H. Alan Scott

With Election Day just days away, you can almost feel the anxiety in the air. And that anxiety is making its way into seemingly everything, from news to pop culture.

"I feel really grateful and jazzed that I got to tell that story and to make this mad hybrid of a show."

Whenever writers flippantly say such and such moment will go down in history, often times it's hyperbole.

"When you're in a hospital, you don't think anything's funny, but I'm sorry, hospitals are hysterical,' Wendi McLendon-Covey tells Newsweek.

"Why prepare for success only to be surprised by it when you achieve it," Aldis Hodge tells Newsweek.

"Kathy [Bates] has never forgotten where she's come from. Genuinely, she does not believe that she's better than the PA or the cater waiters. She doesn't."

"If this is their intro to an August Wilson play, then my goodness, mission accomplished," John David Washington tells Newsweek about 'The Piano Lesson.'

"You don't gotta reinvent the wheel of sitcom, but we do the wheel well," Mayan Lopez tells Newsweek about NBC's 'Lopez vs Lopez.'

"This is, in essence, a gender apartheid, and that's exactly what Afghan women activists and other human rights experts are calling it," Malala Yousafzai tells Newsweek.

As we enter the weekend (finally, am I right?), there's a battle brewing in all corners of the United States. No, it has nothing to do with politics or war or anything like that.