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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
slaycation

The White Lotus Kill-or-Be-Killed Report: Stop the Steal

 Several tough breaks for Gaitok this week. By Jessica M. Goldstein
what am i lemon a father?

The Baldwins Is Grimmer Than You Imagined

 Everyone involved with this should be ashamed. By Kathryn VanArendonk

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    Mayfair Witches Recap: How Do You Solve a Problem Like RowanRowan has so little influence over the other characters or story that I’m starting to wonder if she even needs to be here anymore.
    By Kathleen Walsh
  2. chat room
    Tayme Thapthimthong Needs You to Feel How Much Gaitok Loves MookThe White Lotus actor also did all his own stunts for episode two: “We were falling down on the hot concrete for take after take after take.”
    By Rebecca Alter
  3. slaycation
    The White Lotus Kill-or-Be-Killed Report: Stop the StealSeveral tough breaks for Gaitok this week.
    By Jessica M. Goldstein
  4. overnights
    The White Lotus Recap: GenesisThe guests are having difficulty enjoying paradise when the doom of their secrets constantly threatens them.
    By Amanda Whiting
  5. overnights
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    By Alice Burton
  7. awards szn
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    By Bethy Squires
  8. survivor 50
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    By Bethy Squires
  9. overnights
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    By Amanda Whiting
  10. rip
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    By Jennifer Zhan
  11. now streaming
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    By Savannah Salazar
  12. overnights
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    By Jason P. Frank
  13. cancel culture
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    By Jennifer Zhan
  14. close read
    Let’s Call That Severance “Love Triangle” What It WasDoppelgänger sexual assault is nothing new in fiction. Neither is the reluctance to engage with male victims’ responses to it.
    By Ben Rosenstock
  15. vulture investigates
    How Much Do Severance’s Macrodata Refiners Get Paid?Not in erasers and waffles, but in cold, hard cash.
    By Nic Juarez
  16. overnights
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    By Rafaela Bassili
  17. trans rights
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    By Justin Curto
  18. what am i lemon a father?
    The Baldwins Is Grimmer Than You ImaginedEveryone involved with this should be ashamed.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  19. sagged and gooped
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    By Alejandra Gularte
  20. 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
  21. this week in late night
    Seth Meyers’s Cavalcade of SNL Writers Won Late NightPlus, David Letterman on The Tonight Show and Lizzy Caplan waxing poetic on waxing.
    By Bethy Squires
  22. overnights
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    By Erin Qualey
  23. overnights
    Severance Recap: Triangles of SadnessWelcome to the most complicated love triangles in all of television.
    By Erin Qualey
  24. overnights
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    By Jennifer Zhan
  25. overnights
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    By Sophie Brookover
  26. overnights
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    By Noel Murray
  27. vulture recommends
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    By Roxana Hadadi
  28. overnights
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    By Maggie Fremont
  29. overnights
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    By Tom Smyth
  30. overnights
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    By Brian Moylan
  31. the murphyverse
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    By Bethy Squires
  32. she’s just being miley
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    By Fran Hoepfner
  33. my cabbages!
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    By Jason P. Frank
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    By Rebecca Alter
  35. overnights
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    By Chris Klimek
  36. overnights
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    By Rafaela Bassili
  37. overnights
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    By Rafaela Bassili
  38. hear me out
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    By Fran Hoepfner
  39. tv review
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    By Roxana Hadadi
  40. fact check
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    By Nicholas Quah
  41. overnights
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    By Chris Klimek
  42. close read
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    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  43. overnights
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    By Rafaela Bassili
  44. overnights
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    By Rafaela Bassili
  45. overnights
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    By Chris Klimek
  46. overnights
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    By Rafaela Bassili
  47. snl50
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    By Jesse David Fox
  48. infected
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    By Zoe Guy
  49. overnights
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    By Brian Moylan
  50. trailer mix
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  51. close read
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    By Tom Smyth
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