The Feed

ratings

The Limits of a Twice-Yearly Netflix Viewing Report

Here’s how the streamer could do better. By Josef Adalian

tv review

Who Needs the Batman?

As The Penguin’s representatives of Gotham’s underworld, Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti can do bad all by themselves. By Roxana Hadadi

it wasn't paradise

All the Semi-Salacious Non-Scandals in The Third Gilmore Girl

Did anyone think a memoir by Kelly Bishop would be anything but classy? By Bethy Squires

movie review

A Different Man Might Be Overthinking Things

Sebastian Stan is very good in this droll, distant drama about being unable to escape yourself, but it’s Adam Pearson who brings the film to life. By Alison Willmore

The Feed

Latest The Feed

News-feed

무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다 10 mins ago

Squid Game Season Two Is Closer Than You Think We’ve got a release date, a teaser clip, and season three news.
dang girl 10:04 p.m.

How to Live Stream Moo Deng, the Baby Pygmy Hippo from Thailand A cutie pie cam is being set up after the baby hippo went super viral online.
what she's done 6:40 p.m.

What’s Up With Linkin Park’s New Singer? Chester Bennington’s mother said she feels “betrayed” by the band.
the law 4:37 p.m.

Diddy Pleads Not Guilty in Sex-Trafficking Case The music industry responds to Diddy’s arrest.
xxxmas 2:37 p.m.

Sabrina Carpenter Wants Her Stocking Stuffed (by Netflix) She’s making a Netflix Xmas special. Please, please, presents!
vulture recommends 2:00 p.m.

Meet the Internet’s Scrappiest Home for Obscure Cinema Let’s go spelunking into “the cave of forgotten films.”
destination unknown 12:12 p.m.

8 Relationships That’ll Get You Hooked on From Welcome to nightmare town, population: eldritch abominations, bickering marrieds, and a lot of ghosts.
vulture lists 12:00 p.m.

The 25 Goopiest, Grodiest, Gnarliest Body Horror Movies, Ranked What if you couldn’t distance yourself from something horrific, because it’s impossible to escape your own flesh and blood.
take backsies 11:56 a.m.

Lorne Michaels Is Staying Put at SNL The show’s creator, who previously said he might leave the show after season 50, now wants to stay as long as he can.
the tortured posters department 11:32 a.m.

Zach Bryan Ding-Dong-Ditched the Swifties “Don’t drink and tweet. Don’t drink and tweet!!”
encounter 11:30 a.m.

‘It’s Just a Funny Thing to Do’ Pod Save America host Jon Lovett doesn’t seem particularly comfortable with being a public figure. He went on Survivor anyway.
audra's turn 11:00 a.m.

Gypsy Casts Someone Other Than Audra McDonald Four months after teasing the Broadway revival.
the rehearsal 7:00 a.m.

Maggie Rogers Wants Her MSG Show to Feel Like a House Party “I have so many memories of being a student at NYU. You would walk into someone’s home; it felt like you were at the right place at the right time.”
vulture 10x10 5:00 a.m.

The Mythology Puzzle 9-Down, Four Letters: Exam Elle Woods got a 179 on

More News

Recaps-feed

overnights 10:10 p.m.

The Penguin Series-Premiere Recap: Wrong Guy, Wrong Night Oswald Cobb sees his opening to take control of Gotham. The only thing standing in his way? A hellbent Sofia Falcone, fresh from Arkham Asylum.
overnights 10:00 p.m.

The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Jean Therapy Everyone should thank Emily for telling Alexis what we’re all thinking.
overnights 5:25 p.m.

A Very Royal Scandal Recap: They Got Nixon This Way There is a small joy in watching Prince Andrew be convinced that his disastrous Newsnight interview went well.
overnights 3:33 p.m.

A Very Royal Scandal Series-Premiere Recap: I’ve Been to War Besides jogging our memories of the bombshell interview to come, the premiere works hard to draw parallels between Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew.
overnights 9:00 a.m.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Recap: My Dinner with Adar In a week with big developments, the long dinner conversation between Galadriel and Adar makes for the episode’s best moments.
overnights 9/18/2024

Agatha All Along Recap: ‘The Road’ Less Traveled Even if the “I’m building a team” part of the episode feels rushed, we’re getting insight into who Agatha is as a character.
overnights 9/18/2024

Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Premiere Recap: Time Doesn’t Heal All Wounds Now that Monica is gone, the women start the season picking up the pieces, reigniting old feuds, and making up new gripes.
overnights 9/18/2024

Agatha All Along Series-Premiere Recap: The Witch Is Back As with WandaVision, it’s tempting to predict the kind of show this is about to be based on this premiere. But we’ve seen this trick before.
overnights 9/18/2024

Survivor Season-Premiere Recap: Raggedy Andy We kick off the season with a truly baffling first vote.
overnights 9/18/2024

The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras Recap: Carageddon The Challenge house will know no peace this week as confrontation after confrontation unfurls.
overnights 9/18/2024

The Golden Bachelorette Series-Premiere Recap: Everything’s Coming Up Joan We meet the men who will compete to win Joan’s heart … and Jack, who is here to cause chaos (in a good way).
overnights 9/18/2024

Bad Monkey Recap: Who Will Save Your Soul? This week, we take a deep dive into the world of the Dragon Queen, formerly known as Gracie, and the revelations are tragic.
overnights 9/18/2024

Slow Horses Recap: That’s a Big Dog David Cartwright probably knows more than he’s letting on. Or he’s completely lost in his own mind. Either way, he’s actually lost in London.
overnights 9/18/2024

American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez Recap: The Danger Zone Well, at least we’re getting into the “sports” part of American Sports Story.

More Recaps

Criticism-feed

tv review 5:00 p.m.

Who Needs the Batman? As The Penguin’s representatives of Gotham’s underworld, Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti can do bad all by themselves.
theater review 3:23 p.m.

Mama Grizzlies Tear Into Lunch in oh, Honey In Jeana Scotti’s play, everyone’s got a son facing sexual-misconduct accusations, and the waitperson is taking notes.
movie review 11:42 a.m.

A Different Man Might Be Overthinking Things Sebastian Stan is very good in this droll, distant drama about being unable to escape yourself, but it’s Adam Pearson who brings the film to life.
powers ranking 9/18/2024

Which Witches Are Bringing the Most to Agatha All Along’s Coven? Acting-wise, not magic-wise.
identity crisis 9/15/2024

Hacks Isn’t a Good Comedy But it could be a great drama.
tiff 2024 9/13/2024

You’d Think Watching Tilda Swinton in an Apocalypse Movie Musical Would Be Fun But at two and a half very staid hours, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is a punishing picture.
movie review 9/13/2024

The Speak No Evil Remake Is Sillier (and Better) Than the Original The American remake loses something in ditching the unrelenting darkness, but it also avoids the original’s borderline reactionary message.
movie review 9/13/2024

Girls Will Be Girls Sneaks Up on You Shuchi Talati’s debut feature, one of the best films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is now in theaters.
movie review 9/13/2024

My Old Ass Is Low-Key Devastating Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza star in a rewarding coming-of-age story about getting the chance to advise your teenage self.
tiff 2024 9/13/2024

The Piano Lesson Can’t Quite Live Up to August Wilson’s Play Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson is a worthwhile and occasionally quite moving adaptation. But it lives uncomfortably between two forms.
theater review 9/12/2024

Counting and Cracking Is a Joyous Generational Square-off Plus a smart new play, ‘The Ask,’ at the Wild Project.
theater review 9/12/2024

The Roommate Barely Unpacks Its Own Boxes It settles in, and then it’s gone.
movie review 9/12/2024

The New Hayao Miyazaki Doc Is Obsessed with Death In Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron, the legendary animation director loses close friends to old age and grapples with the twilight of his own life.
movie review 9/12/2024

Is a Movie About Electing a Pope Allowed to Be This Entertaining? Conclave combines the pulp velocity of a great airport read with the gravitas of high drama.

More Criticism

More News More News More News

Interview

TikTok’s Favorite Servers Spread Positivity and Brain Rot By Rebecca Alter

The Penguin (S1/E1)

Wrong Guy, Wrong Night Oswald Cobb sees his opening to take control of Gotham. The only thing standing in his way? A hellbent Sofia Falcone, fresh from Arkham Asylum.
The Real Housewives of Orange County (S18/E11)

Jean Therapy Everyone should thank Emily for telling Alexis what we’re all thinking.
A Very Royal Scandal (S1/E2)

They Got Nixon This Way There is a small joy in watching Prince Andrew be convinced that his disastrous Newsnight interview went well.
A Very Royal Scandal (S1/E1)

I’ve Been to War Besides jogging our memories of the bombshell interview to come, the premiere works hard to draw parallels between Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew.
The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power (S2/E6)

My Dinner with Adar In a week with big developments, the long dinner conversation between Galadriel and Adar makes for the episode’s best moments.
Agatha All Along (S1/E2)

‘The Road’ Less Traveled Even if the “I’m building a team” part of the episode feels rushed, we’re getting insight into who Agatha is as a character.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (S5/E1)

Time Doesn’t Heal All Wounds Now that Monica is gone, the women start the season picking up the pieces, reigniting old feuds, and making up new gripes.
Agatha All Along (S1/E1)

The Witch Is Back As with WandaVision, it’s tempting to predict the kind of show this is about to be based on this premiere. But we’ve seen this trick before.
Survivor (S47/E1)

Raggedy Andy We kick off the season with a truly baffling first vote.
More Recaps

Streamliner

ratings The Limits of a Twice-Yearly Netflix Viewing Report Here’s how the streamer could do better. By Josef Adalian
vulture recommends Meet the Internet’s Scrappiest Home for Obscure Cinema Let’s go spelunking into “the cave of forgotten films.” By Gayle Sequeira
now streaming The 13 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Including Scary Jesse Plemons. By Savannah Salazar
buffering Jokes Amber Can Tell (on CNN) On Have I Got News for You, Amber Ruffin is playing to win — especially when the news “is utter chaos.” By Josef Adalian

See More Streaming

Vulture Lists

More Vulture Lists

Features

case files Why Was the Miami Vice Pilot So Good? When the pastel-soaked, cocaine-coated cop show aired 40 years ago, contemporary TV was born. By Matt Zoller Seitz
powers ranking Which Witches Are Bringing the Most to Agatha All Along’s Coven? Acting-wise, not magic-wise. By Jackson McHenry
the law Diddy and Weinstein’s Day in Court It’s ultimately not shocking that Harvey Weinstein and Sean Combs both appeared in court on the same day for sex-crime charges. By Victoria Bekiempis

Movies

vulture recommends

Meet the Internet’s Scrappiest Home for Obscure Cinema

Let’s go spelunking into “the cave of forgotten films.” By Gayle Sequeira

vulture lists The 25 Goopiest, Grodiest, Gnarliest Body Horror Movies, Ranked What if you couldn’t distance yourself from something horrific, because it’s impossible to escape your own flesh and blood. By Rory Doherty
dramaturgically Release the Frog Cut of The Apprentice We could have had another “not a musical” musical in awards consideration this year! By Bethy Squires
prolific Harvey Weinstein Pleads Not Guilty to an Additional Sex Crime in New York Weinstein has been charged with an additional count of committing a criminal sex act. By Victoria Bekiempis

the law Diddy and Weinstein’s Day in Court It’s ultimately not shocking that Harvey Weinstein and Sean Combs both appeared in court on the same day for sex-crime charges. By Victoria Bekiempis
coming soon A New Joker: Folie à Deux Trailer? That’s Life! Gaga is singing standards, and this time it’s not with Tony Bennett. By Zoe Guy
vulture lists 22 Horror-Movie Remakes That You Should Actually Watch Hollywood took a second stab (pun intended) at these scary flicks, and we’re glad it did. By Jordan Crucchiola
a long talk This Might Be the Most Ambitious and Delirious Thing Joe Wright Has Ever Done Before he made M. Son of the Century, he was “watching the rise of the far right across the world” and growing “very concerned.” By Bilge Ebiri
bong hive Robert Pattinson to Finally Awake from Cryogenic Sleep As Mickey 17 It’s RPatz vs. RPatz in the new trailer. By Zoe Guy

Movies

TV

무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다

Squid Game Season Two Is Closer Than You Think

We’ve got a release date, a teaser clip, and season three news. By Alejandra Gularte and Jennifer Zhan

xxxmas Sabrina Carpenter Wants Her Stocking Stuffed (by Netflix) She’s making a Netflix Xmas special. Please, please, presents! By Bethy Squires
destination unknown 8 Relationships That’ll Get You Hooked on From Welcome to nightmare town, population: eldritch abominations, bickering marrieds, and a lot of ghosts. By Roxana Hadadi
take backsies Lorne Michaels Is Staying Put at SNL The show’s creator, who previously said he might leave the show after season 50, now wants to stay as long as he can. By Hershal Pandya
encounter ‘It’s Just a Funny Thing to Do’ Pod Save America host Jon Lovett doesn’t seem particularly comfortable with being a public figure. He went on Survivor anyway. By Jason P. Frank

consultants
Predicting the Love Is Blind Season 7 Romances Based on only a first look. Pod rules don’t apply. By Jason P. Frank

case files Why Was the Miami Vice Pilot So Good? When the pastel-soaked, cocaine-coated cop show aired 40 years ago, contemporary TV was born. By Matt Zoller Seitz
powers ranking Which Witches Are Bringing the Most to Agatha All Along’s Coven? Acting-wise, not magic-wise. By Jackson McHenry
cancel culture 2024’s Canceled Shows, for Your Final Consideration Orphan Black: Echoes couldn’t clone the original show’s success. By Jason P. Frank
over the hill How Is SNL Celebrating Its Big Five-Oh? With Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris, a John Mulaney hosting gig, and Chappell Roan, for starters. By Jennifer Zhan

Music

what she's done

What’s Up With Linkin Park’s New Singer?

Chester Bennington’s mother said she feels “betrayed” by the band. By Justin Curto

the law Diddy Pleads Not Guilty in Sex-Trafficking Case The music industry responds to Diddy’s arrest. By Victoria Bekiempis
the tortured posters department Zach Bryan Ding-Dong-Ditched the Swifties “Don’t drink and tweet. Don’t drink and tweet!!” By Jason P. Frank
the rehearsal Maggie Rogers Wants Her MSG Show to Feel Like a House Party “I have so many memories of being a student at NYU. You would walk into someone’s home; it felt like you were at the right place at the right time.” By Jasmine Vojdani

oh my oh my god Um, Is NewJeans Okay? Even Jungkook’s dog is part of the discourse. By Jennifer Zhan
blowin in the wrench Bob Dylan Throws a Wrench Into ‘Desolation Row’ The inscrutable singer’s latest mystery? Playing his songs with household tools. By Chris Stanton
rip A Posthumous Final SOPHIE Album Is Coming And we now have the feature-packed track list. By Justin Curto
i hate these blurred lines They’re Trying to Take Miley Cyrus’s ‘Flowers’ Cyrus is being sued over similarities between her track and Bruno Mars’s “When I Was Your Man.” By Jason P. Frank
respect the classics REO Speedwagon Has Combusted After nearly 50 years, “irreconcilable differences” have broken the band apart. By Devon Ivie

Music

Comedy

big big news!

Saturday Night Live Season 50 Will Have Stand-Ups, Witches, and Jelly Roll

Jean Smart will kick off the season, followed by Nate Bargatze, Ariana Grande, Michael Keaton, and John Mulaney. By Jason P. Frank

chat room TikTok’s Favorite Servers Spread Positivity and Brain Rot Missy McIntosh and Marty Miller changed the way the we speak English from their gig at the “burger box,” girl. By Rebecca Alter
emmys 2024 How The Bear Lost the Best Comedy Emmy to Hacks To start, it wasn’t a comedy. By Joe Reid
identity crisis Hacks Isn’t a Good Comedy But it could be a great drama. By Nicholas Quah

emmys 2024 Lorne Michaels Does Not Have to Suffer Alone Or, as Bowen Yang calls him, “Lauren.” By Rebecca Alter
for all the dogs They Tried to Play Off a Dead Dog at the Emmys John Oliver started to say something “silly,” but did he? By Bethy Squires
a long talk Richard Kind Will Accept 93 Percent of Job Offers The actor, now a guest star on Only Murders, just loves saying yes to roles. “What else am I going to do on a Tuesday and a Wednesday?” By Devon Ivie
this week in late night Jimmy Kimmel’s Deep Roster of Impressionists Won Late Night This Week Also Kevin Hart’s “Day Drinking” segment and Jimmy Fallon dying repeatedly. By Bethy Squires
buffering Jokes Amber Can Tell (on CNN) On Have I Got News for You, Amber Ruffin is playing to win — especially when the news “is utter chaos.” By Josef Adalian

Comedy

Theater

theater review

Mama Grizzlies Tear Into Lunch in oh, Honey

In Jeana Scotti’s play, everyone’s got a son facing sexual-misconduct accusations, and the waitperson is taking notes. By Sara Holdren

audra’s turn Gypsy Casts Someone Other Than Audra McDonald Four months after teasing the Broadway revival. By Jason P. Frank
tiff 2024 The Piano Lesson Can’t Quite Live Up to August Wilson’s Play Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson is a worthwhile and occasionally quite moving adaptation. But it lives uncomfortably between two forms. By Bilge Ebiri
theater review Counting and Cracking Is a Joyous Generational Square-off Plus a smart new play, ‘The Ask,’ at the Wild Project. By Sara Holdren
theater review The Roommate Barely Unpacks Its Own Boxes It settles in, and then it’s gone. By Sara Holdren

egot watch
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul EGOT With OMITB More like EEGGOOTT (because there’s two of them). By Bethy Squires

extra extra Brendan Fraser Is Staging Another Comeback The Oscar winner will star in Samuel D. Hunter’s Grangeville in early 2025. By Jason P. Frank
spicy takes Patti LuPone Can Shade Madonna With or Without Words “I’ve seen her onstage and I’ve seen her in a movie, and I went, ‘Umm, okay.’” By Jason P. Frank
rip James Earl Jones, Acting Legend, Dead at 93 The voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa was accomplished on stage and screen. By Justin Curto
oh hello again John Mulaney Will Reunite With Richard Kind on Broadway Likely featuring less — or, at the very least, a moderate amount of — tuna. By Hershal Pandya

Theater

Books

vulture lists Forgotten YA Adaptations, Ranked by Cultural Impact Will Netflix’s Uglies leave a bigger mark than these 15 Twilight–Harry Potter–Hunger Games rip-offs? By Rory Doherty
booked and busy The National Book Foundation’s 2024 Fiction Longlist Featuring three debut novels, two short-story collections, and one Miranda July. By Emma Alpern
happy birthday The Twilight Saga’s Renesmee Cullen Is Old Enough to Vote Three questions for the Cullens as the 2024 election approaches. By Bethy Squires
beach read book club ‘Too Much Hugging and Learning’ Our book club discusses the ending of Long Island Compromise.
profile In the Shack With Robert Caro The Power Broker is turning 50. His final LBJ book is almost — well, he won’t say exactly, but he’s trying for 900 words a day. By Christopher Bonanos

Books

Art

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
art review Abigail Goldman’s American Horror Story Her new show, “State of Nature,” depicts our depraved moment in miniature — literally. By Jerry Saltz
public art watch A Sixteen-Foot-Tall Pigeon Comes to Nest on the High Line Please don’t feed Iván Argote’s monumental Dinosaur. By Carl Swanson
wwjd Da Vinci Would Have Loved the Olympics’ Controversial ‘Last Supper’ The Catholic church of France, however, did not. By Jason P. Frank