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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. -
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. -
Are You Not Entertained? Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face … or smashed with a giant SWAT team shield. -
Caught Red Handed We finally get a tribal where the outcome isn’t apparent going in, and it makes for riveting gameplay. -
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! -
Bit by Bitcoin This is so obvious, so astonishingly, disgustingly basic that it could only have happened to Erin. -
(Sleep) Testing My Patience A lotta heartbreak could’ve been avoided if some of these conversations happened in the pods. -
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. -
Family Matters How is it possible that Lamb is River’s best father figure? - More Recaps
now streaming
The 10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend
Time to fire up the Criterion Channel.
By Savannah Salazar
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
vulture lists
The 22 Scariest Horror Anime of All Time
From Berserk to Bloodlust — and everything in between.
By Eric Vilas-Boas
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 Leeprofile
_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 Ebirifinale 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
drumroll please
Who Is This Diva in the Wicked Trailer?
Mama, a squirrel behind you!
By Rebecca Alter
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
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
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
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
movies fantasy league
We Are So Back
To quote Tashi Duncan: LET’S GOOOO.
By Joe Reid
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
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
vulture investigates
Who Are the Thirsty Celebrities on The Masked Singer?
Our best guesses for season 12.
By Marah Eakin
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
coming soon
Everything We Know About Big Little Lies Season 3
How much bigger can those lies get?
By Bethy Squires
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
vulture lists
A Beginner’s Guide to Junji Ito
14 stories to go down the horror-manga auteur’s spiral.
By Daniel Dockery
encounter
The Steed of Slow Horses
Jack Lowden is a breakout in the spy procedural by way of Office Space.
By Nicholas Quah
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
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
lawsuits
Garth Brooks Accused of Sexual Assault by Former Hairstylist
Brooks has now named his accuser in a new filing.
By Justin Curto
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
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
single tear
Coldplay’s Most Earnest Lyrics, Ranked
From the rabidly heartfelt to the disgustingly sincere.
By Roxana Hadadi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
coming soon
Charli XCX to Guest Star on Benito Skinner’s Overcompensating
The show will stream on Prime Video.
By Alejandra Gularte
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
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
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
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
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
theater
What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) Broadway
Let Vulture’s theater desk be your guide. By Vulture Editors
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
rip
Gavin Creel, Tony Winner, Dead at 48
He was diagnosed with cancer in July.
By Jason P. Frank
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
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
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
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
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
best of 2024
The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)
Fiction that feels like a primal scream.
By Emily C. Hughes
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
art review
A World Without Weather
The flat and deep paintings of Hilary Pecis.
By Jerry Saltz
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
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
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
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