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Real Housewives of Orange County Recap, Season 17 Episode 11 - Vulture

It’s not often, nearly two decades into the Bravo diaspora, that we see something truly new, but this episode blessed us with a fourth wall so shattered that I don’t know that we can ever re-plaster, graffiti over it, and pretend like it’s been there the whole time. Shannon and Emily have a fight over FaceTime in public, something I would never do but encourage everyone to try, especially if I’m in the immediate vicinity. Emily can’t figure out how to hang up the phone. She searches for the button, she shakes her iPhone 15 or above, she taps the screen repeatedly like she’s trying to close 17 different ads to earn a free life on Candy ...

Vulture     Aug 24, 2023

'Ahsoka's Opening Crawl Declares the Future of Star Wars - Vulture

Despite the ubiquity of Baby Yoda merchandise and the critical acclaim of Andor, the Star Wars franchise has been somewhat adrift in hyperspace since 2019’s crime against cinema The Rise of Skywalker. The franchise’s big-screen future is a constantly shuffling series of projects that may or may not ever actually get made, and while Disney+ has had some hits, it’s also had bantha poodoo like The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian’s third season. Increasingly, it looks like the next era of Star Wars will be driven by the cartoons, as shows like The Clone Wars and Rebels become bigger and more essential parts of the series’ lore, and nowhere is that more clear than with ...

Vulture     Aug 23, 2023

Lauryn Hill, Fugees Reunite on Miseducation Anniversary Tour - Vulture

Ready or not, here comes Ms. Lauryn Hill. The Grammy-winning hip-hop artist announced The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 25th Anniversary Tour on August 22, a 17-date showcase that will hit arenas around the world. Hill will perform tracks from the 1998 album, a reliable entry on various “best albums of all time” lists, and reunite with the Fugees to co-headline North American dates for the group’s first tour in years. The latest Fugees show went down at June’s Roots Picnic, where the group treated fans to a handful of songs during Hill’s headlining set at the festival, playing renditions of their hits “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” “Ready or Not,” “How Many Mics,” and a set-closing ...

Vulture     Aug 22, 2023

'Below Deck Down Under' Recap, Season 2 Episode 11 - Vulture

We’re officially halfway through the charter season, and there are no signs of slowing down when it comes to crew drama and boatmances. While the interior seems to be a cohesive unit for once, the deck team is in shambles as João tries to make do with the not-so-strong team that he has to work with, and I sort of love it.

Vulture     Aug 22, 2023

Everything to Know About the Movies Coming Out in 2023 - Vulture

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We’re heading toward an uncertain fall at the movies. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, and their mandates that writers and actors not promote their work, could throw the release calendar into disarray: Studios may opt to move their movies to 2024 to ensure a proper marketing push. The films that do come out may suffer at the box office without the promotional wattage of stars to help raise awareness. Who knows how the fall festivals will go, which films will get sold to distributors, and how soon those movies might get released. And then the big end-of-season awards shows, which generally like to have a few actors in attendance, might end up postponing their ceremonies (as the ...

Vulture     Aug 21, 2023

'Winning Time' Recap, Season 2, Episode 3 - Vulture

Only one team gets to win the NBA championship each year. Yet there are inevitably several teams that expected to win the title and many more who fell short of whatever benchmark they might have reached to call their seasons a success. For those teams, the offseason is about recriminations and change — fired coaches, disgruntled players, dramatic trades to refresh the lineup before trying again. Just this week in the NBA, discord within the Philadelphia 76ers after another disappointing postseason has led its superstar guard, James Harden, to call general manager Daryl Morey “a liar” at an Adidas media event in China and declare that he’ll never be a part of a Morey-led organization again.

Vulture     Aug 21, 2023

'Real Housewives of Atlanta' Recap, Season 15 Episode 15 - Vulture

Earlier this year, us Housewives recappers were tapped by Dame Brian Moylan himself to participate in a March Madness bracket ranking the worst Househusband of all time. I dutifully stepped up to the plate (anything for Brian), taking over the “Actual Villains” section, and RHOA’s own Bob Whitfield was among the men I was given to choose between. Though he lost to Joe Guidice for a slew of reasons, Bob has definitely earned his place among the villainous husbands we’ve watched torment various Housewives over the years.

Vulture     Aug 21, 2023

'Special Ops: Lioness' Recap, Season 1, Episode 6 - Vulture

Get your fluffy slippers ready, folks, because it’s a Rainy Spa Day on this week’s Special Ops: Lioness! Here’s where the show locks into full gear, deftly switching back and forth between the boots on the ground at the private Spa sesh and all the inter-departmental intrigue and 4D chess going on in D.C. With all the relevant levels of power finally visible on the “big board” (the top one ushered in by Morgan Freeman’s Secretary of State Mullins in a ball-busting late-season entrance), the Apocalypse Now of it all is coming into full view. Joe and the Lioness team are soldiers turned assassins, ideally situated to run roughshod over the American military-industrial landscape, both abroad and ...

Vulture     Aug 20, 2023

Taylor Swift Swarmed at Jack Antonoff's Wedding Rehearsal - Vulture

Taylor Swift doesn’t want to be the anti-hero, but she might feel too big to hang out with her friends at a wedding rehearsal dinner, especially with what happened last night. Swift was spotted at Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley’s rehearsal dinner at a restaurant in Long Beach Island, New Jersey, and groups of people quickly emerged to catch a glimpse of the star. Police soon arrived for crowd control, and X (formerly Twitter) was flooded with videos of people at the scene and even some photos of people knocking on the restaurant’s windows. “Some people haven’t seen this scene in Miss Americana and it shows…” wrote a fan online, referencing the Netflix documentary where Swift stated ...

Vulture     Aug 19, 2023

'Foundation' Recap, Season 2, Episode 6 - Vulture

I’ve mentioned before that the TV version of Foundation is very, very different from the books, and nowhere is it clearer than in the show’s portrayal of Hari Seldon. Asimov’s Seldon is kind of a saint of science, an incredibly humble genius whose only fault is that he made a small error of calculation and that he was jealous at one point in his life. Granted, this is in no small part because book Seldon is little more than a series of recordings, not really a character, but still. Jared Harris’ Seldon is not like this at all; as Foundation asks, what does the knowledge and ability to either save or completely doom the entire human race ...

Vulture     Aug 19, 2023

Sage Steele Claims Barbara Walters Tried to Beat Her Up - Vulture

Former ESPN anchor Sage Steele has aleged that the late Barbara Walters physically attacked her backstage on The View in 2014. “I was probably about four feet from the wall and the trash can, and Barbara was standing over here in front of me,” Steele said in a recent interview with Megyn Kelly. “She just started to back up towards me and looked at me and got close and elbowed me. And it pushed me back into the wall and the trash can. I was like, ‘What did [she] just do to me? This 140-year-old woman just tried to like tackle me.’” Steele claims that some of the show producers witnessed the alleged incident, as did co-host ...

Vulture     Aug 19, 2023

'Heels' Recap, Season 2, Episode 4: Heavy Heads - Vulture

Heels has never shied away from the brutality of devoting your life to wrestling and the damage it can do both physically and mentally — just look at the mess that is the Spade family. In “Heavy Heads,” two other characters, at two very different stages in their careers, come face-to-face with some of the consequences of the industry, and both come to similar conclusions: They just can’t quit professional wrestling.

Vulture     Aug 19, 2023