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It’s deuces for honey deuces. Here’s what the final weekend of the 2026 US Open is serving: Later today, Karen Khachanov, Ben Shelton, Frances Tiafoe, and Alexander Zverev will try to clinch a spot in Sunday’s men’s final. And tomorrow, Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka will face off in the women’s final. We’ll be watching from our home court (read: the couch).
If you’re also unbearably bored of your white tees, take note: Another closet staple is taking over for fall — and it’s just as easy, just as versatile, and way more interesting. Somewhere, Bella Swan is smiling.
Florence Pugh elevated the messy bun to “It” Girl Status — with a simple silk scarf. Day-three hair, you live to see another day.
Combine the 20-something chaos of Broad City, the sibling dynamics of The Other Two, and the animated zaniness of Big Mouth — and you get Dang! Created by a Hacks and Good Place alum, the new Netflix sitcom follows three Asian-American siblings who are — for lack of a better phrase — total hot messes. Eunice (Poppy Liu) and Andrew (Andrew Law) are happily living as roommates and fellow screwups in New York City, spending all of their time watching reality TV and taking whatever drugs they find. But when Quintessential Eldest Daughter Ruthie (Stephanie Hsu) blows up her hotshot lawyer life over an extramarital affair, she crashes their little world. Expect hookups at IKEA, a Hayley Williams cameo, and the most compelling reason to watch a cartoon since The Powerpuff Girls.
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Happy (almost) weekend. Despite being nearly 30, I’ve never shaken the September back-to-school vibes. New York’s oppressive humidity is — fingers crossed — finally behind us and I feel like I can think again. So I bought a new notebook and drafted a fall bucket list, which I plan to get a head start on this weekend:
Lean into apple season. I saw a Threads post that said September is for apple, October is for pumpkin, and November is for maple. To honor that scientific thinking, I’m going apple picking in New Jersey, and immediately following that by making these Apple Bear Claws. According to one self-described amateur baker, they “tasted better than anything I have ever bought in a shop.”
Test my DIY home theater setup. I upgraded to this Roku projector during The Summer of Sports™, and now that football is back, I can see what the thing is really made of. Bonus: I get to watch my bestie (and Well Played cohost) Caroline on the sidelines for the Big Ten Network.
Binge Furious. Someone on my feed described the series as Dexter for trauma-informed women. TBD how true that is, but consider this my official petition for Emmy Rossum to drop her curl routine.
Read East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Netflix just dropped the trailer for its miniseries adaptation, so I’m securing my “I read the book first” bragging rights early and exercising patience for a novel that, at 600 pages, is asking a lot of my Gen Z brain.
— Blake Morgan / Producer and Cohost of Well Played / Brooklyn, NY
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