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Vulture Section Lede

  1. last fright on late night
    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 12
    I Survived Jimmy Fallon’s Tonightmares Torture BasementIs the late-night host’s haunted house in the bowels of 30 Rock worth the cost of admission?
    By Rebecca Alter
  2. close read
    Is Nobody Wants This Mildly Antisemitic?Yes, but that’s only a symptom of the show’s biggest issue.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  3. theater review
    McNeal and Robert Downey Jr. Dance With ChatGPTThe playwright Ayad Akhtar considers the prospects (ominous and otherwise) of AI art-making.
    By Jackson McHenry
  4. stand-up
    5 New Comedy Specials You Should Definitely Watch (When You Have a Moment)Plus an older special that is very good.
    By Jesse David Fox
  5. funny videos of the month
    The Best Comedy Shorts of September 2024Rounding up our favorite funny videos of the month.
    By Luke Kelly-Clyne and Graham Techler
  6. at the box office
    It’s Official: Megalopolis Is a Box-Office Mega Flop(olis)Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed $136 million drama sunk under the weight of its negative buzz.
    By Chris Lee
  7. theater review
    Doing Less With More: The Hills of CaliforniaJez Butterworth’s latest play, directed by Sam Mendes, is an array of overfamiliar archetypes and under-thought choices.
    By Sara Holdren
  8. overnights
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    Industry Season-Finale Recap: The End of the Story Is MoneyIt’s just like Industry to end the season with no easy outs and to force each character toward an uncertain future.
    By Nina Li Coomes
  9. backstories
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    Industry Scatters the PiecesAs the show advances and destroys its major characters, the creators and cast explain how they got to this moment.
    By Jackson McHenry
  10. endings
    They’ll Never Stop The Simpsons… Or Will They?How a season premiere became a series finale.
    By Jesse David Fox
  11. overnights
    Saturday Night Live - Season 50
    Saturday Night Live Premiere Recap: Jean Smart Leads a Cavalcade of CameosThe jam-packed premiere has a lot of catching up to do after an eventful summer. Luckily, Jean Smart is the perfect host to kick off season 50.
    By Joe Berkowitz
  12. big break
    A Megalopolis Live Actor on How He Got the Fourth Wall-Breaking GigAnd whether he got paid to pretend to interview Adam Driver.
    By Justine Smith
  13. gold rush
    How to Bet on Oscar SeasonTwo movie columnists explain how they are making sense of this year’s Academy Awards contenders.
    By Joe Reid and Nate Jones
  14. making myths
    A Hard-to-Find Cult Classic Is Finally Streaming — and Coming Back to Blu-RayTarsem Singh’s 2006 epic The Fall is now streaming for the first time, and the director says a physical release is on the way, too.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  15. a long talk
    No One Sees the World Like RaMell RossThe director’s Nickel Boys is a staggering achievement — one we’ll be talking about for years to come.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  16. synergy
    76th Primetime Emmy Awards - Show
    Audiences and Executives Agree: Jelly RollThe country-music superstar, whose 2024 Emmys appearance surprised many, is playing SNL’s season-50 premiere this weekend. How did he get here?
    By Hershal Pandya
  17. witch one is he
    Some Theories About Who Teen Has Been All AlongJoe Locke’s character is clearly more than just an Agatha fanboy.
    By Savannah Salazar
  18. tell it to her heart
    THE GOLDEN BACHELORETTE
    Taylor Dayne Forgot She Once Dated a Golden Bachelorette Suitor“I said, ‘Honey, if it was on Hinge or Bumble, it’s possible.’”
    By Devon Ivie
  19. remembrance
    Maggie Smith Rejected IrrelevanceIn matronly roles that suggested their own replacement, the late performer shone from the margins.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  20. movie review
    Nickel Boys Is a Cinematic Experience Unlike Any OtherIn refusing a conventional, objective (and objectified) approach to suffering, director RaMell Ross resists easy attempts at pathos.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  21. movie review
    Sleep Is A Near-Perfect Horror ComedyThe South Korean film, from Bong Joon-ho protege Jason Yu, is a rollicking ride about sleepwalking and marriage.
    By Alison Willmore
  22. sexy death boat
    Every Sea-mergency on Doctor OdysseyWas this boat cursed by a sea witch?
    By Rebecca Alter
  23. this week in late night
    The Tragicomedy of Andy Samberg Won Late Night This WeekWhether it’s Earnest Andy or Silly Andy, it’s TV gold.
    By Bethy Squires
  24. a great debate
    Megalopolis Has Already WonFrancis Ford Coppola has created a movie we can all fight over. In that sense, maybe he has in fact achieved his dream.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  25. taxonomy
    Mapping the Apple TV+ UniverseFrom mystery-solving women to big-brained sci-fi, these programming blocs reflect the tech company turned streamer’s obsessions.
    By Nicholas Quah
  26. live from new york
    Jon Batiste (Finalized)
    What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Saturday Night?There are llamas, meltdowns, fistfights, and a lot of fake blood in this big-screen retelling of SNL’s first episode. How much really happened?
    By Fran Hoepfner
  27. a long talk
    ‘When CG Came Along, We Couldn’t Escape’How Lilo & Stitch co-director Chris Sanders found a sweet spot between hand-drawn and CG animation for his new film, The Wild Robot.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  28. murphy season
    Is Grotesquerie Just Another American Horror Story?It isn’t. But also, in a way, it is.
    By Jen Chaney
  29. big beefy boys
    Quiz: Do You Know Your Reacher From Your Tracker?It’s hard out here for conventionally attractive white men in tight T-shirts.
    By Bethy Squires
  30. they’re proud of you
    Dad TV Is for Everyone NowIn the streaming era, the irresistible optimism of a competent hero working to restore the social order defies age, gender, and parental status.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  31. tv review
    The Impeccable Smoothness of Nobody Wants ThisThe compulsively watchable Netflix series is TV’s first great podcast rom-com, and an even greater Adam Brody vehicle.
    By Nicholas Quah
  32. encore
    My Quest to Exterminate an EarwormWhat happens when a Fall Out Boy song gets stuck in your head — and never leaves?
    By Marianne Eloise
  33. just keep clapping
    Ellen DeGeneres’s Netflix Special Has 70 Applause BreaksSeriously. 70. We counted them.
    By Jesse David Fox and Kathryn VanArendonk
  34. close read
    The Pop Stars Who Flamed OutKaty Perry’s 143 joins the cursed ranks of musical missteps this year.
    By Craig Jenkins
  35. bee-nado watch
    How 9-1-1 Mastered the Art of the TV DisasterWith the much-anticipated “bee-nado” upon us, let’s run through the season-defining disasters that built to this buzzworthy moment.
    By Laura Bradley
  36. race to the bottom
    Slow Horses Incompetence Index: The Dogs Have Their DayRiver making it this far without getting captured might be this season’s most shocking twist so far.
    By Brian Grubb
  37. superlatives
    Nardwuar on His Best and Most Uncomfortable Interviews“I went ‘Doot-doola-doot-doo’ and then he Silly Stringed me.”
    By Emma Madden
  38. opera review
    Moral Complexity at the Met: Jeanine Tesori’s GroundedOur theater and music critics discuss the new opera about drone warfare and the people who wage it.
    By Justin Davidson and Sara Holdren
  39. theater review
    The Ghost of John McCain Is Inside Out for MSNBC AddictsStuck in Donald Trump’s head, literally but also artistically.
    By Jackson McHenry
  40. dancing on the edge
    The World Wasn’t Ready for Body Double“Sometimes the style of the day is not the right way to appraise something innovative,” Brian De Palma says now.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  41. do it in dc
    Make Girls SuperpoweredSome suggestions for HBO’s upcoming slate.
    By Vulture Staff
  42. stand-up
    Ellen Needed ThisThe comedian’s final stand-up performance functioned as a kind of therapy — for both DeGeneres and her audience.
    By Joe Berkowitz
  43. book review
    Has Olga Tokarczuk Been Struck by the Nobel Curse?Her latest novel, The Empusium, is more focused on dictating a salient political message than pushing the bounds of art.
    By Robert Rubsam
  44. album review
    Future Slouches Toward LegacyMixtape Pluto is a rote retread of his last two albums.
    By Gary Suarez
  45. housewives institute bulletin
    Wives vs. ’WivesIs Secret Lives of Mormon Wives coming for RHOSLC’s snowflake?
    By Brian Moylan
  46. snl
    SNL Adds 3 New Writers for Season 50Allie Levitan, Carl Tart, and Moss Perricone have joined the staff ahead of the big anniversary.
    By Jesse David Fox
  47. theater review
    Sean Bell and Kate Mulgrew in 'The Beacon.'
    The Beacon Needs Its Heat Turned Slightly Lower“One can’t be moved, or even really engaged, when a writer keeps saying, ‘See what I did there?’”
    By Sara Holdren
  48. 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
  49. 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
  50. 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
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