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Vulture Section Lede

  1. gold rush
    Big, Sweeping Television Is BackWhat Shōgun’s incredible awards season performance says about the series, the Emmys, and the state of epic TV.
    By Joe Reid
  2. respect the classics
    A Brief Pink Floyd DétenteA new cover of ‘Comfortably Numb’ finally forced David Gilmour and Roger Waters to agree on something.
    By Stephen Thomas Erlewine
  3. close read
    Are We Getting The Substance All Wrong?The Demi Moore horror film is being hailed for its feminism, but its real strength is in its portrayal of addictive behavior.
    By Alison Willmore
  4. movie review
    Three of Our Best Actresses Elevate Netflix’s His Three DaughtersCarrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha Lyonne play three sisters watching over their dying father in Azazel Jacobs’s drama.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  5. chat room
    Paris Hilton Would Work It Out With Lindsay Lohan on a RemixThey already ended their feud, but it “would be so iconic.”
    By Devon Ivie
  6. close read
    Hot CommodityIn Sally Rooney’s novels, love is always being bought, sold, or reduced to tropes. But this is also what makes it real.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  7. theater review
    Mama Grizzlies Tear Into Lunch in oh, HoneyIn Jeana Scotti’s play, everyone’s got a son facing sexual-misconduct accusations, and the waitperson is taking notes.
    By Sara Holdren
  8. destination unknown
    8 Relationships That’ll Get You Hooked on FromWelcome to nightmare town, population: eldritch abominations, bickering marrieds, and a lot of ghosts.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  9. movie review
    A Different Man Might Be Overthinking ThingsSebastian 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
  10. 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
  11. 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.”
    As told to Jasmine Vojdani
  12. powers ranking
    AGATHA ALL ALONG
    Which Witches Are Bringing the Most to Agatha All Along’s Coven?Acting-wise, not magic-wise.
    By Jackson McHenry
  13. a long talk
    This Might Be the Most Ambitious and Delirious Thing Joe Wright Has Ever DoneBefore 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
  14. race to the bottom
    Slow Horses Incompetence Index: Flyte RiskEveryone is operating at the top of their games. Or the bottoms. It’s kind of the same thing on this show.
    By Brian Grubb
  15. suspect your elders
    Industry’s Worst Parents, RankedNaming your daughter Boadicea? Unforgivable.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  16. a golden opportunity
    PASCAL, JOAN VASSOS
    Who’s Afraid of a Sexy Octogenarian?Only two seasons into its seniors spinoff, The Bachelor/ette is already regressing to late middle-age.
    By Marah Eakin
  17. vulture lists
    The 50 Best NPR Tiny DesksThe series has grown in ambition and execution, but the spirit of intimate discovery remains.
    By Matthew Ismael Ruiz
  18. emmys 2024
    How The Bear Lost the Best Comedy Emmy to HacksTo start, it wasn’t a comedy.
    By Joe Reid
  19. emmys 2024
    The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2024 EmmysHigh: Shōgun dominance! Low: Emmys spon-con? Whoa: Hacks upset???
  20. fighting words
    So, Who Won That Brutal Industry Fight?Let’s unpack — and rank! — the emotional baggage Harper and Yasmin brought to their vicious exchange.
    By Hershal Pandya
  21. nikki beach or bust
    Everything on Industry Was Building Toward ThisMarisa Abela, Myha’la, and the showrunners break down Yasmin and Harper’s biggest fight: “We were like, ‘How do we make this as hurtful as possible?’”
    By Jackson McHenry
  22. tiff 2024
    You’d Think Watching Tilda Swinton in an Apocalypse Movie Musical Would Be FunBut at two and a half very staid hours, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is a punishing picture.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  23. endings
    The Speak No Evil Remake’s Ending Is a Cowardly Cop-outSpeak No Evil is meant to be a sick joke, and it doesn’t work without the punch line.
    By Louis Peitzman
  24. gold rush
    Final Emmy Predictions: Bear With Us, the Shō Must Go UnIt’s going to be a big night for fine dining, baby reindeer, and feudal Japan.
    By Joe Reid
  25. movie review
    The Speak No Evil Remake Is Sillier (and Better) Than the OriginalThe American remake loses something in ditching the unrelenting darkness, but it also avoids the original’s borderline reactionary message.
    By Alison Willmore
  26. a long talk
    Richard Kind Will Accept 93 Percent of Job OffersThe 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
  27. this week in late night
    Jimmy Kimmel’s Deep Roster of Impressionists Won Late Night This WeekAlso Kevin Hart’s “Day Drinking” segment and Jimmy Fallon dying repeatedly.
    By Bethy Squires
  28. movie review
    My Old Ass Is Low-Key DevastatingMaisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza star in a rewarding coming-of-age story about getting the chance to advise your teenage self.
    By Alison Willmore
  29. tiff 2024
    The Piano Lesson Can’t Quite Live Up to August Wilson’s PlayMalcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson is a worthwhile and occasionally quite moving adaptation. But it lives uncomfortably between two forms.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  30. movie review
    Civil War Isn’t the Movie You Think It IsAlex Garland’s war epic is more about how we respond to images of conflict than it is about the conflict itself.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  31. endings
    The Empty Perspective of Civil War’s Final ShotIt’s the closest Alex Garland’s “anti-war” film comes to a distinct political statement.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  32. theater review
    Counting and Cracking Is a Joyous Generational Square-offPlus a smart new play, ‘The Ask,’ at the Wild Project.
    By Sara Holdren
  33. theater review
    The Roommate Barely Unpacks Its Own BoxesIt settles in, and then it’s gone.
    By Sara Holdren
  34. beeves
    Chanel Fall 2023 Couture Collection Runway Show Front Row
    We Need Cooler HeadsKendrick’s latest song takes aim at a new target: hip-hop influencers pushing propaganda.
    By Craig Jenkins
  35. movie review
    The New Hayao Miyazaki Doc Is Obsessed with DeathIn Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron, the legendary animation director loses close friends to old age and grapples with the twilight of his own life.
    By Nicholas Quah
  36. he shreds
    Indie Rock’s Latest ‘Savior’ Isn’t There YetIt’s funny heaping highbrow praise on MJ Lenderman, a guy who writes poignant songs that reference Lucky Charms and Rip Torn.
    By Chris Stanton
  37. strange frequencies
    The Old Man’s Secret CodeThe sneakily unconventional series returns bearing all the idiosyncratic qualities that keep it from becoming another predictable spy thriller.
    By Roxana Hadadi and Nicholas Quah
  38. to the moon
    The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2024 VMAsWe’re really doing 9/11 tributes?
    By Justin Curto
  39. movie review
    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.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  40. beach read book club
    ‘Too Much Hugging and Learning’Our book club discusses the ending of Long Island Compromise.
  41. zip-a-dee-doo-huh?
    Do the Disney DiscoA trip through the wacky, wild, occasionally scary world of Disney cover songs.
    By Rebecca Alter
  42. docu-ethics
    American Freak ShowChimp Crazy and Tiger King director Eric Goode doesn’t seem to care that his nonfiction work doubles as exploitation. Should we?
    By Nicholas Quah
  43. tiff 2024
    The Thing About BarryAt Toronto International Film Festival, Barry Keoghan is a meme king who’s extremely good at his actual job (acting).
    By Joe Reid
  44. race to the bottom
    Slow Horses Incompetence Index: Cry Me a RiverCartwright Jr. is a sweet boy. I have no clue how he has survived three-plus seasons of this show.
    By Brian Grubb
  45. remember that time
    Hurley and the Hot Pocket Outlived Lost’s Wildest Lore“We never thought in a show that won an Emmy for great drama, the Hot Pocket would rise to meet Locke in a wheelchair, no.”
    By Dan Reilly
  46. tiff 2024
    Hugh Grant Was Born to Play the VillainGrant’s been terrific in recent years as characters of questionable moral standing, but his riveting turn in Heretic is something else entirely.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  47. movies fantasy league
    It’s Time to Draft Your Team for the 2024–25 Movies Fantasy LeagueSign up by October 3 in order to secure your chance to score big this season.
    By Vulture Editors
  48. song roulette
    Kesha Has Earned the Right to Be CrazyAfter 15 years of singles, “I wanted to remind myself who the fuck I am.”
    By Devon Ivie
  49. book review
    Is Rejection the First Great Incel Novel?Tony Tulathimutte’s second book is a hilariously brutal story collection about elder millennials grappling with their sexual failures.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  50. tiff 2024
    Relay Might Be the Next Great Corporate Espionage ThrillerBut it’s the rare movie where I might recommend leaving ten minutes before the end.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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