The Last Scene in a Film

Real tennis, like real dancing, happens when the body is rapt and alive, where visceral sensation takes over and the only thing left is the crystallization of every nerve and muscle, both aligned and on edge. That last match was a dance.

—Gia Kourlas

Season Premiere

Season 3 of “The Bear” turned out to be a disappointing holding action. But its first episode — a fraught, often wordless montage of Carmy’s tweezer-cuisine education, obsessive discipline and damaged personal life — was set to a wall-to-wall score, an extended version of “Together” from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails), that pulsed quietly and captured every bit of tense, determined perfectionism within just four chords.

—Jon Pareles

Death in Vienna

I’m not a big opera guy, but I saw “La Traviata” in Vienna this summer, and the ending featured one of the greatest onstage deaths I’ve seen. Simon Stone’s hyper-contemporary production is staged alongside a revolving cube; in the closing moments, as tuberculosis vanquishes Violetta, that cube cracks open, and she falls backward out of the playing area, swallowed by a swirling mist, knowing she has simultaneously found her love and lost her life.

—Michael Paulson

Rom-Coms

Little did I know that a show with a witty Kristen Bell and ever charming Adam Brody at the helm was the feel-good TV I was missing in my life. The story follows Joanne (Bell), a podcast host, and Noah (Brody), a hot rabbi, who meet and fall in love despite their differing faiths, kooky families and some self-sabotaging tendencies. The scene of their first kiss gave me butterflies in a way that I hadn’t felt since watching my favorite romantic comedies of the early 2000s.

—Shivani Gonzalez

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“What he said or didn’t say is between him and the people of North Carolina,” said Mr. Vance, former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate. He added: “I’ve seen some of the statements. I haven’t seen them all. Some of them are pretty gross, to put it mildly. Mark Robinson says that those statements are false, that he didn’t actually speak them. So I think it’s up to Mark Robinson to make his case to the people of North Carolina that those weren’t his statements.”

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