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Newsweek
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Murderbot Season 1 Episode 5 – Release Date, Schedule, How To Watch
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Last night, an enemy targeted the titular Murderbot in episode four of the new Apple TV+ series led by Alexander Skarsgård. Next week, we will see PresAux go to great lengths to move forward while tensions rise, and we've got all the information on where to watch Murderbot episode five below. Alexander Skarsgård in "Murderbot," now streaming on Apple TV+. Alexander Skarsgård in "Murderbot," now streaming on Apple TV+. Apple TV+ So there's no need to wonder where is Murderbot episode five? We've got all the information on how to watch Murderbot season one, episode five, as well as the Murderbot season one, episode five release time and Murderbot season one, episode five release date. Murderbot Season 1 Episode 5 Release Date Murderbot season one, episode five, will be available to stream on Apple TV+ on June 6, 2025. New episodes of Murderbot season one premiere each Friday on Apple TV+ through July 11, 2025. Murderbot Season 1 Episode 5 – How to Watch Murderbot season one, episode five, will be available on Apple TV+ from 6 pm Pacific Time (PT) on June 6, 2025/9 pm Eastern Time (ET). To watch Murderbot season one, you will need an Apple TV+ subscription. A monthly subscription costs $9.99, following a 7-day free trial for new customers. What Time Does Murderbot Season 1 Episode 5 Come Out? Murderbot season one, episode five, will be available to stream from 6 pm (PT) on June 6, 2025/9 pm Eastern Time (ET). With the evening streaming release in the US, the debut time in other time zones will differ. Here is when Murderbot season one, episode five, will air in your time zone: June 6 BRT: 10:00 pm June 7 BST : 2:00 am : 2:00 am CEST : 3:00 am : 3:00 am IST : 6:30 am : 6:30 am JST : 10:00 am : 10:00 am AET : 12:00 pm : 12:00 pm NZDT: 2:00 pm Murderbot Season 1 Release Schedule Episode One: May 16 May 16 Episode Two: May 16 May 16 Episode Three: May 23 May 23 Episode Four: May 30 May 30 Episode Five: June 6 June 6 Episode Six: June 13 June 13 Episode Seven: June 20 June 20 Episode Eight: June 27 June 27 Episode Nine: July 4 July 4 Episode Ten: July 11 Murderbot Season 1 Episode 5 Runtime Murderbot season one, episode five, does not yet have a confirmed run time. Previous episodes of Murderbot have run between 24 and 29 minutes. What Will Happen in Murderbot Season 1 Episode 5? The plot details for Murderbot season one, episode five, "Rogue War Tracker Infinite", are as follows: PresAux pulls out all the stops to forge a path forward. Tensions mount when trust is tested — and a DeltFall survivor joins the fold. (as per Apple TV+) Previous episode synopses can be found below: Episode One: On a fresh assignment, Murderbot's newfound free will leads to odd behaviour, sparking suspicion from the PreservationAux team. On a fresh assignment, Murderbot's newfound free will leads to odd behaviour, sparking suspicion from the PreservationAux team. Episode Two: Mensah and Bharadwaj risk everything to investigate a mysterious region. Gurathin goes toe-to-toe with Murderbot. Mensah and Bharadwaj risk everything to investigate a mysterious region. Gurathin goes toe-to-toe with Murderbot. Episode Three: The PresAux team heads to a new base to search for answers. Murderbot gets tangled up in a SecUnit showdown. The PresAux team heads to a new base to search for answers. Murderbot gets tangled up in a SecUnit showdown. Episode Four: As an enemy takes aim at Murderbot, an ally tries to orchestrate a getaway. The team grapples with a leadership shakeup and a shocking ultimatum. (as per Apple TV+)
The Guardian
a day ago
- Health
- The Guardian
Thigh guy summer? Men's short shorts in high demand and steering swimwear
Recent victims of shrinkflation have included butter, mouthwash and teabags. The next casualty? Men's shorts. In-seams are rising with retailers reporting a surge in interest for short shorts featuring a 5in and even 3in inside leg measurement. Now the trend is having a knock-on effect on swimwear. This week, GQ magazine posed the question: 'Are Straight Guys Ready for Speedo Summer?' Google searches for Speedos are up 41% year on year in the UK, while the swim brief category is up 17% globally. The fashion stylist Luke Day, who owns more than 50 pairs of swimming briefs, isn't surprised. 'Shorts have become so short it's like: what is next? The answer has to be swimwear.' It's not even June but already a so-called thigh guy summer is well under way in Europe. Earlier this week, the actor Alexander Skarsgård appeared on the British breakfast TV show Lorraine in a pair of checked shorts with a 5in in-seam from the designer S.S. Daley. Curtseying before host Ranvir Singh, Skarsgard said: 'I wanted to be sexy today.' Elsewhere, the latest edition of the art and design magazine Cultured, stars the 53-year-old White Lotus star Walton Goggins on its cover, manspreading in a pair of canary yellow Speedos. Some are calling it the Mescal effect. Five years ago, the Irish actor Paul Mescal became a household name after his role in the TV drama series Normal People. But it was a photograph of Mescal wearing a pair of micro shorts, snapped when leaving a supermarket in east London, that really thrust him into the spotlight. Overnight, shorts were shortened. This season's catwalks were dominated by short shorts with versions appearing at Gucci, Hermès and Dior. Celebrities including Harry Styles, Pharrell Williams, Jeremy Allen White and Donald Glover have all channelled John Travolta in Pulp Fiction with maximum leg-bearing short shorts. Now the trend is going mainstream. On Thursday, Marks & Spencer launched its summer campaign, which positions a pair of banana-printed swim shorts with a 3in in-seam as a wardrobe staple. At John Lewis, bestsellers in its short category include 5in in-seams from Under Armour, while it is micro shorts from Paul Smith and Lacoste are trending in swimwear. Day's preference for short shorts predates Mescal and Gucci by a decade. 'As a gay man I feel we are often pioneers of trends. I've been wearing short shorts for 10 years. But now straight men are wearing them. They want to show off their thighs.' He credits the boom in popularity to a wider interest in health and wellbeing. 'The biggest flex at the moment isn't a designer item. It is your body. People want to show how hard they have been working out.' Orlebar Brown, a British resort wear brand whose swim shorts have been worn by everyone from Hugh Jackman to David Cameron, offers four different in-seam lengths ranging from 6in that hits just above the knee to 3in that grazes the upper quads. Its chief marketing officer, Trevor Hardy, says the shortest style, called the Springer, is 'already becoming more prevalent this year' among its customers. 'Men are becoming more adventurous. Even the most non-fashion conscious man is dressing with more confidence.' Sign up to Fashion Statement Style, with substance: what's really trending this week, a roundup of the best fashion journalism and your wardrobe dilemmas solved after newsletter promotion Brief styles are mandatory at French swimming pools and commonplace on Italian beaches but a rise in cold swimming and sauna culture is also fuelling interest in the UK. Traditional trunks cannot be worn under wetsuits. Briefs and tighter fitting swim shorts also absorb less water making them more suitable for moving between plunge pools. In Australia, yellow and pink styles from AussieBum are a go-to. Speedo's new Jetstream collection takes inspiration from the 1980s with drawcord briefs measuring 3.5in, compared with the 13.5in fit of its standard training briefs. For first-timers taking the plunge with briefs, Day recommends choosing a thicker fabric and sizing up. 'You want a bit of room. It's not about compression.' But his biggest tip is not to make a big deal about them. 'I hate when someone walks out and everyone is like 'Oh he's got budgie smugglers on.' It's like: what year are we living in?'
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Manage Your Expecations for ‘Mountainhead' as a Follow-Up to ‘Succession': TV Review
Following up 'Succession' is a daunting feat — so much so that it's best to think of the HBO film 'Mountainhead' as more of a palate-cleanser than a next act. Written and directed by 'Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong, 'Mountainhead' may share a milieu (the ultra-rich) and a comic rhythm (fast, verbose, profane) with the lavishly acclaimed drama, but it's much less ambitious by design. Armstrong wrote the script in a matter of weeks, and most of the action is confined, playlike, to the namesake alpine retreat. As if to send a message to the audience, 'Mountainhead' even takes that least prestigious of forms: the made-for-TV movie, airing on the very last day of this year's Emmy eligibility window — like a student handing in their homework right at the deadline. If one receives that message and sets expectations accordingly, then 'Mountainhead' has plenty to offer. Yes, its 109 minutes may be a way for Armstrong to exorcise the last traces of 'Succession' from his system. ('Succession' mainstays Mark Mylod, Will Tracy, Lucy Prebble and others are all credited as executive producers.) But 'Mountainhead' has its own focus: the destructive impact of technology and the man-children who control it, as if the Roys of 'Succession' were replaced by a quartet of Lukas Matssons. Alexander Skarsgård's self-made entrepreneur was largely used in contrast to the adult Roy children's inherited, unearned wealth; in 'Mountainhead,' the work itself takes center stage, even if its consequences are out of sight and out of mind for its characters. More from Variety 'It's a Bit of a Suicide Mission': How 'Succession' Creator Jesse Armstrong Wrote and Directed His Tech-Bro Satire 'Mountainhead' in Just Six Months 'Mountainhead' Mines AI Anxieties at Just the Right Time Jesse Armstrong Says It Was a 'Little Bit Scary' Making 'Mountainhead' After 'Succession' 'Mountainhead' posits the existence of a kind of billionaire fraternity called the Brewsters, who have descended upon Utah for their semi-regular poker night. On the eve of this bro hang, Venis (Cory Michael Smith, of 'Saturday Night' and 'May December'), the Zuckerberg-like CEO of social media company Traam, has launched a new, deepfake-enabling feature that's lit a global bonfire of misinformation. Venis jokes that he should respond by posting 'fuuck,' with two U's; his hangers-on sycophantically laugh, even as the new feature stokes sectarian violence by eroding users' ability to tell true from false. Jeff (Ramy Youssef) is the inventor of an AI technology that represents 'the cure for info-cancer' to Traam's '4chan on fuckin' acid.' (The details here are hazy at best; it's the symbolism that's important.) But even though Jeff is the Brewster most burdened with a conscience, he's still less concerned with Venis' ethical overreach than his shading Jeff for a lack of 'founder energy' on a high-profile podcast. Closer to home, Jeff's billions can't buy the fidelity of his girlfriend Hester (Hadley Robinson), who's taken off for an orgy-adjacent gathering in Mexico. 'Just because people have sex at a party doesn't mean it's a sex party,' she not-really-reassures him. Rounding out the foursome are financier Randall (Steve Carell), who's in denial about his terminal cancer prognosis, and host Hugo (Jason Schwartzman), who's derisively known as Souper, as in soup kitchen — because his relatively paltry nine-figure fortune makes him 'the poorest billionaire in the game.' You may have already picked up on some echoes in the prior paragraphs of synopsis. Souper's self-pity mimics Tom Wambsgans' assessment of a $5 million fortune as 'the poorest rich person in America' and 'the world's tallest dwarf'; Jeff's jealousy of Hester recalls Connor Roy's (successful) attempts to buy the loyalty of his paid-escort-turned-wife Willa. Comparisons to 'Succession' may be inevitable just a couple years after its finale, but 'Mountainhead' also earns them. But 'Mountainhead' looks outward as well as back. I'll confess to screening the movie not long after finishing 'Careless People,' former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams's tell-all about the inner workings of that company in the 2010s. Venis' total indifference toward the chaos he's caused, and his repudiation of responsibility for it, is completely in line with how Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and their colleagues responded to potential come-to-Jesus moments like the 2016 election or the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. Likewise, Randall's obsession with going 'post-human' to live out eternity in cyberspace comes from the same denial of death that leads figures like Peter Thiel and Bryan Johnson to seek extreme, often ghoulish means of extending their life. Money can buy so much; why not immortality? In other words, I'm compelled by Armstrong's analysis of plutocrats' broken psychology, especially when their riches come from 'disruption' and 'innovation.' I'm less compelled by the idea that these people are capable of intimate friendship — let alone that they'd be friends with each other. It's amusing to watch these men engage in homosocial rituals like scrawling their net worths on their bare chests; there's even a ceremony for when one Brewster surpasses the other in the only metric that seems to matter to them. For the same reasons, it's also unconvincing when they profess to care about one another. Armstrong needed a reason to get these people in the same room, but sincere affection isn't a plausible one. As a film rather than a series, 'Mountainhead' doesn't have the time to cultivate the psychological nuance or interpersonal dynamics that made the Roys so indelible. (This partly explains the much more established cast, who come in with gravitas rather than slowly build their roles into a calling card.) Instead, 'Mountainhead' goes all-in on farce, steering Venis' callousness, Jeff's objections, Hugo's insecurity and Randall's desperation to their inevitable combustion point. Of the four, Randall comes closest to some kind of pathos with his frantic denial of the inevitable, but when he offhandedly labels Earth a 'solid starter planet,' it's the Muskian grandiosity that bears the comic load. Armstrong seems to intuit the inherent strengths (speed, focus) and weaknesses (emotion, depth) of his current medium. The ambition of 'Mountainhead' is much lower than diagnosing the underlying dysfunction of the privileged few who run the world, settling for putting their dysfunction on caustically hilarious display. But with biting references to moral philosophy, 'Ayn Bland' and, in an especially bleak moment, Jamal Khashoggi, 'Mountainhead' has the sharpness and erudition to hit its closer target. 'Mountainhead' is currently streaming on Max and will air on HBO on May 31st at 8 p.m. ET. Best of Variety The Best Albums of the Decade
Geek Girl Authority
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
MURDERBOT Recap: (S01E04) Escape Velocity Protocol
Murderbot Season 1 Episode 4, 'Escape Velocity Protocol,' is an action-packed, high-octane, hilarious and heartbreaking installment. Alexander Skarsgård kills it here. He deftly captures our eponymous sentient construct's damaged state and its nuanced feelings toward the humans it serves. The episode skillfully balances humor and heart while delivering that jaw-dropping cliffhanger. RELATED: Read our recap of the previous Murderbot episode, 'Risk Assessment' Murderbot, 'Escape Velocity Protocol' We open in the Threshold Pass Fabrication Center, which is part of the Corporation Rim. It's time to see how the sausage is made, as it were. The lab technicians there are hard at work creating sentient constructs, aka SecUnits. It seems the techs are mostly indentured servants. One tech has six years left of their sentence, while their pal has much longer. They talk about not 'surviving' this ordeal. Our titular bot (Skarsgård) narrates as we watch the construction process. It sings the praises of SecUnits and how they're carefully constructed (ahem), versus the random jumble of DNA and cells in humans. However, these workers toil in inhumane conditions, often cutting corners due to exhaustion and lax oversight. You can't half-ass making SecUnits. What if the one you create goes rogue one day? One lab tech teases her trainee, claiming that SecUnits incessantly go rogue and always go after the trainee who made it. The trainee zeroes in on the head of our SecUnit, which is in a jar like strawberry preserves. He tells it to f*ck off. RELATED: Alexander Skarsgård Goes Rogue in Murderbot Trailer Through the Wormhole Later, we return to the present. The Black SecUnit drags our bot through the halls of the DeltFall habitat. SecUnit shares that it's immobile. Its memory keeps dumping its most used data, which is, naturally, The Rise & Fall of Sanctuary Moon . The theme song for the space opera plays out in SecUnit's head. However, the visuals and audio keep hitting snags, indicating Murderbot's frayed state. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 4, 'Escape Velocity Protocol.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+ Meanwhile, Pin-Lee (Sabrina Wu) tries to hail Mensah (Noma Dumezweni). They inform Arada (Tattiawna Jones) and Ratthi (Akshay Khanna) that Mensah was behind them. Pin-Lee hails her again. This time, Mensah answers. Pin-Lee reminds her of what SecUnit said about returning to the hopper. Mensah orders Pin-Lee and the others to clear the emergency channel because she's attempting to ping Murderbot. Not Part of the Team Next, we see Murderbot on a table. It's clearly not in a state to respond to Mensah's pings. The Black SecUnit (I'm gonna call it Dr. Evil) is preparing it for something. Murderbot wonders if this is how SecUnits die. Its pain sensors are off, so it can feel pain. RELATED: David Dastmalchian Joins Apple TV+ Murderbot Adaptation Meanwhile, Pin-Lee reunites with Mensah and tries to persuade her to return to the hopper with them. Mensah refuses to leave SecUnit behind. Pin-Lee urges her not to anthropomorphize it. It's not part of the team. This hits home for Mensah. She orders Pin-Lee to go back to the hopper and wait there. 'Not cool,' Pin-Lee says, but they obey. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 4, 'Escape Velocity Protocol.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+ Then, Murderbot realizes that Dr. Evil plans to override its combat module like it did for the other SecUnit. Our SecUnit tries to buy itself some time, so it improvises. It starts singing the theme song for Sanctuary Moon . Perfection. Suddenly, Murderbot and Dr. Evil battle it out in a brief skirmish from which the former doesn't emerge victorious. Dr. Evil inserts the device to start the override process of the SecUnit's combat module. So, in 10 minutes, Murderbot will be under Dr. Evil's — or whoever it's working for — control. In the meantime, its system will be more than a bit scrambled. RELATED: New TV Shows This Week (May 25 – 31) Violation of Security Protocol MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 4, 'Escape Velocity Protocol.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+ Thankfully, help is on the way. Mensah impales Dr. Evil with a massive drill. She almost vomits after the act. She helps Murderbot to its feet. It repeatedly tells her that it must report her actions to the Company as a 'violation of security protocol.' Aw, it's stuck in a loop. Meanwhile, Pin-Lee returns to the hopper, reuniting with Ratthi and Arada. Our trio debates Mensah's status in the group. Sure, she's technically the leader, but only at the PresAux habitat. When they're away on missions, they're all equal. Mensah's just another crewmember. Too Macho Next, Ratthi makes an executive decision. He grabs a weapon despite having zero weapons training. Pin-Lee accuses him of macho behavior, but Ratthi can't sit idly by while Mensah potentially gets herself killed. Even if he doesn't understand how to fire a blaster or even how to hold it. RELATED: On Location: The Lighterman in Apple TV+'s Slow Horses Then, Mensah leads SecUnit to the habitat's exit. It notices that its input socket feels strange — that's where Dr. Evil put the device. However, Murderbot can't remove it. Its scrambled system returns to what comforts it the most: Sanctuary Moon . Here, it visualizes itself being in the show. Instead of John Cho being the captain, Mensah is in his place. O Captain! My Captain! Jack McBrayer (the Navigation Officer) asks SecUnit why it isn't executing the escape velocity vector protocol. Murderbot responds that it doesn't know how to do that. The bridge crew learns of an incoming hostile starship. In real life, this is Dr. Evil. Apparently, Mensah's drill didn't kill it. Save the Day Meanwhile, Arada and Pin-Lee discuss Ratthi's rashness. Pin-Lee reassures their wife that Ratthi will return unscathed. However, the three of them might need to reconsider their contract. Elsewhere, Ratthi finds the DeltFall habitat. He tries to open the entrance but fails spectacularly. Pin-Lee and Arada decide to join the others to assist. Arada has an idea. RELATED: On Location: The Phoenicia Diner on Apple TV+'s Severance Murderbot admits it should be ready to fight Dr. Evil, but its threat assessment module tells it nothing is wrong. Suddenly, Dr. Evil blasts through the door to the room where Murderbot and Mensah are hiding. It knocks down Murderbot. Mensah fires on Dr. Evil, sending it flying backward. Ratthi watches as Mensah blasts open the side of the habitat, through which she and the SecUnit emerge. They all reunite. We learn that in one minute, the overriding of its combat module will take effect. Mensah scolds Ratthi for not remaining in the hopper. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 4, 'Escape Velocity Protocol.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+ New Hostiles Dr. Evil starts firing at our trio. Murderbot observes that it keeps missing, like 'the crappy shock troopers on Strife in the Galaxy .' Love this Stormtroopers dig. Eventually, Ratthi knocks himself out while shooting at Dr. Evil. We see Murderbot's system informing it that its clients are hostiles. Targets acquired. Dr. Evil is biding its time until Murderbot's combat module is under new management. RELATED: Apple TV+'s Neuromancer Series Uploads 3 New Cast Members Thankfully, Arada and Pin-Lee crush Dr. Evil with the hopper, repeatedly smashing it under the hopper's legs. Like a pancake. Huzzah. With Dr. Evil now dead, Murderbot removes the device from its input socket, but it's too late. The override on its combat module is almost complete. Murderbot informs the group that the carrier is nearly done downloading instructions. There's only one way to stop our SecUnit — they must kill it. I'm Sorry Mensah, Ratthi, Pin-Lee and Arada all protest this. Mensah insists that Gurathin will fix it. They just need to return to the habitat. 'There's no time,' Murderbot declares. SecUnit states it will slaughter all of them in a few seconds if they don't kill it first. So, it grabs Mensah's blaster and apologizes before shooting itself. It collapses as the humans surround it. RELATED: Read our Murderbot recaps Murderbot drops new episodes every Friday on Apple TV+. TED LASSO Season 4 Is Officially a Go at Apple TV+ Contact: [email protected] What I do: I'm GGA's Managing Editor, a Senior Contributor, and Press Coordinator. I manage, contribute, and coordinate. Sometimes all at once. Joking aside, I oversee day-to-day operations for GGA, write, edit, and assess interview opportunities/press events. Who I am: Before moving to Los Angeles after studying theater in college, I was born and raised in Amish country, Ohio. No, I am not Amish, even if I sometimes sport a modest bonnet. Bylines in: Tell-Tale TV, Culturess, Sideshow Collectibles, and inkMend on Medium. Critic: Rotten Tomatoes, CherryPicks, and the Hollywood Creative Alliance.
Vogue
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
The 11 Best Dressed Stars From the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
This weekend, the 2025 Cannes Film Festival officially came to a close—and we at Vogue are still processing all of the glamorous fashions that hit the Croisette this year. Given the annual festival is one of the glitziest events of the entertainment industry calendar, it was only natural that A-list stars came armed with their most impressive gowns and suits. And yet, even with all of the traditional evening wear in the mix, this year's assortment of fashions still felt entirely modern—and at times, quite unexpected too. The week's best dressed stars? It was those who leaned into sophisticated dressing with more individual finishes. Think: Rihanna with her vampy maternity style, or Alexander Skarsgård with his quirky suiting looks. (The sequin Bianca Saunders pants? We are still thinking about them.) While there were plenty of other statement looks throughout the festival, Vogue has rounded up the 11 celebrities who had the most standout outfits of the week. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it. Below, behold the 11 best dressed stars from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Elle Fanning
