Worried that the finale of Breaking Bad—which returns to AMC for its final run of eight episodes on August 11—will be a letdown? That the last few frames will fall short of the impossibly high standards set by Walter White & Co. over the preceding five-and-a-half years?

Well, worry not: showrunner Vince Gilligan has assured The Daily Beast that he isn't going to pull a Sopranos and leave us hanging.

Handsome, charismatic, enigmatic, and aloof. Are we talking about Mad Men’s Don Draper or Jay Gatsby of The Great Gatsby? Both!

The two mysterious American characters that have made an indelible mark on TV, film, and literature, are now hitting the entertainment world at the same time. Baz Lurhmann’s sparkling rendition of The Great Gatsby is out in theaters on May 10, and AMC’s Mad Men is in the midst of unveiling some juicy new surprises in its sixth season.

At times, acting well is the best revenge. Although scores of Jeff Buckley fans expressed skepticism—or outright hostility—after it was announced that Penn Badgley would play the leading role in writer/director Dan Algrant’s Greetings From Tim Buckley, early reviews have been uniformly rapturous about the former Gossip Girl star’s performance. When the film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last fall, The Globe and Mail proclaimed “Penn Badgley’s performance here … is so strong and involving that if he wasn’t already a star courtesy [of] his gig on TV’s Gossip Girl you’d be tempted to go Garland and break out the ‘a star is born’ huzzah.” In Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman hailed Badgley as “a great camera subject, and a great singer, too—he does an eerily dead-on impersonation of Buckley’s jazzy wail.”

When I sat down with Badgley toward the end of a daylong press junket, he was far too polite to chide the naysayers who dreaded the mere prospect of the film’s release. It was nevertheless evident that he was quietly enjoying a well-earned triumph.

Recent debates about TV sexuality have addressed everything from the nudity gap between men and women, the prevalence of rape as a plot device, to the difficulty of choreographing sex scenes that don’t appear either miserable or risible. But missing from this discussion is the sudden appearance in prestige television of a much more interesting and nuanced archetype: the adult male virgin.

On last night’s Game of Thrones, after getting seduced by wildling warrior Ygritte (Rose Leslie), Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) confessed that “There’s been no one else.” Ygritte knew that as a man of the Night’s Watch, the celibate brotherhood who guards the Wall which marks the border of Westeros, Jon was forbidden from having sex after he swore the vows she asked him to break. But she assumed that he’d had sex before he joined up, and was surprised to learn she’d been mistaken. “A maid! You’re a maid,” she teased him.

Widely available high-speed Internet and the rise of social media have made adult entertainment a lot more "personal" in recent years. "Cam girl" jobs have become a popular way for women to make money in the sex industry without having any actual physical interaction with their "clients" or fans. Some porn stars who spent many years having sex in front of a camera have taken to webcam sessions, either as an income supplement or as a replacement to their former job. And their fans have made the migration as well.

Thanks to the Internet, we have relationships that satisfy our needs but don't have to be consummated in person. Superfans are willing to go the extra mile, shelling out hard-earned cash for a girl they have never met and most likely never will, but they hand over their earnings regardless. It's a new kind of relationship.

On April 29, Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge will toast to two years of nuptial bliss, but the fervor surrounding them since their televised Westminster Abbey wedding has hardly fizzled. As Catherine’s mid-July due date nears, gamblers are stacking their chips on all nuances of royal baby trivia.

Gambling on the royal family is a British tradition. Rupert Adams, a public-relations manager at William Hill, one of the U.K.’s largest bookmakers, says his firm has racked up £70,000 in royal-related bets, with £15,000 taken in since the pregnancy announcement. The wagers are almost entirely small scale—a few pence here, a couple pounds there—just good, old-fashioned patriotic fun.

After horse-galloping his way to more than 1.5 billion YouTube views—a world record—South Korean pop sensation Psy is back with his long-awaited follow-up to “Gangnam Style.”

The 35-year-old’s magniloquent new music video, “Gentleman,” has already broken the YouTube record for most views in a single day, notching 38 million—eclipsing that “Kony 2012” video, which was the previous record-holder with 31 million views. And with 244 million views since launching on April 13, as well as a top 10 berth on the Billboard Hot 100, it’s fairly safe to say that Psy has rid himself of the “one-hit wonder” label.

With two simple words (“I’m in”) the fantastic fourth season of CBS legal drama The Good Wife came to a staggering conclusion on Sunday evening with the revelation that Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), Illinois’s newly minted first lady, would be leaving Lockhart/Gardner to join the startup firm captained by former rival Cary Agos (Matt Czuchry).

The move effectively reboots the show, which will return for a fifth season in the fall. What will Alicia’s decision mean for her star-crossed romance with Will Gardner (Josh Charles) once he gets wind of her betrayal? And what does it mean for The Good Wife that its main characters are being split up and established as potential adversaries?