Happy Friday!
ICYMI on FYA
In our ongoing rewatch of Friday Night Lights, Meredith B. recapped “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” in which poor Matty Saracen gets the (QB) boot.
Stephanie recapped the first episode of the new season of The Last of Us, which kicks off five years after the season 1 finale, and she posted a review of The Residence, a super fun (and funny) series about a murder in the White House, in this week’s Stream It.
Book-Related Things
Did I need another copy of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom? Of course not. Did I preorder these 10th anniversary editions the moment I saw them? You better believe it.
Maureen Johnson’s upcoming You Are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder is an interactive mystery book.
Maggie Stiefvater’s The Listeners is getting a Fairyloot special edition.
“‘A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.’ On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time.”
“I saw the rise and decline of YA literature from the inside. Here’s what it was like.”
Tahereh Mafi recently announced her upcoming book, Watch Me, the start of a Shatter Me spinoff series.
Read an excerpt of Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s Glorious Rivals.
“These YA Novelists Celebrate Queer, Fat Characters.”
Onscreen Things
The Oscars will have a new stunt design category in the 2027 presentation.
A trailer for the new adaptation of Judy Blume’s Forever is out now. (We have previously reviewed the book and a documentary called Judy Blume Forever.)
On the one hand, we don’t need remakes. On the other: actual actors of Egyptian descent in The Mummy!
Mythic Quest will end with its fourth season.
Serena Williams will produce an adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Carrie Soto is Back for Netflix.
We’ll have to wait until 2026 for the third season of Interview With the Vampire.
Nicholas Galitzine and Bill Skarsgard will star in a Netflix adaptation of Mosquito Bowl.
Alicia Silverstone will reprise the role of Cher Horowitz in a Clueless sequel series.
Kathryn Newton will star in an adaptation of Gayle Forman’s Just One Day books. (Here are our reviews of Just One Day and Just One Year.)
Social Media Things
Miscellaneous Things
“Snow White’s Failure Has Turned Rachel Zegler Into a Scapegoat—and an Icon.”
What’d we miss? Add your fave distractions of the week in the comments.
