Searows: ‘Finding out Gracie Abrams was a fan gave me impostor syndrome’
Gender isn’t a defining force in Alec Duckart’s music; it’s part of who he is, not something he thinks about every time he picks up a guitar
Robyn: Sexistential review – Breathtaking, beautifully bittersweet pop
Sexistential is less a celebration of sexuality than a meditation on Robyn’s changing relationship with her physicality and her sensuality
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen taps into what we all know: our other half’s family is weird
The Duffer brothers’ new show, featuring Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco as a couple en route to their wedding, is stylish, witty and terrifying
Stephen Colbert will co-write a new Lord of the Rings film. What thumpingly grim news
Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past: please don’t do to The Lord of the Rings what Saruman did to the Shire
Dry Cleaning: ‘We’re all such Gilla Band fans. We gave them some of the trickier songs’
Florence Shaw and Lewis Maynard talk soap, Taylor Swift and recording some of Mercury Prize shortlist-tipped Secret Love in Dublin
Luke Combs: The Way I Am review – Everydude cliches mixed into the sorriest country-rock schmaltz
Enough is never enough for the country star Luke Combs, whose tiresome new LP runs down the clock with a patience-testing 22 tracks
Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish is one of the great cringe-comedy creations this side of David Brent
HBO’s blackly comic The Comeback is a perfect vehicle for the former Phoebe Buffay in Friends
Cheap European Homes on RTÉ One: A rare property show that doesn’t feel out of touch
Television: Maggie Molloy is down-to-earth and seems to appreciate that she is helping people meet a basic need in their life
The Other Bennet Sister on BBC One: A love letter to outsiders, introverts and people who don’t fit in
Television: Hooray for weirdos who live inside their heads – and for this sly, pointed deconstruction of the costume drama industrial complex
Welcome to Moore Street on RTÉ One: Unflinching documentary raises questions on how Dublin is administered
Television: Shuttered stalls, plunging footfall, drug addiction and lawlessness – it’s a wonder this wasn’t called Farewell to Moore Street
Imperfect Women on Apple TV: Flaws here are clunky scripting and an implausible plot
A tale of lies, female friendship and dreadful men set in upper-middle-class California that somehow doesn’t feature Nicole Kidman
Glenroe, Bosco, Mrs Brown’s Boys: The best and worst Irish TV shows ever made
Put your feet up as we bring you the best of Irish television – and then take a deep breath as we run through the worst
Feel-good ending to Dancing with the Stars as Katelyn Cummins claims the crown
Katelyn Cummins claims the Dancing with the Stars crown
James Blake: Trying Times review – Quietly mesmerising comedown album with no bottom floor, only endless depths
On his first LP since going independent, James Blake blends stillness and beauty with quietly roiling rage
Iron Ladies: Gripping insight into Cold War and pursuit of justice by Irish Jewish women
Television: Slice-of-life memories a stark reminder of arbitrary cruelty of former Soviet Union