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‘The Pitt’s Most Intense Med Student Breakdown Has a Much Deeper Hidden Meaning

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6 March 2026

Victoria Javadi (Shabana Azeez) and James Ogilvie (Lucas Iverson) on 'The Pitt'

Editor’s note: The below interview contains spoilers for The Pitt Season 2 Episode 9.

It may be hard to believe, but Noah Wyle and R. Scott Gemmill‘s smash-hit HBO medical drama The Pitt is closer to the end of Season 2 than ever. With the situation for this season’s Fourth of July shift in the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center only becoming more dire thanks to a necessary network shutdown, frustrations for both staff and patients are at an all-time high — and the ED’s switch to doing things in an analog fashion means that some cases might end up slipping through the cracks.

Shabana Azeez‘s Victoria Javadi learns that truth the hard way when a breakdown in communication results in her patient unexpectedly coding while waiting for the case to be presented. Although the patient is ultimately revived and whisked off for emergency surgery, it’s a harsh lesson for the young med student to learn — and, as Azeez points out in our post-mortem chat prior to the premiere of Episode 9, “3:00 P.M.,” it’s a strong reminder of the intense pressures that real-life med students are facing every day.

COLLIDER: This is the episode where Shawn Hatosy is making his debut as director. Does he bring a different perspective to directing, as an actor himself?

SHABANA AZEEZ: He knows the world inside out, and he’s so giving. He’s an actor and director and writer, so I feel like he understood everybody and was a real chameleon about it. It was lovely. Also, in Season 1, I was doing a lot of the comedic load on that season, and this is different. I haven’t seen it yet, so I’m so nervous.

Shabana Azeez Reveals Javadi’s True Feelings About Ogilvie on ‘The Pitt’ Season 2

“She’s not interested in that man.”

Javadi and Ogilvie accidentally both pull the same patient, and we’ve talked before about the competitiveness of those characters, which is really fun to watch. Does that surprise forced interaction between them give Javadi a better understanding of what Ogilvie is really about?

AZEEZ: I think she can’t stand him. She’s not interested in him, which is really rare for her. Usually, even with Santos, she’s like, “I guess they’re just like this.” But with Ogivlie, she’s 20, and you know how, when you meet people for the first time, you’re like, “Oh my god, what is this version of me that’s coming out?” She’s never met somebody who’s created this dynamic in her where she’s itching to be right.

In Season 1, too, she’s not a gunner. She’s not somebody who needs to be right in the moment. She wants to do her best, and she doesn’t want to be underestimated, and she doesn’t want to be sidelined. She gets put in triage, and that’s not her favorite, but she really wants to be her best self. She’s never like, “I know the answer before Santos knows it!” or “I’m smarter than you,” or whatever. Ogilvie creates this dynamic that’s so rancid that it really gives her the freedom to not be people-pleasing or be perfect or be palatable to people. She could just be herself in that moment. For Javadi, it’s just about the version of Javadi she can be. She’s not interested in that man.

Emma Nolan and Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi walking closely behind Dana Evans in The Pitt Season 2 Episode 7

‘The Pitt’ Just Exposed One of America’s Most Brutal Truths in 5 Minutes

This insidious reality reveals an even larger social battle.

Episode 9 kicks off for Javadi with the young boy who accidentally blows his fingers off with a firework. Do you find yourself intuiting or maybe internalizing anything surprising from a younger actor who’s coming in and having to do a really tough or emotional scene like that?

AZEEZ: That’s such a lovely question. I think young performers get so much credit in some ways, and not in others. They’re so open and free in some ways, and often it’s about really good casting. There were such strange casting processes. I think we’ve got another kid who is under [anesthesia] this season, so Cathy [Sandrich Gelfond], our casting director, just had the kid lie down and poked them with straws and stuff to see if it would bother them. Casting kids is such an art form, and I think Cathy and the entire team are amazing at it.

I love having kids on set because I think they’re this great ego killer in the adult actors. Some actors are very, like, “What can I give?” and some actors are very, like, “What do I need in the scene?” But as soon as you get a kid in, the kid’s needs are paramount. If the kid needs quiet, if the kid needs safety, everybody goes, “Let’s be what we need to be for the kid.” So, I love working with kids. I think they’re amazing. They bring such a wonderful energy by being who they are. Kid performers are often really incredible young people, but also, the impact they have on everybody around them.

I’m trying to think of a lesson I’ve learned. Definitely Harrison, McKay’s son. The actor who played that role, [Henry Samiri], was incredible. One of the best Australian accents I’ve heard in my life. I think it’s often really great parents, too, who create these kids who are like, “It’s going to be fun!” I really wish I subscribed to the tortured artist mentality. I mean, I do do things to myself for work that’s not healthy, but I want to live a fun and impactful life, I want to do good, and kids are really great at being like, “What are your priorities?” It’s not about showing everybody the work. I don’t want to show everybody how hard I’m working. I want everybody to feel like it’s effortlessly chill and be whatever anybody needs me to be. I think that child actors are really great at that, too.

Javadi’s Crashing Patient is a Turning Point for Her Storyline in ‘The Pitt’ Season 2

“The stakes are life and death pretty consistently, day in, day out, on these 15, 20-hour shifts.”

Shabana Azeez as Victoria Javadi in an elevator in 'The Pitt' Season 1. — Shabana Azeez as Victoria Javadi in an elevator in ‘The Pitt’ Season 1.

Javadi’s patient, who presents in Episode 9 with mild abdominal pain, is one of those cases where everyone’s running in a million different directions, and then this, as Whitaker says, falls through the cracks. You can see, in your performance, that you’re walking a very fine line between feeling like you’re going to cry, but you can’t let yourself cry. Is it harder to bring yourself to the threshold of needing to hold back the tears than it is to do a scene where you can just let it all go?

AZEEZ: I think so. And I think so much of those moments are surrendering to if it happens or if it doesn’t happen. They both are okay. I don’t know what ended up in the edit, because we did so many different takes. I’m definitely an actor who wants to give versions and options, and the editor can make that call in the room. Performances are made in the cutting room, not on the soundstage — for the screen, at least.

For Javadi, particularly, the degradation of her mental state over the day, like how quietly things get exhausting and how you have to compartmentalize as a doctor, but you are still getting more and more heightened and more and more exhausted… she has a really horrible day, and I think that last season there was community in that. It was a shared trauma in what happens to them, but I think this season, Javadi is quite alone in the things that happen. Then also, the pain in this particular context, and we say it in the show all the time, but the emergency department is like a team sport, and this particular situation, where it’s like, “Well, the nurse didn’t write the name down. I didn’t clock that, but we all fuck up, and that’s why this happened.” It’s not all her fault, but it’s also not not her fault. You’re meant to just be on top of everybody, helping everybody out all the time, and so it’s so lonely.

I’m excited to see it. I’m very nervous. But I think there is something really heartbreaking about the amount of people you let down. The stakes are so high. And in a story, you can be like, “Oh, well, that’s the one time that’s going to happen today.” But actually, in the ED, she could make that mistake four times in a row today. The stakes are life and death pretty consistently, day in, day out, on these 15, 20-hour shifts.

The dominoes all fell for this patient to be on a bed crashing, and no one knew. How does a mistake like this impact Javadi’s mindset now that we’re heading into the second half of this shift?

AZEEZ: I really want med students to be able to tune in to The Pitt on their worst day of med school and watch Javadi and feel better about themselves. That’s really important to me. Med school is so intense, and it takes so much. Mental health outcomes, even for students, are so wild. I remember vividly when I was at uni, where I grew up, they were getting rid of grades in med schools because of the amount of self-harm and suicides that were happening on campus. It’s so intense to imagine that kind of pressure.

Usually for The Pitt, it’s always been like “We’re trying to do our best, we’re trying to do our best, we’re trying to do our best,” and I kind of actually want that to crumble. For Javadi, she’s always trying her best. She’s always capable of that. I really want this second half of the season to be more complicated than that, because sometimes people do want to quit. You can have all the strongest why in the world and all the integrity and all the gumption and the grit to just try and try and try again, but a system like this that seems so hopeless in so many ways is going to get you down. I really want the second half of the season to be messy and imperfect. She’s not committed to anything yet. She doesn’t know what she wants to do. If you give so much of yourself to something you’re not even sure about, it’s going to take a toll on your mental health, and you’re going to develop an attitude about it, and that’s not unfair.

Roxie, the patient that Javadi and McKay are dealing with, doesn’t want to leave the hospital. There’s not much more you can do for her pain, even after talking with Robby about it. Has Javadi even allowed herself to think about what the logical ending looks like for this particular case, or is she just, like you said, compartmentalizing?

AZEEZ: I think she, as the day goes on, gets more and more tired and ground down and reactive, and she’s not thinking anymore. This particular storyline is so hard for a 20-year-old. I think Roxy’s kids are 12 and eight. We’re eight, nine years apart. It is huge, I guess, at that age, and any age, but I think that parent-child dynamic is quite complex for Javadi, which we’ve seen a bit of already, and we’ll explore as we go on, but she’s never had loss like this. She’s never witnessed it. She doesn’t even know what she doesn’t know.

New episodes of The Pitt Season 2 premiere Thursdays on HBO Max.

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Jon Hamm Names the 3 Pixar Movies That Leave Him a “Weeping Mess”

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Buzz reaches out his hand to someone off-camera as he and Jessie look sad and scared in Toy Story 3.

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Collider’s Steve Weintraub talks with Jon Hamm for Pixar’s Hoppers.
Hamm discusses the animation projects he’s been a part of and his favorite Pixar films.
He also shares his favorite films from Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg.

Emmy Award winner Jon Hamm is probably best known for his role as Don Draper in Mad Men, but lately, he’s found a new passion within the industry. While talking with Collider’s Steve Weintraub about Pixar’s new comedy adventure, Hoppers, Hamm was discussing the magic of animation and how he’s been fortunate to lend his unmistakable voice to several animated projects now. “I’ve been animated,” he says proudly, “and I like it.”

In Hoppers, Hamm voices Mayor Jerry Generazzo, who’s taken hostage by a group of animals on a mission, rallied by a 19-year-old animal-lover named Mabel (voiced by Piper Curda). Disney and Pixar’s latest takes audiences on a hilarious adventure when Mabel borrows a new technology to “hop” into the body of a robotic beaver, allowing her to infiltrate the animal kingdom. By doing so, she manages to convince King George (Bobby Moynihan) and the others to take a stand against a looming threat.

Check out the full conversation in the video above or the transcript below, where Hamm breaks down the animation process to turn him and fellow castmates, Dave Franco, Vanessa Bayer, Moynihan, and more, into their Hoppers characters, and which Pixar movies are his favorites. He also shares his favorite films from directors Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg.

How Does Pixar Always Leave Us All a “Weeping Mess”?

Jon Hamm shares his favorite Pixar movies.

COLLIDER: I heard you haven’t seen this yet.

JON HAMM: I have not. I’m looking forward to seeing it at the premiere in front of a ton of kids and a packed audience. I’m very, very excited to see it.

I’m going to give you a spoiler warning: the movie is incredible.

HAMM: Good.

It is easily my favorite Pixar movie in years. It is tremendous. You have no idea what you’re about to get yourself into.

HAMM: I’m very excited. I have some idea. I did make it and read it. I have a lot of trust in the people who had their hands on it, so I’m very excited to see what they’ve done.

I’ve been asking this of everyone at every Pixar junket, but do you have a favorite Pixar movie?

HAMM: It’s hard to pick one.

I know. The answer is Ratatouille.

HAMM: [Laughs] It’s hard to pick one. Ratatouille is great. Obviously, Patton [Oswalt]’s work in that was so spectacular, but also the message of the film and the idea of the critic is so… as you may or may not have an opinion on that yourself. I love WALL-E. I love how the story was told without, really, any voices, just sounds and images. It’s a really elegant, beautiful way to tell a story. Toy Story, my god. I mean, the amount of times I’ve sat on a plane and watched that movie, those movies, and am completely a weeping mess, to the point where stewardesses were getting worried. [Laughs]

What Pixar does, their history of doing this, is combine an incredibly well-told story with deeply, deeply funny, humorous elements, and really connect emotionally. All the movies that we mentioned do that incredibly well, and I think this is certainly worthy of that lineage.

By the way, I would also accept WALL-E as an answer for my favorite Pixar.

HAMM: Yeah, man. It’s great.

It’s incredible.

Jon Hamm Explains Pixar’s Animation Process

Have we seen Mayor Jerry somewhere before…?

So when they came to you to play Mayor Jerry, did the design always look like that, or when you got cast, all of a sudden he morphs to look a little bit like you?

HAMM: It’s hard to tell which is the chicken or the egg. But I certainly think that what the animators do incredibly is that as you continue, as you start laying down the tracks, and as you get through the scripts and as they get rewritten and as they get roughed in and animated a little bit, they definitely start taking all of the footage that they have of you in the booth and they start using that as a kind of guide track for the characters’ facial expressions, for their physicality, for sure. As you go through the movie and you start watching it, you really start to see Bobby [Moynihan] in King George, and you see Vanessa [Bayer] in Diane, and you really start to see Dave [Franco] in Titus. You really start to see these people. They kind of come out through the animation. It’s very cool.

So, I don’t know how. I think it’s magical. I cannot draw a lick, so I think it’s incredible what these guys can do. It’s very cool. I’ve been fortunate enough to be in quite a few cool animated films, whether it’s Shrek or Minions or now this, or even Grimsburg on Fox. I’ve been animated, and I like it.

Oh, I can’t imagine, truthfully.

Jon Hamm Discusses His Favorite Films From Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg

“Wait, what did I just watch? What just happened?”

Guy Pearce seeing pollaroids while in the front seat of a car in Memento. — Guy Pearce in Memento.

I’ve been asking this of a lot of people I’ve been interviewing recently. Do you have a favorite Christopher Nolan movie?

HAMM: Favorite Christopher Nolan movie? I’ll go back to the source material and say Memento. I think that one showed his incredible attention to detail and the incredible acuity that he has with telling a very complicated story. And it was a story that I don’t think a lot of people were prepared for. It was almost like the first time you saw The Usual Suspects, and you’re like, “Wait, what did I just watch? What just happened?” It’s just so creative with the storytelling. I thought that was the one that really established him as someone to watch.

The other thing I’ve been asking everyone is what’s your favorite Steven Spielberg?

HAMM: Holy moly. That’s a tall order. But I guess if I’m going to go with one, I’d say Jaws.

That is a very common answer with a lot of people. It’s a masterpiece and flawless.

HAMM: Yeah. And the most amazing thing about it was Jaws was, what, ‘77, ‘76?

I almost want to say ‘75.

HAMM: Maybe it was. Maybe it was around there. To then kind of the next major thing be E.T. is such a genre shift.

I think he did Close Encounters.

HAMM: Close Encounters in between, but to tell a story, that deeply terrifying blockbuster that Jaws was, and then to come back on the other end of the spectrum and you tell E.T.? And you’re right, Close Encounters in between, but holy moly, what a what a gifted storyteller.

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Tom Sandoval Teases Possibility of Engagement to Victoria Lee Robinson

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Tom Sandoval is clearly loving life these days … and a lot of it has to do with his GF — ’cause the relationship is going so strong, he’s even teasing a possible ring in the near future!

We caught up with Tom outside NYC’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Wednesday … and he couldn’t stop gushing about hitting the 2-year mark with GF Victoria Lee Robinson, dropping some serious hints about what the next stage of their relationship might look like.

Check out the full clip — the guy’s clearly head over heels — and the convo kicked off with him reflecting on how far he’s come since the whole #Scandoval drama.

It turned into a wide-ranging chat … because Tom also gave us his take on the current season of “Traitors,” weighing in as someone who’s been through the game himself.

Bottom line — Tom’s looking happy, in love, and very much like a guy enjoying his next chapter!

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“Vladimir” show vs. book: How the Netflix series changes the ending

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The Rachel Weisz series omits a portion of the novel’s ending, leaving the characters’ fates more ambiguous.

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Grey’s Anatomy Recap: Owen, Teddy Hook Up After Their Divorce

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Grey’s Anatomy just had Kevin McKidd and Kim Raver‘s characters sign their divorce papers — only to show Owen and Teddy’s shocking hookup.

During the Thursday, March 5, episode of the hit ABC series, Owen supported Teddy as she contemplated another risky heart surgery on a patient. It was ultimately successful, which the former couple discussed at the end of their shift when Teddy came to pick up the kids.

Owen and Teddy admitted they were both still adjusting to their new normal before they decided to sleep together again. Their relationship status remained unclear as the episode wrapped up without a conclusion.

Earlier this season, Owen dealt with the end of his marriage to Teddy as she moved on with Cass (Sophia Bush). Owen had his own romantic development when he went out to dinner with Nora (Floriana Lima) before they eventually broke up.

“A couple of scripts came in [recently] and I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’ It gets messy and it is so Grey’s Anatomy. I just love it so much,” Raver, 56, exclusively told Us Weekly in January.

The actress learned what is to come with the rest of the cast.

Kim Raver Breaks Down Teddy s Hookup With Sophia Bush s Cass Hints at What s Next With Owen — Bob D’Amico / ©ABC / Courtesy Everett Collection (3)

“We’re all reading what’s happening [during a table read], and I love it,” she shared. “Some of us are in scrubs, some of us are in our street clothes. Then when we find out the information, it’s a shock and a surprise to all of us. We are like the audience, too, and then we look at each other like, ‘This is really happening.’”

Raver, who has played Teddy since season 6, promised “really great” Grey’s Anatomy story lines — and revealed whether she has any concerns about her character’s fate.

“That’s the life of an actor,” she noted. “It’s really just about trying to be present and doing the work and following the amazing story lines that the writers are given. Especially with how now we’re always having these incredible cliffhangers. No one ever knows.”

Raver promised that the audience would be “riveted” by what’s to come, adding, “There is a cliffhanger, so I think that that’s going to be really surprising. … I love being able to go every day and be able to tell these stories from a director’s point of view. Each story line leaves us with that quintessential Grey’s Anatomy vibes where you are crying, laughing and the residents are so good. There’s a lot of shenanigans going on with them. It’s a really exciting episode.”

Raver continued: “I feel like every time I direct a new episode of Grey’s, there are more things [I learn] because there’s a different format or a different way to shoot it. But I think maybe my confidence in how I want to tell this story and where I want to put the cameras [has gotten better]. TV moves so fast, so I feel like the more I do, the more comfortable I am with the speed that you need to go through it. I am just getting more and more comfortable with the craft of it, which allows me to then really enjoy the process.”

Grey’s Anatomy airs on ABC Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET before streaming the next day on Hulu.

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Steven Spielberg Teams Up With Netflix for a Brutally Vivid Docuseries

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A closeup of a blue eye in 'The Dinosaurs'

When Steven Spielberg‘s Jurassic Park came out in 1993, it changed the way we looked at dinosaurs. No longer were they drawings in a book or stop-motion in a cheesy movie. Thanks in part to the genius of Industrial Light & Magic, dinosaurs felt alive like never before. Now, the iconic director and visual effects studio are back together again for another dino story. This time, instead of the world of fiction, with dinosaurs impossibly living amongst modern humans, Netflix‘s The Dinosaurs is a four-part docuseries that goes back millions of years to show the rise and fall of their era — and if the story’s jaw-dropping visuals aren’t enough of a selling point, it’s all narrated by Morgan Freeman.

What Is ‘The Dinosaurs’ About?

Steven Spielberg, Morgan Freeman, Industrial Light & Magic, and Netflix have actually worked together before on the 2023 Netflix docuseries Life on Our Planet. The eight episodes covered the history of life on Earth from the very beginning to the animals of today. This was done through a combination of live-action footage, when possible, and CGI when needed, with the technology coming in handy for episodes that covered the reign of the dinosaurs.

The Dinosaurs covers the days of Tyrannosaurus Rex and company in four detailed episodes, but rather than only depicting big names like the T-rex or a Triceratops, Netflix’s docuseries succeeds by digging deep and covering four distinct eras and what came from them better than most history lessons ever could. “Rise” focuses on the beginning, where small dinosaurs from 235 million years ago fight for survival in a new world. In “Conquest,” dinosaurs grow, only for many to be wiped out by the Ice Age. “Empire” is aptly titled because dinosaurs are now giants and the rules of an ever-changing Earth. Lastly, “Fall,” as the name implies, takes us all the way to the end, with an asteroid like a ticking time bomb to the end credits.

‘The Dinosaurs’ Is Treated Like a Brutal Nature Documentary

The Dinosaurs is not only built on the passion of Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment, but also on the know-how of Silverback Films, the creators of wildlife documentaries such as Secrets of the Bees, Ocean with David Attenborough, and Secret Lives of Orangutans. Their influence shows heavily in the best of ways, taking The Dinosaurs out of the realm of stuffy history lessons and narrowed scope. In a large world with fantastical figures from before our time, The Dinosaurs takes an emotional approach, with its subjects fighting to live in a world where only finding food and making it to the next day matters. Each episode plants the audience in the daily life of a little Marasuchus, a mammoth saurpod, or a terrifying carnivore in a world that’s eat or be eaten.

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The viewers are moved in herds. They really are moved in herds.

Dinosaurs might be one of the first things kids are fascinated by, but The Dinosaurs is probably not for the little ones. The docuseries is brutal and unforgiving. It sucks you in with the warm blanket of Morgan Freeman’s voice, but he’s narrating a vision of hell and even tells us so. Each episode is one scene after another of getting to know a dinosaur, one usually all alone, before its life is either snuffed out by a predator, a sudden fire, or the inability to adapt to a world that keeps evolving. A few scenes are hard to watch because The Dinosaurs does such a phenomenal job of taking these prehistoric creatures and turning them into three-dimensional beings with personalities and fears who only want to make it through another day.

Industrial Light & Magic Brings ‘The Dinosaurs’ to Life

Birds surround their eggs in 'The Dinosaurs' — Birds surround their eggs in ‘The Dinosaurs’

Industrial Light & Magic, which was co-founded by George Lucas in the mid-1970s, has made the impossible possible in movies such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Poltergeist, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, before reinventing itself in the early ’90s thanks to CGI. Jurassic Park changed the game, putting the possibilities of our imagination on the screen in a way that felt lifelike. In The Dinosaurs, ILM isn’t there to supplement an existing film; they are the movie. The detail is there in every speck of sand, crack of dirt, and lush vegetation needed to thrive. Some of it resembles the world humanity knows right outside our door, while other scenes might as well be an alien planet. It’s the attention to detail of the dinosaurs themselves that puts the docuseries above anything else like it. CGI is good at making living things seem more alive in the dark. However, The Dinosaurs depicts its subjects right out in the open, blending them seamlessly with the world around them.

The only flaw of The Dinosaurs is the repetitive nature of its episodes. A dinosaur is introduced, it’s shown struggling to survive and eat, then it’s wiped out, and it’s on to the next. What begins as a heavy emotional impact in early episodes starts to become not only predictable but numbing by the end. The series doesn’t overstay its welcome, though. At four episodes of nearly 45 minutes each, The Dinosaurs gets it right. It’s dark and at times all too much, but the mastery of ILM and Morgan Freeman guiding the audience through hellscapes of another era helps the series rise above its limitations. The Dinosaurs will rip your heart out, but it wisely ends on a note of hope and respect. These dinosaurs don’t talk or devour people; they only live and die as they were, their ends brought to life millions of years later through the evolution of humanity, and thanks to Netflix, you’ve never seen them like this before.

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Pros & Cons

ILM’s technology makes the dinosaurs look more real than ever.
A lot of time is spent with dinosaurs you’ve never heard of, not just big names like the T-rex.
It’s a wise choice to tell stories with the dinosaurs so that we care about them.

The episode structure is the same throughout, leading to less emotional impact later on.

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Congressman Tony Gonzales Pulls Plug on Re-Election After Aide’s Death

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Calls It Quits After Staffer’s Suicide

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One day after admitting he had an affair with a staffer who died by suicide, Congressman Tony Gonzales pulled the plug on his re-election campaign.

Gonzales (R-Texas) made the announcement Thursday night to drop out of the GOP primary race against Brandon Herrera before their May 26 runoff election.

Hours later, Herrera declared victory and will now move on to the general election for Gonzales’ seat in Texas’ 23rdDistrict.

In a statement, Gonzales said after deep reflection with the support of his family, he decided to bail on his campaign, although he vowed to serve out the rest of his term.

As you know, Gonzales came under heavy scrutiny after his staffer, Regina Santos-Aviles, died by suicide in September 2025 after setting herself on fire.

Rumors surfaced that Gonzales — a married father of 6 children — was having an affair with Santos-Aviles — but the congressman publicly denied it.

The San Antonio Express-News then published text messages from Santos-Aviles acknowledging she had an affair with Gonzales. More text exchanges came to light showing Gonzales asked Santos-Aviles to send him a “sexy pic.”

Gonzales finally fessed up to the affair this week on “The Joe Pags Show,” calling it a “mistake” and a “lapse in judgment.”

Meanwhile, the House Ethics Committee launched an investigation into the matter to see if Gonzales violated codes of conduct based on allegations of sexual misconduct and favoritism.

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Britney Spears Fired Her Sobriety Coaches Weeks Before DUI Arrest

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Fired Sober Coaches Before DUI Bust

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Britney Spears showed her sober coaches the door weeks before getting arrested on suspicion of DUI.

Sources with knowledge tell TMZ … Britney fired the sobriety coaches after she signed a deal selling her rights to her music and after she returned home to California following a trip to Los Cabos, Mexico.

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We’re told Britney’s team also fired other people who were looking out for her … including security guards who kept an eye on the pop superstar.

TMZ broke the story … Britney was arrested Wednesday night in Ventura County, California for DUI. She was pulled over near her home and then taken to a hospital to have her blood drawn and tested.

During processing at the jail, Britney was emotional and crying.

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Our sources say Britney’s team is now restructuring things and trying to figure out a game plan for her.

We’re told Britney mostly just dances around naked all day wherever she is — which lines up with what we see from her on Instagram — and our sources say she talks to herself and is in her own world.

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Aaron Rodgers Slams FBI’s Kash Patel for USA Hockey Party

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Aaron Rodgers put FBI director Kash Patel on blast after he was seen partying with Team USA’s hockey team at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Speaking about the controversial moment during a Wednesday, March 4, appearance on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show, Rodgers, 42, slammed Patel, 46.

“Can we get that one guy out of the locker room and get him working on something else?” Rodgers said, adding, “That’s a bad look. Come on, have some awareness.”

Last month, Patel raised eyebrows during the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics when he chose to celebrate with the men’s team after their win over Canada.

In footage that circulated via social media, the FBI director could be seen drinking beer and cheering with the athletes inside a locker room as part of the team’s lively post-victory celebrations.

Patel, a longtime hockey fan, also joined the athletes in singing a rendition of Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.”

In response to the backlash, Patel defended his actions via a social media post shared on February 22.

“Yes, I love America and was extremely humbled when my friends, the newly minted Gold Medal winners on Team USA, invited me into the locker room to celebrate this historic moment with the boys,” he wrote via X. “Greatest country on earth and greatest sport on earth.”

GettyImages-2201150379Aaron-Rodgers-Slams-FBIs-Kash-Patel-for-Partying-With-Team-USA-Hockey-Team.jpg — Kash Patel. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

NHL star Jack Hughes scored the winning goal in Team USA’s hockey game against Canada, which went into overtime on February 22. The United States won against their rivals with a final score of 2-1. The victory was the first time in 46 years that Team USA has won gold in men’s hockey since the famous “Miracle on Ice” win in 1980.

Rodgers is not the only person to publicly criticize Patel’s decision to party with the hockey team following the gold medal win.

Dani Bensky, who said she suffered abuse from Jeffrey Epstein between 2004 and 2005, also slammed Patel for celebrating when he could have been doing his job.

“Why is the FBI director out there partying like a college kid when he should be investigating the vast criminal enterprise?” she asked in a news conference hosted by the Democratic Women’s Caucus on February 24. “This administration needs to do better. How can anybody feel safe in this country when our president’s sympathies are going to the former Prince Andrew and not to survivors?”

She continued, “There are a few things that really need to be done immediately versus the release of all of the files, which we know. Next is to hold accountable those who continuously exploit. And the third is to pass Virginia’s bill. We need to pass Virginia’s bill because justice should never ever expire. Release the damn files.”

Virginia’s Law is named after Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide in 2025. It was introduced by senate Democrats last month and aims to end the statute of limitations for civil sexual abuse cases.

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“Deadliest Catch” star details harrowing rescue effort before Todd Meadows' death

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“Nothing was working. And finally, finally, after a half hour, 45 minutes of trying to save him, Captain came down and said, ‘Guys, it’s not gonna work,'” Trey John Green III said.

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New Details Revealed About Eric Dane’s Posthumous Memoir

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New Details Revealed About Eric Danes Posthumous Memoir

New details about late Grey’s Anatomy star Eric Dane’s posthumous memoir have been revealed by his publisher, Maria Shriver.

“I was honored Eric Dane chose my publishing imprint, @openfieldbooks, to publish his memoir, My Book of Days,” Shriver, 70, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, March 5. “He told me he wanted his family to know how much he loved them, and he wanted to leave them a story they could be proud of.”

Shriver confirmed that Dane was writing My Book of Days “right up to the end.” Dane died at age 53 on February 19, 2026, from respiratory failure with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) as an underlying cause. (Per the Mayo Clinic, ALS is a progressive “nervous system disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord” and causes a loss of muscle control.)

“In keeping with Eric’s wishes, [My Book of Days] will be published on November 3, 2026,” Shriver confirmed.

In December 2025, Dane announced he was working on a memoir to explore his iconic TV roles in Grey’s Anatomy, Charmed and Euphoria, in addition to addressing his diagnosis with ALS.

“I wake up every morning, and I’m immediately reminded that this is real — this illness, this challenge and that’s exactly why I’m writing this book,” Dane said at the time. “I want to capture the moments that shaped me — the beautiful days, the hard ones, the ones I never took for granted — so that if nothing else, people who read it will remember what it means to live with heart. If sharing this helps someone find meaning in their own days, then my story is worth telling.”

Shriver added, “Eric wants to give his daughters and family something to be proud of, and this book will not only make them proud, but it will also help people understand what ALS is and isn’t, what happens to someone when they get it and how we can all be compassionate partners to people suffering with neurological conditions such as this.”

Shriver revealed via her Sunday Paper newsletter in February that she was supposed to meet with Dane days before his death.

“[Eric] wrote [this book] so that his family had something to be proud of,” she explained at the time. “Eric and I were scheduled to have lunch two weeks ago, but he wasn’t feeling well that morning, so we rescheduled for next week. His passing is another powerful reminder that today is all any of us have. Next week isn’t guaranteed.”

The journalist credited Dane with changing many lives for the better when he “bravely shared his ALS diagnosis” in April 2025.

“He advocated for increased research and showed up in every way he could to focus our attention on this devastating neurological disease,” Shriver wrote on February 22, 2026. “My team at The Open Field was honored when Eric chose our imprint to publish his memoir. He told me he wanted to write his book to share his story with the world.”

Dane was mourned by many of his Hollywood colleagues when his family announced his death in February. (Dane shared two daughters, Billie Beatrice Dane and Georgia Geraldine Dane, with his wife, Rebecca Gayheart.)

“With heavy hearts, we share that Eric Dane passed on Thursday afternoon following a courageous battle with ALS,” a family statement to Us Weekly read. “He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world.”

The statement continued, “Throughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight. He will be deeply missed, and lovingly remembered always. Eric adored his fans and is forever grateful for the outpouring of love and support he’s received. The family has asked for privacy as they navigate this impossible time.”

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