Netflix Has Finally Cracked the Talk-Show Code

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Remember how years ago, Netflix desperately tried to make streaming talk show a thing? I need this show to be a regular part of my life. But what if it werent just that? What if this were actually Mulaney low-key testing out what his life would be like as a talk-show host? That doesnt feel like a sign the show is bombing with American audiences....

May 9, 2024 · 1 min · 114 words · Richard Ramsey

PEN America Writers Threw Their Own Party

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. For blocks, I had walked behind someone (an author, perhaps?) Many others, including Naomi Klein and Isabella Hammad, withdrew from its prestigious annual World Voices Festival. PEN Americas gala is still scheduled for later this month.) A large portion of the room seemed to have some connection to PEN America itself. There were laughs at in-jokes and hisses at the mention of PEN executive Suzanne Nossels salary....

May 9, 2024 · 1 min · 182 words · Aaron Thomas

Steve Albini, the Insult Comic

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Steve Albini was a great recording engineer. (And he preferred being called an engineer, not a producer, hed remind you.) The world will be worse now without Albini around to hold us all to account. The record company will expect me to ask for a point or a point and a half. If we assume 3 million sales, that works out to 400,000 dollars or so....

May 9, 2024 · 2 min · 244 words · Patricia Hernandez

TheBaby ReindeerReal-Identities Debate Went All the Way to U.K. Parliament

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The uproar aroundBaby Reindeerand the real-life counterparts of the Netflix show made its way to U.K. Parliament this week. Based on Richard Gadds Edinburgh Fringe show,Baby Reindeertakes elements of Gadds real life and dramatizes them. The real Martha (who stalks Gadds character, Donny) will appear onPiers Morgan UncensoredThursday. Sources Related Tags:

May 9, 2024 · 1 min · 66 words · Jonathan Smith

This One Gag in Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart Movie Is Like an Intrusive Thought

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Unfrosted, a comedic riff on the race to create Pop-Tarts, is neither good nor especially bad. crap that look baffling in light of the incredibly mild comedy he made. How do you do this? What are we supposed to do now? Related Tags:

May 9, 2024 · 1 min · 58 words · Michael Hall

Zendaya’sChallengers‘I Told Ya’ Shirt Can Be Yours

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. It does ruin the illusion a little that the actual shirt in the movie isnt Loewe but a J. Crew shirt with iron letters. Sure, thats all that happened. Now, what about the boys? you could bid on bothJosh OConnorandMike Faists wigs yeah, some of those luscious locks werent real andbrokenrackets. Related Tags:

May 9, 2024 · 1 min · 68 words · Jasmine Hardin

Dark MatterRecap: This Is Not My Beautiful Wife

Dark Matter Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Matt, his faithful bartender, tells him hes just missed last call, betraying no sign of recognition. Jason B, meanwhile, wakes up next to his beautiful wife. Hes unimpressed with the clothes he finds in his closet but awed by the sight of his sleeping son. She also tells him that theyve found no record of the wife and son he asked them to contact....

May 8, 2024 · 3 min · 594 words · Angela Mosley

Dark MatterSeries-Premiere Recap: Man and Superposition

Dark Matter Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Thats also more or less the way the new Apple TV+ seriesDark Matterbegins, albeit with several caveats. It should be you, Ryan tells him, suggesting it was Jason who was once poised for greatness. (My friend Glen Weldon and Idid a whole podcastabout it.) Choices hed now like to revise. The pilot episode explores the duality of its premise in clever ways … and clumsy ones....

May 8, 2024 · 3 min · 633 words · Justin Snyder

Greta Lee and Kingsley Ben-Adir Are In Talks to Get Trapped Together

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. If negotiations go well, would that make Lee and Ben-Adir the movies stay-at-home parents? The film is also reportedly set to be introduced at the Cannes Film Festival this month. Good on him for crunching11817s numbers. Sources Related Tags:

May 8, 2024 · 1 min · 54 words · Daniel Walker

Lady Gaga Pauses Pharma Commercials to Release Chromatica Ball Film

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. GagasChromatica Ballfilm is finally being released on Max. We guessChromaticacontent arrives on a two-year cycle, because the tour film is out in 2024. The concert films trailer features the riff from Gagas song Stupid Love, which was released pre-pandemic. Rerelease the Chromatica Oreos for celebratory watch parties, cowards. Related Tags:

May 8, 2024 · 1 min · 65 words · Matthew Taylor

Lenny Kravitz on the Most Rejuvenating and Indulgent Music of His Career

Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Lenny Kravitzis just waking up at his Bahamas home on a recent morning when we say hello. (Theleather gym pantsseemingly have the day off.) His corneas are, of course, cocooned in sunglasses. Its a brand-new start for me, the guitar hero says....

May 8, 2024 · 5 min · 1030 words · Ralph Bautista

LootRecap: An Angry Woman With a Passenger Van

Loot Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Weve all been there: the moment you realize your crush is even hotter than you thought. If your feelings for that person werent already unhinged, they sure are now. Big, unhinged, very real feelings. He finally tells her about Corsica and how Arthur admitted to having feelings for her. Does he still have feelings for her?...

May 8, 2024 · 3 min · 431 words · Julia Lopez

Mary Todd Lincoln MakesLate NightDebut, Heals Broken Nation

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. I did less than no research, they say. I actively forgot things that I knew about Mary Todd Lincoln. Related Tags:

May 8, 2024 · 1 min · 36 words · James Thompson