That Wild 'Adolescence' Audition Tape—and the Debate the Netflix Hit Has SparkedYoung Owen Cooper’s tryout for the role is a window into the way masculinity gets warped. Mar 25 25March 25, 2025Article at Vanity Fair
Netflix’s New Crime Drama ‘Adolescence’ Will Rattle and Rivet You. Here’s How Its Makers Pulled It OffThe series, cocreated by Stephen Graham, is about a 13-year-old British boy taken from his bed and charged with murder. Mar 06 25March 06, 2025Article at Vanity Fair
J.D. Vance Never Was and Never Will Be the Voice of AppalachiaHere we are again. Thanks to Trump’s pick of Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance as his VP running mate, we are knee deep in the pig shit of essay after essay about Appalachia and hillbillies. While most of it correctly notes that Vance cosplayed the… Jul 18 24July 18, 2024Article at Vanity Fair
Shannen Doherty, Star of Charmed, Heathers, and Beverly Hills, 90210, Dies at 53Shannen Doherty, the actress and ’90s bad girl who made a controversy-courting career out of playing headstrong women with attitude to spare in the cult film Heathers and television shows Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed, and, has died. ‘It is with a… Jul 14 24July 14, 2024Article at Vanity Fair
The White Lotus: We Love to Hate the Characters, but With Their Money, We’d Probably Be More Like Them Than We Care to AdmitSpoilers ahead for The White Lotus season finale. And the victim in the finale of The White Lotus turned out to be…Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge). Cause of death: helplessness. Accomplice: unearned wealth, the kind that never forces you to actually grow… Dec 12 22December 12, 2022Article at Vanity Fair
The White Lotus Is Fantasy Island Plus The Love Boat—On Acid“If everything’s so perfect, why are we so miserable?” That’s a line that could come straight out of any number of characters on The White Lotus, the second season of which deepens its examination of how real happiness eludes the well-heeled.… Dec 09 22December 09, 2022Article at Vanity Fair
Are the Men of The White Lotus Okay?There are a lot of questions on season two of The White Lotus, which trades season one’s lush Hawaiian decadence for the luxe frescoes and “sick palazzos” of Sicily. Who will die? How many will die? And will it, by chance, be every man on the show?… Nov 22 22November 22, 2022Article at Vanity Fair
Let’s Talk About That Bad Sisters FinaleSpoiler warning for the entirety of Season One of Bad Sisters. The Prick is finally dead! And ironically, after watching him struggle for 10 episodes with erectile dysfunction, only in death did he achieve a boner. If you’ve been watching Sharon… Oct 18 22October 18, 2022Article at Vanity Fair
Olivia Newton-John, Pop Songstress Who Wowed as Sandy in Grease, Dies at 73Olivia Newton-John, the British Australian pop singer who dominated the pop charts of the 1970s and ’80s with mega hits “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” “Magic,” and “Physical”—and jolted audiences with her naif-to-naughty turn as Sandy in one of the… Aug 08 22August 08, 2022Article at Vanity Fair
Hold On to Your Big Hair: A Working Girl Reboot Could Be GreatIt would be fashionable to sneer at the breaking news reported by Deadline Tuesday that Selena Gomez and 20th Century are in final negotiations to reboot the iconic Mike Nichols film Working Girl. It’s just another Hollywood grab at reheating ’80s… Aug 03 22August 03, 2022Article at Vanity Fair
Netflix’s ‘The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On’ Offers a Sadistic Twist on Reality RomanceContemporary matchmaking shows that corral heterosexual strangers to mix and mingle, demanding that they lock someone down after mere weeks of so-called dating—Love is Blind, Sexy Beasts, all the Bachelors and Bachelorettes—are a special kind of… Apr 06 22April 06, 2022Article at Vanity Fair
Lakers Dramedy Winning Time Gets Its Head in the Game“Goddamn! Basketball!” Dr. Jerry Buss (John C. Reilly) exclaims good-naturedly in the pilot of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (HBO Max, March 6). “I mean, look at it. It’s like great sex. Always moving. It’s rhythmic. It’s up close… Mar 04 22March 04, 2022Article at Vanity Fair
How Yellowstone’s Extensive Cast of Cowboys, Cattle Ranchers, and Native Americans Came TogetherYellowstone, a sprawling neo-Western set in the arresting expanse of Montana, is famously a ratings juggernaut—season four’s finale on January 2 beat season three’s viewership numbers by 81%. But it also has a number of firsts under its cowboy belt… Feb 14 22February 14, 2022Article at Vanity Fair
1883 Gives Yellowstone Fans a Bleak Backstory for the Dutton FamilyIn the three episodes provided to critics, we learn John is rendezvousing in Texas with the rest of his family, who arrive from Tennessee on 1882’s just-completed Texas Pacific Railway. McGraw’s no-nonsense brevity and soft heart echoes the scrappier… Dec 19 21December 19, 2021Article at Vanity Fair
Here’s to Yellowstone, the Most-Watched Show Everyone Isn’t Talking AboutThere’s a TV show called Yellowstone from Taylor Sheridan that’s so wildly popular, it was last year’s most-watched cable series, beating out The Walking Dead for the distinction. It’s a sudsy contemporary Western about the Dutton family, the land… Nov 05 21November 05, 2021Article at Vanity Fair
Think Netflix’s Maid Is Hard to Watch? Good: That’s the PointIf you’re exhausted just reading that, imagine living it. Some 37 million people in this hellish predicament in the U.S. alone have to navigate the system as Alex does, securing each form of aid by solving a jigsaw puzzle of making just little enough… Oct 08 21October 08, 2021Article at Vanity Fair
Can Hot People in Animal Masks Find True Love on ‘Sexy Beasts’?The answer to these questions is no, no, and…maybe? Sexy Beasts may not be about faces, but it knows that what’s below the neck still counts. An animal mask can’t thwart outrageous self-confidence, much less a bangin’ bod. And these bods are fit,… Jul 19 21July 19, 2021Article at Vanity Fair
Comedian Nate Bargatze Is “Not Smart Enough” to Tell You What to ThinkFor his upcoming second Netflix special, The Greatest Average American (March 18), the up-and-coming comedian delves further into his Southern, solipsistic, apolitical, rural humor, covering everything from COVID to Common Core to peanut allergies,… Mar 17 21March 17, 2021Article at Vanity Fair
“Jonathan, Are You Crazy?”: The Making and Meaning of The Silence of the Lambs“I knew it the moment I saw the first cut,” says Mike Medavoy, cofounder of Orion Pictures, which made the movie. “I knew it was there. Usually you can tell. I remember the first time I saw a cut of Platoon, of Cuckoo’s Nest. You go, ‘Wow, we got… Feb 16 21February 16, 2021Article at Vanity Fair
Beware Hotel Death: Two Netflix Docuseries Investigate a Creepy L.A. LandmarkBoth series cement the hotel’s reputation for cursed depravity, and serve as gritty entry points to La La Land’s darkest corners. Both point to the difficult police work involved in complex homicide cases that invited the public to help solve a… Feb 06 21February 06, 2021Article at Vanity Fair