There’s no stopping theTaylor Sheridanuniverse. The cowboy connoisseur has a knack for television, looping audiences in with contemporary stories of the American Wild West, where real business is often conducted in plain sight — but under a veil of discretion. Whether it’s the past or present, the way of the ranch is a timeless culture.
In recent years, Sheridan has expanded beyond his Yellowstoneroster, exploring other genres outside the traditional cowboy story. While some of his shows really get into the action and intensity, others place greater emphasis on character and storytelling depth. Without further ado, here are all the Taylor Sheridan shows, ranked by action. Note: we opted not to include The Road since it’s a reality competition show; the most action happening on it is singing.
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‘The Madison’ (2026–Present)
Michelle Pfeiffer as Stacy Clyburn in episode 5, season 1 of the Paramount+ series The Madison. Photo Credit: Emerson Miller/Paramount+Image via Paramount+
It’s never a nice feeling to be an outsider in your own family. The Madison follows the Clyburn family, who move from New York City to Montana’s Madison River Valley after a tragic plane crash takes the lives of Stacy’s husband and his brother. Staying at a remote ranch near Bozeman, Stacy (Michelle Pfeiffer) struggles to cope with her loss, all while the world refuses to pause for her.
Loyal Yellowstone fans might be in for a surprise with The Madison. Instead of the usual action-driven plot, much of the slow-burning conflict comes from getting over a personal tragedy. Grief can be difficult when everyone’s hurting, especially when they’re not on the same page. It might not be a cowboy’s cup of tea, but for those who enjoy bittersweet countryside sentimentality, The Madison is the right show.
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‘Landman’ (2024–Present)
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There’s a reason why oil prices keep rising, and it often comes at a human cost. Landmanis set in the oilfields of West Texas, where roughnecks and billionaires fight to get their share of the booming industry. At the center is Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton), a strict M-Tex executive caught between corporate power players in skyscrapers and the riggers who risk their lives on the oil fields every day.
Landman only turns to violence when necessary, usually to deal with outlaws. Although the action intensifies when the drug cartel is involved, it only happens later in the series. Most of the story is corporate-driven, with M-Tex facing a financial crisis after a destroyed offshore rig. Instead of physical fistfights, much of the battle happens in boardrooms — think negotiations, backstabbing, and scapegoating.
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‘1883’ (2021–2022)
Sam Elliott’s Shea looking over a fence in 1883.Image via Paramount+
Hailed as the origin story of Yellowstone, 1883may not feature the same confrontational action as Sheridan’s more contemporary works. Aside from the occasional bandit attack, the series is more focused on the Dutton ancestors’ fight for survival as they settle in what would eventually become Yellowstone. It is a family journey, only one filled with danger at every turn.
With only horses and caravans to carry them across the frontier, 1883 delivers a gritty and grounded take on the American Wild West, particularly the brutal realities of surviving the Oregon Trail before finally settling for Montana. Human threats are only part of the struggle. Nature itself becomes the main enemy, alongside disease, exhaustion, and sudden loss. While 1883 may not rely on nonstop deadly action, it remains heartbreaking nonetheless.
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‘1923’ (2022–2025)
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While Yellowstone deals with land disputes involving the rich and powerful, and 1883 is about the Duttons settling their roots, 1923is a historical epic about survival, colonialism, and generational trauma. Jacob Dutton (Harrison Ford) and Cara Dutton (Helen Mirren), now in their elder years, leave much of the fighting to the ranch hands as they struggle to keep their land intact within their limited capacity.
But 1923 promises far more brutal action on the other side of the world: Africa. The wildlife in Kenya is far deadlier than anything in Montana, and Spencer constantly finds himself fending off raging elephants, leopards, and lions. Fighting humans is difficult enough, but animals do not care about morality or mercy — to them, you are just flesh waiting to be consumed.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
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Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
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The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
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🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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‘Dutton Ranch’ (2026–Present)
Cole Hauser and Kelly Reilly on horseback in Dutton Ranch Episode 1Image via Paramount+
Picking up right after the Yellowstone finale, Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Rip Dutton (Cole Hauser) move to South Texas in the aftermath of a wildfire engulfing the Montana wildlife. Together with their adopted son, Carter (Finn Little), the family starts anew by purchasing a new ranch. However, not everyone is happy with the new competition, especially the highly pragmatic 10 Petal Ranch owner, Beulah Jackson (Annette Bening).
Considering that the two are outsiders, the much calmer Beth and Rip conduct business as civilly as possible. However, that doesn’t mean they aren’t still as strict and stern as ever. Given that it’s still early in the show at the time of writing, the action hasn’t fully ramped up yet. Still, with characters like Beulah’s wildcard son and Carter, who isn’t afraid to tackle an abusive man, Dutton Ranch knows exactly when to be soft and when to turn violent.
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‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’ (2023)
David Oyelowo as Bass Reeves pointing a rifle in the Lawmen: Bass Reeves finale.Image via Paramount+
Based on the real-life lawman who reportedly made more than 3,000 arrests, Lawmen: Bass Reeves follows the near-mythic figure as he becomes one of the first Black deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River. The series plays out as both a historical recount and a character study, tracing Reeves from his beginnings in slavery to his rise as a feared and respected lawman on the frontier.
Much of Reeves’ work involves lengthy investigations, tracking fugitives across dangerous territory. However, the series wastes no time reminding viewers that Reeves is an expert marksman capable of turning a standoff violent in seconds. Shootouts, ambushes, fistfights, and tense manhunts all become part of the job, and when the law doesn’t side with men like Reeves, things can get ugly once in a while.
When you put a rancher like Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) back into the field, things can get messy. A former U.S. Navy SEAL, Kayce goes back to his roots in Marshalsfollowing the death of his wife. To cope with his grief, he took the opportunity to serve as a U.S. Marshal. Unlike Yellowstone, where Kayce follows an unspoken code within the ranch and his family, he is now completely on his own as he is thrown into the deep end of protecting Montana.
Marshals wastes no time throwing Kayce into dangerous operations, including investigating a possible terror attack on the Broken Rock Indian Reservation. Unlike in Yellowstone, where he was often pushed around by his family, Kayce’s moral code is now the law. Although not quite as abrasive as what he’s accustomed to during the Yellowstone days, Marshalspromises a generous amount of shootouts, horse chases, and explosions.
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‘Tulsa King’ (2022–Present)
Sylvester Stallone looking at two people across from him seriously in the Tulsa King Season 3 finale.Image via Paramount+
Tulsa Kingmight start off with a classic New York Mafia premise, but for a gangster crime drama, it is surprisingly more on the lighthearted side. After being imprisoned for 25 years, Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Sylvester Stallone) expects to be treated like a hero for never snitching on his bosses all those years. Instead, he gets exiled to the middle-of-nowhere Tulsa, Oklahoma, forced to build his own business from scratch.
Anyone familiar with the mob genre knows how specific those action scenes usually are: slick, claustrophobic, and more interested in prolonging pain before finally killing somebody. But much of Tulsa King also revolves around Dwight building a crew of misfits who hilariously do not always get along. Still, when they lock in together, they pull off lively, tightly choreographed fights full of grappling, shootouts, and perfectly timed takedowns.
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‘Yellowstone’ (2018–2024)
Everyone — literally everyone — is beating the living lights out of each other in Yellowstone. Following John Dutton III (Kevin Costner) and his exceptionally different adult children, the series makes one thing painfully clear: everybody is capable of physically fending for themselves, whether they are ranchers working the land or corporate players fighting from behind office desks. Above all else, their main priority is protecting the ranch from vulture enterprises and corporations trying to seize it for themselves.
On their best days, they get into fistfights outside the family home or deliver casual beatings to remind enemies who is in charge. At their worst, rival gangs send men to literally tear through their offices, leaving behind bloody trails of bodies. It does not matter whether it happens in a store in broad daylight or a bar in the dead of night — one wrong move, and you are gone.
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‘Mayor of Kingstown’ (2021–Present)
Jeremy Renner in a suit and tie wearing an ID badge and walking down a corridor in Mayor of Kingstown.Image via Paramount+
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Mike McClusky (Jeremy Renner) is not someone to be messed with in Mayor of Kingstown. Unlike Sheridan’s usual lineup of cowboys and countryside dramas, the crime thriller follows Mike as he becomes the unofficial “mayor” — or rather, the fixer — of the fictional Kingstown, a place that feels less like a home and more like a company town built on incarceration.
A former inmate himself, Mike knows how to keep the criminal underworld from spiraling out of control. With seven prison systems within a 10-mile radius, he is always one arm’s length away from pulling a gun, slamming somebody into the ground, or getting nearly stabbed. But the scariest part of Mayor of Kingstown’s violence is that it stems from a corrupt prison system that fails to rehabilitate the incarcerated.
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Over the last 10–15 years, Ryan Gosling has become one of the most high-profile and talented actors in the world. One of his most famous roles came just a few years ago from starring opposite Margot Robbie in Barbie, and it even netted him an Oscar nomination — he ultimately lost the award to Robert Downey Jr, who won for playing Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer. Gosling earned his first nomination 20 years ago for his performance in Half Nelson, and he landed his second nomination exactly 10 years later for starring opposite Emma Stone in La La Land. Gosling is soon to star in one of the most anticipated sci-fi movies of 2027 with Star Wars: Starfighter, but he could be in line for another Oscar nomination before he ventures to a Galaxy Far, Far Away.
Earlier this year, Gosling starred in the first true sci-fi masterpiece of 2026 with Project Hail Mary, which is based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir. Weir also wrote the book that inspired Ridley Scott’s 2015 sci-fi masterpiece, The Martian, starring Matt Damon. After earning scores of 94% from critics and 95% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, Project Hail Mary is officially considered a modern masterpiece, and perhaps the only sci-fi movie of the last 15 years that can safely be considered better than Interstellar. After grossing nearly $700 million at the box office, Project Hail Mary finally arrived on digital platforms last week, and the film has unsurprisingly been one of the biggest streaming success stories of the year. At the time of writing, Project Hail Mary is one of the top 10 most popular rentals and purchases in more than 25 countries around the world.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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Is Amazon Making a Sequel to ‘Project Hail Mary’?
While Project Hail Mary author Andy Weir has confirmed that he’s tossing around ideas for a potential sequel to the book and the film, there are no signs yet that anything concrete is moving forward. Most Project Hail Mary fans agree that the story of both the book and the film end on a pretty finite note, which would leave a sequel feeling more like a cash grab and less like a story that really needs to be told. Still, money is a powerful motivator, so a sequel to Project Hail Mary can’t be ruled out after the film has done so well.
Check out Project Hail Mary on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Project Hail Mary.
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Release Date
March 15, 2026
Runtime
157 minutes
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Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
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Drew Goddard, Andy Weir
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Aditya Sood, Amy Pascal, Andy Weir, Christopher Miller, Phil Lord, Rachel O’Connor, Ryan Gosling
Selena Gomez is stepping into one of the boldest phases of her career, and not everyone saw it coming.
The former Disney star is reportedly preparing for a daring new film packed with mature themes, lengthy runtime ambitions, and serious awards buzz.
However, while the project has sparked intense conversation online, one person closest to Gomez is reportedly standing firmly in her corner.
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Selena Gomez’s upcoming role in Brady Corbet’s reported new film “The Origin of the World” is already generating attention long before cameras even begin rolling.
The project, which is said to also star Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, has been described by insiders as a daring, X-rated feature that could reportedly run close to four hours.
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According to a source who spoke to The Daily Mail, Gomez’s decision should not completely surprise longtime followers of her career.
“People seem to forget that Selena did the movie Spring Breakers, but that movie was very risky with the choices it made and the nudity and drugs, and the character that Selena played was something completely different from her Barney and Disney roots,” the insider explained.
The source also noted that Gomez has spent years trying to break away from the polished image many people still associate with her earlier career.
“As she has gotten older, she has done work to not only test herself but also allow her to grow up in the industry,” the insider added.
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Back in 2012, “Spring Breakers” shocked audiences by showing a completely different side of Gomez alongside fellow former child stars Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson. Now, insiders believe her newest project may push boundaries even further.
Selena Gomez Eyes Serious Hollywood Respect
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Industry insiders reportedly believe Gomez sees the new film as more than just another acting role.
Brady Corbet’s reputation as a filmmaker appears to be a major reason why the actress signed onto the project. The insider explained that Corbet’s artistic credibility gives the film a much different image than a typical controversial movie.
The source claimed Corbet is “so beloved that no matter what he brings to it, people are expecting it to be his Boogie Nights.”
The comparison references Paul Thomas Anderson’s critically acclaimed 1997 classic, which blended explicit material with serious storytelling and later earned multiple Oscar nominations.
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According to the insider, “Boogie Nights” became “that entertains aspects of X-rated material, but in no way is the film remembered for that – it is remembered for being a defining moment in cinema.”
Sources also suggested Gomez is deeply focused on proving herself as a serious actress capable of taking creative risks.
“Selena is eager to win awards and be looked at as an actress with substance, because lots of her previous roles, she’s been very cookie-cutter and almost just a statue,” the insider said.
The source added, “Being able to work on these movies that have an edge is something she sees as a means of extending her career.”
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Gomez Says She Feels Free From Disney Image
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The film also represents another step in Selena Gomez’s long effort to move beyond her Disney Channel identity.
Over the years, the actress has openly discussed how difficult it was growing up under the pressure of maintaining a perfect public image while starring on “Wizards of Waverly Place.”
During a 2023 interview with Variety, Gomez admitted she finally feels less restricted by those expectations.
“I definitely feel free of it,” she said at the time. “Sometimes I get triggered. It’s not that I’m ashamed of my past, it’s just that I’ve worked so hard to find my own way. I don’t want to be who I was. I want to be who I am.”
She also reflected on how closely Disney stars were expected to monitor their behavior in public.
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Gomez said, “Of course. I wasn’t a wild child by any means. But I was on Disney, so I had to make sure not to say ‘What the hell?’ in front of anyone.”
She explained that much of the pressure came from herself as she tried to maintain a positive image for younger fans, noting, “It’s stuff that I was also putting on myself to be the best role model I could be. Now, I think being the best role model is being honest, even with the ugly and complicated parts of yourself.”
That mindset now appears to be influencing the kind of projects she chooses moving forward.
Despite the controversy surrounding the film’s mature themes, sources insist Gomez has strong support from husband Benny Blanco.
According to the insider, Blanco completely understands why the role matters so much to her career.
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“Benny is proud of Selena and her decision to move forward with working on the film,” the source shared.
The insider also stressed that Gomez is not taking the project lightly or simply accepting it for attention.
“She has all the money in the world, she has all the fans in the world, she now wants to do stuff that excites her,” the source explained.
The insider added that Gomez now views bold artistic risks as an important part of her future in Hollywood.
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They shared, “Roles of this nature are going to be her continued calling card for the years to come because she wants to surprise critics and herself.”
Brady Corbet Film Already Generating Intense Buzz
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Part of the fascination surrounding the movie comes from Corbet’s reputation for ambitious filmmaking.
His previous film, “The Brutalist,” already drew attention for its massive runtime and unconventional structure. Reports suggest the new screenplay stretches roughly 200 pages and could become another lengthy cinematic event.
The production is also expected to use rare eight-perf 65mm cameras, continuing Corbet’s reputation for visually ambitious projects.
According to insiders, that artistic reputation is exactly why Gomez feels comfortable stepping into unfamiliar territory.
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“She’s playing a character in an overall piece that should be very artistic. Brady has proven himself to be a filmmaker with a vision and a purpose. Selena isn’t going into this lightly, and Benny appreciates her drive and will be her biggest cheerleader throughout,” the source said.
With awards ambitions, controversial themes, and major Hollywood names attached, Gomez’s latest project is already shaping up to become one of the entertainment industry’s most closely watched risks.
Last September, the world lost another Hollywood icon when it was confirmed that Robert Redford had passed away aged 89. Following his breakout performance in 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Redford starred in countless great movies, such as 1975’s Three Days of the Condor, followed one year later by All the President’s Men, and 1985’s Out of Africaalongside Meryl Streep. Across his sixty-year career, Redford scored an Academy Award win for Best Director and even earned the Academy’s prestigious Honorary Award in 2002.
With countless entries in his filmography, from starring roles to directorial efforts, Redford’s movies regularly circle on the streaming charts. However, at a time when the usual suspects often crack the top ten, one of his more underrated modern performances has become an unlikely streaming favorite. The film in question is the modern Western dramaAn Unfinished Life, released in 2005, which stars Redford as a recovering alcoholic who is reacquainted with his daughter, with the pair learning to heal old wounds.
Also starring Morgan Freeman and Jennifer Lopez, the Lasse Halström-directed feature was cruelly underrated by critics at the time, although famed critic Roger Ebert saw the sparkling gem beneath the poor reviews, praising the screenplay for being “modest and heartfelt” in his 3/4 review. Over two decades on and, in the shadow of Redford’s passing, An Unfinished Life is earning its flowers. At the time of writing, the movie is one of the ten most-streamed on Paramount+ in the U.S., a list currently topped by Mckenna Grace‘s 2026 body horror comedy Slanted.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
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⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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03
Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
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Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
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🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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‘An Unfinished Life’ Was a Box Office Flop
As a consequence of studio restructuring at Miramax and other outside forces, An Unfinished Life faced many delays in the lead-up to release, with some fearing that the film’s title would manifest into a reality. This, plus a frustratingly limited theatrical release, left the film doomed from the start of its theatrical run. Against a reported budget of $30 million, An Unfinished Life earned just $18.5 million worldwide, split between a domestic haul of $8.5 million and a further $10 million from overseas markets. At its peak, the film was available in just 888 locations nationwide, earning no more than $2 million in domestic revenue on its most fruitful weekend.
An Unfinished Life is streaming on Paramount+. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for more of the latest streaming stories.
Game of Thrones alum Hannah Murray says she suffered a catastrophic psychotic break after joining a wellness cult.
“It’s easy to go, ‘Well, that would never happen to me,’ but we do ourselves a disservice when we start saying that, because you don’t know,” Murray, 36, told The Guardian in an interview published on Saturday, May 23. “I had no idea I was going togo through any of the things in the book. I would’ve assumed I couldn’t, that I was safe. I was well educated, from a middle-class family; everything should have been fine.”
She continued, “I thought, “I’m smart. I make good choices.’ Well, I made terrible choices. But it’s important to understand why people do these things, rather than going, ‘Oh, they must be idiots.’ Or, ‘How stupid could you be?’”
Murray, who appeared in 25 episodes of the hit HBO series across Seasons 2 through 8 as Gilly, declined to name the wellness cult she says she joined at age 27, instead only referring to it as the “organization.” She told the outlet she was introduced to the cult via a so-called “energy healer,” who she met through her personal trailer on the set of Detroit.
One Tree Hill alum Bethany Joy Lenz revealed she was in a cult for a decade, and she hopes that her experience can eventually help others. “I was in a cult for 10 years,” Lenz, 42, shared on the Monday, July 10, episode of iHeartRadio’s “Drama Queens” podcast. “That would be a really valuable experience […]
“My own experience felt highly eroticized, without anything explicitly physical happening,” she said of her experience in the alleged cult. “There was just this charge to the energy in the room. I think there often is in these hierarchical spiritual organizations. I found it interesting that it was a primarily quite female space — the teachers, the healer — and then this man walks in and he’s incredibly confident and magnetic. The first thing he says is a joke about sex. From this quite floaty, quite gentle, wishy-washy energy, it was suddenly, like, ‘Hey, I’m here,’ and, ‘Let’s f***.’ I think he was doing that deliberately.”
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The leader of the wellness cult, also not named by Murray, allegedly wrote a “symbolic necklace and carried a giant Starbucks cup” with him everywhere he went. The actress spent thousands of dollars to obtain “wisdom and specialness,” but ultimately suffered a psychotic episode so intense that she was admitted to a psychiatric unit and, later, diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
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She documented her experience in her new book, The Make Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness, and today stays away from all things wellness industry-related.
“Even the tame stuff can feel quite distressing,” she explained. “I don’t meditate any more. I wouldn’t go into a crystal shop. I don’t do yoga, because I don’t quite know what might come up that might feel a bit too woo-woo for my personal threshold. But I realize now how pervasive it is. How often people you don’t know will offer it as a remedy.”
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She added, ‘You’ll say, ‘I’m not really sleeping,’ and they’ll say, ‘Have you tried meditation?’ It’s everywhere, seen as an inherently positive solution. And there are harmless or positive versions. But as someone looking for something to fix me entirely, a magic wand or silver bullet, the promise felt seductive and addictive.”
For the past couple of months, Prime Video has been dominated by the final installment of Eric Kripke‘s beloved superhero satire, The Boys. Karl Urban‘s Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid‘s Hughie Campbell, Antony Starr‘s Homelander, et al. have been busy dialing the drama and action up to 11 for the fifth season, with the bold chaos coming to an explosive end this past week. Ending on “a rushed but mostly satisfying note,” according to Collider’s review of the finale by Nate Richard, Prime Video is ready to enter its post-The Boys era, and one series is already flying that flag.
The show in question is the acclaimed Off Campus, based on Elle Kennedy‘s book series, which is being dubbed by many as the perfect replacement for HBO Max’s Heated Rivalry. The series features a stellar ensemble, including leads Ella Bright (The Crown) and Belmont Cameli (Until Dawn), alongside Josh Heuston (Dune: Prophecy), Antonio Cipriano (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin), Jalen Thomas Brooks (The Pitt), Mika Abdalla (The Pitt), and Stephen Kalyn (Gen V). Off Campus debuted on Prime Video on May 13, dropping all eight episodes at once, and scoring immediate popularity across the world.
Just over a week since the show’s premiere, and it continues to rise in popularity. At the time of writing, Off Campus is one of the most-watched shows on Prime Video in the U.S., as well as the second-most-watched show in the world, behind the aforementioned The Boys. The show ranks as the most-watched on Prime in several countries, including Switzerland, South Africa, and Canada, and is expected to climb to the global #1 spot as the dust settles on The Boys‘ finale. Unsurprisingly, the show has already been renewed for Season 2.
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Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
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🔬House
🩺Scrubs
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01
A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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02
Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
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03
What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
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04
You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
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05
How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
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06
How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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07
What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
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08
At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
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Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
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You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
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You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
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You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
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You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
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You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
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How Have Critics Reacted to ‘Off Campus’?
Romantic dramas aimed at older teens often prove divisive among critics. However, Off Campus is breaking that trend by earning near-universal acclaim from both critics and audiences. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the series has scored a near-perfect 93%, with audiences awarding a 90% rating. Collider’s Therese Lacson was full of praise in her review, calling the series “exactly what romance novel lovers want from a TV adaptation.” She continued, “Detractors might call the show cheesy or a guilty pleasure, but for lovers of romance, there’s nothing guilty about it.“
Off Campus Season 1 is available to stream on Prime Video. Stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.
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May 13, 2026
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Dawn Wilkinson, Erica Dunton, Silver Tree, Sam Bailey
Some of the biggest off-screen movie news this month arrived on May 4, as it was announced that Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni‘s legal battle, following their collaboration on It Ends With Us and Lively’s accusation of sexual harassment, had come to an end via a confidential settlement. As the dust settles on the controversy, and fans allow themselves a moment to share their opinion on social media, the time has come to move on and look forward to more adaptations from Colleen Hoover’s catalog.
Since It Ends With Us earned $350 million at the global box office, two more Hoover adaptations have been released. Despite being somewhat overshadowed by its predecessor’s headlines, both films have performed well at the box office, although they fell short of It Ends With Us‘ high heights. Most recently, Reminders of Him, starring Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers, and directed by Vanessa Caswill, took home $88 million against a production budget of $25 million, despite facing competition from the likes of Scream 7, Wuthering Heights, and the huge sci-fi hit Project Hail Mary.
Last year, the second feature Hoover adaptation, Regretting You, capitalized on the financial success of It Ends With Us by scoring a $90 million haul against a reported budget of $30 million. Starring the likes of Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco, Mason Thames, Scott Eastwood, Willa Fitzgerald, and Clancy Brown, the film earned a poor reception from critics, dubbed “messy” in Isabella Soares‘ review for Collider, but impressed fans enough to earn an 84% audience score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Seven months later, Regretting You is still impressing fans and has landed as the most-watched movie on Prime Video in the U.S., at the time of writing.
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Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
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🔬House
🩺Scrubs
Advertisement
01
A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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02
Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
Advertisement
03
What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
Advertisement
04
You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
Advertisement
05
How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
Advertisement
06
How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
Advertisement
07
What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
Advertisement
08
At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
Advertisement
Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Advertisement
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
Advertisement
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
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You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
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You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
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You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
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You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
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When Is the Next Colleen Hoover Adaptation?
Romance is exchanged for psychological thrills in the next Hoover adaptation, as Verity debuts on the big screen on October 2, 2026. Led by the hugely talented Anne Hathaway, who is now the biggest star to feature in a Hoover adaptation, this eye-catching line-up also features Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett, Ismael Cruz Cordóva, and Brady Wagner. The movie is directed by Michael Showalter, who has previously worked with Hathaway on Prime Video’sThe Idea of You, which became a big hit for the streamer.
Regretting You is streaming now on Prime Video. Stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.
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October 22, 2025
Runtime
116 minutes
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Josh Boone
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Susan McMartin
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Anna Todd, Brunson Green, Flavia Viotti, Robert Kulzer
“We are aware of reports of shots fired near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW and are working to corroborate the information with personnel on the ground. Additional information will be provided as it becomes available,” the Secret Service tweeted on Saturday, May 23.
A Secret Service spokesperson told Us Weekly that the agency was “gathering information and will have more on this incident shortly.”
“FBI is on the scene and supporting Secret Service responding to shots fired near White House grounds – we will update the public as we’re able,” FBI Director Kash Pateltweeted shortly after the incident.
Shocking new video footage shows the moment shots rang out at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last weekend. Jeanine Pirro, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, posted what appears to be security camera footage of the shooting incident via X on Thursday, April 30. Shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen can allegedly be […]
CNN reported that reporters on the ground heard gunfire coming from the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest in Washington, D.C., with speculation that the gunfire may have emanated from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building side of the White House.
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ABC News White House correspondent Selina Wangshared video of her live report from the premises being interrupted by what appeared to be loud sounds of gunfire. She ducked for cover before the video footage cut off.
“I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots,” Yang, 33, tweeted. “It sounded like dozens of gunshots. We were told to sprint to the press briefing room where we are holding now.”
Reporters were reportedly told to shelter in place while locked down in the White House press briefing room.
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Us reached out to the White House for comment.
This latest incident occurred just shy of one more after Cole Tomas Allen allegedly opened fire in the lobby of the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25. Allen, 31, allegedly struck a Secret Service agent in crossfire before he was apprehended. (The White House later confirmed the Secret Agent was shot in his protective vest but taken to a local hospital for treatment.)
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President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Vice President JD Vance and numerous other administration officials were inside the Washington Hilton ballroom at the time of the shooting and were quickly evacuated.
Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk was seen being rushed from the ballroom in tears moments after the shooting. Kirk, 37, later called the shooting “another traumatic example of the evil in our country and the continued rise in political violence.” (Erika’s husband, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was fatally shot at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on September 10, 2025. A 22-year-old man was later charged with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm, obstruction of justice and witness tampering. He has yet to enter a plea.)
Following Allen’s arrest, he was charged with attempting to assassinate the president, interstate transportation of weapons and discharge of a firearm during a violent crime. He pleaded not guilty during a May 11 court hearing.
The country is continuing to mourn the loss of and pay tribute to NASCAR legend Kyle Busch after his untimely and shocking death.
“Kyle Busch was not just a talented and record-setting driver; he was also a kind person,” North Carolina Governor Josh Stein said in a statement shared via the North Carolina Department of Transportation on Friday, May 22, announcing that he has ordered all “U.S. and North Carolina flags at state facilities to half-staff” in honor of the late racer.
“His loss will be felt throughout the entire NASCAR community and well beyond,” the governor continued. “Anna and I send our deepest condolences to the Busch family during this incredibly difficult time. May his memory be a blessing.”
The governor has ordered flags to fly at half-staff from sunrise on Sunday “through sunset Sunday, May 24,” to pay homage to the racer, who died on Thursday, May 21, after a brief hospitalization for a serious illness.
NASCAR CEO Steve O’Donnell has made his first public comments since the death of Cup Series driver Kyle Busch on Thursday, May 21. “Kyle Busch, to me, is an American badass,” he told reporters. “Behind the wheel, [he was] who you want to be, and I think when you look back at all those things, […]
“We are saddened and heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup champion and one of our sports’ greatest and fiercest drivers,” the official NASCAR social media account announced via X at the time. “We extend our deepest condolences to the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and the entire motorsports community.”
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On Saturday, a rep for the Busch family confirmed the late racer’s cause of death to NBC News, telling the network that the late athlete died of pneumonia that progressed “into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming associated complications.” Busch is survived by his wife, Samantha, and his two children: son Brexton and daughter Lennix.
The same day that Busch’s cause of death was confirmed, his racing team paid a silent tribute to the athlete at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
“A silent garage pays its respect as the No. 22 @RCRacing Chevrolet unloads at @CLTMotorSpdway,” NASCAR wrote via X, alongside a video showing the late driver’s team unloading his vehicle.
The blue, white and red Chevrolet adorned with the Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen logo was unloaded in complete silence. The car’s number was changed from No. 8 to No. 33, though a small No. 8 decal was seen on the door of the vehicle.
More details about the circumstances of NASCAR driver Kyle Busch’s death have come to light. Hours before Busch died at age 41, a 911 call obtained by TMZ reveals that Busch suffered a medical emergency at a training facility in North Carolina. “I’ve got an individual that’s shortness of breath, very hot,” the caller said. […]
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On Friday, NASCAR announced that the RCR team “opted to shelf the No. 8” that Busch last drove, switching to the car No. 33 for the foreseeable future. The team indicated it will reserve Busch’s No. 8 for his son “when he is ready.”
In Governor Stein’s Friday announcement, the politician urged others to honor the NASCAR driver by also lowering their flags.
“Individuals, businesses, schools, municipalities, counties and other government subdivisions are also encouraged to fly flags at half-staff for the duration of time indicated,” the announcement read in part.
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