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The men on these new shows present tortured visions of modern masculinity and the alternately hilarious and horrifying ways things can go awry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

"I didn't feel an immediate physical threat. No one was knocking on my door, I wasn't jailed or tortured."

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

It became a point of fixation for audiences who'd taken to hyper-analysing actor Jacob Elordi's portrayal of the tortured anti-hero opposite Margot Robbie as his lover Cathy.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

That clearly violates the Convention Against Torture, which bars the government from deporting people to any country in which there is substantial reason to believe they will be tortured or killed.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2026

A prosecutor said that he was now someone “whose mind is at ease because he has relieved his tortured soul of a terrible secret and now seeks repentance and forgiveness.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann