Adapting a beloved novel is not easy—let alone one as distinctly stylized, tonally bipolar, and relentlessly digressive as Don DeLillo’s seminal work of postmodern literature, 1985’s White Noise. Jack (or, J.A.K., as he’s known at school) Gladney’s first-person account of a year at the College on the Hill turned upside down by an airborne toxic event is a grim, farcical meditation on the inescapability of death. It's also about the universal impossibility of suppressing the fear of our mortality—try as we might with the distractions of consumerism, family life, and mass media.

Finally. After the writers' room of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty gave us the dubious (and very likely invented) inclusions of Tasty Ice, Zastro, and locker room beef, Episode Five gave us a few high-stakes moments, straight from the history books, worth investigating. Meet the TeamThe new installment of Winning Time, which debuted Sunday night on HBO, brilliantly depicted Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's crisis of faith. (You can read what Solomon Hughes, the actor who plays Abdul-Jabbar, had to say about the episode here.

This story contains spoilers for Yellowjackets Season Two. While the Yellowjackets Season Two finale, "Storytelling," leaves out the answers to plenty of the show's more puzzling problems, it does confirm one thing: we've been asking the wrong questions. The debate over whether or not the force that the girls encountered in the wilderness is a real entity that can only be appeased with sacrificial blood rages on. But this episode sidesteps that in favor of a much more uncomfortable and frightening truth.

En el cartel de Vivir sin permiso, la gran apuesta del otoño en Telecinco, una ola cubre la cabeza de Jose Coronado, más bien de Nemo Bandeira, uno de esos personajes que ya suenan importantes desde la primera vez que escuchas su nombre. Es el mar gallego en el que este empresario, un trasunto de Amancio Ortega con toques de Fariña, labró su fortuna. Pero ahora la marea llega cargada de la bruma más acojonante: la del olvido.

Nadie la persigue ya, pero Victoria Eugenia Henao, antes María Isabel Santos Caballero, viuda del narcotraficante colombiano Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, continúa huyendo 30 años después de la muerte de su marido, un 2 de diciembre de 1993 en el barrio de Los Pinos, en Melledín (Colombia), el día después de su 44 cumpleaños. Sólo que ahora no huye de cárteles que quieren acabar con su vida y la de sus hijos, Juan Pablo y Manuela.