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  Laverne & Shirley & Ali Baba Any chances of using the trip to create new dynamics within the group are wasted by digging into stale, never-ending arguments.
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  The Cat’s Out the Bag! Only time will tell whether Janine and Gregory make it like other great sitcom couples or are destined for heartbreak.
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  Are You Not Entertained? Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face … or smashed with a giant SWAT team shield.
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  Caught Red Handed We finally get a tribal where the outcome isn’t apparent going in, and it makes for riveting gameplay.
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  Dopamine Surge Is this the most pleasing friendship we’ve seen among the men in a season of The Bachelorette? These guys freaking love each other!
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  Bit by Bitcoin This is so obvious, so astonishingly, disgustingly basic that it could only have happened to Erin.
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  (Sleep) Testing My Patience A lotta heartbreak could’ve been avoided if some of these conversations happened in the pods.
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  Let It Go Despite all the heartbreak in the finale, the universe manages to restore balance while maybe leaving the door open for a second season.
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  Family Matters How is it possible that Lamb is River’s best father figure?
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Streamliner

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  now streaming
  The 10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend
  Time to fire up the Criterion Channel.
  By Savannah Salazar

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  vulture lists
  A Spooky Guide to All the New Horror Streaming in October
  A tricky Stephen King adaptation, Anna Kendrick’s long-awaited directorial debut, and streaming releases for some of the year’s best horror.
  By Brian Tallerico

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  vulture lists
  The 22 Scariest Horror Anime of All Time
  From Berserk to Bloodlust — and everything in between.
  By Eric Vilas-Boas

• All 37 V/H/S Segments, Ranked

• A Beginner’s Guide to Junji Ito

• 8 Bluey Episodes Derailed by Muffin

• Every Lady Gaga Song, Ranked

• 30 Great Black-and-White Horror Movies Worth Revisiting

• Jokers, Ranked

• 9 Newish Movies to Rent This Month

Features

• at the box office
  How the Daily Wire Engineered Its First Box-Office Hit
  The mockumentary Am I Racist? took advantage of the “dirty little secret of conservative media.”
  By Chris Lee

• profile
  _Anora_’s ‘Russian Timothée Chalamet’ Is Just Happy to Be Here
  “I’m just some weird guy who somehow became a part of Sean Baker’s movie,” says actor Mark Eydelshteyn.
  By Bilge Ebiri

• finale thoughts
  Hugo Weaving’s Slow Horses Villain Knew He Was Asking Too Much
  “There’s humor in the fact he even makes the offer.”
  By Nicholas Quah

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  drumroll please
  Who Is This Diva in the Wicked Trailer?
  Mama, a squirrel behind you!
  By Rebecca Alter

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  nyff 2024
  Grand Tour Is a Deliberately Ramshackle Yet Captivating Work of Art
  Miguel Gomes’s globetrotting, language-spanning film gently refutes any conventional moviegoing expectations.
  By Bilge Ebiri

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  fancasts
  Let’s Fan-Cast _Folie à Deux_’s Fictional Joker TV Movie
  Folie à Deux never shows us this TV movie, perhaps because that would be funny and interesting, two qualities the film abhors. But it got me thinking.
  By Nate Jones

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  at the box office
  How the Daily Wire Engineered Its First Box-Office Hit
  The mockumentary Am I Racist? took advantage of the “dirty little secret of conservative media.”
  By Chris Lee

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  profile
  _Anora_’s ‘Russian Timothée Chalamet’ Is Just Happy to Be Here
  “I’m just some weird guy who somehow became a part of Sean Baker’s movie,” says actor Mark Eydelshteyn.
  By Bilge Ebiri

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  coming soon
  Mr. Chalamet Man, Play a Song For Us
  Timothée Chalamet shows off his BDE (Bob Dylan energy) in the new trailer for James Mangold’s musical biopic.
  By Bethy Squires

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  movies fantasy league
  We Are So Back
  To quote Tashi Duncan: LET’S GOOOO.
  By Joe Reid

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  movies fantasy league
  The MFL’s Opening Weekend is in the Books
  The draft window is officially closed, which means points are rolling in and the leaderboard is live.
  By Vulture Editors

Movies

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  crossovers
  It’s Always Sunny Takes a Field Trip to Abbott Elementary
  Marrying the tones of the two shows has been “a puzzle,” the Abbott EPs say.
  By Alejandra Gularte

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  vulture investigates
  Who Are the Thirsty Celebrities on The Masked Singer?
  Our best guesses for season 12.
  By Marah Eakin

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  liberté egalité emilé
  Emmanuel Macron: France Will ‘Fight Hard’ to Bring Emily Back to Paris
  “Emily in Paris in Rome doesn’t make sense.”
  By Bethy Squires

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  coming soon
  Everything We Know About Big Little Lies Season 3
  How much bigger can those lies get?
  By Bethy Squires

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  race to the bottom
  Slow Horses Competence Index: Many Jobs Well Done
  Well, this is awkward: In the season finale, Slough House’s finest rose to the occasion. By Brian Grubb

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  vulture lists
  A Beginner’s Guide to Junji Ito
  14 stories to go down the horror-manga auteur’s spiral.
  By Daniel Dockery

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  encounter
  The Steed of Slow Horses
  Jack Lowden is a breakout in the spy procedural by way of Office Space.
  By Nicholas Quah

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  bringing up baby
  Original Love Is Blind Couple to Bring New Life Into This Dark World
  Season one’s Amber and Barnett are having a child.
  By Jason P. Frank

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  finale thoughts
  Hugo Weaving’s Slow Horses Villain Knew He Was Asking Too Much
  “There’s humor in the fact he even makes the offer.”
  By Nicholas Quah

TV

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  lawsuits
  Garth Brooks Accused of Sexual Assault by Former Hairstylist
  Brooks has now named his accuser in a new filing.
  By Justin Curto

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  first monday in may
  Colman Domingo, A$AP Rocky, and Li’l Skateboard P to Co-Chair the Met Gala
  Alongside the Costume Institute exhibit “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.”
  By Jason P. Frank

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  musical the-a-ter
  Broadway Continues Evolution Into a Series of Immersive Nightclubs
  Next up: a Jonathan Groff–starring Bobby Darin bio-musical, Just in Time, with a big band.
  By Jason P. Frank

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  single tear
  Coldplay’s Most Earnest Lyrics, Ranked
  From the rabidly heartfelt to the disgustingly sincere.
  By Roxana Hadadi

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  scenes from an american tv show
  _Only Murders_’ Billy Joel Gag Was a Love Song to Long Islanders
  “Having ‘a bottle of red, a bottle of white’ over and over again really made me laugh.”
  By Devon Ivie

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  second thoughts
  Give Us the Billie Cut!
  Billie Eilish had a different version of the much-derided “Birds of a Feather” music video. Presumably with less spinning.
  By Jason P. Frank

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  country drama
  Is Trisha Yearwood Still Standing by Her Man?
  She cleared up any confusion after Garth Brooks’s sexual-assault lawsuit with an Instagram post.
  By Justin Curto

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  memoirs
  Sum 41 Singer Deryck Whibley Says Ex-Manager Sexually Abused Him
  He makes the claim in his new memoir, Walking Disaster.
  By Justin Curto

Music

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  as told to
  ‘When You Get Famous, Are You Gonna Fix Your Teeth?’
  Joel Kim Booster opens up about surviving in Hollywood without veneers.
  By Joel Kim Booster

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  i can’t believe it’s not sorkin
  _Saturday Night_’s 6 Most Glaring Aaron Sorkin–isms
  Every tic and flourish the SNL movie cribs from Sorkin makes it a fascinating showcase for all of the latter’s screenwriting strengths and weaknesses.
  By Hershal Pandya

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  last night on late night
  Here’s How Governor Tim Walz Listed VP Kamala Harris in His Phone
  So he doesn’t accidentally ignore her call like last time.
  By Alejandra Gularte

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  theater review
  Hannah Gadsby Won’t Give You Closure
  The comedian’s new show, Woof!, offers a kaleidoscopic tour of their current state of mind but no pat takeaways.
  By Kathryn VanArendonk

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  this week in late night
  Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Compassion Won Late Night This Week
  Plus wig work on WWHL and Roy Wood Jr. standing up on his new show.
  By Bethy Squires

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  coming soon
  Charli XCX to Guest Star on Benito Skinner’s Overcompensating
  The show will stream on Prime Video.
  By Alejandra Gularte

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  predictions
  Who Is Playing Who in SNL 50’s Big Election Season?
  Some of the results on this fall’s most important ballot are in.
  By Jason P. Frank

Comedy

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  theater review
  In a Pair of Musicals, Gabriel Kahane Seeks America and Himself
  He performs ‘Magnificent Bird’ and ‘Book of Travelers’ on alternating nights.
  By Jackson McHenry

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  theater review
  Is the Safety Not Guaranteed Musical What You Wish For?
  Guster’s singer-songwriter Ryan Miller tries his hand at musical theater.
  By Sara Holdren

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  single use plays
  British Theatre Trend Becomes American Theater Trend
  Sarah Snook will make her Broadway debut in solo Dorian Gray the same month that Andrew Scott takes on solo Vanya.
  By Jason P. Frank

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  theater review
  The Best of All Possible Intentions: Yellow Face and Good Bones
  David Henry Hwang and James Ijames on places where idealism runs up against success.
  By Sara Holdren

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  theater
  What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) Broadway
  Let Vulture’s theater desk be your guide. By Vulture Editors

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  theater review
  McNeal and Robert Downey Jr. Dance With ChatGPT
  The playwright Ayad Akhtar considers the prospects (ominous and otherwise) of AI art-making.
  By Jackson McHenry

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  rip
  Gavin Creel, Tony Winner, Dead at 48
  He was diagnosed with cancer in July.
  By Jason P. Frank

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  the rehearsal
  Comic Francesca D’Uva on How Her Dad’s Death Inspired Her New Show
  “That was kind of the first very bad thing that had ever happened to me in my life.”
  By Rebecca Alter

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  theater review
  Doing Less With More: The Hills of California
  Jez Butterworth’s latest play, directed by Sam Mendes, is an array of overfamiliar archetypes and under-thought choices.
  By Sara Holdren

Theater

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  memoirs
  Everything Lisa Marie Presley Shared in Her Memoir So Far
  Including memories of grieving both Elvis and her son, plus claims that Michael Jackson was a virgin when they started dating.
  By Alejandra Gularte
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  chapters
  Enjoy J. Smith-Cameron’s Martini-Themed Crossword Puzzle ‘With a Twist’
  An excerpt from A24’s new book of puzzles, 99 TV Crosswords.
  By J. Smith-Cameron
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  book review
  Alan Hollinghurst Tries to Atone
  The writer has tended to fetishize marginal POC characters in his novels. In Our Evenings, he puts a biracial man at the center for the first time.
  By Sam Worley
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  best of 2024
  The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)
  Fiction that feels like a primal scream.
  By Emily C. Hughes
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  social studies
  The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates
  A decade after “The Case for Reparations,” he is ready to take on Israel, Palestine, and the American media.
  By Ryu Spaeth

Books

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  art review
  A World Without Weather
  The flat and deep paintings of Hilary Pecis.
  By Jerry Saltz
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  art review
  What Is a Brooklyn Artist?
  A sweeping survey at the Brooklyn Museum provides a lot of answers, none of which satisfy.
  By Jerry Saltz
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  art review
  Yvonne Well’s Patchwork Histories
  A new show spotlights how the artist’s abstract quilts tell the story of the African diaspora.
  By Jerry Saltz
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  encounter
  Thomas Houseago Was Mad at His Dad (and Larry Gagosian)
  It’s his first NYC gallery show in a decade, thanks in part to Leonardo DiCaprio.
  By Rachel Corbett
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  fall preview 2024
  10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Fall
  An Alvin Ailey retrospective sets the tone for an array of eclectic offerings from the art world.
  By Jerry Saltz

Art