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May 21 2011 07:34 PM ET

'Castle': How the season premiere SHOULD deal with the cliffhanger

Categories: Animation, Art, Castle, Television, Things That Are Awesome!, This Could Be Interesting...

We were all reeling last week when the great people at Castle decided to end the season on a whopper of a cliffhanger. [SPOILER ALERT...how long do we have to use those again?] Beckett was unexpectedly shot at Montgomery’s funeral! And while she lay on the ground, losing the fight to keep her eyes open as Castle encouraged her to do so, Castle whispered, “I love you.” Fade to freaking black.

Let the horror of hiatus begin. And the theories.

Luckily a fan of Stana Katic already has his idea about how it should end. And I have to say, I LOVE IT!

Click here to see the photo.

Your turn, PopWatchers. How do YOU think it should go down? (Feel free to be serious…and silly. It’s SATURDAY!)

May 21 2011 10:00 AM ET

'The Big Bang Theory': Are Raj and Penny more like Chandler and Monica? Or Joey and Rachel?

by Adam B. Vary

Categories: About Last Night, Everything Reminds Us of 'Friends', Sexytimes, Television, The Big Bang Theory

Image Credit: CBS

The just concluded season of The Big Bang Theory has mirrored Friends in some uncanny ways, especially the love triangle between Leonard (e.g. Ross), Penny (Rachel), and Priya (Emily). Thursday’s season finale, however, took the Friends-ifying to a whole new level, after Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Raj (Kunal Nayyar) woke up in bed together after a night of red wine and personal confessions. (Hers: She never should have broken up with Leonard. His: He’s such a sad sack, he’s taken to spending his nights downloading “increasingly shameful pornography.”)

This development has proven to be quite controversial with Big Bang fans — or at least the ones on EW.com message boards. READ FULL STORY »

May 20 2011 09:15 PM ET

'Supernatural' finale: What did you think? Plus, does it rank among the best finales?

by Sandra Gonzalez

Categories: Sci-Fi, Supernatural, Television

Image Credit: The CW

UPDATE 2: Your season finale recap is live!

UPDATE: Woah, PopWatchers. If you saw that final twist coming, you should probably take your powers of prediction to Vegas. As for the rest of us, we’ll just sit here patiently waiting for this “WTF” face to go away. Here’s the short of it all: [SPOILERS AHEAD]

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May 20 2011 07:27 PM ET

This week's campaign 2012 recap: Newt Gingrich's seven days of D'ohs!

by Benjamin Svetkey

Categories: Politics as Entertainment, TV Recap

Image Credit: William B. Plowman/NBC

This week, the Republican race for the White House went from being a reality show to a Matt Groening cartoon. Exit Donald Trump, enter Newt Gingrich, the Homer Simpson of conservative American politics.

After announcing his candidacy via Twitter last week, Gingrich began this week by enraging his own base with an appearance on Meet the Press, during which he blasted Paul Ryan’s Medicare-killing federal budget proposal — the one virtually every House Republican voted in favor of — as “right-wing social engineering.” D’oh! Then he went to Iowa to shake hands with the locals and got caught on camera being belittled by a disgruntled Republican voter. “You’re an embarrassment to our party,” the heckler told the ex-Speaker of the House, suggesting he get out of the race “before you make a bigger fool of yourself.” D’oh! READ FULL STORY »

May 20 2011 06:59 PM ET

Which A-list music acts should the 'Idol' finalists duet with in the finale?

by Kate Ward

Categories: American Idol, Made Us Think, Reality TV, Television

Image Credit: Michael Becker/Fox

We learned last night which American Idol contestants will be advancing to the finals. But what I really want to know is: Who will the Top 13 sing with in the finale? Now, we know every year, the Fox series trots out A-list musical acts (like the rumored Bono; Fox is not commenting on whether or not he will really appear on the season 10 finale) to sing alongside a good number of finalists. So now it’s time to create our wish lists: If every member of the Top 13 were to sing with a superstar, which would you choose for them? My Idol hopes: READ FULL STORY »

May 20 2011 05:07 PM ET

At last! Doc Jensen's final 'Lost' column will arrive next week! What was your favorite Doc theory?

by Darren Franich

Categories: Nostalgia, Totally Lost

Image Credit: ABC

I remember the exact moment my relationship with Lost changed from giggly enjoyment to full-on brain-crush obsession. It was the very first scene of season 2, which indirectly introduced elements that would come to define the show — Desmond, Dharma, the Swan, the Island’s mysterious energy, an occasional fascination with the music of Mama “Cass” Elliott. The second season of Lost felt like a deep-dive into all sorts of upper-stratosphere stuff — philosophy, quantum physics, implications of alternate universes and mysterious forces, yeesh, maybe even time travel. Fortunately for obsessives like me, EW’s Jeff “Doc” Jensen started writing regular Lost columns that year, relentlessly postulating brain-teasing theories regarding the show’s multiplying mysteries. Next week, just in time to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Lost‘s controversial series finale, Doc Jensen will at long last deliver his long-promised final Lost column. To get you psyched, we decided to dig back into the encyclopedia-sized Jensen archive to re-examine Doc’s theories. What was your favorite Doc Jensen theory? Here are mine… READ FULL STORY »

May 20 2011 04:55 PM ET

Bono on 'Spider-Man' musical: 'We were way out of our depths'

by Jeff Labrecque

Categories: Music, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Stage/Theater

Shrill. Insipid. Flop. Worst ever. “What is Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark?” Ding-ding-ding. Correct. That is how critics received previews of the accident-plagued $70 million Broadway musical, which finally opens up on June 14 after a significant makeover that did not include its original co-writer/director Julie Taymor. But those unflattering assessments were nothing that its music and lyrics team, U2′s Bono and The Edge, weren’t whispering to each other. “That’s the sort of stuff we were saying backstage,” Bono tells Nightline‘s Cynthia McFadden in an interview that will air tonight. “It might have been a little hard for some other people around here to take that, but we don’t disagree with the New York Times.” READ FULL STORY »

May 20 2011 04:31 PM ET

'Bridesmaids': The EW Exit Poll

by Chad Schlegel

Categories: Exit Poll

Image Credit: Suzanne Hanover

In honor of the launch of our Summer Movie Guide, we invited our Twitter followers to share their 140-character reviews of the season’s first breakout comedy, Bridesmaids. Want to see your mini-review featured in our next Exit Poll? Tweet us your review of one of this weekend’s big openings and include #EWExitPoll. This week’s winning submissions are after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

May 20 2011 04:17 PM ET

UPDATED: First look at Bane from 'The Dark Knight Rises': Those back muscles are freaking me out

by Adam B. Vary

Categories: Movies, The Bad Man Scares Me!, The Dark Knight Rises, Twitter

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The Internet was all aflame today, thanks the inaugural “happening” in the viral web campaign for The Dark Knight Rises. It involved decoding an ominous audio track playing on thedarkknightrises.com, which apparently led you to the Twitter hashtag #thefirerises, which then led you to a photo-mosaic of Tom Hardy as the masked villain Bane, which finally led to the full image you can see above. Did I mention this film started shooting yesterday? READ FULL STORY »

May 20 2011 04:10 PM ET

Oprah's Broadway dream: What should she star in on the Great White Way?

by Aubry D'Arminio

Categories: Oprah Winfrey, Stage/Theater

Image Credit: George Burns/Harpo Studios

With the end of her talk-show nearing (like, really nearing, as in the final episode airs next week), Oprah’s been talking up her future, which apparently includes starring on the Great White Way. It all started during an interview with Chris Rock about The Motherf—ker With the Hat, when Rock’s turn on the boards inspired Oprah to tell him that stage acting was her “dream” and “the one thing she wanted to do.” Then she admitted to the Chicago Tribune that not only had she already met with Broadway producers, but that she also almost appeared in last year’s Fences revival (which earned Denzel Washington his first Tony). READ FULL STORY »