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All 50 Christmas Gifts Given in the Harry Potter Books, Ranked
It makes total sense that J.K Rowling would choose to release more Harry Potter tales over the Christmas season, considering her original stories are by far the most festive of this era’s popular young-adult fantasy series. (You don’t see Katniss popping on a Santa hat, do you?) The wizarding world is not only obsessed with the festive merriment of the holidays — possibly to make up for the fact that poor, orphaned Harry had so many disappointing Christmases before arriving at Hogwarts — but that time of year is also often the setting for major plot events.
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All Creatures Great and Small Premiere Recap: Hygge in the Hills
All Creatures Great and Small You’ve Got to Dream Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » All Creatures Great and Small You’ve Got to Dream Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Hello and welcome to the balm of 2021, a show about pastoral scenes, sweater vests, and men getting kicked in the face by horses.
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All Creatures Great and SmallRecap: The Birthday Dinner
All Creatures Great and Small Many Happy Returns Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » All Creatures Great and Small Many Happy Returns Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » What Siegfried hath wrought, let his own blunder put asunder.
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All Hail Erica Sullivan, Olympic Silver Medalist, Swiftie, and Queer Icon
On Tuesday, Olympic newcomer Erica Sullivan made history in the Olympics’ first ever women’s swimming 1,500m freestyle race, bringing home the silver medal for America. Yes, she was the first ever woman to win a silver medal in the Olympic event — the 20-year-old’s first medal — but Sullivan made history in other ways too. Representation matters: Erica is representing America as an Asian American, an out and proud queer woman, and, yes … a Swiftie.
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All Hail Matt Rogers, the Prince of Christmas
Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Four years ago, Matt Rogers was at a personal and professional low point after a breakup and not getting hired on Saturday Night Live. But then, like a phoenix from the ashes, he emerged as the prince of Christmas with a one-person show called Have You Heard of Christmas?
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All the Books With 2023 Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Reading List
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is one of several movies or TV shows based on a book debuting this year. 2023 comes to a close with an impressive array of page-to-screen adaptations. Directors and showrunners have drawn from prestige-y favorites (Eileen), nostalgic choices (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), and persisting classics (Dracula) for their screen versions. With their textual roots in a wide range of genres — YA books, iconic novels, fictional oral histories, long-running comics — these 90 adaptations’ sources are well worth a read before you see them in the theater or on your home screen.
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All the Callbacks in the Succession Series Finale
Does this look familiar? Much of the coverage of Succession’s four seasons presumed that the events of one episode would influence what happened in subsequent installments, and that really wasn’t the case. Things like the leaked cruises documents or the DOJ raid would be incredibly important one week, then brushed aside the next. However! Sunday night’s series finale demonstrated an impressive and totally fulfilling regard for Succession lore.
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All the Ways Game of Thrones Ramsay Bolton Is Way Worse in the Books
Spoilers ahead for the most recent episode of Game of Thrones, as well as A Song of Ice and Fire.
We knew Ramsay was beyond despicable. We’ve known him to flay men who surrendered to him, hunt down women with his dogs, torture and castrate Theon, and rape Sansa. And ever since Roose Bolton announced that his wife was pregnant, we have feared for that baby — partly because of Ramsay’s nature, but also because we know he’s killed a brother before: In the books, Ramsay also killed Roose’s previous child.
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Allison Mack Tried to Recruit Emma Watson for Her Alleged Sex Cult
Allison Mack. While Smallville actress Allison Mack has pleaded not guilty regarding her alleged role as a recruiter for the sex cult NXIVM, more damning evidence has piled up against her — and on social media, no less. As unearthed by People, Mack tried numerous times to convince Emma Watson to give her some time so they could discuss the “amazing women’s movement” Mack was involved in, as she believed Watson would “dig” its ethos.
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