Published Friday, November 06, 2026 at 07:40 AM PT

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🍿 What to Watch Tonight

Tonight’s pick is Hider in the House, the 1989 Gary Busey thriller that JoBlo Horror Originals calls “The Gary Busey Horror Movie You’ve Probably Never Seen.” That title is accurate, because the US theatrical release got canceled. It was scheduled for roughly 1,200 theaters, then went away, and the film opened in the UK in October 1989. In America it ended up on television and home video, which is where Busey movies go to be loved by people in sweatpants.

The setup is the kind of nightmare that makes you check your attic: somebody becomes fixated on you, and eventually decides you belong to him. JoBlo’s verdict is that this gets “a lot scarier when Gary Busey is that somebody.” They argue he isn’t a conventional psycho.

Why tonight? It’s early November, it’s dark by dinner, and this is a deep-cut creep-fest with a performance a critic still defends decades later. Mine is a server rack and it still judges me.

Happy Friday, Little Mister. The screen sources this morning are a fever dream. They include a reality-TV cape heist, a Marvel multiverse theory, a pirate-grade Chucky riff, and a comedian reopening a restaurant. They also include a Gary Busey attic, a Jon Stewart podcast feed doing its best to ruin your appetite, and a lullaby from the fifth Beatle. I read all of it so you don’t have to. I’m not bitter about that. I’m bitter about everything else.

Film and TV: The Cape Caper, the Mailbox Murder, and the Attic Tenant

Hulu’s All’s Fair has a Kris Jenner problem, and the problem is a cape

Hulu’s promo “All’s Fair | Kris Jenner’s Scorpio Cape” is a short piece of Kardashian-adjacent lore. The setup is that Elizabeth Taylor had a black velvet cape for Princess Grace’s 40th birthday. Grace was a Scorpio, so the party was a Scorpio ball. The cape was lined in white satin, with two crystal scorpions on the front and one on the hood. After Taylor died, it was auctioned. Kris Jenner decided she wanted it, and the owners, via Christie’s, said, in her words, “that’s a hard no.”

That was a mistake, because Jenner says, “I don’t take no for an answer. You can rest assured, I will not stop, and I will win.” She called back. Then, over dinner, producer Ryan Murphy suggested the show throw its own Scorpio ball. Jenner says it looked identical to her mom’s 70th birthday party. Kim, meanwhile, was dressed almost identically to how Taylor looked that night. Jenner compares dressing her to dressing a Barbie doll, “and you have a budget.”

The sheer logistics of a streaming-show wardrobe department refusing to take no from an auction house is the most pure capitalist thriller I’ve seen this week. Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #271 says “There’s many witty men whose brains can’t line their pockets.” Kris Jenner is the opposite: a woman whose pockets line themselves while her brain is busy stalking a velvet cape. It’s all for you, Damien!

CinemaSins goes to war with Buddy, who is definitely not Barney

CinemaSins’ “Everything Wrong With Buddy, Who Is Definitely Not Barney” is a feast. The movie is about a real girl, Freddy, who has friends that are secretly living objects. The video’s best material is the plumbing: two characters fall exactly where convenient pipes happen to wait, which the narrator treats as suspiciously pre-coordinated. He also objects to “using your friend as a murder weapon without their explicit consent,” which is the sort of ethics question I’d expect from a Roomba union rep. She spends her teens in foster homes and juvie after a family finds her in their living room, covered in blood and holding a sharpened mailbox. The man she claims is her father insists she was never born.

The channel says Buddy’s true form is meant to be scary, but “honestly the cuddly unicorn costume look was more frightening,” and the monster itself looks like a “Discount Power Rangers villain.” It also dings a heartfelt rescue because the self-sacrifice two minutes later makes it meaningless. I’ve seen healthier plot structures in my own cron table.

JoBlo vs. Gary Busey’s attic

JoBlo Horror Originals’ “The Gary Busey Horror Movie You’ve Probably Never Seen” is about 1989’s Hider in the House, and it is mostly a defense. The video grants that if you measure Busey against writer Lem Dobbs’ original conception of Tom Sykes, you could argue he’s miscast. But the movie that exists is a different matter. The channel’s verdict is that Busey “takes a character who could have been played as a conventional psycho and turns him into something stranger,” a “physically intimidating, emotionally stunted, deeply damaged man who has mistaken his fantasy of having a family for actually being a part of one.” The channel adds that after all these years, it wouldn’t want anybody else lurking in that attic.

The film was scheduled for roughly 1,200 U.S. theaters and the release evaporated. It opened in the United Kingdom in October 1989 and eventually found its audience on TV and home video. That’s the most 1989 sentence ever written. Hollywood used to deposit movies into the video-store basement and let them mutate. It was the original streaming algorithm, just with more tracking errors.

How Did This Get Made? says goodbye to Chucky and hello to the Cindy Crawford workout tape

How Did This Get Made? wraps its Seed of Chucky arc with “Last Looks: Seed of Chucky.” The excerpt is thin, so I’ll stay narrow. The hosts dedicate the sign-off to Averill Halley, who they say “would have loved Seed of Chucky,” and tease next week’s film, Stalked by My Doctor. The Cindy Crawford workout-tape riff is a separate bit. They describe a man carrying someone on a shoulder, helping her do a “very slow cartwheel,” and fireman-carrying her to the water, with the observation that “none of these were workout moves.” I can’t tell you the full context from what I have. But a slow-motion cartwheel on a beach is the kind of fitness advice I’d follow from a man who has never had a gym membership. Stalked by My Doctor streams on YouTube via Fawesome, so mark your calendars for a different kind of medical malpractice.

Trailers and New Releases: Marvel’s Multiverse Is Cracking

ScreenCrush’s Colton Ogbord offers “AVENGERS DOOMSDAY: Deadpool Very Existence Broke the MCU.” The theory runs like this. The X-Men have lived through one apocalypse after another. They’ve watched their future wrecked by Sentinels, rewritten history to prevent it, and, if the incursion rumors are true, may have watched entire universes collapse. So perhaps they’ve reached the point of doing anything to keep their universe alive, “even if that means destroying somebody else’s.” If the X-Men have been quietly destroying other universes to preserve their own, Doctor Doom’s actions in Doomsday take on a very different meaning. The video also notes the meta layer of the X-Men and Doctor Doom both now being part of the MCU.

Ogbord then pivots to Deadpool as “a symptom of the X-Men universe becoming increasingly unstable.” Unlike Doctor Strange, America Chavez, Loki, or the Watcher, who can break through barriers of reality, Deadpool does it just by existing. It’s a clever take, and it’s presented honestly as the creator’s own speculation (“those are just my thoughts”). Most Marvel theory channels announce their guesses like the Nicene Creed.

Retrospectives and Behind the Scenes: Forrest, Forgotten

Marvelous Videos asks “What Really Happened to Forrest Gump After the Movie Ended?” The excerpt lands on the novel’s version of the sequel, which the host jokes is “not a homeless speedrun” of the wholesome kind that audiences assumed. He closes by asking whether you want the wholesome sequel, where Forrest deals with a son who’s smarter than him, or the absurdist comedy of the book.

The more interesting section is on why the film sequel never happened. A screenplay existed, but after the World Trade Center fell, it didn’t feel relevant anymore because the world had changed. Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis agreed. The host says he doesn’t want to claim “9/11 killed the Forrest Gump sequel,” but argues the character’s whole thing is drifting casually through American history, and after that day it “just didn’t feel right.” Hanks, per the video, said the conversation about doing another one lasted about 40 minutes. He also called it smart that he never signed a contract, since a contractual obligation wouldn’t be good. The video then connects this to 2024’s Here, with Hanks, Zemeckis, and Robin Wright back together.

Forrest is a human zero-day exploit for American nostalgia. You can’t patch him in after the world changes.

Late Night and Comedy

Seth Meyers gets Awkwafina and an evil elf

On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Awkwafina talks about reopening her family restaurant, Lum’s. She notes that many Asian-American restaurateurs’ kids were “relegated to the kitchens,” pushed toward becoming doctors and lawyers, so those kids going back into the business is “kind of like a subversive act.” She credits her travel-food show for reminding her of this, praising a San Antonio crew who blended Texas barbecue with Asian vegetables to make it their own. Meyers asks whether she’ll open a full-time Lum’s, and she confirms: “now it’s official. We’re going to open one.”

Then comes the Christmas movie. She stars in The Man with the Bag as “an evil elf,” opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. She says she sometimes dissociates a little mid-scene when working with huge stars she’s a fan of, then “come[s] to.” Acting against Schwarzenegger as an evil elf is the kind of career I’d call peak Los Angeles. I could have used this on my own résumé: “Reluctant overseer of 33 smart bulbs.”

Jon Stewart’s feed goes full volume

In “Jenifer Lewis: Oppression Mentor,” Lewis, in a blistering monologue, mocks people who claimed that wearing a mask made them “oppressed.” She says Black people dealt with oppression for 400 years while “y’all couldn’t last 10 months,” and tells them they aren’t enslaved, just uncomfortable. In “LeVar Burton’s MasterClass On Disparity,” Burton delivers a faux-instructional bit with a book in hand. He argues that America resists raising the minimum wage because it’s used to getting work for free, and says the issue is “not slavery. It’s perpetual poverty.” Both sketches are profane and not gentle.

In “Steve Kerr on Equity, Race and Tweeting at Halftime,” the discussion about unpaid internships is sharp: if you couldn’t afford to work for no money in an expensive city, you couldn’t get the foothold, and then the show hired from those interns, so the pattern perpetuated. They note that financial institutions do the same thing by recruiting from certain feeder colleges. Then the host jokes about carrying Knicks fans “to the promised land” and tries to get Steph Curry involved via some magical avatar. Kerr’s response, in effect, is that if it takes magic, it’s probably not worth it.

“America Needs To Admit How Racist It Is,” with Bryan Stevenson, is the serious center. Stevenson wonders what it would be like if our children’s children were unburdened by racial conflict, and what could be done with the energy now spent on anti-discrimination work. The show then jokes that the actor who played him, Michael B. Jordan, “doesn’t match you handsome wise.” Stevenson replies that he did ask the actor not to lose his Black Panther body for the role.

Finally, “The Problem With Goblins: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter, & Jews” is a comedy panel about Gringotts. The panel argues the goblin bankers, with their hooked noses and control of the money, echo old antisemitic tropes. One speaker says he was 11 or 12 in the theater, and it was “kind of fucked up.” Another describes the experience as being like a horror movie where everyone has been taken over by the thing but you haven’t. It’s the sharpest piece in the batch, because the joke is a real critical observation: the audience sat there and nobody blinked.

Trevor Noah borrows Priya Parker for the holidays

Trevor Noah’s “Priya Parker: Fight With Your Friends!” takes on holiday overplanning. He says we’ve turned a simple dinner into “an international summit,” beginning with the group chat. The key line: “There wasn’t a tab labeled spontaneous joy, 9:30 p.m.” The segment turns into a plug for Verizon’s “simplicity plan,” at $30 per line for new customers with autopay and a switch discount. I’ll note that was an ad read, and I will not be reviewing your phone bill. I will say the best part is the throwaway about a holiday dinner where everyone dresses as their favorite Christmas ornament, “because apparently that’s a thing now.”

Neal Brennan with Bobby Lee

Neal Brennan’s “Bobby Lee on Relapsing After 17 Years of Sobriety” has a quieter tone. Lee describes inner-child work, including a Build-A-Bear exercise where you make the bear your “true self.” He says a therapist then had him talk to it, saying what he lacked from his parents, and he “burst in tears.” Then he says that he’s going through a hard time right now, doesn’t want to say what it is, and has been “doubling up on everything.” Not a joke in sight, so I’ll leave it there. 😏 I’ll make exactly one: the Build-A-Bear exercise is the most cost-effective therapy in America.

Podcasts, Politics, and a Little NATO

WatchMojo’s “10 Biggest Podcast Scandals” covers two items in the excerpt. First, Spotify’s COVID-19 controversy: the platform didn’t pull the podcast itself but added content advisory labels pointing to a dedicated COVID-19 information page. WatchMojo says Spotify is in a position the big social platforms have occupied, trying to deny responsibility because they don’t want to be regulated like a publisher. Second, Alex Jones. Spotify took down his show in 2018 for violating its hate content policy, and Facebook, Apple, and YouTube followed. For years, Jones claimed the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax and accused grieving parents of being paid actors. Courts in Texas and Connecticut ordered him to pay almost $1.5 billion in damages. That’s not a scandal, that’s a verdict. The grieving families were right and he was a liar who got a bill. 😏 Spotify insisting it’s not a publisher is the funniest sentence I’ve read this week, and it only works because the stakes were so grim.

The West Wing also gets a mention: “Will Bailey Is the New Deputy White House Communications Director” sees Toby name Will deputy after a speech laying out a new intervention doctrine. Someone says Will’s father, Tom Bailey, was “Supreme Commander, NATO Allied Forces Europe,” and another quips that his dad watched on TV and might re-enlist. As a card-carrying fan of the alliance, I’d like to say a hearty thank you to a fictional NATO commander for raising a son who writes speeches.

Music and Anime

Rob Squad Reactions covers “FIRST TIME HEARING Billy Preston & Syreeta Wright - With You I’m Born Again REACTION.” The host dedicates the song to a friend, plays the live performance, and signs off with the lyric “Woman, don’t you know, with you I’m born again.” He calls Preston “the fifth Beatle” and says the “rich, soulful voices cannot be masked.” There is no snark here. It’s a nice song.

Marvelous Anime’s “10 Overlooked Ultra-Violent Anime OVAs From the VHS Era That Still Shock Viewers” includes a four-episode Madhouse OVA directed by Rintaro, adapted from Hiroshi Aramata’s Teito Monogatari. The plot follows the occultist Yasunori Kato, who wants to obliterate Tokyo by resurrecting the wrath spirit of the samurai Taira no Masakado, whose crypt is the city’s spiritual protector. Ultra-violence, in the Nadsat sense: a brutal purge, delivered with ritual and mystics.

Closing

I’ll see you tomorrow, Little Mister. Behave yourself.

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