 Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO It was hard to find something to look forward to after last week’s episode of The Last of Us. Joel was brutally murdered, his killers got away, and the one place that seemed safe in this post-apocalyptic hellscape was descended upon by a horde of snow-encrusted Infected. There is a glimmer …
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 Photo: HBO Though most of this episode takes place on the other side of a time jump, its opening depicts the immediate aftermath of the events of the previous episode via two scenes: one of quiet mourning and one of resounding grief and rage. The first belongs to Tommy, whom we see gently tending …
 Photo: AMC Coming into the third season finale, Dark Winds had a list of questions to answer: Who killed Halsey, and why? What’s going to happen to Bern, now under the custody of the murderous Budge? What, if anything, will Agent Washington find? Will George survive? Will Chee and Bern rekindle their short-lived love …
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 Photo: Jake Giles Netter/HBO Walton Goggins has been the king of HBO this season, colonizing the network with The White Lotus and The Righteous Gemstones much as he did years ago on FX with his series-stealing performances in The Shield and Justified. While The Righteous Gemstones has struggled at times to reach the heights …
 Photo: John P. Johnson/HBO The ingenious trick of The Rehearsal so far this season is that its comic premise — spending generous HBO resources to explore and improve the relationship between co-pilots and captains on commercial airline flights — isn’t nearly as narrow as it sounds. While Nathan Fielder can still pay off his …
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 Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images, Shutterstock Please salute your new seven nation army. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has unveiled its inductees for the 2025 class, with Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, OutKast, Soundgarden, and the White Stripes making the final cut. That’s exactly half of the artists on …
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 Photo: Bravo via YouTube Truly studious fans know that the Housewives oeuvre is split into two distinct periods — before the franchise permanently entered the cultural zeitgeist as an acceptable guilty pleasure and after when even Ben Stiller publicly admits to enjoying the cinematic levels of storytelling we get from our ladies. This latter …
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 Photo: Julieta Cervantes The new musical Real Women Have Curves is, on the whole, a vibrant, exuberant affair, soaked in the pink and gold of L.A. sunsets, with painterly projections of tropical blossoms regularly unfurling across its proscenium in such verdant profusion you can practically smell their perfume. Yet surrounded by all this lushness, …
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 Photo: FX/YouTube It’s been almost a year since The Bear season 3 ended with a digestif of cliffhangers. Will Sydney jump ship? Will Carmy ever chill the fuck out? Do they still make sandwiches, or what? As we head towards another summer, it’s almost time to check back in with our favorite dysfunctional family …
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