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The Dead of Winter Will Spencer Dutton ever make it back to Montana?
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Up in Flames The series fumbles at the finish line by ditching its most intriguing plotlines in favor of a stupid conspiracy to save America’s fractured politics.
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Girls’ Trip It feels very odd that Ben has somehow become the most sympathetic character on this show.
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Triangles of Sadness Welcome to the most complicated love triangles in all of television.
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Ferris Bueller Would Never! Matthew Broderick’s character is so arrogant that he thinks he can get away with pinning his murder on a cat. Not on Elsbeth’s watch!
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break room gossip Which Innie-Outie Love Triangle Will Explode First? & Other Severance Questions. Romance — or whatever you call it when people who’ve had experimental brain procedures start dealing with the ramifications of that — is in the air. By Brian Grubb
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performance review He Overacted. He Did Too Much. He Deserves the Oscar. Jeremy Strong is doing something that very few supporting actors are willing, or even empowered, to do nowadays. Reward him for it. By Bilge Ebiri

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Kristen Bell Would Like to Be an Actor

In her SAG Awards monologue, that is. By Jason P. Frank

press tourist Mikey Madison’s Road to Potential Oscar Glory Anora swept the Spirits, and Madison came along with it. By Jason P. Frank
awards szn Anora Was Blessed by the Independent Spirit It was a big night for A Real Pain, too. By Bethy Squires
coming soon Nonalcoholic-Beer Salesman Will Put the Spidey Suit Back On Spider-Man 4 has Tom Holland, a director, and a (new) release date. By Jason P. Frank

now streaming The 12 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend A killer toy monkey is on the loose. By Savannah Salazar
movie review The Monkey Has Good Kills, But No Soul The latest Osgood Perkins movie, adapted from a Stephen King story, is a fine diversion — if you ignore the gaping hole at its center. By Angelica Jade Bastién
movie review Daisy Ridley’s Die Hard Knockoff, Cleaner, Has Some Fun Action But Little Else Not even veteran action-master Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, GoldenEye) can’t fix this dopey script. By Bilge Ebiri
it doesn’t end Jenny Slate Gets Sucked Into the It Ends With Us Lawsuits Justin Baldoni’s producing partner was allegedly being too weird about the sanctity of motherhood. By Fran Hoepfner
jang-jang-jang-jang The Monkey Saves the Stephen King Adaptation by Skewering It The closer you look at The Monkey, the more you can see its deliberate subversions of the tropes that have come to define the Stephen King movie. By Louis Peitzman

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Fans Can Vote on How Survivor 50 Is Played

Fans will vote on key gameplay elements like “Idols or No Idols.” By Bethy Squires

rip Lynne Marie Stewart, Miss Yvonne on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Dead at 78 She also starred as Charlie’s mom, Bonnie, in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. By Jennifer Zhan
cancel culture Every TV Show Canceled in 2025 So Far Prime Video isn’t sticking with The Sticky. By Jennifer Zhan
close read Let’s Call That Severance “Love Triangle” What It Was Doppelgänger sexual assault is nothing new in fiction. Neither is the reluctance to engage with male victims’ responses to it. By Ben Rosenstock
trans rights Hunter Schafer ‘Shocked’ Her New Passport Lists Her Gender As Male “I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.” By Justin Curto

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Uh-oh! 9-1-1’s Athena Grant Is Going on Another Cruise It’s like the Abbott/Sunny crossover for people who love trash. By Bethy Squires

sagged and gooped The 2025 SAG Awards Are Going Actor on Actor Timothée Chalamet, Mikey Madison, and Ariana Grande are among presenters. By Alejandra Gularte
break room gossip Which Innie-Outie Love Triangle Will Explode First? & Other Severance Questions. Romance — or whatever you call it when people who’ve had experimental brain procedures start dealing with the ramifications of that — is in the air. By Brian Grubb
this week in late night Seth Meyers’s Cavalcade of SNL Writers Won Late Night Plus, David Letterman on The Tonight Show and Lizzy Caplan waxing poetic on waxing. By Bethy Squires
vulture recommends So The Pitt Has You Obsessed With Freedom House Ambulance If the show’s celebration of the Pittsburgh medics who “created the 911 system” has you curious, there’s a documentary for that. By Roxana Hadadi

Music

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A Timeline of Rihanna Teasing Her Allegedly Real Next Album, R9

“There’s no genre now. That’s why I waited.” By Jennifer Zhan

rip Notorious B.I.G.’s Mother, Voletta Wallace, Dead at 78 She maintained her son’s memory after his 1997 killing. By Justin Curto
crime Diddy’s Attorney Doesn’t Want to Represent Him Anymore Citing “sufficient reasons” he can’t disclose. By Justin Curto
my single is dropping Jennie and Doechii Make Big Moves in ‘ExtraL’ The L stands for large, not legendary. By Justin Curto

my single is dropping Tate McRae and The Kid Laroi ‘Know Love’ Or so they say on their new collab. By Bethy Squires
romance Selena Gomez’s Next Album Is With Benny Blanco, Obviously The second single, “Call Me When You Break Up” with Gracie Abrams dropped ahead of New Music Friday. By Alejandra Gularte
she’s just being miley How Miley Cyrus Became the Most Reliable Act in Showbiz She’ll show up anywhere and get the job done right. By Fran Hoepfner
the internet is forever Why the Pop World Can’t Shut Up About Nachos As Picasso once said, “Good artists reheat, great artists steal the microwave.” By Bethy Squires
this actually is the place David Byrne Expected a ‘Hard Audience’ for His SNL50 Performance “You see all of these names and go, Oh my God.” By Devon Ivie

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SNL50’s ‘COVID Curse’ Got Martin Short and Maya Rudolph

Steve Martin broke the news alongside a photo of the pair smooching at the event. By Jennifer Zhan

snl50 Adam Sandler Joins SNL50 to Make Everyone Cry And to make Kanye West rethink his antisemitism, apparently. By Jesse David Fox
snl 50 Ladies and Gentlemen … Lady Gaga As both host and musical guest on SNL. By Jason P. Frank
openings Hannibal Buress Is Opening a New Venue in Williamsburg Isola Brooklyn is coming to the former Knitting factory space on Metropolitan Avenue on March 9. By Clio Chang

last night on late night John Oliver Calls Elon Musk ‘One of the Worst White Guys’ From South Africa “(Which is really saying something).” By Bethy Squires
tributes Why Aubrey Plaza Was Wearing Tie-Dye at SNL50 It was her first public appearance since the death of her husband, director Jeff Baena. By Bethy Squires
live from new york Every Single Thing That Happened at SNL50 Everything that went down at Studio 8H. By Vulture Staff
i’m verklempt! ‘Bronx Beat"/"Coffee Talk’ Mashup Alert! Mike Myers joined Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph for some kvetching and kvelling. By Fran Hoepfner
snl50 Meryl Streep Breaks and Says ‘Little Pervs’ in Her First SNL Appearance Further proof that nobody — not even our greatest living actress — can survive Kate McKinnon’s paranormal sketch. By Devon Ivie

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Dispatches From the Apocalypse: Safe House and The Barbarians

Two plays that, fitfully and incompletely, get at this moment’s dread. By Sara Holdren

theater review Liberation Is the Best Play I’ve Seen This Season Bess Wohl’s latest is drawn from the true stories of her mother’s 1970s encounter group. By Sara Holdren
tony awards Cynthia Erivo Is Holding Space for the Tony Awards Hosting this year’s ceremony at Radio City Music Hall. By Jason P. Frank
theater review All Bark, No Bite: Redwood Idina Menzel grieves in a tree and leaves. By Sara Holdren
i can finally breathe again Idina Menzel Dangles From the Heavens While Singing She’s in a redwood, singing a song from Redwood about being in a redwood. By Jason P. Frank

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What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) Broadway Let Vulture’s theater desk be your guide. By Vulture Editors

theater review A Henry IV That Doesn’t Know Its Own Strength This play has underappreciated muscles that its director intermittently flexes. By Sara Holdren
theater review Urinetown Is Still Potable Whoa, there! Plenty of prescience reveals itself in Encores!’s revival of the 2001 musical. By Jackson McHenry
theater review The Antiquities Puts Humanity in a Museum Display Case The robots memorialize us in Jordan Harrison’s time-hopping speculative drama. By Jackson McHenry
broadway baby! Tituss Burgess to Take Over Oh, Mary! “I understand the role of Mary Todd Lincoln maybe a little too well.” By Jason P. Frank

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neighborhood news ‘So You All Got the Email …’ At the launch for Susan Morrison’s Lorne after a reply-all blizzard. By Paula Aceves
julianne ‘the resistance’ moore Why Is the Pentagon So Scared of Julianne Moore? Book-ban insanity comes for Freckleface Strawberry. By Rebecca Alter
done A Court of Thorns and Roses TV Series Doesn’t Survive Valentine’s Day A rose by any other name still dies in development hell. By Alejandra Gularte
coming soon ;) Miranda July and STARZ Go Public With Their Relationship The All Fours author says the network “really digs into the reality of who women are and what we want.” By Fran Hoepfner
spellcasting Harry Potter Hires a Hogwarts Headmaster Reportedly casting John Lithgow as Dumbledore. By Rebecca Alter

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art review The Exhilarating Anger of Christine Sun Kim Her new show at the Whitney reveals that language is a social currency that constantly places the deaf at a disadvantage. By Jerry Saltz
remembrances Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art World The longtime man-about-downtown died this week at age 74. By Jerry Saltz
art review Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely Islands A retrospective at the Met captures the German romanticist’s epic melancholy. By Jerry Saltz
extremely online The Hyperpigmentation Drawing Meme Is a Work of Art Call it TikTok’s modern-day Mona Lisa. By Jennifer Zhan
heists Graffiti Artist RETNA Claims an Auction House Sold His Stolen Work The graffiti artist says that his former landlord and Heritage Auctions illegally seized his property for profit. By Rachel Corbett