Parks and Recreation Recap: Kick Out the Jamm

Parks and Recreation Cones of Dunshire Season 6 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Parks and Recreation Cones of Dunshire Season 6 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Hello again, Unemployed Ben! Because the Esquire Network airs old episodes of Party Down on weeknights, I was not as jarred as I should have been by the sight of Adam Scott out of a job. [Read More]

Paul Mescal Is Our Disappointment Heartthrob

Not everything Paul Mescal has been in over the course of his short career has been a romance, but they’re all love stories of one sort or another — when not between lovers, then between a mother and her wayward son or a daughter and her elusive father. It’s seemingly impossible not to long for the 27-year-old Irish actor, though as a very contemporary object of desire — which is to say that the women he shares the screen with yearn for his character to do better as much as they yearn for him. [Read More]

Peppermint Addresses the New York Times Review Misgendering Her Head Over Heels Character

Peppermint as Pythio in Head Over Heels. Peppermint, the trans actress who plays the oracle Pythio in the Go-Go’s jukebox musical Head Over Heels, has explained how she reacted to Ben Brantley’s New York Times review that misgendered her character in a new interview. “I thought it was unfortunate. I didn’t take it as personally as some other people may have taken it, because obviously I’ve seen the show, and there was a particular context that would be helpful in this situation,” she told GQ. [Read More]

Perfect Match Got Harry to Kiss and Tell (on Himself)

Harry Jowlsey actually telling the truth. Do you think Harry Jowsey’s therapist watched Perfect Match and sighed? In the latest season of Netflix’s reality dating competition, Harry swore that he was a changed man. Armed with therapyspeak and self-help books, he felt ready to shed his Too Hot to Handle past as a toxic playboy. (“Harry has a reputation for not being great with women. The Netflix ex-wives do a tell-all for sure,” fellow Perfect Match contestant Dominique said in the first episode. [Read More]

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Peter Gallagher Answers Every Question We Have About While You Were Sleeping

Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. The actor talks falling asleep on camera, eyebrow grooming, and the time he was almost run over by Roger Ebert. While You Were Sleeping hits all of the compulsory beats of the ’90s rom-com: “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” plays over the opening credits. [Read More]

Pinpointing the Most Iconic Girls Moments

Lena Dunham and Patrick Wilson in “One Man’s Trash.” Some shows break down easily into episodes or season-long arcs. Girls excelled at moments: shots, scenes, or bits of dialogue that could swivel the show’s themes, reveal new depths to a character, or alter the momentum of a storyline. As the show comes to a close, Vulture has rounded up a compendium of what we believe will be the Girls moments to remember. [Read More]

Please Pay Attention to The Other Two

Cary (Drew Tarver) and Brooke (Heléne York), not trying too hard at all in The Other Two. Working in the entertainment industry can look pretty enticing from the outside. There are all those red carpets, and private-jet rides, and encounters with celebrities who use hydrating serums that cost more than your monthly mortgage payment, and also encounters with celebrities who don’t necessarily shower very often but are nevertheless fine as hell because celebrities: They’re not like us. [Read More]

Poor, Odd Nate

Nick Mohammed ends three seasons of Ted Lasso with a friendly debate about his character. “I feel like there’s a little bit of work to be done sometimes on the viewer’s part.” Photo: Colin Hutton/Apple TV+ “I feel like there’s a little bit of work to be done sometimes on the viewer’s part.” Nathan Shelley has always been a bit of an outlier in the Ted Lasso universe, or at least a character who always seemed to be worth dissecting. [Read More]

Powers Naturi Naughton on the Evolution of Tasha and That Debut Album Youve Been Waiting For

This interview contains spoilers for Power and Power Book II: Ghost. When Naturi Naughton first appears on Starz’s hit series Power as drug kingpin James St. Patrick’s wife, Tasha, she is a dutiful gangster moll, albeit with reservations. Tasha supports her husband’s work in the drug game but worries about his efforts to go legit. That conflict opens a rift between her and James, better known as Ghost (Omari Hardwick): In his efforts to build a lawful nightclub empire, he spends less and less time at home. [Read More]