“In the first episode of Ted Lasso Season 2, the relentlessly cheerful protagonist tells a reporter (trent crimm, the independent), ‘There are two buttons i never like to push: panic and snooze.’ Over the next 10 episodes, it becomes clear that panic is something Lasso has been trying to keep at bay. We saw him have a panic attack in Season 1 — seemingly the result of his then-wife sending him divorce papers — but by the end of Episode 11, we’ve gotten a much fuller picture of Lasso’s struggles.” Read more at Inverse. Love horror movies? Check out the short horror stories you should read based on your horror film preferences. Read more at The Mary Sue. Learn how you can download your videos and photos from Instagram in case of another outage. “The great Facebook outage of 2021 is over (for now), but in the DNS snafu that took down the popular yet controversial social network, there was collateral damage. Namely, other services owned by Facebook, including WhatsApp and Instagram, also went dark, and along with them, your digital memories. That’s why it’s smart to occasionally back up your social accounts, even if they’re already in the cloud—such as all your Insta-pics. We’ll show you how.” Read more at PCMag. A slow but sure return to the movie theaters has some people appreciate the day-and-date streaming releases more. Read more at Gizmodo. Riverdale ties up a lackluster season 5 with the defeat of evil by Archie and the gang in the season finale. “Like Archie and the gang, our coverage returns to Riverdale after a long absence to find the town mostly the same, but worse. The back half of the show’s fifth season has shuffled through a handful of largely tedious mini-plots—Polly’s death and its aftermath, Veronica’s assorted non-starter business ventures, Cheryl Blossom’s screwloose ministry the most amusing among them—only to arrive at a narrative juncture not so unfamiliar for the cast of characters.” Read more at The A.V. Club. Are you excited for Bridgerton Season 2? Here’s everything you need to know about it so far. Read more at Thrillist.
