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LG’s 4th of July sale covers a wide range of home entertainment setups, from smaller bedroom TVs to larger screens meant for living rooms and shared spaces. The discounts span LG’s OLED and Gallery-style TVs, including 2025 and 2026 releases, with price drops across multiple sizes.

Across the lineup, savings go up to $1,700 off select OLED C5 models and LG’s Gallery Mini LED TV. It includes everything from more affordable upgrades to higher-end displays, all part of LG’s holiday sale across its home entertainment range.

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The 77-inch LG OLED C5 is built for a big-screen setup, whether that’s movies, sports, or gaming. It uses LG’s OLED tech with over 8.3 million self-lit pixels, meaning each pixel controls its own light. It’s powered by the Alpha 9 AI Processor Gen8, which uses AI to sharpen whatever you’re watching with AI Super Upscaling, so lower-resolution content still looks more detailed.

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Love Island USA just aired a "Movie Night" so juicy that it had to be split into two episodes — with some viewers calling it the "most uncomfortable and sad" movie night in the Love Island franchise. 

Voices were raised, tears were shed, and hearts were broken not only in the villa, but amongst the wider Love Island viewing community.

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The two tensest moments were when Aniya argued with KC after seeing how much he put her down in front of the other Islanders behind her back, and when Melanie broke down in tears after seeing a compilation of Sincere lying to her and everyone in the villa about his connections.

While it was a relief to see the truth come to light for all the Islanders, it was hard to watch Aniya and Melanie get their hearts broken. Season 8's Movie Night stirred a wide range of emotions because it touched upon the scariest parts of love: betrayal, abandonment, and heartbreak — something many viewers could relate to.

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TikTok user @dombeauclair said that Movie Night was a "hard watch," and that she saw so much of herself in Melanie. "You could just see the fight leave her body when she saw all of that information right in her face."

Some viewers were brought to tears watching the recap of how The Girls have been treated throughout the season.

"I'm tearing up for these girls, like I feel so bad," said TikTok user @aloneise04. "I would never wish this type of pain on anybody. Like, this is terrible. They all deserve so much better, like the guys really dropped the ball this season for the girls."

Each Islander had to confront an uncomfortable aspect of their relationship, but Aniya, KC, Melanie, and Sincere had the most difficult time navigating their Movie Night revelations. 

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KC's movie aired during Season 8, Episode 25, and Aniya's movie followed shortly after. We first saw KC make comments about Aniya behind her back while in the villa before connecting with Tierra in Casa Amor. He told the other boys (Caleb, Zach, Corbin, and Bryce) that he had nothing in common with Aniya, and that he wasn't happy for her or her connection with Carl at the villa. While KC apologized for his comments, Trinity and Melanie called him out for dragging out his connection with Aniya and potentially using her. 

During Aniya's movie, we saw her connect with Carl and voice her desire to not "sell herself short" while KC was at Casa Amor. Things got heated after The Boys (minus Carl) called out The Girls (minus Jaiden, Parmida, Tierra, and Amora) for having a double standard when it came to Aniya exploring with Carl. Aniya said that the difference between her and KC was that she did not disrespect KC while exploring with Carl.

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However, the two apologized to each other for their behavior in Season 8, Episode 26, with Aniya apologizing for standing up and getting in his face during Movie Night and KC apologizing for his disrespectful comments about her. Viewers were glad to see the former couple end on a positive note and handling the situation with maturity.

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While KC and Aniya were able to come to a mutual understanding in the villa, Melanie and Sincere didn't quite get there. 

Sincere's movie revealed the inconsistencies in his comments to Melanie about his connections with Sol and Amora, suggesting that he explored more deeply with Sol than he let on to Melanie. Despite usually being bubbly and outspoken, Melanie looked like she shut down while watching Sincere's movie, choosing to cry to herself in the company of The Girls instead of confronting Sincere.

In Episode 26, Melanie's movie showed her brief but strong connection with Corey, and the rest of Sincere's movie showed his connection with Amora at Casa Amor. While Sincere chose to stay in a couple with Melanie at the end of Casa Amor, he told Amora that, if they had more time, she would've been "the one." This was the final straw that led to Melanie going off on Sincere, saying that his dishonesty made her feel like a fool. Sincere's movie had both viewers and the Islanders stunned, with people commenting that Movie Night showed just how much Sincere had misled his fellow Islanders.

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After sleeping in separate beds that night, Melanie and Sincere touched base the next day, and Sincere validated Melanie's feelings about his treatment of her. Melanie said that she did not feel that Sincere deserved to be in a connection with her, leaving their future up in the air.

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Despite Movie Night being not-so-romantic for the couples save for Trinity and Bryce, it did have one silver lining: it revealed the deep friendships that have formed in the villa throughout Season 8.

We saw The Girls hold each other's hands while the Movie Night clips aired, and collectively stick up for Aniya after KC's movie. We also saw Aniya follow Melanie as she walked away crying after Sincere's movie, comforting her and validating her experience.

Viewers were here for the girlhood in the villa, with some calling this season "Friendship Island" and "Girlhood Island."

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Movie Night ended in Episode 26, but the preview revealed that there was still another plot twist in store for the Islanders: the next episode would not only involve a recoupling, but the Islanders would also have to choose two couples that they think are the least compatible — hinting that some Islanders might be leaving the villa soon.

New episodes of Love Island USA premiere daily except Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT on Peacock.

There are many mysteries in Silo — What's the deal with that weird cloud? How exactly does the safeguard work? — but one of the biggest concerns in Season 3 is the weird voice in the vault.

Who exactly is Camille Sims (Alexandria Riley), the new head of IT, talking to when they speak with that voice? A robot? A person?

We don't know for sure yet, but we do have a theory: Could it be possible that we've already met the voice's owner?

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First, a quick recap. Back in Season 2, the currently AWOL Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) made it to the bottom of the silo in pursuit of a secret code left by a former head of IT. He discovered a tunnel, and was addressed by a robotic-sounding voice that the subtitles credit as "The Algorithm." This voice, we learned, is the same one that communicates with the silo's head of IT in a room called the Vault. As of Season 3, the voice has picked Camille as its go-to contact.

The question is who, or maybe what, is the voice?

Well, the first thing to note is the name: "The Algorithm" sounds unmistakably machine-like, adding to the possibility that the voice could be some kind of omnipotent AI that's running the silo network. But that's only one possibility. And if the voice is in fact human, or at least based on a human, could it be the case that we've already met them?

Could the voice belong to congressman Daniel Keene?

The voice Camille speaks with is obviously distorted and robotic, but doesn't it also sound slightly familiar? Doesn't it sound, just a bit, like Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) that we meet in the flashbacks?

The algorithm's voice is uncredited in the show, so we can't say for sure. But it seems obvious that Keene's storyline is building to the silo's origin — something reenforced by the mysterious promo video Apple TV put out just before launch.

Of course, it's worth remembering that the silos were allegedly built hundreds of years before the events of the show. Keene is, presumably, long dead. But is it such a stretch to imagine his voice could have been resurrected in some way, possibly via AI, by the people in control of the silos? We'll have to wait and see.

Silo Season 3 is streaming now on Apple TV, with new episodes dropping every Friday.

We're back for another season of Silo, but this time we're spending just as much time outside as we are in.

Season 3 picks up where Season 2 left off, making it clear that the shocking flashback in last season's finale wasn't just a one-off. Alongside Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) grappling with memory loss in the present day, the episode also follows congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) and journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick) in the pre-silo days, with Keene's naval pilot sister Charles (Jessica Brown Findlay) heading off on a combat mission that almost gets her killed.

But what's with the mysterious cloud she encounters, and how might it connect with the silo? Let's dive in.

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After a peculiar meeting in which she warns her brother to get on the Iran committee run by Senator Thurman (Laura Innes), we see Charles cutting through the clear night sky on a mission with her fellow naval pilots.

All seems to be going well until a weird cloud appears up ahead. It looks almost like a storm cloud, only with long dark tendrils creeping out of it. "What the fuck's a cloud doing at fifty thousand feet?" asks Charles as she and her fellow pilots fly into it.

Inside the cloud a weird, gooey substance shows up on Charles' instrument panel. She touches it, and the residue is reminiscent of the tendrils we saw protruding from the cloud. Shortly after that, planes start to go down around her.

Watching news of an Iran combat mission on TV, Daniel Keene is called into a meeting with the same Senator Thurman running the committee Charles told him about.

"Your sister's squadron wasn't hitting any of the targets they're talking about on TV," Thurman says. "They were on a mission to a facility in the mountains. Charlotte's plane went down, but a facility out of Turkmenistan picked her up. She's alive."

Good news! The problem? When Daniel goes to visit her in her special treatment center, she doesn't remember him.

So, what could that weird cloud be? And the goo?

There's obviously a reason why Charles' unit was sent on a mission to "a facility in the mountains," and you would imagine it has something to do with the bizarre cloud that seems to wreck their planes one by one. Could it be some kind of biological weapon, maybe a new defensive weapon, made by Iran? Perhaps something experimental that the facility they were attacking could have been working on?

It seems possible. But the other big question is, what happened to Charles' memory? Did the cloud, and the gooey substance in her cockpit, affect her neurologically?

Too early to say, but it seems a bit of a coincidence that Charles has lost her memory in the past, just as Juliette has lost her memory in the present. Surely there's a connection there...

Silo Season 3 is streaming now on Apple TV, with new episodes dropping every Friday.

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.

An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.

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If you find yourself stuck at any step of today's Hurdle, don't worry! We have you covered.

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A kitchen tool.

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CORER

Hurdle Word 2 hint

Useful.

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UTILE

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Hurdle Word 3 hint

Dwelling.

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ABDOE

Hurdle Word 4 hint

A barrage.

Hurdle Word 4 answer

SALVO

Final Hurdle hint

The goat.

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BILLY

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