The It List: ‘The Springfield Three’ podcast investigates disappearance, ‘Loki’ spins off from ‘Avengers’ and more pop culture highlights of the week
The Springfield Three: A Small-Town Disappearance is available on Apple Podcasts. A new podcast is taking a look at a long-standing case of three missing women in Springfield, MO.
Loki premieres Wednesday, June 9 on Disney+. The latest MCU entry spins off Tom Hiddleston’s mischievous God from Thor, giving him a new time-bending adventure.
In the Heights premieres Friday, June 11 in theaters and on HBO Max. Based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical of the same name, the movie features a whole lot of singing, dancing, and an infectious sense of joy that’s sorely needed for a post-pandemic audience.
Video Transcript
- "The It List" is Yahoo's weekly look at the best in pop culture. Here are our picks for the week of June 7. A new podcast is taking a look at a long standing case of three missing women. The Springfield three, a small town disappearance, investigates how three women seemingly vanished into thin air in the Missouri town of Springfield on June 7, 1992. Journalist and host, Anne Roderick Jones, revisits her hometown to try to find answers, despite no evidence of a body, DNA, or even apparent conflict.
- It just looked like-- and it's the word I've used ever since this happened. --like they were taken up to heaven. They were just gone.
- A new entry in the sprawling, neverending Marvel Cinematic Universe has arrived. The Disney Plus series, Loki, spins off Tom Hiddleston's mischievous God from Thor, giving him a new time, bending adventure. This time, Loki is tasked with cleaning up the cosmic mess he made by stealing the [? Cheserek ?] in Avengers Endgame, which splintered the timeline. Owen Wilson plays a supervisor of sorts, although, double, triple, and maybe even quadruple crossing is bound to happen.
- You have studied almost every moment of your entire life. You've literally stab people in the back, like, 50 times.
- Why never do it again.
- From the director of the smash hit, Crazy Rich Asians, comes its spiritual sequel, In The Heights. Based on Lin Manuel Miranda's musical of the same name, the movie features a whole lot of singing, dancing, and an infectious sense of joy that's sorely needed for a post-pandemic audience.
- This is the moment when you do better than me, because you can see a future that I can't.
- Sonny, you're late.
- You know, you love me.
- Come back next week to check out Yahoo's It List.
