Fox is praised for acquiring Roku, just not on Wall Street

Kim Masters and Matt Belloni discuss Fox Corp’s acquisition of the streaming company Roku. Roku is used by over 100 million people, giving Fox access to countless homes and a lot of consumer data.

David Koepp on trying to ‘not screw up’ Disclosure Day

Kim talks to screenwriter David Koepp about Disclosure Day, his latest collaboration with director Steven Spielberg. After Spielberg sent Koepp a 40-page treatment for the movie, which Koepp gave notes on, Spielberg emailed him back that, “it’s your problem now.” Koepp also reveals the downside of his early success, which included writing the Jurassic Park screenplay when he was just 29. He also explains why he’s not that scared AI will replace him, and offers his very dark pitch for one final Tom Cruise-led Mission Impossible movie (Koepp wrote the original 1996 release).

WEEKEND FILM REVIEWS: Toy Story 5, The Death of Robin Hood, Leviticus, and Rose of Nevada

Thirty-one years after we first met Woody, Buzz, Rex, and Slinky-Dog upstairs in Andy’s room, the Toy Story crew is back for a fifth installment. Andy is long gone, and his toys have been inherited by eight-year-old Bonnie, who was introduced in Toy Story 3. “I think I'm of the school that the Toy Story series peaked with Number Three, and we're just never going to reach those heights again,” says film critic Alonso Duralde. “But I'm okay with that as long as the new installments are at least this good, which I think this one is.”

In Toy Story 5, Bonnie receives a tablet. “For the purposes of the story, it was important, I understand, to portray the parents as somewhat checked out, hooked on their own screens, and then offering a kind of gentle intervention near the end,” says critic Dave White. “And it's the gentleness of that intervention that sort of vexed me as a viewer. I think it is a subject that maybe requires a little more emphatic storytelling… But, you know, adults are seeing this movie, frequently with their kids. I think they need to be reminded that anthropomorphic magical toys are not going to fix their children's problems for them.”

Duralde and White also review The Death of Robin Hood, Leviticus, and Rose of Nevada.

Richard Gadd on the duality in his work

Emmy-winning writer and actor Richard Gadd knows he puts his characters under great tension in his work. Gadd wrote and starred in the 2024 Netflix series Baby Reindeer, which was inspired by experiences Gadd had as a stand up comic dealing with a stalker. That series garnered six Emmys, including for Gadd’s performance, and for Outstanding Limited Series. Gadd has followed up Reindeer with the HBO series Half Man, which stars Gadd and Jamie Bell as “brothers” whose shared history spirals them into explosive consequences. Gadd tells The Treatment why he creates characters who are larger than life, how those characters have resonated with people, and why he often sets his series in a metaphorical “oven.”

Is 2026 the Year Everything Started to Look Too Perfect?

At the halfway point of 2026, Sam is joined by Traci Thomas (The Stacks) and Christiana Mbakwe Medina (Pop Syllabus) to ask what this year in pop culture is really becoming.

Their answer moves from the rise of “The Sculpt” and the pressure to optimize everything about ourselves, to the bigger feeling that so much of culture now looks filtered, flattened, and strangely unreal.

They also get into the dominance of big name celebrities, the absence of exciting new stars, AI anxiety, and why live sports and theater might be the thing we’re all craving most. Plus, predictions for the rest of 2026.