The Biggest and Quirkiest Personalities in Late Night This Week

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  777 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Kesha on Late Night. The first post-Roe reversal week of late night is in the books, and — shock of all shocks — it was a huge bummer. A lot of people I know feel emotionally tapped out. Whether they’re getting through this time by dissociating, or raging, or that one guy DIY-ing a guillotine Mythbusters style, we’re seeing a wide array of coping behaviors. These behaviors were on full display on late night. [Read More]

The Brattiest Teens in TV History, Ranked

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1783 words  |  Sherie Connelly

As long as there’s been TV, the family has been one of its favorite go-tos. All week long, Vulture is exploring how it’s been represented on our screens. The TV Teenager is a curious species. They run the gamut from earnest and relatable portrayals of the teenage experience (hello, Mariana on The Fosters) to so not relatable you have to wonder if every character is in some kind of 21 Jump Street situation (oh, Riverdale, you wonderful, weird thing). [Read More]

The Cast of Glee Reacts to Cory Monteiths Death

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  432 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Cory Monteith — also known as the jock turned performer and clumsy dancer with a big voice Finn Hudson on Fox’s Glee — unexpectedly passed away Saturday night at the age of 31. A flood of tributes are certainly to come, but for now we only have the initial tweets and comments from Monteith’s fellow cast members and co-stars. Here are a few words from his colleagues accompanied by samples of the fine work they did together. [Read More]

The Challenges of Adapting Ferrante

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1908 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The team behind HBO’s My Brilliant Friend on bringing the author’s Naples to life. Behind the scenes of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend. Photo: HBO Behind the scenes of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend. Photo: HBO Behind the scenes of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend. When it was first published in 2011, My Brilliant Friend resonated with readers worldwide in a way that few contemporary novels without magic or dragons do. The first of Elena Ferrante’s four-book series introduced a premise that was deceptively simple: Two gifted girls, Lila Cerullo and Elena Greco, growing up in post-WWII Naples, bring out the best and worst in each other. [Read More]

The Circles Creator Guides Us Through the Shows Beautiful Web of Lies

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1899 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Even the “chips” on The Circle are a lie! Netflix’s The Circle is bewildering viewers everywhere. Part reality show, part game show, part dating show, the series follows contestants living alone in apartments and competing against each other solely over a social-media platform called the Circle in order to win $100,000. But the catch is that some of them aren’t who they appear to be. Catfish are among us. And the show itself isn’t innocent of similar behavior. [Read More]

The Curse Series-Premiere Recap: Hall of Mirrors

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1536 words  |  Zora Stowers

The Curse Land of Enchantment Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Curse Land of Enchantment Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The Curse is a TV show about trying to make a TV show. Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone play a bizarro version of Fixer Upper’s Chip and Joanna Gaines — a young couple with dreams of making the sleepy postindustrial Southwest outpost they call home a little less ratchet, one televised reno at a time. [Read More]

The Darkest Minds Is a Largely Incoherent Teen Dystopia

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  652 words  |  Zora Stowers

Perhaps it seems a little bit simplistic to say so, but judging from the overall tenor of YA blockbusters in the last decade, it really must be quite scary to be a teen these days. Because tweens aren’t going to flock en masse to anything that doesn’t truly capture their imaginations, it can be fun to do a kind of very nonprofessional 1:1 sociological reading of whatever the dystopian saga du jour is. [Read More]

The Departed Screenwriter William Monahan Developing a Show for Starz

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  98 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Screenwriter William Monahan attends the premiere of “Body of Lies” at the Frederick P. Rose Theater on October 5, 2008 in New York City. Raise a glass of cranberry juice in celebration; The Hollywood Reporter reports that The Departed screenwriter William Monahan is developing a new show for Starz. Originally conceived as a film, Crime is set in the criminal underworld of sixties England. (Will Austin Powers be there? Probably not. [Read More]

The Fifth Marx Brother Was a Sister

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1233 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Groucho Marx called her “practically the fifth Marx Brother” and she appeared in nearly 60 films in a career spanning four decades, but the name Margaret Dumont is relatively unknown in today’s pop culture. What a shame; she only essentially invented the “straight-woman” character, paving the way for Ann Perkins and Pam Beasley, among dozens of others, years later. Margaret Dumont was born Daisy Juliette Baker in 1888. She first lived in Brooklyn, NY, but moved to Atlanta, GA as a child to live with her godfather, Joel Chandler Harris, the author of the Uncle Remis stories. [Read More]