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  • One Tech Tip: How to prepare your online accounts for when you die

    One Tech Tip: How to prepare your online accounts for when you die

    LONDON — Most people have accumulated a pile of data — selfies, emails, videos and more — on their social media and digital accounts over their lifetimes. What happens to it when we die?

    It’s wise to draft a will spelling out who inherits your physical assets after you’re gone, but don’t forget to take care of your digital estate too. Friends and family might treasure files and posts you’ve left behind, but they could get lost in digital purgatory after you pass away unless you take some simple steps.

    Here’s how you can prepare your digital life for your survivors:

    The iPhone maker lets you nominate a “ legacy contact ” who can access your Apple account’s data after you die. The company says it’s a secure way to give trusted people access to photos, files and messages. To set it up you’ll need an Apple device with a fairly recent operating system — iPhones and iPads need iOS or iPadOS 15.2 and MacBooks needs macOS Monterey 12.1.

    For iPhones, go to settings, tap Sign-in & Security and then Legacy Contact. You can name one or more people, and they don’t need an Apple ID or device.

    You’ll have to share an access key with your contact. It can be a digital version sent electronically, or you can print a copy or save it as a screenshot or PDF.

    Take note that there are some types of files you won’t be able to pass on — including digital rights-protected music, movies and passwords stored in Apple’s password manager. Legacy contacts can only access a deceased user’s account for three years before Apple deletes the account.

    Google takes a different approach with its Inactive Account Manager, which allows you to share your data with someone if it notices that you’ve stopped using your account.

    When setting it up, you need to decide how long Google should wait — from three to 18 months — before considering your account inactive. Once that time is up, Google can notify up to 10 people.

    You can write a message informing them you’ve stopped using the account, and, optionally, include a link to download your data. You can choose what types of data they can access — including emails, photos, calendar entries and YouTube videos.

    There’s also an option to automatically delete your account after three months of inactivity, so your contacts will have to download any data before that deadline.

    Some social media platforms can preserve accounts for people who have died so that friends and family can honor their memories.

    When users of Facebook or Instagram die, parent company Meta says it can memorialize the account if it gets a “valid request” from a friend or family member. Requests can be submitted through an online form.

    The social media company strongly recommends Facebook users add a legacy contact to look after their memorial accounts. Legacy contacts can do things like respond to new friend requests and update pinned posts, but they can’t read private messages or remove or alter previous posts. You can only choose one person, who also has to have a Facebook account.

    You can also ask Facebook or Instagram to delete a deceased user’s account if you’re a close family member or an executor. You’ll need to send in documents like a death certificate.

    The video-sharing platform says that if a user has died, people can submit a request to memorialize the account through the settings menu. Go to the Report a Problem section, then Account and profile, then Manage account, where you can report a deceased user.

    Once an account has been memorialized, it will be labeled “Remembering.” No one will be able to log into the account, which prevents anyone from editing the profile or using the account to post new content or send messages.

    It’s not possible to nominate a legacy contact on Elon Musk’s social media site. But family members or an authorized person can submit a request to deactivate a deceased user’s account.

    Besides the major online services, you’ll probably have dozens if not hundreds of other digital accounts that your survivors might need to access. You could just write all your login credentials down in a notebook and put it somewhere safe. But making a physical copy presents its own vulnerabilities. What if you lose track of it? What if someone finds it?

    Instead, consider a password manager that has an emergency access feature. Password managers are digital vaults that you can use to store all your credentials. Some, like Keeper,Bitwarden and NordPass, allow users to nominate one or more trusted contacts who can access their keys in case of an emergency such as a death.

    But there are a few catches: Those contacts also need to use the same password manager and you might have to pay for the service.

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    Is there a tech challenge you need help figuring out? Write to us at onetechtip@ap.org with your questions.



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  • What to do when male friendships die

    What to do when male friendships die

    There are two reasons to go to Embu. One, because it is Embu. Two…actually, I lied. There is no reason to go Embu. Driving to Embu is inconvenient enough. It is shy as a town and it really just wants to be a village. You get the sense that if you talked to three random people in Embu, they are probably related, or they share a fence, or a face, or a dog, one of those life-hardened Bosco canines who both belong to everyone and no one in particular. Embu is the archetypal Kenyan town, with nothing to its name other than its name. Honesty aside, Embu is a good town, if you don’t have to be in Embu. The only thing to do in Embu is drive to Meru.

    But I am a dreamer and a traveller, and I was looking to doing nothing, and doing it well, so I thought we should try, give Embu, err, a right of reply (that’s a journalism joke). “We” is my friends and I. It was midnight when we got to that Kibaki Highway, no one in sight apart from wababa in their 4x4s with girls not necessarily my age, but definitely my type.

    Heresy-filled, we started talking midnight things: the lack of marriageable partners, loneliness, how many cups of virgin blood Jennifer Lopez drinks daily to remain that young, how high the price of blunts has gotten lately (I know you saw what I did there). I remember when we used to be a real country.

    At 1am we got vulnerable. People shared things they shouldn’t share with a writer—shame on them! As the deer panteth for the water so my soul longeth for gossip. But there is a reason gossip is described as “morsels”, and that’s because it is not satisfying. Which is apt because the things we were talking about, I couldn’t relate. I felt like a foreign correspondent out to dis-cover Africa—another journalism joke—minus the naked hungry child with the flies and the protruding stomach. We’ve been friends with these guys for a while, but lately, we’ve been going our separate ways, seeing other people, like the president and his deputy.

    The Good Book says that there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother. Or put another way, men just sleep with women, but they are in love with each other. My friends have driven across the country to hug me because a woman I was doing bad things with did me bad things. I can see that time someone close to me got sick and I didn’t tell anyone but my friends found out and, despite my protests, accompanied me to visit them. But friends have also given me that old Judas’ kiss, like Adam and Eve when they both knew each other’s secret. Friends too have outgrown me, as I have outgrown them. Can one outgrow their friends?

    These are the questions that eat at me in the car. I think of this when I listen to some of my friends speak – their thoughts on democracy, our learning model, the economy, who can beat who in a wrestling match between a mganga and a mchawi. I reckon it would end in a stalemate. Mchawi harms, mganga heals. Aura for aura.

    I am not going to say the blunt has gotten sharper but it has. We talk about how man has always assumed he is more intelligent than Bosco the estate dog because man invented fire, ziplining, airplanes, Nairobi, cocktails, and so on—while all Bosco the estate dog had ever done was know where there was a sherehe or a matanga and go and eat meat there and have a good time. But methinks Bosco the estate dog has always believed they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

    I don’t know how to explain it. So many things you promise yourself you won’t get used to, and then you do. You miss old friends when you don’t see them, but you miss them more when you do, because you pine for a relationship that once was, but not what it is now. What do you say when there’s nothing to say? You don’t say anything. That’s when I turn to what I have deemed “The Last Supper.” Perhaps there is a bit of blasphemy here, but maybe Judas had outgrown his relationship with Jesus, whatever his reasons for betraying him. Isn’t the Last Supper really just a story of betrayal?

    I am not one to slice through the epidermis and have emotionally raw conversations so I have taken the easy path of friendship impeachment, or ghosting, or silent treatment. It’s immature yes, but it’s also fail-proof. Friendships are fragile, and most aren’t built to last forever. Circumstances change, bonds weaken.

    When you are in a romantic relationship, the rules are clearer. You move from partner to partner, until the relationship fizzles out, or one terminates the relationship to get on with the adult business of finding “the one.” The 16th-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne argued friendship should operate similarly, one companion at a time. For the “perfect friendship,” he wrote, “Each one gives himself so wholly to his friend that he has nothing left to distribute elsewhere.” Perhaps that’s why those who give marriage advice start with the cliché: marry your friend.

    Friendship these days is more like polyamory. More is always better. But is it? Unlike in polyamory, sometimes your friends can’t—shouldn’t—mix. The atmosphere changes; a sense of duty creeps in. From light-hearted conversations to the razor-chewing territory of “catching up.” Eventually, social media becomes the drip that keeps the friendship on life support. Through Instagram, I am aware that John “Kichwa Kubwa” Kimani got married, has a few children here and there, and remains a passionate Manchester United fan (probably on suicide watch) and taker of selfies. I “like” the photo. But I will never be aware what it is like to be married nor have several children here and there—for I am not in that space, yet. We’ve met in person, but the truth is it’s not the same; we’d come apart. I sometimes long for the friendship that we once had, but don’t miss the one it has become.

    I don’t think my experience is unique. It’s all attrition: I lose more friends than I make. You have friends for the period that you have them for, and that period ends. When the friendship withers, the honourable thing is to let go. When I meet old friends, I no longer pull a two-minute presidential address full of empty promises of “Tutaftane.” “Nitakupigia” or “Umepotea. We should catch up. Coffee soon?”

    Friendship, male friendship more so, I believe, is the most complicated relationship because the definition of the role of “friend” is different for each person involved in the relationship. I have suffered through this condition, as we all have, and have found neither a cure nor a prophylactic. When it’s dead, it’s dead. Kama mbaya, mbaya.

    In Lurambi, Kakamega we say, kiendacho kwa mganga hakirudi. Make of that as you will. Have you ever ended a friendship because you felt outgrown? Tell me about it. Even if you are from Embu. Especially if you are from Embu.

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  • ‘I’d always wanted to die, but I wasn’t ready to go’: How depression and a near-death experience made him appreciate life, Lifestyle News

    ‘I’d always wanted to die, but I wasn’t ready to go’: How depression and a near-death experience made him appreciate life, Lifestyle News

    To mark World Mental Health Day on Oct 10, AsiaOne shines the spotlight on mental health advocates and looks at how Singaporeans cope with mental health issues in their lives.

    Noel Boyd was just eight years old when he made a desperate plea to the universe.

    “I prayed to God to take my life away,” said the 45-year-old emcee and content creator.

    His feelings of helplessness were triggered by bullying, not just from his fellow classmates but also teachers who were abusive towards him, he said.

    “I remember asking myself, ‘Is this how it’s going to be for the rest of my life?’”

    Being only one of two non-Chinese pupils in the school, Noel often felt like he didn’t fit in. He also didn’t have many friends.

    Confiding in one teacher about the heavy-handed physical punishment he suffered from another teacher proved to be a mistake.

    “It got even worse the next day after the teacher told the other about it. So I was like, ‘What the s***?’ I trusted that one person.”

    From that point on, he shared that his trust of adults “went from little to zero”.

    Noel did not tell his parents about the incident, which in hindsight he felt he should have. 

    Fortunately, his secondary school days turned out to be a far cry from the torment he’d experienced in primary school.

    Being a born entertainer, Noel was drawn to the stage and it was there that he uncovered his innate talent for engaging a crowd.

    “I started emceeing when I was in secondary two or three. And I was in the lion dance troupe, so I was a pretty popular kid in school,” he mused.

    But beneath this chatty and extraverted exterior that he presented was another side to his personality few were aware of.

    ‘If you don’t love yourself, how can you love somebody else?’

    Noel was diagnosed with clinical depression as an adult, but the diagnosis happened only in his 30s, after a suicide attempt in 2018.

    Before this, he’d tried to take his life several times. It was only after this last attempt that he finally made the decision to see a therapist regularly, and still does to this day.

    Many of his depressive episodes in his 20s to 30s were triggered by relationship issues or a bad breakup.

    It was only in therapy that he uncovered the reason why these relationships affected him so badly when they went south.

”I had been after love in order to feel loved. So whenever a breakup happened, it felt like I wasn’t loved at all,” he shared.

    There was also no open discussion of mental health at the time, so Noel would keep his problems to himself.

    It didn’t help that he would feel that he was troubling others if he reached out to friends who didn’t know what to say.

    “When they’d say, ‘Oh my god, again?’ I felt that I was troubling them or letting them down.

    “As an entertainer, it gets even worse because people always expect you to be the happy, lively one,” said Noel.

    “But looking back, a lot of that [persona] was fake,” he admitted. Only his ex-girlfriends were privy to Noel’s more vulnerable side, which made it seem like a betrayal whenever they left.

    But Noel holds no blame or resentment towards his exes. “I wasn’t a good partner to them,” he stated bluntly.

    “Ultimately, I didn’t love myself,” said Noel, citing the phrase, “If you don’t love yourself, how do you love somebody else?” 

    Neighbour saved his life

    Noel’s lifestyle at the time was fuelled by nights out and alcohol. This went on for “many years”.

    “Whenever I got into a funk, I would turn to alcohol. It was my best friend,” he admitted.

    Unfortunately, the situation would also get worse whenever he opened up about his troubles to friends, some of whom would respond with, “Come, let’s go for a drink.”

    Despite having been in therapy for several years by then, Noel shared that he suffered a relapse in October 2021.

    At the time, Noel and his wife were heading for a separation, which he shared was triggered by his depression as well as other issues brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.

    “I wasn’t thinking clearly, and the suicidal thoughts were very strong,” said the father of a one-year-old girl and a newborn daughter then.

    Unexpectedly, what pulled him back from the brink was a neighbour living on the first floor of his condominium.

    Noel had bumped into him as he was going out to buy what he thought would be his “last pack of cigarettes”.

    “He asked me if I was okay and where I was going, and then he said, ‘Okay, I’ll talk to you when you get back’. Obviously, I had no intention of talking to him,” said Noel.

    As luck would have it, the neighbour was waiting for him when Noel returned.

    “He just told me, ‘Come into my house, we’ll talk’,” said Noel.

    What happened next was something Noel had never experienced before.

    It was as if a dam within him broke and a torrent of emotions was released.

    “I was just crying and crying and nobody could make me stop,” he stated.

    A friend then had to send him to the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) but as hospitals were still under Covid-19 restrictions at the time, his friend could only leave him at the door. 

    Opening up about his struggles

    Till this day, Noel is not sure what compelled the neighbour to reach out to him.

    “I knew he had his own mental health issues as well and we had talked about my journey before. But I’m thankful that he was home at the right time, and he saw me.”

    The episode, however, also marked a sea change in terms of how Noel viewed his mental health.

    Rather than hide it from others as usual, Noel decided to openly share his struggle with depression for the first time on social media.

    When asked why he made the brave decision to do a tell-all, Noel said the reasons were manifold.

    “Firstly, when I was in IMH, there were people there who recognised me,” said Noel, who had made a name for himself on social media as a paranormal investigator; he had also hosted several broadcast TV shows around the same theme.

    “I didn’t want anyone to be spreading stories about me, so I decided I might as well be open about it,” he added.

    In his post on Oct 31, 2021, Noel shared about his admission to IMH and his “relapse with depression”.

    He added then: “There’s no shame in not being okay. I hope my honesty helps someone you know get the help he or she needs.”

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    It’s still what he believes in today.

    “I get upset when people don’t understand what clinical depression is. When people hear the term, they think ‘Oh, this person is always sad’, but that’s not true. It’s a chemical imbalance [in the brain] and there’s nothing the person can do,” said Noel.

    He admitted, however, that there was a part of him that feared making the public admission.

    “I didn’t know if potential clients would be watching the video. And if they don’t understand the subject, they’re just going to say, ‘I think it’s better not to hire him’,” he stated.

    And unfortunately, to Noel’s knowledge, it happened with at least one client.

    On the flip side, however, it allowed him to “gain some really good clients who have also gone through stuff”.

    “One of them hugged me and told me, “Bro, I know exactly what you’re going through,” said Noel. “Not only is he a client, he’s now a good friend.”

    Other friends whom he’d “not heard of from a long time” made contact because of this and even some celebrity friends reached out to him to share that they were going through the same thing.

    “Mental health affects a lot of people in the creative world,” he reflected.

    He also surmised that dealing with depression might also be harder for men due to the stoic front that they’re expected to put on.

    The rhetoric that “a man has to appear strong” is one that Noel strongly disagrees with.

    “It’s okay [for men] to cry; it’s okay to have emotions,” said Noel, even as he admitted paradoxically that he wasn’t like this before.

    Following the last depressive episode where he was admitted to IMH, however, Noel has allowed himself to let his guard down.

    “I’ve allowed people to see the vulnerable side of me.”

    That side shows up unexpectedly too, during our interview when the conversation flowed to Noel’s children.

    The process of divorce had affected him badly and he took to the bottle heavily during a period of time in 2022.

    It took a heart attack in October 2023 to make him realise that he wasn’t ready to give up on life.

    “My heart stopped in the ambulance and they had to revive me. Everything changed that day, everything,” said Noel.

    But the heart attack was far from a negative event in his eyes.

    Life-changing near-death experience

    To others who’d ask, he always told them that “it was a great thing” to have happened as the time spent in the ICU allowed him the space to think clearly for the first time in a long while.

    “I’d always wanted to die, but I wasn’t ready to go,” shared Noel of the realisation.

    “I’ve got two beautiful young girls that I want to see grow up, and I want to make an impact on their lives because I love them so much,” said Noel, turning emotional.

    After that, living alone while recuperating also made him realise how strong he can be. At the time, even doing the simplest things such as going out to buy a meal would be a chore that’d leave him winded.

    In January this year, Noel was at a hawker centre when he started bleeding profusely from his nose and mouth. “It took five hours to stop the bleeding [in the hospital],” said Noel.

    It got so bad that one of the doctors had whispered in his ear to “think of the person you love the most to help you through this time”, he shared.

    “I thought of my two girls, because I thought I would never see them again.”

    Thankfully, the bleeding eventually stopped. But till date, Noel is unsure about why it had happened.

    Noel describes himself as being in a much better place now, rating his mental health at a “nine out of 10”.

    But he understands the fragility of this state.

    “Sometimes when the going gets tough, a bad thought may pop up. You have to acknowledge that it’s there and then move on.”

    He has also improved his relationship with alcohol and made a pact with himself to steer clear from it if he feels down.

    “I won’t lie and say that I’ve quit drinking, but now I only drink when I’m happy.”

    For him, what has helped is “listening to daily affirmations and going for long walks in nature”.

    “I’m not shy to share with people how I feel, but that being said, I’m also very selective of who I hang out with now.”

    Shedding old friends who weren’t such a positive influence was part of the healing process and what he “had to do” for himself.

    His experience has also made him more aware of how he wants to show up for his children if they turn to him with their issues.

    “Parents need to talk to their children and not just brush things aside when they share their problems.

    “What’s small to you as a parent could be huge for the child.”

    And as for how to speak to someone who is struggling, it is to “just sit with them and listen” and not dismiss it or attempt to divert their focus to something else. 

    Regrets, he’s had a few

    Noel readily admits that he is regretful when it comes to his marriage and children.

    “I love [my ex-wife] to this day, and it pains me that I can’t be with my daughters every day.

    “I cannot turn back time but I obviously wish that things were different. I would have done better with this current mindset.”

    And what is this current mindset?

    “I’ve learnt to love myself, and appreciate myself for who I am. I no longer feel sorry for myself like I used to.”

    According to him, his friends and closest people around him have also seen a change.

    “They see me laughing and smiling again, behaving like a clown,” said Noel.

    He’s also more mindful about what he does to protect his mental health.

    This also means staying away from “paranormal stuff” that brings along “negative energy” if he has to do research on it, unless it’s something he thinks is interesting or worth doing.

    That may include restarting his podcast, where he invites people to share their spooky encounters, he tells us.

    He’d also recently started his own events business, Noel Boyd Productions, doing work that drives him.

    “I love doing events, whether it’s being on stage or planning an event. It’s an honour to make people forget all their problems for just that one day or four hours, say for an event or dinner and dance. To me, it’s a powerful responsibility.”

    Despite being in the best mental shape he’s been in years, Noel doesn’t just wonder if his depressive episodes will come back again. In fact, he knows it will.

    “But I’m better equipped to deal with it now because I’ve got the right circle of people around me, a therapist whom I can speak to, and I’ve put in the work [to better prepare myself].”

    His message to those who are struggling is that “there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, even if you don’t see it”.

    “There’s a reason why you’re here, but you’ve got to find that reason.

    “And you’ve got to believe that you’re so much stronger than you think you are.”

    SINGAPORE HELPLINES

    • Samaritans of Singapore: 1-767

    • Singapore Association for Mental Health: 1800-283-7019

    • Care Corner Counselling Centre (Mandarin): 1800-353-5800

    • Institute of Mental Health’s Mental Health Helpline: 6389-2222

    • Silver Ribbon: 6386-1928

    ALSO READ: ‘I was hearing voices in my head’: Young woman shares how she’s seeking help and preparing herself to return to workforce

    candicecai@asiaone.com

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  • What to Stream: ‘Civil War,’ Snow Patrol, ‘How to Die Alone,’ Sylvester Stallone and ‘Uglies’

    What to Stream: ‘Civil War,’ Snow Patrol, ‘How to Die Alone,’ Sylvester Stallone and ‘Uglies’

    Hallmark launching a streaming service with two new original series, and Bill Skarsgård out for revenge in “Boy Kills World” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

    Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: Alex Garland’s “Civil War” starring Kirsten Dunst, Natasha Rothwell’s heartfelt comedy for Hulu called “How to Die Alone” and Sylvester Stallone’s second season of “Tulsa King” debuts.

    — Alex Garland’s “Civil War” is finally making its debut on MAX on Friday, Sept. 13. The film stars Kirsten Dunst as a veteran photojournalist covering a violent war that’s divided America; She reluctantly allows an aspiring photographer, played by Cailee Spaeny, to tag along as she, an editor (Stephen McKinley Henderson) and a reporter (Wagner Moura) make the dangerous journey to Washington, D.C., to interview the president (Nick Offerman), a blustery, rising despot who has given himself a third term, taken to attacking his citizens and shut himself off from the press. In my review, I called it a bellowing and haunting experience; Smart and thought-provoking with great performances. It’s well worth a watch.

    — Joey King stars in Netflix’s adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s “Uglies,” about a future society in which everyone is required to have beautifying cosmetic surgery at age 16. Streaming on Friday, Sept. 13, McG directed the film, in which King’s character inadvertently finds herself in the midst of an uprising against the status quo. “Outer Banks” star Chase Stokes plays King’s best friend.

    — Bill Skarsgård is out for revenge against the woman (Famke Janssen) who killed his family in “Boy Kills World,” coming to Hulu on Friday, Sept. 13. Moritz Mohr directed the ultra-violent film, of which Variety critic Owen Gleiberman wrote: “It’s a depraved vision, yet I got caught up in its kick-ass revenge-horror pizzazz, its disreputable commitment to what it was doing.”

    — AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr

    — The year was 2006. Snow Patrol, the Northern Irish-Scottish alternative rock band, released an album, “Eyes Open,” producing the biggest hit of their career: “Chasing Cars.” A lot has happened in the time since — three, soon to be four quality full-length albums, to be exact. On Friday, Sept. 13, the band will release “The Forest Is the Path,” their first new album in seven years. Anthemic pop-rock is the name of the game across songs of love and loss, like “All,”“The Beginning” and “This Is the Sound Of Your Voice.”

    — For fans of raucous guitar music, Jordan Peele’s 2022 sci-fi thriller, “NOPE,” provided a surprising, if tiny, thrill. One of the leads, Emerald “Em” Haywood portrayed by Keke Palmer, rocks a Jesus Lizard shirt. (Also featured through the film: Rage Against the Machine, Wipers, Mr Bungle, Butthole Surfers and Earth band shirts.) The Austin noise rock band are a less than obvious pick, having been signed to the legendary Touch and Go Records and having stopped releasing new albums in 1998. That changes on Friday the 13th, when “Rack” arrives. And for those curious: The Jesus Lizard’s intensity never went away.

    — AP Music Writer Maria Sherman

    — Hallmark launches a streaming service called Hallmark+ on Tuesday with two new original series, the scripted drama “The Chicken Sisters” and unscripted series “Celebrations with Lacey Chabert.” If you’re a Hallmark holiday movies fan, you know Chabert. She’s starred in more than 30 of their films and many are holiday themed. Off camera, Chabert has a passion for throwing parties and entertaining. In “Celebrations,” deserving people are surprised with a bash in their honor — planned with Chabert’s help. “The Chicken Sisters” stars Schuyler Fisk, Wendie Malick and Lea Thompson in a show about employees at rival chicken restaurants in a small town. The eight-episode series is based on a novel of the same name.

    — Natasha Rothwell of “Insecure” and “The White Lotus” fame created and stars in a new heartfelt comedy for Hulu called “How to Die Alone.” She plays Mel, a broke, go-along-to-get-along, single, airport employee who, after a near-death experience, makes the conscious decision to take risks and pursue her dreams. Rothwell has been working on the series for the past eight years and described it to The AP as “the most vulnerable piece of art I’ve ever put into the world.” Like Mel, Rothwell had to learn to bet on herself to make the show she wanted to make. “In the Venn diagram of me and Mel, there’s significant overlap,” said Rothwell. It premieres Friday, Sept. 13 on Hulu.

    — Shailene Woodley, DeWanda Wise and Betty Gilpin star in a new drama for Starz called “Three Women,” about entrepreneur Sloane, homemaker Lina and student Maggie who are each stepping into their power and making life-changing decisions. They’re interviewed by a writer named Gia (Woodley.) The series is based on a 2019 best-selling book of the same name by Lisa Taddeo. “Three Women” premieres Friday, Sept. 13 on Starz.

    — Sylvester Stallone’s second season of “Tulsa King” debuts Sunday, Sept. 15 on Paramount+. Stallone plays Dwight Manfredi, a mafia boss who was recently released from prison after serving 25 years. He’s sent to Tulsa to set up a new crime syndicate. The series is created by Taylor Sheridan of “Yellowstone” fame.

    — Alicia Rancilio

    — One thing about the title of Focus Entertainment’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 — you know exactly what you’re in for. You are Demetrian Titus, a genetically enhanced brute sent into battle against the Tyranids, an insectoid species with an insatiable craving for human flesh. You have a rocket-powered suit of armor and an arsenal of ridiculous weapons like the “Chainsword,” the “Thunderhammer” and the “Melta Rifle,” so what could go wrong? Besides the squishy single-player mode, there are cooperative missions and six-vs.-six free-for-alls. You can suit up Monday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S or PC.

    — Likewise, Wild Bastards isn’t exactly the kind of title that’s going to attract fans of, say, Animal Crossing. It’s another sci-fi shooter, but the protagonists are a gang of 13 varmints — aliens and androids included — who are on the run from the law. Each outlaw has a distinctive set of weapons and special powers: Sarge, for example, is a robot with horse genes, while Billy the Squid is … well, you get the idea. Australian studio Blue Manchu developed the 2019 cult hit Void Bastards, and this Wild-West-in-space spinoff has the same snarky humor and vibrant, neon-drenched cartoon look. Saddle up Thursday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, Nintendo Switch or PC.

    — Lou Kesten



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