury-prone to it or anything like it.”

Throughout his NFL tenure, Swift has remained his biggest fan amid their 2025 engagement and 2026 wedding.

By Jonathan Klotz
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Stargate SG-1 had a lot of work to do in its first season to go beyond the setting of the 1993 film. By the time Episode 11, “Bloodlines,” hit the air on Showtime it was clear to the new and ever-growing fanbase that this was a different type of sci-fi series. Teal’c (Christopher Judge) was already being compared to Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Worf, and the introduction of his family on Chulak didn’t help the comparisons. Once “Bloodlines” came ot an end it was clear that Teal’c would be different and the Goa’uld were going to be the worst villains in any 90s sci-fi series. 

Teal’c Would Do Anything For His Family

The episode opens with Teal’c undergoing treatment to remove his Goa’uld symbiote. It fails. By now, his body relies on the parasitic evil alien to function. That’s enough to get him to open up to Stargate Command about his family back home on Chulak. His son, Rya’c, is going to be implanted with a Goa’uld larvae and Teal’c wants to stop it. General Hammond (Don S. Davis) pushes back and stops the team though he folds at the flimsiest pretense to undertake the mission. 

Teal’c and the rest of SG-1, O’Neil (Richard Dean Anderson), Jackson (Michael Shanks), and Carter (Amanda Tapping) sneak onto Chulak and while behind enemy lines learn a word that fans of the show will get very used to hearing: Shol’va. Traitor. Teal’c was branded as Shol’va for betraying Aphosis. That brought down his family’s standing, something Drey’auc, his wife (played by future Eureka star Salli Richardson) makes sure to let him know. 

The usual full-speed ahead, gung-ho nature of SG-1 hits a snag when it turns out Rya’c is sick and needs a Goa’uld to be implanted in order to survive. After fighting to spare his son this exact fate, Teal’c is the one to implant his son. It’s a tragic moment made all the worse with the knowledge of how the Jaffa have suffered under the Goa’uld for generations. It’s a success and Rya’c lives but at an enormous cost. When “Bloodlines” ends, it’s not clear if this was a victory, or a loss, for SG-1. 

Bloodlines Set The Table For The Jaffa Revolution

Teal’c kept his family a secret from Stargate Command because knew his family, deep behind enemy lines, was a weak point for him that could be exploited by the Goa’uld, and how could anyone trust him with his family in danger? What he left out was the presence of Bra’tac (Tony Amendola). At 103 years old, the legendary Jaffa warrior is still a brutal fighter capable of taking down a unit of palace guards without breaking a sweat. Like Teal’c, he’s a former First Prime to Apophis, and also like Teal’c, he becomes a close ally of SG-1. 

Future scenes between Bra’tac and Hammond are among the best in the entire series. Bra’tac’s eventual defection is one of the many unintended consequences of the team’s actions during “Bloodlines.” Daniel blowing away a Goa’uld spawning tank, Rya’c and Drey’auc, humans entering Chulak so easily, all of it comes back in later seasons. 

Teal’c may be the Worf of Stargate SG-1 but he’s his own, tragic character, trying to carve a new path forward for his warrior people in the face of centuries of tradition and honor. It’s completely different. At least Teal’c doesn’t get his butt kicked by every new threat

There are some television cancellations that truly hurt. Finding out your favorite show won’t continue can be such a bummer, but it’s even more disheartening when shows are simply abandoned. This is the case for one of Apple TV’s most impressive offerings. Pachinko, which aired from 2022 to 2024, is based on the brilliant 2017 novel by Min Jin Lee. The first two seasons of the series are faithful adaptations of Lee’s work, but for some strange reason, Apple TV has simply failed to make a third season. Several years later, fans of both the book and the series are pleading with the streamer to at least make one more season to wrap up the story.

Season 2 of ‘Pachinko’ Finishes in an Open-Ended Way

Creator Soo Hugh always planned to adapt Pachinko in three (possibly even four) seasons, and this is why Season 2 concludes with so many unfinished storylines. Sunja (Youn Yuh-jung) seems to say goodbye to her dear friend, Kato (Jun Kunimura), but we don’t know if their relationship is completely over or what Sunja will do without this connection in her life. Continuing with the 1989 timeline, Mozasu (Soji Arai) tries to warn Solomon (Jin Ha) about his business dealings with the shady Mamoru (Louis Ozawa). Solomon also learns that because of his choices, his business enemy, Abe-san (Yoshio Maki), has killed himself. ​​​​​​​

And in the most important storyline, back in 1951, Sunja’s son, Noa (Kang Tae-Joo), disappears to Nagano after discovering a family secret. He has trouble coping with the fact that the enigmatic Hansu (Lee Min-ho) is actually his biological father. Living in this new place, Noa decides to completely cut himself off from his family, assumes a brand-new identity, and is offered a job at a pachinko parlor, cementing the gambling game in the family’s lore. But what will happen to these characters after the conclusion of the Season 2 finale?

‘Pachinko’ Has So Much More Story To Tell Stemming From the Book

The final third of the Pachinko novel is rich with some of the most in-depth character arcs and compelling plot points of the whole book. Without giving away too many spoilers, we learn more about Noa’s secluded life in Nagano, plus the tragic path he walks down as an adult. Through the 1960s and 1970s, we follow Mozasu’s life as he transforms into a family man and becomes wealthy as the owner of multiple pachinko parlors. Mozasu’s step-daughter plays a major part in the book and forms an intriguing relationship with a young Solomon. We see more of Solomon’s path before 1981, which helps explain how Solomon actually became a broken man by the time we meet up with him at the beginning of Season 1. The novel ends with closure for each of the characters, but most crucially, we see Sunja nearing the end of her life. For this quietly powerful and resilient woman, the conclusion of her character’s story ties together the entire book in a masterful way.

A third season of Pachinko could have easily followed through with each of these narratives. The timelines could have all connected, so that the viewer gets a complete and fulfilling picture of the road each character has walked down. At this point, it’s completely heartbreaking that the epic story has just been dropped before it could all come to its natural conclusion. By potentially ending for good after Season 2, Apple TV has done a disservice to Lee’s novel and to the team behind the television show, who worked so hard to tell a meaningful and moving story. If Hugh had known that the streamer wouldn’t be continuing on with the series, she could have at least reworked Season 2 to wrap up the narratives in a more satisfying way.

As it stands, some fans of Pachinko might still want to hold out hope that Season 3 of the series might be made someday. But realists are accepting the fact that this is just one more of those cancellations that hurts the most. The last update came from Hugh back in 2025, when she was on the jury at the Canneseries. When asked if Pachinko would return for new episodes, she merely noted that, “This is beyond my pay grade and I don’t know which shows will last the test of time, but I have to believe Pachinko will last the test of time.” With its genius writing, impeccable performances, and awe-inspiring cinematography, she just might be right — even if the storytelling is incomplete.

Seasons 1–2 of Pachinko are available to stream on Apple TV in the U.S.